2 World Update 5

World Update 5 - 1776: The Americas

In 1776, the US government's official world analysis is released to public records. It covers Diplomatic, Political, and Military matters of many of the world's nations. It also includes maps of various filters. This is what its American section reads.

North America

Once a world open to settlers, unsettled and unclaimed lands are now scarce, at least along the coasts. More inland areas, such as the Great Plains and western Radekzia, are quite free of settlers. The tribes are nearly all overrun or destroyed.

The United States of America

The USA is the most populated and largest, in terms of usable land, nation in North America. In the past 2 decades alone it has expanded drastically. Currently president is John Douglas. He is the third so far (1: Verigan Cadwal, 2: William Spencer). Above all, Douglas is an administrator, former mayor of Baltimore. Militarily, USA has a fairly small army of 52 thousand men, although they could easily expand that to up to 70 thousand. The navy is fairly large with 53 ships. The only alliance the USA currently maintains is with Haiti, but the tribe Miami is a protectorate.

Mexique

The colony is nearly as old as the USA, but it is much weaker. Whereas the USA was founded off of values of settlement, Mexique has always been a way of generating more revenue for Aquitaine. What with Aquitaine's downfall, Mexique is unlikely to continue being the servant.

Terres du Nord

Far to the north is Aquitaine's sister colony in Alaska, Terres du Nord. Not much can be said about the colony other than it is more sparsely populated than any other colony. Despite its subservient position, Terres du Nord has made an alliance with Mexique.

Occidentalia

California and Cascadia have been completely taken by Castile. Since the Castilian colonies' disastrous attempt at independence, Occidentalia has been hit with monstrous tariffs and their economies have dropped significantly. Still, Occidentalia continues to spread deeper into the Midwest.

Teutons

Radekzian progress has been completely halted in the last decade with the growth of Teutonic Canada. Refusing to use the British name Radekzia for the lands, the Teutons instead used an altered version of the Iroquois word for village, "Kanata". So far, the relationship between subordinate and overlord is stable, and Canada is currently helping the Teutonic Order in its efforts to restrain the disorderly colonies in the south.

New Castile

Despite a late start to the Castilian conquest of Central America, New Castile has managed to keep in one piece. Of course, the colonial nation is actually in two pieces, separated east and west by Cocomes and Zapotec. Like Occidentalia, New Castile is struggling after the failed independence war.

Natives

Now, Pueblo, Wichita, Sioux, Haida, Blackfoot, Miami, and Iroquois are the only independent tribes (tribes, not just natives, not counting Aztec nations here), and Miami and the Iroquois are protectorates. Wichita is the most successful, having westernized, adopted republican traditions, and allied itself with Castile. Still, they retain their old native religion of Totems and nature spirits. In Central America, the Mayan and Nahuatl nations are barely holding on against New Castile.

De Nederlandse Antillen

Antillen still controls much of the Caribbean, sharing it with Haiti and Britain. After the final annexation of the Netherlands by Picardy, Antillen has begun calling itself the true Netherlands, seeing as it is the only existing nation of Dutch culture. Other than that, Antillen has little to do with the outside world, keeping mostly to its own many islands. Unlike the USA, Antillen is ruled by a monarch, Willem I von Karnten

Haiti

Unlike its much more powerful neighbor, Haiti has been toying with colonizing and conquering since independence. Led by King Ragnar I Eirikr (remember, Haiti is Norwegian), chunks of both Africa and South America have been colonized and/or conquered. Haiti is allied with the USA and Aquitaine.

South America

South America is still purely colonial. Of course, most of it is currently in revolt and most has been in revolt at one point, but there is not a single independent nation that is not native to the continent.

Teutonic Colonies

Each of these is at war with the Teutonic Order for independence. Prior to the war, the three, Peru, La Plata, and Brazil, were racing to claim as much of central South America as possible. Since its initial founding, Brazil's speed of colonization has slowed, replaced by the quick expansion of La Plata and Peru. Despite their alliance against their former overlord, they are still competing for land. Peru and La Plata are each Constitutional Republics, modeled after the USA, while Brazil is a Constitutional Monarchy led by Gauzbert Manegold.

Colombia

Colombia is still a colony of Castile, and, like the other Castilian colonies, it recently lost its independence war. Not much can be said about this nation, other than that it has expanded quite far into Central America, all the way up to Honduras.

Doharia

So far the small colony has not lost any territory to the Teutons surrounding it. It is still a loyal servant to Britain, like Radekzia.

Others

A small part of North America is still controlled by Galicia, a part that is more than 5 times the land area of Galicia's Iberian possessions. A little further down the coast is Haiti's colony, and, like Galician's, it is also much larger than the Haitian homeland.