History of the Stainless Confederacy

The earliest ideas for the South to split from the United States occurred during the Nullification Crisis of 1820, however secession never received widespread recognition as a political solution until the election of Abraham Lincoln (and never in the North), when 7 states seceded:

• South Carolina (December 20, 1860),
• Mississippi (January 9, 1861),
• Florida (January 10, 1861),
• Alabama (January 11, 1861),
• Georgia (January 19, 1861),
• Louisiana (January 26, 1861),
• Texas (February 1, 1861).

The Confederate States of America was thus formed on February 4, 1861. Jefferson Davis was elected president and Montgomery, Alabama was made its capital.

During Lincoln's inaugural address on March 4, he gave his opinion that the U.S. Constitution prevented sucession, and that he'd use force to secure Federal forts, taxes, etc. in the South.

Most Federal fortifications in the Confederacy, though, willingly went under Southern control, with the notable exception of Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor. On April 12, South Carolina militiamen under Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard fired upon the fort, and upon capture, the Union declared War on the Confederacy, which resulted in the further secession of 4 states:

• Virginia (April 17, 1861),
• Arkansas (May 6, 1861),
• Tennessee (May 7, 1861),
• North Carolina (May 20, 1861).

The capital moved to Richmond, Virginia, home of the Tredegar Iron Works, and future Tredegar Weapons Co., later that month, and the First War Between the States began.

The North believed that the Southern rebellion would blow over once the troops were sent in, and by Christmas the Stars and Stripes would fly again from Richmond to Miami. In fact, Lincoln asked that volunteers be held in the army for only 90 days.

Though the arrogance of the North proved its undoing, the war was quick, however, there was only one major Union victory.

The North blockaded the South and temporarily stopped its economy.

But on the ground campaigns, the Southern army was all-mighty. On July 21, 1861, Southern Gen. Joseph E. Johnson and P.G.T Beauregard slaughtered Northern Gen. Irwin McDowell at the Battle of Manassas, and then went on to occupy now-undefended Washington, D.C., where they held up Lincoln, along with his cabinet, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Congress (minus a few who were killed in the crossfire while watching the battle, and Sen. Charles Sumner, who was lynched on the spot). The Northern government stayed under Confederate guard in the Capital Building for two months, until word of the Battle of the Potomac reached the occupied city.

A relief force pulled from the West had arrived to the Eastern Theater on September 15, 1861, and had tried to break the now-Confederate, but was too small to take on the fortifications that had been building since July. The Federals retreated, and Southern soldiers sent a message from Union Gen. Ulysses Grant to the president, saying that the Confederates had caught the country unprepared for war, and that he (as self-declared Union Commander-in-Chief) had called for an unconditional cease fire on all fronts. President Lincoln finally gave in, and told the Southern troops to tell Richmond that he wanted peace.

The Treaty of Richmond, which was completed (mostly by the Confederates) on December 15, 1861, outlined peace between the two countries, and stated:

• The Confederacy is now a free and independent country, "a nation among nations", and by

signing this treaty the North recognizes this.

• The Confederacy is defined as the 11 states that had officially seceeded, as well as:
  • Kentucky
  • Missouri
  • Indian Territory
  • Arizona Territory (U.S. New Mexico Territory south of 34̊)
  • Unorganized (New Mexico) Territory (The rest of the Union New Mexico Territory)
  • Los Angeles Territory (California south of 37̊)
  • "And all lands that have runaway from home."- a clause clearly meaning West Virginia

The Treaty of Richmond was signed by the United States and the Confederate States on Christmas Day, 1861. Britain, France, Canada and Mexico all recognized the Confederacy by spring of 1862.

The last battle of the I WBS was the Battle of Island Number Ten, a naval battle that happened technically after the cease fire, but it should be noted that said cease fire only applied to the army, not the navy, and the point is moot anyway as the war ended a week before the battle occurred, on January 1, 1861. It was, ironically, a Union victory.

After the Davis administration, the Confederacy was still a slightly backwater agricultural nation, and the people wanted a change. Robert E. Lee, celebrated war hero, answered the call, industrializing the nation, and in places like Birmingham or Richmond, to a level of places like New York or Pittsburg This was continued by the next leader of the Confederacy, Benjamin Judah.

