Republic of Luger
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| The Republic of Luger | ||||||
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| Motto: "God bless 'pa" | ||||||
| Anthem: "Stars and Stripes Forever" | ||||||
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| Capital | Columbia | |||||
| Largest city | Dallas | |||||
| Official languages | English |
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| Ethnic groups (2016) | 70.6% White 26.1% Black 3.3% other |
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| Demonym | Lugerian: Lugerian, American States: Appalachian, Piedmontian, Texan, Arkie, et cetera |
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| Government | confederal presidential non-partisan republic | |||||
| - | President | Kenneth McKay Jr. | ||||
| - | Vice President | Mike Pence | ||||
| - | Speaker of the House | Trey Gowdy | ||||
| Legislature | Congress | |||||
| - | Upper house | Senate | ||||
| - | Lower house | House of Representatives | ||||
| Establishment | ||||||
| - | 1st Carolina Congress | 4 July 1730 | ||||
| - | Revolutionary War of the Republic of Luger | 28 August 1733 | ||||
| - | Vietnam War (Luger) | 8 March 1965 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2017 estimate | 5.58 billion | ||||
| - | N/A census | N/A | ||||
| - | Density | (n/a)/km2 (n/a)/sq mi |
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| GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | 1,090 trillion | ||||
| - | Per capita | 195,410 | ||||
| HDI ((n/a)) | 0.920 very high |
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| Currency | Lugerian Dollar ($) |
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| Date format | MM/DD/YYYY | |||||
| Drives on the | right | |||||
| ISO 3166 code | RL | |||||
| Internet TLD | .us | |||||
Contents
Etymology
Dunno. Made the nation "Luger" as soon as I saw the word Luger was free for the taking.
History
Colonization
South Carolina
The Republic of Luger began with the colonization of South Carolina by Irish Catholics in 1660. Hundreds of thousands of Irish Catholics began leaving Ireland in 1660 under the feeling of religious discrimination by the British Empire and its protestant state. The first establishment in South Carolina was Éireston. Éireston was began to become a large port town and soon became the major town of the South. Irish Catholics, unlike the English, were hugely peaceful towards the Indians. Irish Catholics brought gifts for them from Ireland and worked with Indians so the colonization of land was not interfering. The first tribe and main tribe met by Irish Catholics were the Cusabos. With Éireston rapidly growing, the Irish used the Indians to their advantage by allying with them as a protective barrier against the Muskogee, which were a much larger and numerous tribe. Meanwhile, Catholicism slowly grew among the Cusabo people -- as did disease, naturally. Between 1670-1700, when Éireston was growing, the population grew from 1,900 in 1670 to 56,000 in 1700. There were two churches by 1708 -- =St. Patrick's and =St. George's. As the Irish population grew in the one city, colonization was needed, as it got more and more crowded. They began spreading along the coast of the Atlantic and up the Santee River.
North Carolina
North Carolina, much like South Carolina, was dominantly Irish Catholic. Though this was the case, the Province of North Carolina developed differently from South Carolina almost from the beginning. In the 1650s and 1660s, Irish settlers moved south from Virginia, in addition to runaway servants and fur trappers. They settled chiefly in the Albemarle borderlands region. They settled because they knew of the Irish Catholics of South Carolina and wished to join with them, but instead of joining them, a colonization of North Carolina ensued. North Carolina colonization was much larger and more general. Between 1650-1710, Irish Catholics heavily colonized places such as Bath (1705 -- the oldest incorporated town in North Carolina and in the Republic of Luger).
Georgia
Georgia was first colonized by Irish Catholics in 1620. Georgia, shortly, was named Godefridia, named after Godfrey de Bouillon. New Jerusalem (irl Savannah) was the first major establishment in Godefridia. It was founded by the first colonizers of Godefridia, a band of Irish Catholics who went on multiple pilgrimages to Jerusalem before their colonization of the Americas. This band of Irish Catholics, known as the Sons of Godfrey, were known for their crusading spirit. It was very very unique. It was also especially disliked by the British. The Sons of Godfrey established dozens of settlements in Godefridia by 1660. They were effectively the oldest Irish settlers of the Americas. The "Godfrey Irish," as they were called, were much much more fundamental than the Irish of the Carolinas.
