14-01-2004, 12:08
A brief history of the Federation of United Microstates
The people now known as the Microstatesmen migrated into the area around Lake Micro several hundred years ago, coming from some unknown location to the west.
Originally settling on the lake, the small population soon flourished, multiplied, and spread out to the mountainous region to the north and to the river to the southeast. In those places they encountered groups of natives known as the Ewokkas. Primitive, naturally diminutive and excessively hairy, the Ewokkas had themselves lived in the region for perhaps thousands of years. Archeological evidence shows that the Ewokkas at one time dominated the area and had a large population, but at the time of the Microstatesmen's migration their population had already dwindled to a few thousand.
Though there were some skirmishes between the Microstatesmen and Ewokkan tribes early on, the two soon learned to accept one another's presence. As generations went by, the two groups came to form a strong relationship; the Ewokkas let go of their old pagan beliefs and came to accept the Christian beliefs of the Microstatesmen.
From there things moved along relatively peaceably for the Microstatesmen; different groups spread out, forming their own distinct, self-governing states.
With the discovery of titanium in the mountains, however, came trouble. Outsiders now had a reason to take an interest in the region and looked to use the completely de-centralized nature of the microstates against them in order to gain control of the titanium industry.
Spreading discontent among the titanium miners, a group of Marxist outsiders known as the Red Fist managed to unionize most of the titanium industry in an attempt to place it under their control. As soon as they consolidated this power, the Red Fist moved to force a general strike of the industry in an attempt to cripple the microstates' economies.
This back-fired, however. The workers refused to go along with the Red Fist's scheme, and soon the states worked together to expell the Red Fist from the region altogether.
But the Marxists were not done. The Red Fist moved back into the region and created a base of operations in the middle of the unpopulated southeast desert. With the support of an unknown outside government, the now heavily militarized Red Fist began a campaign of terror against the six mountainous states of Microfornia, Microvania, Microgan, Microzona, Microsota and Microhoma. The states fended off the attacks by joining together and preventing the Red Fist from making a move on the titanium mines.
No longer able to breach those states' defenses, the Red Fist instead swept through the southern states of Microlina and Micronois, catching those states off guard and moving clockwise around Lake Micro to the unprotected western portion of the Megaton mountain range.
With the Marxist rebels now in control of the western Megaton mountains, the leaders of each of the microstates convened in an emergency meeting on Micro Island. There what is today called the Great Realization occured: the individual microstates came to realize that they depended on one another for defense from outside hostilities and agreed to form one nation together, with a limited but centralized federal government to be in place of a military.
The Microstates soon organized and coordinated their efforts against the rebels, defeating them (with the help of the Ewokkan tribes) in the Battle of Megaton. The defeated rebels fled in ruin to their secret desert headquarters, but were followed and attacked by the combined might of all of the Microstates. There, in the Battle of Microzona Desert, the Red Fist was decisively defeated once and for all.
In the aftermath of the War of Realization (as it came to be known), the individual states created the Federal Constitution which became the backbone of the federal government. With Micro City as its capital, the Federation of United Microstates was officially formed. . .
The people now known as the Microstatesmen migrated into the area around Lake Micro several hundred years ago, coming from some unknown location to the west.
Originally settling on the lake, the small population soon flourished, multiplied, and spread out to the mountainous region to the north and to the river to the southeast. In those places they encountered groups of natives known as the Ewokkas. Primitive, naturally diminutive and excessively hairy, the Ewokkas had themselves lived in the region for perhaps thousands of years. Archeological evidence shows that the Ewokkas at one time dominated the area and had a large population, but at the time of the Microstatesmen's migration their population had already dwindled to a few thousand.
Though there were some skirmishes between the Microstatesmen and Ewokkan tribes early on, the two soon learned to accept one another's presence. As generations went by, the two groups came to form a strong relationship; the Ewokkas let go of their old pagan beliefs and came to accept the Christian beliefs of the Microstatesmen.
From there things moved along relatively peaceably for the Microstatesmen; different groups spread out, forming their own distinct, self-governing states.
With the discovery of titanium in the mountains, however, came trouble. Outsiders now had a reason to take an interest in the region and looked to use the completely de-centralized nature of the microstates against them in order to gain control of the titanium industry.
Spreading discontent among the titanium miners, a group of Marxist outsiders known as the Red Fist managed to unionize most of the titanium industry in an attempt to place it under their control. As soon as they consolidated this power, the Red Fist moved to force a general strike of the industry in an attempt to cripple the microstates' economies.
This back-fired, however. The workers refused to go along with the Red Fist's scheme, and soon the states worked together to expell the Red Fist from the region altogether.
But the Marxists were not done. The Red Fist moved back into the region and created a base of operations in the middle of the unpopulated southeast desert. With the support of an unknown outside government, the now heavily militarized Red Fist began a campaign of terror against the six mountainous states of Microfornia, Microvania, Microgan, Microzona, Microsota and Microhoma. The states fended off the attacks by joining together and preventing the Red Fist from making a move on the titanium mines.
No longer able to breach those states' defenses, the Red Fist instead swept through the southern states of Microlina and Micronois, catching those states off guard and moving clockwise around Lake Micro to the unprotected western portion of the Megaton mountain range.
With the Marxist rebels now in control of the western Megaton mountains, the leaders of each of the microstates convened in an emergency meeting on Micro Island. There what is today called the Great Realization occured: the individual microstates came to realize that they depended on one another for defense from outside hostilities and agreed to form one nation together, with a limited but centralized federal government to be in place of a military.
The Microstates soon organized and coordinated their efforts against the rebels, defeating them (with the help of the Ewokkan tribes) in the Battle of Megaton. The defeated rebels fled in ruin to their secret desert headquarters, but were followed and attacked by the combined might of all of the Microstates. There, in the Battle of Microzona Desert, the Red Fist was decisively defeated once and for all.
In the aftermath of the War of Realization (as it came to be known), the individual states created the Federal Constitution which became the backbone of the federal government. With Micro City as its capital, the Federation of United Microstates was officially formed. . .