The Judah administration was significant in that it was the first time that the Confederacy really noticed it had a Pacific coastline. President Judah became the first Confederate president to go to Tokyo, and this began a short but close friendship between the South and Japan, which broke after Japan’s invasion of China. Judah also began close friendship with the Kingdom of Hawaii, and loaned the Kingdom 3 million CSD for it to buy Russian Alaska, on the condition that they give their citizens more political rights.

Benjamin Judah served his 6 years, and then retired a national hero. The election of that year though, saw for the first time anyone more important than a beggar support the left-wing opposition party, the Whigs, when Stonewall Jackson came in and started calling for an end to slavery, citing that the South and Brazil were the only slave nations in the world and recent pressure by Britain and France. Although abolition still was something that the vast majority of the South thought evil, no one dared challenge a war hero, who defended against and then out flanked the entire Army of the Potomac, crushing it in just one battle. The Democrats thus decided that they’d throw in their support for the Whigs this time, and the South saw the smallest voter turnout ever, with some countries having none at all. But, President Jackson was elected, and soon bullied Congress to pass his anti-slavery amendment. Blacks wouldn’t be truly free in the Confederacy for another ninety years.

Although sympathies for the Confederacy were high in Britain and France, the Confederacy felt slightly betrayed by them declaring their neutrality in I WBS. It returned the favor, so to speak, by declaring their neutrality in the Mexican Civil War. When the war dragged on without any hope in sight, France decided that the Mexicans (or at least the Mexicans with guns) had spoken, and recognized Republican Mexico, as did Britain, the C.S.A., and the United States, all of whom just watched without doing anything while the whole thing happened.

The new Mexican government was wary of its northern neighbor, and feared a Confederate invasion, so they formed an alliance with the United States in 1894. This brought the South closer to Britain and France for the first time since the war. It eventually joined them in the Quadruple Entente, which in turn caused the U.S. and Mexico to join the Quadruple Alliance.

The 1890s and 1900s were a turbulent time in the western hemisphere. The building of a canal connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific in Nicaragua by the Confederates brought both countries close to war, and only the Columbians allowing the North to have their own canal through its northern province settled this. Columbia thus sided with the Alliance, which caused rival Venezuela to ally with the Entente. Nicaragua became a Confederate protectorate, and Guatemala sided with the South, hoping to strike a blow at its northern neighbor Mexico and also take Belize, a cultural rival. Belize allied with Mexico almost immediately.

While war-clouds gathered over Latin America, a storm broke over the Carribean. Cuba, a Spanish outpost and now convulsing with rebellion and oppression. The South, thinking of itself as a former zone of oppression, sympathized with the Cuban rebellion, but didn’t side with the rebels officially. That changed, however, when the CSS Alabama exploded in Havana harbor. Within days, the South and Spain were at war. Confederate troops landed in Cuba by the thousands by the end of the month, and the Confederate Pacific Squadron steamed out of Ciudad en los Angeles toward Manilla. Cuba was liberated quickly, and the Phillippines only were late to fall because the fleet had to go across the whole ocean. Cuba was taken as a state in the Confederacy, Puerto Rico a territory, and the Phillippines as a protectorate.

The turn of the century brought with it the assassination of Union President Frederick Dent Grant, the second dictator of the Grant Dynasty, which formed when General Grant took control of the Union during the power vacuum after I WBS, after which his son stepped down (at gunpoint) from his birthright position. The first free elections were held in the Union since 1860, the people chose a Theodore Roosevelt of the Progressive Party (later Bull Moose).

The Second War Between the States occurred after months of tension building since the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Serajevo. On September 1, 1914, the Alliance declared war on the Entente, causing, by proxy, the United States, Mexico, Belize, Columbia, and Argentina at war against the C.S.A., Canada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Chile, and the French and British Guyanas.

1914 saw a huge Union invasion, starting in central Maryland, and driving towards Richmond. A last desperate Confederate stand at the Battle of the Rapidan held back the tide, and saw a stalemate develop that wouldn’t lift for several years.

The Confederacy also faced Mexico, and mounted an invasion from Cuba that hit Veracruz. The Confederates had quite a generous amount of success on this front, mostly because of an anarchist uprising by Poncho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.