Revolutionary War
Dixie
The era of Dixie was between 1830-1870. The era was a time of religious revivalism, religious fundamentalism in the government, economic growth, scientific advancement, and a time of patriotism. The era of Dixie officially "started" when Furley's Cotton Gin and Agriculture Goods Company founded in Atlanta by Osgar E. Furley, began to mass produce cotton gins, cast-iron plow moldboard ploughs, and horsedrawn mechanical reapers. At the time, farming was a purely hands-on operation done by the majority of the population in farms of families, groups, and communities. Urban areas only made up about 13% of the population. When Furley's Cotton Gin and Agriculture Goods Company began to mass produce and sell these tools, farming became easier, more productive, and agricultural surpluses began to build up. This led to a culture influx where the farm was seen as the biggest business in the nation. Companies formed of communities and families began to buy up land. The Republic had to begin accommodating for the soon-shortage of farming land by 1845, in which Luger began expanding westward. Between 1845-1855, Louisiana and Arkansas were committed into the Republic. The Republic also bought St. Louis's independence for $3.8 million dollars ($111,154,574 today), which was surprisingly low. The Republic saw St. Louis as a promising trade city and began to focus a lot of federal support for its urbanization. Urban areas began to sprout up in central hubs around big farming businesses. Though urbanization was a realization, the cultural icons were the farmlands. Urban areas were still quite small as people preferred to live in the farmlands of the Republic.
Religious revivalism also occurred between 1830-1845, where in a span of 15 years, Catholicism expanded rapidly in Luger. The Republic of Luger, founded by a dominant population of Irish Catholics, began to spread Catholicism westward as it expanded rapidly through its years. Most of this expansionism came from the Sons of Godfrey, who are headquartered in the Abbey of the Sons of Godfrey, which was built in 1669 and renovated to its current state in 1810. The Sons of Godfrey are usually referred to as monks, which is factually incorrect, as they do not belong to a religious order. The Sons of Godfrey is an term for the Catholic organization known as the Sons of Godfrey, who are fundamentalist Catholics. It's also an umbrella term for Georgian Catholics, which are just known for their fundamentalism. The Sons of Godfrey were the richest non-business organization in the United States, holding about $2.1 million dollars privately, which is the equivalent to $59,950,000 today. The Sons of Godfrey encouraged the expansion of Catholicism to the west through weekly town center speeches, missionaries, and the building of churches. The Sons of Godfrey built 29 churches between 1830-1850 in Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The Sons of Godfrey effectively, between 1830-1845, spread Catholicism into westward states. Though they did expand Catholicism under the thought that it would be spread in their fundamentalist view, the Catholicism that resided in these lands after their expansion of it mostly reflected the lenience of Carolinian Catholicism.
The farmlands, as the cultural icon, bred a lot of political, religious, and cultural representation. This is where the "Dixie" culture originates. The farmlands reflected the individual hard work of people for themselves and their small community and it reflected the ultimate freedom of the people, away from bureaucracy and federalism. The farmlands adequately implanted the "small-town-soft spot" of Luger, which is a famously regarded feeling of the Republic, where small towns are seen as the centers of culture and the pinnacles of small collective society. With this, towns in the farmlands were purposely made to not expand as far as urbanization would make them. Small towns are still the centers of culture in the eyes of Lugerians and they were very important to the culture of the 50s after their spiking downfall of attention in the 30s-40s. Famous artisans were making their marks on Lugerian culture in this time. In 1852, Dan Emmett published "I Wish I Was in Dixie", which was made the national song by popular vote in 1854, only two years later. The song was petitioned to be the National Anthem, but the popular vote laid it down. The song effectively reflected nearly all of Luger's culture in one. It became popular in only 6 months.
