Counterculture World and Larp

Formation of the Lone Star Republic (LSR)

   * Sam Houston recovers from his bout with pneumonia in 1863.
   * Many are unhappy with CSA brutality & abuses after the Confederate Revelution.
   * Sam Houston makes a deal with USA president George McClellan.
         o LSR withdraws from CSA.
         o LSR gives up slavery.
         o USA keeps pressure on CSA northern border in case there is conflict.
   * Sam Houston forms a treaty with many of the Indian nations.
         o Near sovereignty for the Lone Star Indian Territories (LSIT.)
               + Council of Chiefs (CoC) holds veto power over laws within LSIT.
               + CoC can pass legislature within LSIT.
               + CoC can submit legislature within LSR.
         o Indians will help defend LSR and Texians will help defend LSIT.
   * Sam Houston organizes enough political support to break Texas away from the CSA.
         o In February 1866, Sam Houston becomes first president of LSR.
         o Military actions by the Northwest Confederacy (NWC) are rebuffed by Indians.
               + Their defense of the LSR gains them respect by many.
         o Despite some friction, no major action by CSA.
               + Partially becuase of thinking that Texas had the right to secede.
               + Partially because of USA pressure on northern border.

Presidency of the LSR

   * The president serves a 5-year term.
   * A president can not succeed himself.

Politics in the LSR

   * 2 major political parties:
         o Free Soil Party: socially moderate-permissive, fiscally permissive.
         o Labor Party: socially moderate, fiscally restrictive

United States of America (USA):

   * Capital: Philadelphia
   * 2 major political parties:
         o American Party: socially restrictive, fiscally permissive
         o Democratic Party: socially moderate, fiscally moderate
   * 17 states after Secession War: Conneticut, Delaware, Indiana, Ohio, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, & Wisconson.
   * Parts of northern Kentucky are absorbed into Indiana & Ohio at the end of the Secession War.
   * 2 more states join the USA during the Northwest Revolutionary War which leads to the FAR: Illinois & North Missouri.
         o This lets all four countries have a border with Kansas after the formation of FAR (assuming South Missouri goes to the CSA.)
   * USA is puritanical: most freedoms but with censorship, especially regarding sex.  No successful socially liberal political party.
   * Constant problem with uneducated blacks as illegal immigrants from the CSA.

Timeline:

   * 1864 (June): The NWC breaks away from the USA..
   * 1864 (September): The end of Confederate Revolutionary War.
   * 1866 (February): The LSR breaks away from the CSA.
   * 1867 (March): The UK creates the Dominion of Canada.
   * 18?? (?): The Farite Revolutionary War.
   * 1875 (March): The UK gives complete sovereignty to the Dominion of Canada.
   * 1896 (August): Canada's negotiations to purchase Alaska from Russia disolve with the Klondike gold rush.
   * 1914 (June): World War I begins.
   * 1917 (August): Russian Revolutionary War begins in Alaska.
   * 1917 (November): Russia withdraws from WWI.
   * 1918 (October): WWI ends with dissolution of the Ottoman Empire & harsh penalties imposed on Germany.
   * 1939 (September): WWII begins with German invasion of Poland.
   * 1945 (July): WWII ends when Russia drops an atomic bomb on Berlin.
   * 1947 (January): The EU is formed.
   * 1950 (October): The AU is formed.

General Notes:

   * Kansas is the Poland of North America.
   * Cuba is the Switzerland of North America.
   * Little oil outside of the LSR.
         o This retards the use of automobiles in North America.
   * The American Alliance is forged during WWII to send aid to allies in Europe.
   * The American Union (AU) starts with Canada, the USA, & the LSR in 1950.
         o The FAR & Mexico enter the AU in 1951.
         o The CSA enters the AU in 1952.
         o Kansas petitions for its own seat in the AU and enters in 1961.
   * New Jersey is the movie capital of North America.
   * Largest media organizations are located in the FAR.
   * Slang terms: Wankees (Yankees), Cons (Confederates), Greasies (Texians), Farts (Farites)
   * Map of "America" during 1864: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ElectoralCollege1864-Large.png