A third front, opened very early in the war, involved a large troop force in Virginian Delmarva to press north, with the ultimate goal of capturing the culturally Southern Maryland Eastern Shore and Delaware. The Chesapeake being a Confederate lake, supply lines were not too much of a problem, but fierce Yankee resistence kept any movement to be measured in yards. The Delmarva Front was one of the bloodiest campaigns in history.

In 1915, the Confederate fronts had all but stabilized. The Union also started seriously using its submarine force, which kept the Southern navy at bay and interfered heavily on food shipments to Britain from Argentina.

This year was made infamous by The Battle of the Eastern Shore, "The Attack", where Confederate infantry went over the top of their trenches after a long artillery bombardment to find the Northern machine gunners alive an well. Although the first phase was a complete disaster, with over 50,000 dead in one day, follow-up attacks were more successful.

The Central Powers introduced poison gas and flamethrowers in this year.

1916 had two major events. The first was the sinking of the Argentine passenger ship, the Magellan, which killed 54 Brazilians, by a U.S. submarine. The North later would give compensation to neutral persons harmed by submarine warfare, but it was the first time Brazil considered throwing away its neutrality.

The second event was the first time the Confederacy deployed reliable tanks (very vunerable versions had already been used in Delmarva for little effect), the Battle of Fredericksburg, where the Birmingham Motor Co. Mark III proved effective, but was not used effectively just yet.

By 1917 the Central Powers were beginning to weaken. Chile had taken a beating and surrendered to Argentina before spring, Columbia’s canal was destroyed by Nicaragua, and Entente troops were in Bigota, Belize finalized an annexation treaty with Guatemala, C.S. troops were about to march on Mexico City, and the north and south parts of Mexico were in control of anarchists, the U.S.’s position in Virginia was weakening, and some Confederate divisions were in Maryland, most government officials had fled Washington for Philadelphia, and, although being the first North American power to have gas and flamethrowers, it still had no tanks.

Mid 1917 saw the rise of the Wright Telegram. Luke E. Wright, Secretary of War for Theodore Roosevelt (now in his forth term) sent a letter to the informal black leaders of Brazil, asking for a rebellion if Brazil joins the Entente. This lead to outrage in (black, white, and brown) Brazil and abroad. Brazil joined the Entente just months later.

In February, the Confederacy finally got tanks right at the Battle of Georgetown, when 200 Rebel tanks crossed Yankee lines and drove them back five miles before the majority of the force ran out of fuel or broke down. Massed armor tactics would prove vital to the South in the coming year.

Meanwhile, on the Canadian front, mass desertings by the Canadian forces led to this theater being in American hands from the beginning of the year. A revolution occurred in Ottawa in September, and a new Prime Minister was appointed, William Stevens Fielding, who continued the war with the United States but cut relation with Crown and made peace with all other Central Powers.

This government was pretty short-lived, however, as the next month, an anarchist rebellion took place (along side one in Russia led by Maria Nikiforova), and Canada officially became an anarchy in March 1918. A nation-wide poll taken by The Toronto Anarchist showed that most Canadian wanted the war to end, and eventually David Assman, a farmer in Manitoba whose name was drawn out of a hat, met with delegates from the United States and organized a peace treaty (which would become moot only a few months later when the U.S. surrendered).

It was around this time that the long siege of Mexico City by Mexican anarchists and Confederate and Guatemalan troops finally ended, and soon peace talks began. In the end, Mexico (minus Yucatan) was annexed by the Confederacy, but the nations still held large amounts of autonomy, i.e. the Confederacy was a republic, and Mexico was an anarchy.

With Canada out of the picture, the United States had many more divisions to throw against the Confederacy, while the South had recovered only three from Mexico. The North started a new offensive in Virginia, and again reached the Rapidan, but this time when they were stopped, the Confederates were able to crack their defenses. By October, Southern troops entered Pennsylvania and a cease fire was called.

By the beginning of 1919, a Second Treaty of Richmond was being discussed, and on March 3, 1919, The Allies and the Central Powers of the western hemisphere signed the Second Treaty of Richmond, and Confederate President Robert Lansing wrote up his Fourteen Points for Peace deal (which failed in his own Congress), and soon the League of Nations was formed.

Many Northerners were upset by the loss, particularly Cpl. Gerald B. Winrod, who would come to lead the God's Own Party by 1920.

