THE BIRTH OF THE CONFEDERACY
HAIL COLUMBIA
Flag symbolizing the unity of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana, Cuba, and Gran Colombia
When the major Southron powers met in Jamaica in the spring of 1976, everyone knew what was about to happen. The push for Southron unity had begun under George Washington VIII's emergency dictatorship during the World War of the 1950s. Now, his son George Washington IX had also taken up the crusade. Using his overpowering personality and charisma, Washington was talking the other nations into joining the "Confederacy of Columbia."
Despite objections (mostly from Georgia), things moved along swiftly and most of the nations wanted unity to save their fledgling, weak economies (and Gran Colombia just wanted to not collapse into total anarchy. Negotiations lasted four months, and on July 3rd, 1976, the revolutionary leaders signed away their nations' independence to the Confederacy of Columbia. The new interim government was made official at a ceremony in Richmond, where interim "Confederate President" George Washington IX informed the new nation that proper elections would be held in the fall.
The new government system seemed fairly complicated and decentralized... at least at first. The President, largely a figurehead, was elected every four years by the "Supreme Diet," two men from each state democratically elected by the people. The Supreme Diet wrote laws and policy, but had to have them approved by the Parliament, 50 officials from each state democratically elected by the people. Most people seemed fairly content with this new system.
As the government got things rolling, a form Christian Socialism seemed to permeate politics. Welfare was high on the list for the Washington government. President Washington formed the Christian Socialist Party in October, just one month before the first election. Food stamps were then provided to the needy and those affected by war. Shelters (segregated between whites and blacks) were set up for the homeless.
However, not everything was going well. The black population was very depopulated thanks to Yankee genocide, but they were still a strong voice. Led by a black minister named Melvin Lucius Konig, blacks rioted and protested, claiming the whites of every faction had stabbed them in the back. Konig said in a rally in Richmond, "The white folk look out for the white folk and the Polocks and Slavs, but ain't nobody lookin' out for black folk. When we were part of the pre-War Southron nations, they treated us like dirt. When the 'enlightened' Yankees moved in after the War, they promised us freedom and equality, but ended up practicin' ethnic cleansing. No matter where we are, we get treated like dirt. And now we're mad as hell, and we ain't goin' to take it no more!"
Inspired by their leader's speeches, blacks all across the South formed the Organization for Negro Equality (ONE), of which Reverend Konig was declared "Commander." ONE soon took on a very militaristic approach, with blacks wearing olive drab and berets and helmets turning out to race riots all across the country, and also heavily leaned Beutelist. As the election of '76 was kicking into high gear between Christian Socialist Washington IX and Democrat Harvey Sewell (son of Georgian Great War general and Gettysburg veteran Rickie Sewell), Konig announced his candidacy for Parliament Minister in Louisiana. Two days later, Konig was shot to death in a break-in of his home.
Shouting "Vengeance for Commander Konig!", black militants launched a campaign of terror and violence across the country on Election Day, December 1st, 1976. A massive car bomb went off in Richmond in front of the Confederate Investigation Bureau (CIB)'s headquarters, killing 10. In Atlanta, a series of spree shootings at various official buildings killed an estimated 120 whites. In Louisiana, Parliament minister and staunch anti-black activist Zebulon Lafayette was brutally beaten by a mob of blacks before they hanged him from a tree in his front yard. Firebombs and "Atlanta Cocktails" went off in countless other towns and cities, spreading fear, chaos, and pandemonium. Washington, having been declared winner by a 62 percent margin over Sewell, declared martial law and ordered an immediate curfew. The Confederate Army took to the streets to restore order and rolled tanks into the black ghettos. ONE was declared a terrorist organization and outlawed. This only made everything worse. ONE agents took to the hills and swamps and mountains to plan an insurgency against the white government. In a threatening video released on January 20th, 1977, ONE's new Commander, Hezekiah "Hex" Jones, declared that, "Until the negro race has a country of its own in North America, we ain't stoppin'. We're going to fight on and on and make you so scared you'll be lookin' for us under your beds at night. We're going to wage a war until we finally get what we deserve! Long live the Negro Nation! God bless Commander Konig!"
A Richmond policeman guards a group of black citizens rounded up following a ONE terrorist attack on Election Day, 1976
Beutelist ONE radicals pose for a photo in the West Carolina hill country, 1977
Fires rage from firebombs in Weston, North Carolina, following an attack by ONE terrorists
The whites turned around and did the same thing. The National Southron Democratic Party, NSDP, Sewell's party, began a "March for Justice" across the nation. Wearing army surplus gear and carrying whatever guns they could get, NSDP militias went across the country on a vigilante spree, rounding up and imprisoning blacks in camps far out in the mountains and lynching others. The government spoke strongly against this but did little to stop it. By mid-1977, the brand-new country was about to face an all-out race war. And up north, an infamous delusional Yankee cultist was about to come out of his self-imposed exile to strike "the fear of God" into all of North America...
