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Cortellen (E35) Factbook.

Cortellen
10-01-2007, 02:41
For the United States and Cortellen the Great War was not the biggest or most important war of the early 20th Century. After the Treaty in 1919 ending the Great War Willson tried to lead the US strongly into world affairs. This lead to growing dislike of him, this dislike slowly grew to hatred as 1920 started and the elections came up. When Willson announced going for a third term and the Republicans lack of a publicly liked opponant war broke out. It is called the Second American Civil War and it lasted from November 1920 to May of 1922. At the end of that almost all lands east of the Mississippi were controlled by the new faction lead by New Yorker George Cortel. Cortel named his faction after himself calling it Cortellen, and had the government buildings in Washington D.C. destroied and created new ones in his home city (and the largest city owned by his faction) New York City. Cortel was a dictator and his country lived under his iron grip until his death in 1925. Except for the shared city of New Orleans he broke off all relations with the other American factions and destoried all bridges under his control going to the Mississippi. He kept his citizens in and other citizens out (Think Stalin). He was succeeded by John Finnimore who started getting the country back on track. He decided to start relations with Europe and Canada first to show that at least part of the former U.S. was not ready to collapse. In 1930 the Republic of Cortellen had its first elections, which John won with by a landslide. Now its 1935 and Cortellen is headed towards its second elections and the nation is clamoring for John to run for one more term but only he knows if he will.

Militaristicly Cortellen came off on top from the war having the best end of the stick, with things like Norfolk Naval Base, West Point, and all the other military facitlities on the East Coast. But in return for that it has arguably the greatest amount of coast so it will have to spend time on making a large navy from the remains of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. It might also need an Army and Air Force depending on the reactions of the other American Factions. Right now they only have the battered remains of parts of the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Army.