The twenties were good times for the Confederacy. The economy, boosted by war payments from the North, was at an all-time high, and the Richmond stock market was rocketing up extremely fast. In the North, however, the economy was falling off a cliff. The USD, equivalent to 1.5 CSD before the war, went to .2 CSD immediately after it. The GOP took advantage of this, and in 1925 (when 50 million USD = 1 CSD) staged a coup in Kansas, taking control of The Kansas State House before the army was called in. Winrod got fifty years in jail, and it was there that he wrote Settling Accounts, where he blamed legal beer, evolution in schools, equal race rights, and wide-spread infidelity as causes for the U.S. to fall out of favor with God, who then caused it to lose II WBS.

Meanwhile, in 1927, the Mississippi River flooded, cutting the South in two. The Long Administration immediately sent huge amounts of aid, and started building ditches to drain the water. After just three months, the waters receded. This got Long national adoration, and he was able to slip an amendment to the Confederate Constitution to let him run again.

Then end of the twenties saw the beginning of the Great Depression, which hit both nations very hard. In the South, Huey Long brought his “every man a king” slogan to use, and started many public works programs, building many dams on the Mississippi, irrigating the Western deserts, building a canal through the Baja Peninsula, replacing the slums of Leesburg (Mexico City) with cheap flats, and starting the Confederate highway system. His Every Man a King acts passed in Congress easily, and the ones that didn’t usually did after certain Democrats were convinced by Whig strongmen. When the Confederate Supreme Court tried to stop his Wealth Distribution Act, he outlawed the Supreme Court, and then reinstated it, giving him nine new and agreeable justices.

In the North, Bull Moose Franklin Roosevelt was pitted against Winrod (who was given a presidential pardon in 1927 due to GOP riots). The now third party Democrats sided with the Progressives, and GOP and Bull Moose Party members often fought in the streets. On Election Day,1933, thousands of people died when shootouts between the progressives and the fascists happened in Philadelphia and New York. The electorate was almost evenly split, until, in the early hours of the morning, Oregon went for the GOP, giving Winrod enough electorate votes to become President of the United States. He immediately started whipping his country into a frenzy, attacking non-Christians, non-whites, political enemies, anti-prohibitionists, and “monkey men” (those who publicly stated that they believed in evolution). Just a week into his office and San Francisco’s Asian quarter and New York’s Lower East Side were burned to the ground.

Both nations spent the ‘30s building. The South rebuilt its way of life, the North built tanks, planes, ships, and guns. At his yearly New York GOP rally in ‘36, Winrod demanded that West Virginia be returned to the North. President Long didn’t agree at first, but when Winrod promised war, Long went to Philadelphia and made a deal with him for a plebiscite in West Virginia. The state returned to the North on January 1, 1937. Just two years later, Winrod again demanded land, this time Los Angeles, which he said never even officially seceded. He threatened war when Long ignored him until August, so Long sent him a message. Los Aneles would get a plebiscite, but the Christians of the state couldn’t vote in it.

Enraged, President Winrod declared war and started the Third War Between the States on September 1, 1939.

American tanks and dive bombers (the “Angels of Death”), screamed from West Virginia east, cutting off North Virginia and surrounding Richmond. The army was in such disarray that it offered blacks to become soldiers for citizenship. Most of the Confederate government escaped the attack by airlift, and opened up a temporary capital in Raleigh, North Carolina. Following the fall of Richmond, President Winrod demanded the Confederates surrender. President Long sent back a “no”, and the war quieted down for a little. The war started again, with another Union armored thrust, this time going south towards Tennessee. Hazard, Kentucky was captured on October 15, 1940. Nashville fell the next spring. From here the North went north, and also sent troops over the Ohio river to conquer Kentucky.

A small lull settled on Virginia, and secretly, American troops were siphoned from Virginia and Tennessee to Michigan, where an invasion of “Satanist Monkey Canada” took place.

At the same time, Japan attacked the strong Hawaiian Fleet at Pearl Harbor, leading Hawaii into war against the Axis. The attack decimated the fleet, however missed the three Hawaiian aircraft carriers, and also occurred in shallow water; the ships sunk were afloat again by early 1943.