200 YEARS OF HORROR
THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE FAILED EXPERIMENT
"As we gather here on this date of July the Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six, we should all think long and hard about the last two hundred years of American history. America is a failure. America has failed. It failed during the Adams-Hamilton administration that led to the collapse of the Old Republic. When the remaining Yankee nation, the Republican Union, attempted to restore the Old Republic and launched decades of war and revanchism, it failed. When it slaughtered tens of millions, America failed. It failed utterly and became a ramshackle Roman Empire, murdering swathes of society in fell swoops and dropping nuclear bombs on defenseless civilians. The original founders of the Old Republic, or at least most of them, thought they were creating something good and noble. They created, or helped to create, the most satanic regime this world has ever known this side of the Great Khans of Mongolia. Because of the United States and all of its successor governments, the world is a darker, bloodier, more frightening place. Because of America, millions of children will never know their parents, and parents will never know their children. In the name of their insane religious war-cult, America took its borders all across the hemisphere and into Asia, as well as threatening Europe with its conquering of Britain. The ghastly atrocities of America will likely never be known in full, but because millions of citizens went along with the persecution and execution of millions, Americans as a whole have proven themselves to be disgusting, bigoted, murderous pigs, hellbent on mayhem, bloodshed, and ethnic cleansing. With Aaron Burr as their prophet and Chuckie Oswald as their Messiah, they sought to establish a New World Order where all would bow down to Philadelphia and the Iron Throne of Oswald. But they failed. They did not fail because of outside attacks or wars. Indeed, they were strongest when united against common foes. Instead, America collapsed from the inside. America destroyed itself. Like the successors of Alexander, the many minions of Joe Steele squabbled and fought over god-like amounts of power. They killed themselves. Even as you read this article, FARNE and Third Republic troops are facing each other down and threatening the use of weapons of mass destruction on one another. Thirty years ago, this would have been unthinkable. But it has happened. The Yankees are cannibalizing each other to see who will prevail over the others and unite their empire once again. Will we allow this to happen? Will the United Nations allow this to happen? America should always be divided, always broken up, lest they unite once again to dominate the globe. We cannot return to the old days of Oswald and Steele. We cannot allow the American holy war to revive itself and breed new soldiers. That is why UN peacekeepers should make sure that not one of the three fragments of the New United States ever unite with any of the others. At all costs, America shall and must be divisible and divided, now and forever. Instead, a shining city on a hill shall show the world that this continent is not doomed to repeat its history again and again. A new era has arrived, an era of peace and brotherhood. God bless us all, and God bless the Confederacy of Columbia. Long may it stand for righteousness."
- First Confederate President George Washington IX, speaking to a crowd in Richmond on the bicentennial of American independence, July 4th, 1976
Map of the World in 1980
THE REVEREND RETURNS
I went out walking through the streets paved with gold
Lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones
Of a city without a soul
I went out walking under an atomic sky
Where the ground won't turn and the rain it burns
Like the tears when I said goodbye
Yeah, I went with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering
I went drifting through the capitals of tin
Where men can't walk or freely talk
And sons turn their fathers in
I stopped outside a church house where the citizens like to sit
They say they want the kingdom
But they don't want God in it
I went out riding, down that ol' eight lane
I passed by a thousand signs
Looking for my own name
***
12 Miles outside Goodwin, South Dakota, Third Republic...
June 14th, 1981...
Billy Graham looked at himself in the mirror of his cabin. He saw the bags under his eyes. His greying hair now less tidy than it had been in his younger days. Instead of a suit, he wore a rather worn combat tunic, brown trousers and a scarf. An ammunition belt was wrapped around his waist. This is what the Reverend-Colonel of the American Fundamentalist Church had been reduced to. This is what had become of "America's Pope." Graham had been on the run from Third Republic forces since the 1974 collapse of the New Jerusalem government in Shicagwa. For seven years, Graham and the Council of Jehovah had been in a state of political exile while also occasionally attacking Third Republic convoys or attacking police. Slowly, for seven years, Graham had been building up money and supplies to carry out a "holy war" against both Ailes and Nixon, whom he viewed as total traitors and backstabbers of his best friend Charles Oswald. Now, Graham was ready to make his final moves. The time for the Holy War to take back Shicagwa had begun. The subjugation of the whole continent and the restoration of America's "manifest destiny" were his ultimate goals. And he would do whatever he needed to do to accomplish those goals.
Graham adjusted his boot laces and then left the cabin. Outside, several Council of Jehovah goons wearing civilian hunting equipment and old NUSA military gear gave him the fascist salute.
"All hail the Honorable William Graham!" they shouted in unison, their arms straight as boards.
