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Republic of Williamsville
Motto: "Out of Many, One"
Anthem: "Amazing Grace"
Capital		Maryland
Largest city		Davidson
Official languages		None at Federal government of Williamsville
Demonym		Williamsvilleans
Government		Federalism
-	President of Williamsville	David Williams III
-	Vice President of the United States	Steve Todd
-	Speaker of the Williamsville House of Representatives	Phill Coon
-	Chief Justice of the Williamsville Supreme Court	Lamar Sawyer
Legislature		Williamsville Congress
-	Upper house	Williamsville Senate
-	Lower house	Williamsville House of Representatives
Williamsville Revolution
-	Williamsville Declaration of Independence	February 6, 1800
Population
-	census	200 million
GDP (nominal)		estimate
-	Total	$18.3 trillion
-	Per capita	$65,451.57
Date format		mm/dd/yyyy

Etymology

The first inhabitants of the region, a tribe called Estranda, grew into a commanding population. Eventually, upon establishing a nation, they named the country Estranda.

After the revolution against Great Britain, the survivors and military leaders decided to name their new country “Williamsville” after their military general and commander, Christopher Williams.

History

Indigenous peoples

In the mid-1400s, an African tribe by the name of Estranda was created. The Estrandan tribe expanded their sovereignty with force and built permanent villages and began to adopt some cultural and technological practices. They conquered other nearby tribes and integrated their members into the Estrandan order. Most Estrandans had a high standard of living. By 1501, there were an estimated 100,000 members of the Estrandan tribe.

Estrandan Era (1502-1650)

In 1502, 13 tribal leaders - called the Council of Estrandan Founders - written the Estrandan Charter that officially incorporated themselves as a nation. The Estrandan tribal leader Basel Hondo and his wife Amma Makemba Hondo - who was married to a former tribal leader who died a year prior - were anointed Emperor and Empress of an established monarchy by The Council. After the anointment, Emperor Hondo disbanded The Council, given himself total sovereignty over the nation’s governance.

Emperor Hondo was a state-builder and military man. He initiated major infrastructure projects and formed a collection of cities with local leadership under his central power. He also moved quickly to establish a strong military - with an estimated 5,000 soldiers enlisted in the Estrandan Army by 1510. Hondo was infamously non-religious, espousing that religion was a "needless divisive tool" in society and warned of creating "factions based on presumptuous pseudo-spirituality" that he believed would create a country "divided against itself."

Nevertheless, as Estranda morphed into a more tribal country (such as certain cities being known for their distinct cultural demographics) and several religious leaders rising in stature, religious followings gathered. The most prominent of the new religious emergence was that of Islam. Muslim mystics and Arabian traders from other regions, known as “Sufis,” were responsible for spreading Islam within several prominent Estrandan cities through their missionary work while trading resources with the Estrandan people. In 1510, the Sufis would pass out Muslim teachings - or the Qurʾān - written in Estrandese, the language of the Estrandan people.

English Rule

Williamsville, formerly Estranda, was a small country inhabited by Africans since the early 1500s. In 1650, however, it was conquered by Great Britain. Hundreds of thousands of British citizens descended upon Estranda and built vibrant communities aided by the slave labor of native-born African Estrandans. By 1695, there were 1.1 million people in Estranda.

The English colonization program in Estranda was robust. Colonizers enslaved African Estrandans and subjected to hard labor in the cultivation of agriculture crops and timber woodshopping in rural Estranda that reaped a major economic benefit for the mother country, England. White men were given land through lotteries and local governments were appointed to establish codes, collect taxes, and administer the slave trade of native-born African Estrandans.

However, the poor treatment of slaves led to major slave uprisings in the late 1600s. For years, many native-born African Estrandans slaves made to be in incessant labor by their overseers. For many, they faced harsh treatment: women were raped, men were mutilated, and children were separated from their families and sold to other plantations.

In 1671, the first slave uprising took place on the infamous Harris Plantation, when 25 servants attempted to escape the 120-acres of land by burning down the residence at night when the Harris family slept. The uprising failed when the family escaped the burning home and all 25 of the slaves who ran were captured by nearby slave masters. After being held captive and starved for a week, approximately 400 slaveholders brought their slaves and families from across the country to watch the 2-hour torture of all 25 slaves, capped-off with their burning alive. The event was said to be the turning point among English Estrandan mothers who lamented at the graphic heinousness with which their children were subjected to see.

An English woman and matriarch of the Grey Plantation, Katherine Anne Grey, assembled a group of other English women known as the "British Gals of Peace." Their mission was to re-integrate African Estrandans into a "more equal, modern" society by ending slavery. In a manifesto, the originally ten-member group called the morbid practices of slave-holding, overseeing and treatment "a moral repugnance that has warped our children's minds, poisoned their hearts, and bred hatred among our kindred that's cursing our World and corrupting our posterity."

The emerging abhorrence to slavery and the treatment of African Estrandans historians have called Estranda's "moral enlightenment." It was aided, they say, by younger native-born English men and women receiving higher-learning education at institutions such as The University of Estranda and Mary Stele Women's College.