Japan also attacked the Phillippines, just nine years before they were promised their freedom, and took Guam. The attack on Wake Island, however, stalled because of fierce Hawaiian resistence and poor Japanese preparation.

And then in July, after some delays, the Northern army struck at Canada. The army had some great success, taking 100,000 prisoners and coming within artillery range of Ottawa. The Union army, though, was a summer army, and Canadian counter-attacks in December hit the troops unequipped for the weather hard. The army lost some 100 miles in just a month.

The Confederates, seeing an opportunity, struck at the Northern army in Tennessee, and drove it back as well, but Federal counterattacks made all gains zero.

In the summer of 1942, President Winrod decided to attack Toronto, which was left alone by the invasion force the previous year. The ensuing Battle of Toronto lasted until early 1943, which destroyed the city and an entire American army, and was the turning point in the war.

At the same time, Hawaii destroyed Japanese Naval Air power at the Battle of Midway, and started driving towards the Japanese mainland. Confederate force in Tennessee planned a major attack to cut off the Northern army in Nashville before it could reach the Deep South and the main industrial city of Birmingham. 1943 dawned sunny for the Allies. The Japanese were falling back in the Pacific to British, Hawaiian, and Confederate forces, and the United States had been halted. During spring of that year, Americans planned to attack a bulge in Canadian lines from three sides with a large tank force, but the Canadians got word of the attack before it happened, and fortified the area. The Battle of London was the biggest tank battle in the western hemisphere, and it took out many American armored divisions. The Canadians pushed more, and by the end of the year had even invaded northern New York.

By early 1944, the North saw that the war was falling apart for them. Canada had prevented invasion and now had troops in Rochester, and the Confederates were pressuring them just enough to keep them from sending troops to the north. By June, the last nail was hammered in the coffin for the United States. The long awaited attack to retake Tennessee happed, with troops from Missouri and North Carolina surround the state. When reinforcements were called for, the South attack Northern positions in Virginia. By August, Tennessee and most of Kentucky were free, and Confederates were in West Virginia.

The Pacific theater showed great progress as well, with the capture of Iwa Jima by Hawaiian and Australian forces, Japan went completely on the defensive.

In 1945, America planned an all-out assault on the South, and left the Canadian front almost undefended. In early January, Union troops crossed the lines in Virginia, and started driving for North Carolina. The troops crossed the border, but fierce Confederate resistence prevented them from getting to Raleigh. It was the last major Union offensive of the war. The Canadians in New York crossed the Border into Pennsylvania, but were stopped by a last ditch attempt of defense by the Feds, though in the west the Canadian just walked into Detroit. Confederate attacks finally fully liberated Kentucky, West Virginia was now mostly under the Stainless Banner, and the controversial Bombing of Pittburgh just about leveled the city. By April, the Canadian had reached Philadelphia, President Winrod had committed suicide, and Richmond was liberated. By early May, the North had surrendered.

It was only when liberating New York and Pennsylvania that the Allies discovered prison camps for the “unholy monkey men”. The camp were heavily packed, and all the surviving prisoners near death. What’s more is the discovery of gas chambers used to kill thousands of the prisoners. Many of the guards at such camps were shot on sight. Many more such camps were scattered across the country, taking the lives of over 10 million people. Many GOP guards and GOP leaders were put up for war crimes in the Rochester Trials.

The Confederates still had unfinished business, however, in the Empire of Japan. Confederate Marines took Okinawa on July, 1945, which was believed to be the first step in an invasion of the mainland. President Long, however, had spent the last few years pissed off at the Axis, and decided that he should use something that would hurt the Confederates less. Project KINGFISH was the Confederate atomic weapons development program, which succeeded on June 15, 1945. The first two bombs, “Asskicker” and “Vengence” were dropped on Japan in late August, and the Empire surrendered soon after.

The surrender resulted in an Allied occupation of the U.S., which would end in 1953.

The Allies decided to try something like the League of Nations again, only to get it right this time. The new United Nations was formed in 1946, and, again, the C.S.A didn’t enter. NATO was also Confederate-free

The ‘40s had nothing of too much significance happen. Britain, France, Russia, and Hawaii all developed nukes within 10 years of the C.S., but the Confederacy didn’t really care too much about Russia, and the other were still allies.