"All hail Jehovah Most High!" Graham returned the salute. These men had been with him since the Fall of Shicagwa. They had been with him through thick and thin. His Papal Guards. "Now, gentlemen, if you will be so kind as to follow me, we're about to conduct a mission. This will finally get us enough funds to start our revolt!"
***
Main Street of Goodwin, South Dakota, Third Republic...
Later that same day...
Blam. Blam. Blam.
The sirens were going off. Two dead bodies were lying on the floor. The people were screaming. In the doorway of the First Bank of Goodwin stood Billy Graham and twelve of his goons. All of them were toting machine guns. As the terrified bank tellers were brutally assaulted by the goons, they forced them and the rest of the customers in the bank to bow to Graham, shrieking, "Bow your heads in respect while in the presence of the Reverend-Colonel, you heathen!"
Graham stood there menacingly for a few seconds looking over their hostages, and then shouted, "All right, men, we have ten minutes to do the Lord's work and then get the hell out of here. This bank has forty million in it according to our insider information. Get moving!"
The eight Council of Jehovah men who weren't guarding the hostages brought in massive duffel bags and a small bomb. In seconds, using their military training, they had the vault doors blown wide open. The stacks of money and the gold bars and the coins all went flying into the bags with clockwork precision. Graham watched out the window, waiting to hear the sound of sirens. "This is a big day, folks! You're about to witness the Army of the Lord wipe out every single dollar from this bank. And then you're gonna hear a lot about us in the future. We're going to put the fear of God back into you traitorous, lecherous cretins. Honor and the True Faith will be restored to this nation again!" The sound of sirens could now be heard. Graham tilted his head to listen and then said calmly, "Ah, here come the piggies."
"The Revolution is now!" cried the terrorist goons. Several of them took up positions at the bank windows.
About ten police cars pulled up in the parking lot. Around forty cops swarmed out, weapons raised, thinking they were confronting traditional bank robbers.
Suddenly, about ten rifles opened fire from on top of the bank, sending the police reeling back to cover. About fifteen cops were down on the pavement, riddled with bullets. Graham had secret back-up on the bank roof.
Graham stepped outside with a megaphone to address the police, now quivering in fear behind their cars. "This is Billy Graham, supreme leader of the Army of the Lord and the Council of Jehovah, Reverend-Colonel of the American Fundamentalist Church. I have returned from my tribulations in the wilderness! I have long awaited this day. I have long foreseen it and your deaths in prophecy. Flee for your lives or surrender your arms, or we will be forced to kill you and everyone in this bank."
The cops were absolutely petrified at this point. When one broke rank and stood up, trying to aim his revolver at Graham, a sniper took his head off.
"As you can see, I do not fear death. I do not fear your pathetic guns. The Lord of Hosts is with me, and he will look over his faithful servant. Now, I am giving you thirty seconds to surrender your arms or flee or face total destruction and eternal damnation."
"Twenty seconds."
"Fifteen seconds."
"Ten seconds."
Suddenly, a rifle was thrown over the hood of a cop car. And then another. And another. Soon, every single policeman had surrendered to Graham's minions. Some of the snipers came down from the roof to guard the horde of prisoners. The police unit's only armored personnel carrier was commandeered by the terrorists, who threw the bags of money and the police weapons in it. Panic had started to break out in the entire town by this point, and the mayor was already heading for the hills. Over at the town hall, a strange banner was raised on the steeple. The flag itself was black, and a white sword was at the center, with the phrase, "Via Veritas Vita" over the sword. Graham pointed to the flag. "'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.' That is the flag of the Army of the Lord. That is the flag of the Revolution!"
"The Revolution is upon us, praise be!" cried the terrorists in unison. "There is no God but Jehovah, and William Graham is his Prophet!"
Graham smiled gleefully, "That is right my brothers and sisters! This nation is about to be cleansed of its sins! Together, we shall restore America to its rightful place! A nation with no damn niggers, Slavs, and papists! And no stinking apostates! Look around you. The black banner has been raised! No mercy for the heathen pigs! Via! Veritas! Vita!" At that, the goons opened fire on the unarmed policemen. In twenty seconds, every single one of the boys in blue was dead. Graham and his lunatic followers boarded their trucks and rolled out with tens of millions of dollars in the bag.
News of the "Goodwin Bank Massacre" traveled the nation. Jurgen Ailes, now 71 years old, almost had a heart attack at the news of Graham resurfacing. The AFC still held sway in the Third Republic, and many longed for Graham to return to power. But Ailes still wasn't convinced that Graham posed a truly national threat. "He took over a town in South Dakota for twenty minutes," Ailes reportedly said. But little did he know that Graham was about to strike in a major way, and it would bring the Third Republic to its knees.
THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH OF THE SEVENTH YEAR
Emergency workers sift through the rubble of the West & Sons Tower in Shicagwa (July 7th, 1981)
On July 1st, 1981, Billy Graham was still on the loose after the Goodwin Massacre. The Third Republic made him their most wanted fugitive, replacing the mysteriously vanished war criminal Midas Goldstein. Still, even with thousands of soldiers and police hunting him all over the Third Republic, no one could find him. However, on July 1st, Confederate, Georgian-born investigative journalist Abraham Johnson agreed to be blindfolded and taken to an undisclosed location to conduct an interview with the "Prophet Graham." Johnson wore a tan jumpsuit and carried a fuzzy black-and-white video recorder, and Graham sat perched on a rock in a cave with several of his followers. Graham held a massive assault rifle and wore an old NUSA pot helmet over his head. The transcript of this interview is below:
JOHNSON: "Good afternoon, Reverend Graham."
GRAHAM: "The Lord willing, this interview will be mercifully short. I dislike talking to Southron dogs, but at least you will air my interview unedited. The same cannot be said of the Apostates."
JOHNSON: "Uh, yes, of course. Now, Reverend, I would like to ask you a few questions. Question number one: What is your purpose?"
GRAHAM: "Well, that's simple. To restore pure Fundamentalism to power over this continent, over this planet, and to flay all those who dare stand against my Father's Will. The Army of the Lord and the Council of Jehovah are waging a war for freedom, and the American way. We don't want to kill everyone who isn't a part of our Faith, rather, we want to convert them. Our call is the call of the AFC that was revealed to Patriot-Saint Aaron Burr almost 200 years ago. It is a call to the entire white race. To the Fittest! We have been entrusted to follow in the footsteps of the Prophet, Bless Burr's Soul, and to communicate his message to all nations. It is an invitation that we extend to all the nations to embrace American Fundamentalist Christianity in its purest form."
JOHNSON: "Lately you've taken to calling yourself Prophet Graham. Can you explain this title?"
GRAHAM: "Of course, that is but a simple inquiry with a simple answer: I am a prophet. I can see the future. I can communicate with Jehovah. He speaks through me."
JOHNSON: "God reveals the future to you?"
GRAHAM: "Yes, boy. I go into a trance, and from this trance I can see visions. Visions of what has been, visions of what is, and visions of what is to come."
JOHNSON: "With all due respect, that sounds quite mad. Do you have proof? What has been? What have you seen?"
GRAHAM: "In a series of visions I had while in my Tribulations in the Dakota Wilderness, I saw the martyrdom and ascension of Patriot-Saint Arnold at Valley Forge. I saw him take the bullet for the Great Prophet Burr, blessed be his soul. I saw it as if with my own eyes. I witnessed the foundation of our faith."
JOHNSON: Well, then... what is? You have visions of the present time? How is this possible?"
GRAHAM: "Through Jehovah and the Great Prophet, blessed be his soul, all things are possible. It is sort of what you could call an 'out of body experience.' My soul departs from my body during my trance and God shows me the schemes and plans of the Apostates. That is partly how I avoided capture during my exile."
JOHNSON: That's very... uh, interesting. What is to come?"
GRAHAM: "I have foreseen a great apocalypse the likes of which the world has never seen. Fire and brimstone shall rain upon the Earth, and upon all the nations thereon. The governments of the Apostates shall collapse into anarchy and chaos. The Ministerial Throne in Shicagwa shall be my seat once again. And Jehovah will come down to judge all the peoples of the Earth. But we must first fulfill multiple other prophecies to bring this about. Essentially, we must wipe the slate clean to prepare for the Second Coming and the beginning of the 1000 years of American Empire."
JOHNSON: "What the devil are you talking about? What do you mean about slates and preparing?"
GRAHAM: "None so blind as those who do not see. My boy, I am talking about taking down every government on this planet. Nuclear warfare. The Big One. Nuclear bombs shall destroy much of this planet. We shall eliminate the Inferiors once and for all. Asia and Africa shall smolder. Eastern Europe will be an ash heap. Rome shall burn and Catholicism perish. The babel of the United Nations, the stooge of the Luciferian French-Fop Bonapartist Empire, shall be annihilated. And then all the world will be formed into the American Empire, a globe-spanning mega-state the likes of which no one has ever seen! Satan shall be defeated and America, the New Jerusalem, shall reign over this planet for 1000 years, the Survival of the Fittest finally carried out to its conclusion."
JOHNSON: "What drugs have you been taking, Graham? You are talking genocide on an unimaginable scale. Wiping out entire races and continents. That is pure evil."
GRAHAM: "Oh, at least 5 billion will die. At least. A small price to pay to fulfill the Book of Revelation!"
JOHNSON: "What if you're wrong. America is a backwater now. The NUSA dissolved in a horrendous bloodbath. What if America quite simply isn't the Fittest?"