The last effective part of the Era of Dixie was the political part.
WIP
Industrialization
World War I
World War II
Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War's early years, Presidents John McMillan and Ray Blanton were both pretty popular. They had "Fireside Talks," where they interviewed and spoke to Vietnam soldiers on the field over the phone and spoke to the public about the Vietnam War. Blanton, McMillan's Secretary of State, continued these talks. Blanton established the Vietnam Healthcare Bill, which gave free healthcare to all veterans of all wars. Blanton, considered the "JFK of Luger," was interested in space travel. His first year, he established the National Aerodynamic Sciences Association (NASA) and in September of 1969, he had sent the first Lugerians to space (Luger can into space!). Blanton also visited Vietnam multiple times and met with soldiers on the field. Unfortunately, on October 17, 1970, Blanton was shot dead by a Vietnamese sniper, taking a shot to the head. The sniper's location was destroyed by nearly 100 missiles ten minutes later.
The first 20 years were gruesome. Luger saw over two million Lugerian troops be sent to Vietnam in the first 6 years, over 4 million in the 12th year, and around 10-11 million in the 18th year. Luger's first 20 years saw nearly three generations fighting on the battlefield. This saw a larger support of Vietnam from China, with millions of Chinese helping the Vietnamese. During this entire time, the battles of Vietnam were glorified to find Luger mostly victorious in the war, though it simply wasn't. The Vietnam War was exactly how it was in real life. The DMZ was the borderline and the Lugerians and Vietnamese hardly moved up or down it. The Viet Cong existed but were, fortunately for Luger, crushed harder than they were in real history. Luger's soldiers on the battlefield had seen their sons and their fathers fight alongside them on the battlefield. Soldier's life became a challenge for them, as many soldiers were on the field for over 4 years. The mental stability of these soldiers were much more severely severed and the culture on the battlefield was much more prominent, though ignored by the media. The Lugerian soldiers, though they couldn't do anything about it, were opposed to the war wholeheartedly. Over 62% of the soldiers who fought for Luger on the battlefield did not want to fight. In 1975, the Battle of Đông Hà was the turning point of public opinion for Vietnam. The battle occurred on August 19, 1975 and ended a week later. The city was completely and utterly destroyed. Over 290,000 American soldiers fought 108,600 Vietnamese and 200,350 Chinese. The battle was, by many scholars, considered the World War One of Vietnam. The media had nearly completely ignored the battle, knowing that any footage would be footage that did not bode well for Luger. Because the battle saw only a terrifying 600 Lugerian troops return alive, 128,000 injured, and the rest either dead or disappeared. News spread quickly, even though the panicked federal government tried to keep it from doing so by disrupting mail from entering Luger from Vietnam.
Luger's people were in outrage. The Vietnam culture that popped up in the middle of Vietnam in real life burst to life in Luger in September of 1975. Marching crowds of the hundreds of thousands crowded around the White House and Capitol Building. Music reflected the horrifying life of soldiers. The music was much darker than Vietnam music we hear in real life and protests were much more passionate. The federal government, while present in most of these protesting cultural exchanges, ignored it completely, and shut its doors to any media or civilian questions. This eventually led to a huge distaste of the federal government. Those who hated communists began to hate the Senate and Presidency. Protests popped up all around Luger for many different reasons. In New Afrika, for the savior of blacks from the battlefield. In Dixielachia, for the secession of Dixielachia and Jackson, reformation of the government, and resignation of the president. Most of the other states protested the war as a whole.
