NationStates Jolt Archive

1. The United States of Allanea will purchase the Islands of Newfoundland for 50 billion Universtal Standard Dollars from the Commonwealth of The Gulf States.

2.The United States of Allanea will aid the Commonwealth of The Gulf States in case of war.

3. The Islands of Newfoundland will now be known as the Allanean Territory of Newfoundland.

4. The United States of Allanea shall colonise the Isles on the homestead system.

Signed,

Alexander Kazansky, President-for-Life of the United States of Allanea
Alex Ortiz, President of the Commonwealth of The Gulf States

It has been a pleasure in working buisness with our new neighbors in the Canadian territories.

Since we have now sold off the rest of Nfld/Lab, we will not be interested in hearing about purchases of any of our territories globally.

The big passenger vessels detached from the quays at Port-Allanea, moving slowly away, filled to the brim with people – not the usual passengers of such boats to be sure, but rather the poor – the former truck drivers, construction workers, the unemployed. Today, though, they had a reason to buy a ticket on a cruise boat – they were going off towards a new life. Their meager appartments were sold off, and already several appartment buildings in Port-Allanea were being razed by the new owners – looking to make a buck on the empty land.

On the quay stood a plump man, with surprisingly long hair falling back on his business suit, trailing the passage of the vessels curiously with a pair of binoculars. Soon, they would be gone from the horizon, and the problems they caused would be gone from his city. Brandon Koleno, the mayor of Port-Allanea, smiled.

This was the start of Project Mayflower, a joint project between the city of Port-Allanea and the Territorial Authority. The poorest of the citizens were given, or sold at symbolic rates, 200-acre homesteads in Newfoundland – there, they would start a new life, or at least try to. And Port-Allanea would get rid of them. Everybody won. Of course, the real estate companies woul lose out a bit, but hell, nothing is perfect.

Newfoundland, United States of Allanea, some time later

Grange Freenox, Governor of the United States Territory of Newfoundland, was surveying a large field – in fact, a large series of greenhouses, their semi-transparent roofs glistening in the sun. Throughout the Territory, the newcomers used the land to grow various recreational drugs – tobacco, cannabis, opium, anything they could think of. Those would be bought by Allanean Pharmaceuticals, by the trainload, in six months from now – such was the contract the company signed with the growers.

Already now, the presense of big industry was being felt in the area. Allanea Rail won the charter from Taggart Transcontinental, and began building rail lines to supply the growers with the products they needed to prepare their harvest, and to pick it up when they were done. Further, in the Southern part of Newfoundland, preparations were made for a new military base – miles and miles straight of airfields, hangars, troop quarters and shipyards.

The base was called Fort Travis, and the rumours – rather persistent – had it that eventually it would hold not only Allanean forces but also allied ones. In the meanwhile, all that was present was a single brigade of mechanized infantry, an air armada – stocked with F16A’s as the main fighter – and two Predator-class superdreadnoughts standing off shore.

Yet Grange Freenox, Governor of the United States Territory of Newfoundland, was still content with those advances. Small as they were, they signalled the way. Rome was not built in one day. But, thought Freenox, if Rome had ever a first day of it’s construction, it probably loooked and felt exactly like this one.