GRAHAM: "You Southrons and your arrogance. Can you not see these are the tribulations of the End Times? God is testing who shall remain loyal to Him and the True Faith. In the Good Book, it says during the End Times, there will be mockers who deride the idea of the Second Coming. Who say it cannot happen. This is a test. The Army of the Lord and all true followers of the AFC are acing this test. The same cannot be said of you and your ilk, boy. America's might shall be restored! America shall dominate once again!"
JOHNSON: "That is the most disturbing story I've ever heard. And it's just that, a story. A stupid, horrid story based in your demented death-cult. What are you actually going to do, anyway?"
GRAHAM: "This is the big question, isn't it? Well, I shall reveal to you my newest prophecy. On July 7th, 1981, six days from now, it shall be the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year since my exile began. 7-7-7. Seven is the number of completion. On this day, 7-7-7, the Army of the Lord shall strike at the Apostate government of the Third Republic. We shall bring this nation to its knees and bring it back under Fundamentalist rule! Via! Veritas! Vita! Beware, for on 7-7-7, the world shall change forever. Now, have a good day, Johnson. May God have mercy on your misguided soul."
JOHNSON: "Yes, I've had quite enough of this terroristic nonsense. I shall show the world just how deranged and demented you truly are, Graham. Good day to you."
***
On July 7th, 1981, Third Republic Airlines Flight 777 was hijacked by Army of the Lord terrorists John Gipson, a 24 year-old former mechanic, Daniel Garner, a 40 year-old Council of Jehovah bodyguard, and Sherwood Blair III, a 32 year-old junior minister. Holding 395 passengers up with several submachine guns, the terrorists killed the pilots and took control of the plane, steering it toward Shicagwa.
Meanwhile, Ailes, already with security on high alert because of Graham's threats, felt safe that he was not at risk of assassination, deep within his bunker under the People's Palace on Burr Avenue. A young bodyguard, Private First Class Willard Crawford Pike, revealed himself to be a Graham agent. With a semi-automatic pistol and screaming "There is no God but Jehovah, and William Graham is his Prophet!", Pike fired multiple rounds at Ailes before being shot dead by other bodyguards. Ailes had been hit once in the shoulder and twice in the stomach. Despite an entire hospital's worth of medical staff trying to save him within minutes, Ailes nevertheless passed away. Approximately 30 minutes later, ten miles up town, Flight 777 smashed dead-center on the West & Sons Tower, the tallest building in Shicagwa. Thousands of emergency workers turned out to try to save the building and its occupants, but it collapsed at approximately 5:38 pm. Over 3200 people were burned or crushed to death in the collapse.
A state of nationwide emergency was declared by Julius Caesar Woods, Ailes hand-picked successor. Woods watched in horror as several more attacks occurred throughout the Third Republic. At half of the nation's military bases, AFC extremist sleeper agents opened fire on their fellow soldiers. The TRS Michigania, a battleship anchored in Shicagwa Harbor on Lake Michigan, blew up in port, killing or wounding over 1000 sailors.
By the end of the night, over 5000 Third Republic citizens had lost their lives. Woods suspended the law and the constitution and took absolute, total power to face the crisis at hand. Tens of thousands of soldiers were deployed to the Dakotas to bring in or kill Graham. Woods, the next day, appeared with rescue crews at the ruins of the West & Sons Tower for a photo opportunity. Famously, he said, megaphone in hand, "They have brought this tower down. They have brought our leader down. But they're not going to bring down our national spirit. As we stand here now, I have launched the largest manhunt in history to seek out the worms responsible for these wicked acts of terror. We shall not stop until Billy Graham hangs from a tree!" The crowd exploded into cheers.
THE ASIAN AND CHINESE WARS
1980 - 1994
A Russian Republic soldier watches over a northern Chinese town from his machine gun nest (1980)
When Chiang Kai Shek died in 1980, the power vacuum left China on edge. Russia's Sergei Romanov II was determined to use this to his advantage. He helped fund several Chinese generals' and admirals' attempts to take power in Peking simply to make sure the Chinese people were as divided as possible. The people of a number of Chinese-occupied nations were on the warpath for independence, and several rebellions were breaking out in southern Asia.
The ancient Chinese foe, Thailand (or Siam), was also undergoing civil unrest. On May 1st, 1980, hundreds of students marched into the Royal Palace in Bangkok and deposed the royal family, establishing a democratic system akin to the Columbian nations. This revolt spread to the nearby Chinese regions of Vietnam and Cambodia. Thai troops joined the revolutionary brigades in these regions and helped keep out the Chinese forces while order was restored. An attempted overthrow of Chinese authority in Burma ended in bloodshed and horror as Chinese troops rounded up and murdered thousands of civilians and conducted ethnic cleansing of rebellious groups. Facing such a huge threat, the rebel regions joined Thailand as the United Democracy of Indochina. Russia immediately sent military advisers and trainers down to aid the rebel forces. By August, things had spiraled out of control as an undeclared war between Russia and China saw Russian and Chinese troops killing each other in burning Indochinese villages. The United Nations, never one to be fond of Russia but unable to ignore the brutality of the Chinese, declared Indochina a humanitarian crisis zone and drew up plans with Russia for joint operations to effectively neutralize China as a great power.
