Market Harborough and Central Northamptonshire (1962: The Apocalypse)

History
The  City state of City state of Kettering  is a democratic UK survivor nation based in Northamptonshire.

After Doomsday
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 hit the town, killing many people during 1964 and most of 1965. A typhoid plague struck in mid to late 1965. The nation would struggle with various raids by the surrounding tribesmen from Hampshire and Berkshire.

First Contact
It was made in 1972 with Kibworth and in 1974 with the Republic of East Anglia (1962: Doomsday).

Military
The armed forces abandoned the use of bows and swords in favour of rifles and pistols in 2005. The army is a volunteer force of 45 and a conscript force of 75.

Transport
Horses are still popular in the nation, despite the resent, but short lived, outbreak of equine ethnocide hematoma. A canal was dug in 1999 that connects it to Foxton lock near Kibworth city state.

Economy
It is agrarian by nature largely dependent on agriculture, forestry and selling looted metal from the ruins of nearby towns. A growing food processing, brewing, bread and scrap metal trading industry is beginning to develop. Up-market organic sugar beat is sold to the PRUK and Lincolnshire.

Media
Posers a nailed up as and when nessasery by the local authorities. The PRUK’s and Lincolnshire’s national newspaper has been in circulation since 2007.

Healthcare
Thyroid and skin cancers are no longer major issues, and are markedly less than they were before 1986.

The death penalty
Murderers, sex predators, rapists, child molesters, traitors and enemy spies are executed with the hangman’s rope. A moratorium on hanginging has been in place since 2008.