The Vietnam War, after the Battle of Đông Hà, was downhill for Luger. The government began a three-year long extraction process of Lugerian soldiers, taking about one million each year. This led to the rapid shrinking of South Vietnamese borders as the North Vietnamese communists kept advancing. Finally, the Vietnamese committed the Tet Offensive in 1978. The Tet Offensive saw the death of over 300,000 civilians and 190,000 Lugerian soldiers and wounding of over 500,000 Lugerians, and the destruction of many cities. Between 1978 and 1980, while the last extraction processes were in place, the Lugerians were confined to the Sóc Trăng Province and were in a constant border battle as they desperately tried to leave Vietnam. Saigon had fell in 1978 and the communist Vietnamese were only battling to avenge their fallen comrades. Luger, between 1978 and 1980, lost around 89,000 soldiers to death and 180,000 to injuries. In December of 1979, the Lugerians were granted a ceasefire by the North Vietnamese. The December was a gruesome December. Christmas was not celebrated by the soldiers. To them, it was known as "Christ's Silent Birthday," The last Lugerians were out of Vietnam on News Years Day. This December was observed by the people of Luger in a last phenomenal protest to the Vietnam War with a fasting from nearly every Catholic of Luger that lasted the entire month and a silence protest by over 6 million civilians. On January 2, 1980, the last soldiers arrived to Luger in dead silence.
Blanton's successors were widely disliked. Thomas Eastland was known as the "Big Mouthed Baby," referencing he looked like a baby and that he lied about the Vietnam War on live television. Eastland stopped doing Fireside Talks, which left Vietnam once more in the dark and left the soldiers out of any way to tell the public about the war. Though this was the case, Eastland began the extraction of Lugerian soldiers in 1976. In the same year, he was almost persecuted for media tampering in 1976, as he had been caught nearly bribing an executive of a news station to keep quiet about the Vietnam War until the end of his presidency.
The Vietnam War was the bloodiest battle in Lugerian history and probably the bloodiest battle in the history of any nation on the North American Continent. In total, Luger sent 10,520,000 Lugerian soldiers to Vietnam. Over 3,500,000 Lugerian soldiers died and 6,200,000 Lugerian soldiers were injured. The count for those who returned unharmed was a horrific 800,008 exactly. This number was famously known among the officers of Luger's military as the "Devil's Infinity," referencing the two 8's at the beginning and end of the number, as that was the exact number known to the Lugerian's to be the soldiers who returned home unharmed. 19,992 Lugerian soldiers were captured and still today they are unknown. In the following years, the military estimated that 200,000 Vietnam veterans had committed suicide after the war was over. Vietnam memorials in the costs of millions popped up in every state in multiple numbers. The most popular is in the District of Columbia. The Vietnam War Memorial, known as "The Big Black Gash of Shame," by Vietnam veterans, is the most popular memorial to the war. The memorial is visited by around 52 million civilians every year.
Present
Demographics
Population
Language
Religion
In Luger, the Catholic Awakening was, instead of a Protestant religious revival that was the Second Great Awakening, was a Catholic religious revival. In Luger's history, Catholic Irishmen settled the Carolinas and Georgia, but the Anglican British ruled over them, which led to religious rebellions in those provinces that led to the Revolutionary War. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Catholics whose priests led the movement. Expansion west after the Revolutionary War led to a huge Catholic population among western states.
The people of Luger are dominantly Catholic. In a government-given poll in 2012, 74% of Lugerians said that religion played a "very important role in their lives." In another poll in 2013, 61% of Lugerians said that they attended church weekly or almost weekly. In 2012, 78.5% of adults identified themselves as Christian, Catholicism accounts for 60.5%, while Protestantism was at 31.1% The total reporting non-Christian religions in 2014 was 1.9%. Other religions include Judaism (1.5%), Islam (0.2%), Buddhism (0.2%), Hinduism (0.1%). The survey also reported that 6.5% of Americans described themselves as agnostic, atheist or simply having no religion, down from 8.2% in 1990. Luger is entirely made up of Bible Belt states, which is why religiousness is such a significant part of the daily lives of Lugerians. Luger's current Catholicism is mostly modeled after Irish Catholicism when it comes to architecture. The large Catholic population led to a lot of neo-Gothic architecture built in the cities of Luger.