Several Chinese leaders had risen and fallen in the brief period since the death of Chiang Kai Shek, but by September, a council of twelve generals had largely won out over all the others. Now, they rallied their people for the fight in the south and kicked their nuclear program into high gear. Russian spies revealed that within two years, China would have a nuclear missile.
Russian troops on the march in Cambodia
In a race against time, the international and Russian forces desperately tried to secure independence for Indochina. Burma was a smoking crater, with over two million civilians rumored to have been murdered by the Chinese Army. In Vietnam, where the Chinese still were (just barely) in control, Thai pilots flying Russian-manufactured planes and airships blew up the northern border separating Vietnam from southern China. Revolution swept the streets and Vietnam declared itself to be a part of the United Democracy of Indochina. UDI and Russian troops marched into the major cities and arrested and executed swathes of Chinese officers for war crimes.
Romanov II made sure to give the Russian people a sense of moral superiority by playing up the extent of Chinese atrocities as much as possible. The 'Yellow Brute of Peking" became a popular slur for the Chinese Republic. Fascist Indonesia's helping China did not make things look better internationally. Indonesian officers (some former American ones) had been the ones who had advised the Chinese on how to conduct fast ethnic cleansing. But despite exaggeration, China was committing brutal acts of genocide, especially against the peoples of the southern regions and the Muslims.
Finally, things began cooling down in 1982, as Chinese troops finally were forced out of Burma for good. Russia was not done, however, with its crusade against China. Despite setbacks, the Chinese nuclear program was still active, with an estimated six months to go before working bombs could be made. On May 9th, 1983, Russian troops invaded the Korean Peninsula and declared it part of Russia. China immediately declared war. United Nations troops swarmed into Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet, establishing UN Mandates and installing puppet governments who received their orders from the newly established "United Nations Council of Sovereigns" in Cagliari, Sardinia. Facing total opposition from the rest of the world (except Indochina and South Africa), China knew it was on the path to total defeat. In a last ditch effort to end the war, the Chinese nuclear research scientists threw everything they had into two very small nuclear weapons. On October 20th, 1983, the first bomb, hidden inside a shipping container, exploded in the port of Reval, Governorate of Estonia, killing over 30,000 people and injuring 200,000 thousand more. China then issued a threat, saying that unless international forces immediately stopped hostilities, another bomb would go off somewhere in France.
This was a poor route for the Chinese to take. The Imperial Secret Service immediately located the conspiracy to detonate a bomb in Normandy and shut it down, easily finding and disarming the small nuke while it was being hidden on a cargo ship near the Horn of Africa. Russia was incensed, and Sergei immediately launched a retaliatory strike on China, nuking the city of Qufu, the place of origin of the conspiracy, killing 300,000 people. Further non-nuclear strikes occurred all over China, resulting in a total collapse of the Chinese government. In just a few short years, China went from a growing great power to a collection of shattered regions barely able to call itself a nation. Russian troops pressed onward to Peking and burned it to the ground, this being the second time Peking suffered such a fate, the first time being at the end of the Missionary War almost eighty years previously. Knowing a total occupation of mainland China was a foolhardy misadventure, Russia scorched the major cities and left, taking everything of value, from gold, to paintings, to books, to women, to vehicles, and more, as well as executing or absconding with all of China's nuclear experts and destroying all research. The Chinese people were furious and revanchist, but nothing could be done. Swarms of politicians and generals squabbled over who would next take the helm of China, but they knew China's glory days were behind her. Indochinese forces took the provinces of Guangxi and Guangdong to complete the national humiliation. China had lost a third of its empire and millions of soldiers and citizens. But even more would die.
Russian troops in northern China (1983)
What was left of the Republic of China was left to its own affairs, and the various regions turned on each other in a near post-apocalyptic resource war. The southern regions, heavily influenced by their Old Dutch overlords, formed the Republic of Hunan in July of 1984. The province of Sichuan formed the Free State of Sichuan in August. In October, a group of revolutionaries north of Hunan declared the Republic of Central China. These new nations went to war over six times in ten years, culminating in the Great Chinese War, where the Republic of China (commonly known as North China) and Sichuan battled Hunan and Central China over a series of longstanding, almost incomprehensible border and trade disputes (this war was technically a spin-off conflict of the Third Sichuan-Central Chinese War).
