Southern English Republic (1962: The Apocalypse)

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The Southern English Republic an aggressive racist/classicist kleptocracy based in south east England.

Targets in the Soke of Peaterbrough

 * 1) Peterborugh- 1x 10 kt
 * 2) RAF Wittering- 1x 1kt

Targets in Huntingdonshire

 * 1) RAF Molesworth- 1x 1kt
 * 2) RAF Upwood- 1x 1kt
 * 3) RAF Mepal- 1x 1kt (It did not explode and buried itself 10 feet into the ground).
 * 4) RAF Alconbury- 1x 1kt (It did not explode and buried itself 12 feet into the ground).

Targets in Cambridgeshire

 * 1) MOD Waterbeach Barracks- 1x 1kt
 * 2) MOD/RAF Bassingbourn Barracks - 1x 1kt (It did not explode and buried itself 15 feet into the ground).
 * 3) RAF Mepal- 1x 1kt (It did not explode and buried itself 17 feet into the ground).

Targets in Essex

 * 1) RAF Debden- 1x 10 kt
 * 2) RAF South Hornden- 1x 10 kt
 * 3) RAF Horncurch- 1x 10 kt
 * 4) Port of Tilbury/Tilbury mane docks- 1x 100 kt
 * 5) Dagenham Docks- 1 x 10kt
 * 6) Barking docks- 1x 10 kt
 * 7) Rhainham docks-1x 1kt and 2x 10 kt
 * 8) Thamshaven dock- 2x 10 kt
 * 9) Greys dock- 1x 100 kt
 * 10) Greys oil terminal- 2x 10 kt
 * 11) Basildon- 1x 1kt
 * 12) Ongar- 1x 1kt
 * 13) Perfliet- 1x 1kt
 * 14) Thurrock Docks- 1 x100kt
 * 15) Stanstead airfield- 1x 1kt
 * 16) Walthamstow- 1x 1kt
 * 17) Leyton- 1x 1kt
 * 18) Albury End and Albury in Essex were hit by an experimental LSD-gas hallucinogen bomb.
 * 19) St Margaret’s, Hunsford and Stanstead Abbot were hit by an experimental CR-gas incapacitating bomb.

Targets in Suffolk

 * 1) RAF Lakenheth- 1x 10kt
 * 2) RAF Bungay- 1x 1kt (it was reportedly re-activated by the RAF a week before the war).
 * 3) RAF Mildenhall- 1x 10kt
 * 4) Lowestoft docks- 1x 1kt
 * 5) RAF Honington- 1x 1kt and 1x 100kt. (A damaged Red Beard Mk 1, Operational Requirement 1127 (OR.1127) bomb with a yeald of 15kt explodes in its storage bunker due to technical problems 2 days after the attacks.).
 * 6) RAF Shepherds Grove- 1x 1kt
 * 7) RAF Tuddenham- 1x 1kt

Targets in Bedfordshire

 * 1) Whipsnade zoo- 1x1kt (it was meat for RAF Chiksands, but the bomb was dropped on the wrong target)
 * 2) Chicksands AFB- 1x1kt (did not go off)
 * 3) Luton-1x 1kt
 * 4) Luton Airport- 1x 10kt
 * 5) Luton airfield- 1x 10kt

Targets in Kent

 * 1) Chatham Naval Dockyard- 2 x 10kt
 * 2) Welling, Kent- 1 x 1kt
 * 3) RAF Lyme- 1x 1kt (It did not explode and buried itself 10 feet into the ground).
 * 4) Erith- 1 x 20kt
 * 5) Thames Mead dock- 1 x 1kt

After Doomsday
The existing War Room at Cambridge was expanded to serve as the RSG in 1960, and so become the temporary nerve centre for the proto-nation. Essex Regional Seat of Government in a re-used radar station at Kelvedon Hatch in Essex, it was badly damaged, but set up a local regime. Chelmsford, Bedford and Rochford were also also taken by local political and military figures, who also set up their own command posts.

The nuclear winter lasted between October 1962 and March 1963. A nuclear summer then lasted between April 1963 and September 1964. A severe famine and a cholera outbreak hitting the county, killing many people during 1963 and 1965. A severe famine and a then a cholera outbreak hit Luton and Essex's southern towns, killing a few more people during 1965 and most of 1966. A typhoid plague struck in 1967. It was only due to harsh laws and joint pooling of their resources at a national level that lead to their survival.

The nation tried to maintain an independent and self-sufficient way of life, but it was hard going at best of times. The fishing fleet was expanded as best it could to provide a additional source of food. Fish was expected to become a major food source, with the left overs also being used for fertilizer.

1974-1980
The SER suddenly burst on to the seane in Central Northamptonshire the May 1975 as 120 mounted dragoons stormed the nation and cut a deep and bloody path in to the nation, running from northern Bedfordshire, towards Brackley.

Wise water management and the plentiful rivers helped avoid disaster in the 1976 heat wave and drought.

1981-1995
The Brackley and Hinton-in-the-Hedges Union defeated an attempted invasion by annother raiding party from the Southern English Republic in 1990.