List of the Chinese Wars (1984 -1994):
- First Sichuan-Central Chinese War (December, 1984 - March, 1985)
- Muslim Insurgency in Sichuan (December, 1984 - August, 1990)
- Second Sichuan-Central Chinese War (November, 1985 - April, 1986)
- Hunan-Sichuan War (August, 1986 - September, 1986)
- Republic of China-Central Chinese War (December, 1986 - February, 1988)
- Third Sichuan-Central Chinese War (June, 1988 - March, 1990)
- Great Chinese War (March, 1990 - November, 1994)
Overall, over twenty million people are alleged to have died because of direct or indirect consequences of the Chinese Wars. Even though the world was used to bloody genocidal wars, this was considered especially horrific, on par with the worst fighting during the fall of the New United States. Samuel Barrow, one of Virginia's leading politicians during this period, called the Chinese Wars "one of the biggest, most catastrophic, and most pointless disasters in human history." In the late 1990s, the United Nations would finally move to intervene and end the madness...
CAESARINA THE TERRIBLE
THE REGIME OF NAPOLEONA I
"His Imperial Majesty, Napoleon VI, was a good ruler, it cannot be denied by any. Faced with a war he could not win, he did not win, but he did not lose, an almost unheard-of achievement. He then worked for greater European unity and stability with Kaiser Helmut Wilhelm I. Yesterday; he died at the age of 70 of cardiac arrest at his country estate near Versailles. The nation, and indeed all of Europe, mourns the Empire's loss."
-The Paris Times, November 18th, 1985
Caesar Napoleon VI's death was sudden and shocking. He was only 70, and had always been healthy and exercised often. His death on November 17th, 1985, threw Europe into a frenzy. Some doubted that the Empire would be able to compete with Prussia's strong Helmut Wilhelm II and worried Prussian culture would overtake the continent and the United Nations. However, their worries were unfounded, as the new Bonaparte ruler would prove.
Napoleona I was crowned Caesarina on November 25th, 1985, and the "pretty princess" mystique vanished immediately. Before, no one knew Napoleona's political beliefs, as she was largely a darling of the press and a fashion trend-setter. Now she became the tyrannical overlord. It rapidly became apparent that Napoleona had been incredibly spoiled. Her father had brutally crushed magazines and papers which had printed rumors of her extramarital affairs, and she had always gotten everything she ever wanted. As her rule took hold, her political enemies began to fear for their lives. Her cousins in the Imperial satellites had their positions relegated to more ceremonial roles as she intimidated them into bowing even further to the Parisian throne. The 80 year-old Emperor Massimiliano IV of the Two Italies was the only one holding the line against her bloated power. When Massimiliano died under suspicious circumstances in 1986 at the age of 81, many said the Caesarina had ordered his death. Massimiliano V, a timid and thoroughly weak leader, succeeded his father at age 56, and began kissing Napoleona's ring.
Culture began to change radically during the beginning of the "Napoleona 80s." Men began wearing suits reminiscent of the era of Napoleon I, with large, starched collars and ascots (even top hats made a brief resurgence), and women began to wear strange, Roman-inspired linen dresses in the style of that same period, with the front of the legs being exposed up to the knee but the rear of the dress coming down to the ankles.
Above: Typical examples of early 19th century style which inspired European fashion in the 1980s.
Music took on a much more classical, early 1900s style, and the hip-shaking, loud, bizarre "Paris Club Sound" of the 1970s went completely out of style. Entertainment became much less "happy," with gritty, depressing dramas dominating literature and motion pictures. Napoleona was a strict Catholic, and she said of the era previous to hers, "The 1970s were loud and obnoxious and immoral. Packs of rapscallions smoked hash in a 'club' and discussed Eastern mysticism while naked women danced on tables. Disgusting. That era is over." Indeed, Napoleona didn't influence the era of the 1980s-90s, she literally created it by force. Things were basically the same from that point onward in her rule. By the Turn of the Millennium, the new "Napoleonaic Style" had become the face of modern Europe.
Napoleona was strongly anti-corruption, which actually meant she thought no one but herself should be trusted with government power. This alienated the many liberals and moderates living within the Empire, and caused massive protests in Paris, Lyons, and Vienna. The Vienna Protests of May 1st, 1990, would prove to be one of the most key moments in Napoleona's rule. Over twenty thousand liberal and anarchistic protesters united outside the Palace of Vienna while recently-deceased war hero Baron Adolf von Branau, who had died at the ripe-old age of 101, was lying in state. Things rapidly escalated as portraits of Napoleona were burned on an overturned police car. Carrying Austrian flags, some three hundred protesters gathered weapons and marched to the Adler beer hall, just two blocks away. There, they rallied with more anti-government forces and then marched back to the Palace for what they thought would be a toppling of the Imperial government and the establishment of Austrian independence. What followed was a complete bloodbath. Police and military forces opened fire and annihilated the attempted coup. Over 280 men and women lost their lives and over 500 more were arrested by riot police. Tanks rolled into the city and von Branau's body was evacuated. Napoleona gave orders to make sure the rebellion was completely crushed. For twenty-nine days, which became known as the Days of May, the government and Austrian nationalists clashed in the streets. The violence spread to Bohemia and Hungary, but was immediately crushed there. At last, the Austrian nationalists were routed in a final, massive riot on May 30th, 1990, in which 100 rebels and 30 police were killed, and the rebel leadership was captured and executed for treason.