Present day
The winter of the winter of 2009-2010 was the worst in 50 years and killed about 60 people according to North French,. P.R.U.K., Manx, Irish and Lacastrian media sources. The S.E.R. published no figures it's self and denied any deaths occered!

The honorific floods and cyclone of November 22-28, 2012, devastated the former UK and Ireland. It finally killed a total of 42 people (39 citizens and 3 tourists)- 4 in Newlyn, 1 in Honiton, 1 in Truro, 3 in Exeter, 1 in Bovney Tracy, 2 in Shrewsbury, 2 in Gloucester, 2 in St Asaph, 1 in Wexford, 1 in Preston, 1 in Penrith, 1 in Ayr, 1 in Cambridge, 3 in Monmouth, 2 in Northallerton, 2 in Kempsey, 1 in Chester, 1 Warwick, 1 in Derby, 1 Bridgewater, 3 in Upton-upon-Severn and 4 in Malmesbury, plus 3 Lower Saxon tourists in Warwick. It was the worst flooding incident in nearly 100 years! Aid came from Hexanshire, Durhamshire, Scarborough, Ayrshire, Perthshire, Denmark, Sussex, Willihamshaven,  Kingdom of Lille-Wallonia, and the Neo-Roman Empire. Most of the aid was stolen by S.E.R. goverment officals.

It is a pariah nation with no allies other than Qasar Abu Hadi/Sirte Homogenisation and  West Wiltshire. Even the Italian Mafias hate the S.E.R.

Military
It has a volunteer force of 5,000 and a conscript force of 7,500.

Vehicles

 * 1) 12x Chevrolet RD 4x2 trucks (4 are known to be in storage)
 * 2) 5x T17E1 Staghound Armoured Cars (3 are known to be in storage)
 * 3) 3x Leopard 1 Tanks
 * 4) 4 x Humber armoured cars
 * 5) 4x Centurion tanks (2 are known to be in storage)
 * 6) 2x Ferret armoured cars
 * 7) 6 AEC Matador 4 x 4 medium artillery tractors (2 are known to be in storage)

Weapons

 * 1) Side-arm Colt 45
 * 2) Rifles Lee Enfield
 * 3) Sub-Machine guns Thompson
 * 4) Colt 45 pistol
 * 5) Canon de 75 modèle 1897
 * 6) Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider
 * 7) The 7.7 cm Feldkanone 96 neuer Art (7.7 cm FK 96 n.A.)
 * 8) Ordnance QF 18 pounder
 * 9) Ordnance QF 25 pounder
 * 10) BL 4.5 inch Medium Field Gun
 * 11) Stokes mortar
 * 12) Enfield No. 2 Mk I Revolver
 * 13) The Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55in, Boys commonly known as the "Boys Anti-tank Rifle" (or incorrectly "Boyes", nicknamed the "elephant gun")
 * 14) Austen submachine gun
 * 15) Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk I (1903)

Aircraft and Weapons
3 Supermarine Mk XIV Spitfires, 4 Westland Lysander light aircraft, 2 cargo planes, 2 light helicopters and 5 medium helicopters. Another 2 Supermarine Mk XIV Spitfires and 2 more light helicopters are in storage and are used for spare parts.

Ships and Weapons
They have 4 oil and 1 alcohol driven patrol boats, of which 1 of the oil fuled boat is? known to be in storage. ? It also has an oil driven combined mine layer/mine sweeper.

Oil
Most white petroleum jelly, large amounts of dried dates and all the S.E.R.'s crude oil is imported from the Qasar Abu Hadi/Sirte Homogenisation.

Education
It is mandatory for all 5 to 17 year olds.

Media
A national paper (The Pillar of Truth) was launched in 1996. Braintree and Witham Times, Essex Chronicle and Evening Gazette began reprinting in 1989. The PRUK’s national newspaper, Mercian Express & Star, and Central Northamptonshire's Northampton Chronicle & Echo have been in illegal circulation across Bedfordshire since 2008. Posers a nailed up as and when nessasery by the local authorities.

A national medium wave radio service The Voice of Truth was launched in 2008. The Transmitters are located in Cambridge, Bedford, Chelmsford and Braintree. The 5 local FM stations are-? Radio Chelmsford FM, Radio Bedford FM, Braintree FM, Radio Cambridge FM and Radio Rochford FM. They began to broadcast from those towns 94.4 and 98.7 FM since the March of 2010. The P.R.U.K.'s national MW radio station is called Radio Mercia is regularly jammed!

A 6 hour experimental TV service has been available in these towns since the May of 2011.

Healthcare
Thyroid cancers are no longer major issues, and are markedly less than they were before 1989.

Sports
Braintree Town Football Club ("The Iron"), Essex County Cricket Club, Chelmsford City Football Club, Chelmsford Hockey Club is a Men's and Ladies' (field) hockey Clubs and Chelmsford Rugby Football have become de-facto national teams since reforming in 1979.

Other local soccer, netball, hockey and Rugby teams exist, of which the most successfully are Cambridgeshire CCC and Cambridge United F.C.

The popular Chelmsford Water polo club has been running since 1998 and is located in the Ricerside Ice and Leisure building in Chelmsford.