As the new millennium approached, things were ominous in Europe. Nationalistic movements were more popular than they had been since the French Revolution, and the Russian Bear laid in wait on the eastern borders. As the 2000s arrived, the world braced itself...
WAR, IT'S JUST A SHOT AWAY: 1996
Charles Oswald II, sometime during the Army of the Lord crisis in the Third Republic
"A storm is threatening
my very life today
And if I don't get some shelter
I'm going to fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away.
It's all just a shot away"
-Southron political activist and songwriter Bernard Farley, 1996
After the 7-7-7 attacks, a civil war made the Third Republic eat itself. For ten years, Graham waged an insurgent war, savoring in the destruction of society. At last, in November of 1991, faced with no other option and following a month-long siege, Shicagwa was evacuated and the Army of the Lord came marching in.
Julius Caesar Woods (arm raised in a victory salute) greets his officers sometime before fleeing Shicagwa
The Siege of Shicagwa was a nasty affair, with countless innocents being killed in the fighting. Tanks and cars, on fire, lit up the night and made the city look like a metropolitan precinct in Hell. Wild cheers came up from throngs of AFC loyalists as Army of the Lord rebels came pouring in. Those Third Republic troops or officials still present were brutally beaten, tortured and executed. The Second Jerusalem was proclaimed as Reverend Graham entered the city on the back of white stallion and wearing a blood-colored uniform. As he arrived at his old stomping grounds at the "Anti-Rome," the palace for the old Reverend-Colonels near Burr Avenue, he "began weeping tears of joy." Thousands watched as he entered the building and raised the black flag of his revolution on the steeple. "The fear of God has been restored in this city! With Jehovah on our side, we will bring this same sort of justice to the Apostate's nation! Nixon shall pay for his crimes!"
This horrible outcome in the Third Republic Civil War ended with a religious police state being imposed on the entire nation. Oswald II's Lone Republic of Texas supported this new government with weapons and funding, as well as advisers and technical experts. By 1995, the government's place had been secured and a referendum was scheduled for August of 1996 to decide whether the Lone Republic and the Second Jerusalem would unite into a single country. This touched off a hotbed of world-wide controversy. The United Nations and the Confederacy has promised to never again allow any of the former New United States to reunite or combine. Now, Graham and Oswald II were slapping them in their faces. Russia, meanwhile, was secretly supportive of Yankee nationalism, insofar as it would combine only the Third Republic and Texas (with FARNE being its rival), as it would provide an enemy for Europe and the Confederacy and distract them from Russia's plan for total Eurasian domination. The 65 year-old Sergei Romanov II greatly feared Napoleona and sought to keep her busy internationally and to keep her away from his sphere of influence.
Thus was born the 1996 Third Republic Crisis. Chuckie Oswald II, the owner of a splendid little collection of nuclear missiles, was on the verge of becoming co-master of the Second Jerusalem. If that happened, a war to reconquer Louisiana would be almost assured to connect Texas to Shicagwa. A spokesman for Oswald and Graham, ORRA Sky Marshal Gomer Camden, who had led the Texas coup in the 1970s that had set up Oswald's Lone Republic, took to the airwaves on May 1st, 1996, to speak to the world. "If any country attempts to use military force against our people," Camden said, "We shall not hesitate to use our nuclear weapons. We do not fear death. We do not fear war. If you want to start World War II and nuke this planet, go ahead. But you shall not stop the American people from fulfilling their Manifest Destiny. Via! Veritas! Vita!"
Napoleona was backed into a corner now. Facing absolutely massive unrest at home, she had several options on what steps to take, all of them horrifying. The first option was to let the reunification happen, making her a laughing stock to Russia and the rest of the world. Another nightmarish NUSA-state would likely arise, creating a genocidal hell-hole out of North America once again. The second option was to launch an invasion and total UN occupation of the Lone Republic and the Second Jerusalem. Nuclear war could follow, with the Confederacy likely being snuffed out. Europe would likely have to evolve into a total martial law state under herself and Helmut Wilhelm II just to remain a secure nation. California and FARNE would face an uncertain future.
At last, the day of the referendum arrived, and an overwhelming majority of the two nations voted to unite. The Liberated American States Republic (LASR) was proclaimed. Nothing followed as response from anyone except verbal condemnation from the entire world. Russia saw Napoleona as weak for the first time. Even in the eyes of her subjects, there began to be doubts about if she could handle the growing Russian and now American threats. The coming of the New Millennium would make or break her future, as well as the future of Europe...
Map of the World in 2000