One thing worth mention is the formation of Anarchy International, an anarchist alliance between Iberia (a product of an anarchist victory of the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish conquest of Portugal), Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, the South (mainly Mexico), Canada, Columbia, Venezuela, and now superpower SyndicalistUnion, which had replaced the Russian Empire.

The 1952 brought the final retirement of President Long, after an astounding 4 full terms as Confederate President. Former Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, general-in-chief of the Confederate Army in III WBS. The ‘50s also brought the first non-Mexican Confederate state to go to anarchism, Arizona. Another extremely important milestone is an old black woman named Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not giving up her bus seat for a white man. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and began the Confederate Civil Rights movement. Memphis musician Elvis Presley started a new genre of music, which he called Rock N’ Roll, as well in this decade.

When North Korean troops crossed into South Korea, it made 10th page news in the Confederacy, when North Vietnamese troops crossed into South Vietnam, it didn’t even make the newspaper.

The thing most people remember the ‘50s for, though, is the Cuban insurrection and the Sino-Syndicalist Dispute, when communist China sent some patrol into anarchic Russia. But in Cuba, Communist Fidel Castro started red rebellion in 1956. It was only significant in that it was the only uprising in the western hemisphere that wasn’t for democracy or anarchism, because Confederate Marines made sure it never saw 1957.

The ‘60s were a very violent time in the Confederacy. The Civil Rights Movement was a peaceful protest, but in 1965 when Martin Luther King, Jr. went up to Richmond and said he had a dream, the city police broke up the gathering with guns and dogs, killing many, including King. This led to nationwide race riots that killed thousands. President Lyndon B. Johnson decided that he might as well bring his country to the 20th century. The Voting Rights Act passed just weeks after King’s death. Lynchings and anti-black violence didn’t calm down in the South until the late ‘80s.

1961 brought rebellion again to the Confederacy, this time in Nicaragua. Anarchist took control of the protectorate and demanded freedom from the South. The reaction from most people in the confederacy was..... ok. As the Philippines were given independence in 1950, and Puerto Rico in 1959 (both of which joined Anarchy International), and most of the time, Confederates forgot they had something in Central America. The anarchist regime was recognized by the South weeks later, and it too joined the anarchy alliance.

The 70s were a time when the Cold War finally hit home. Although Cuba had a small band of rebels wave the red flag, it was still nothing important. However, during the Carter administration, the seizure of the Confederate embassy in Tehran caused the Marines to go and save the day again... until Operation Cotton Net failed. President Carter responded by holding the workers in the Iranian embassy hostage. After a month, the C.S.A. got tired of the Mexican standoff, and said they nuke, then declare war. Ruhollah Khomeini didn’t back down, so this time the newly-formed SOCOM raided Tehran, getting the hostages that weren’t shot and mutilated in retaliation for the war, and securing the Supreme Leader, who was taken to Texas, “shot while attempting to escape”, and (unofficially) buried under a David’s star wearing a yarmulke.

Two weeks later, Confederate troops “freed” Iran. After three months of fighting, the country had “free” elections (at gunpoint). Occupation would last another ten years.

The end of the ‘70s brought the Syndicalist invasion of Afghanistan, one country over from Confederates fighting guerillas in Iran. The South, thinking the Afghan resistence as more Islamist extremists, didn’t supply them with anything, and when armed Afghans tried to run into Iran, they were given one warning shot.

The 1979 election in the South was significant in that a technical Northerner won. Although Jerry Brown’s north California was part of the South since the end of the III WBS, he was born in a place that was until he was seven a foreign country.

The Confederacy did very well in the 1980 Summer Olympics, and although the Soviet invasion was frowned upon, the USSR and CSA were drawn closer together. 1980 was also when the last state government, Mississippi, packed its bags and disappeared.

In September 1980, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein went up to President Brown and said that Iraq was a good country, now could you f off and give me Iran, please? President Brown replied no, which led to an Iraqi invasion of Iran. Which turned into a Confederate Invasion of Iraq. When Saddam gassed Confederate troops, Brown gave his famous “You cross the line, the your nuts are mine” speech, and soon after CS bombers nuked Bagdad, and the Confederacy demanded peace on their terms. Iraq was then split into three, Kurdistan in the north, Shia Mesopotamia in the center, and Sunni Iraq in the south. Iran then took the opportunity to say that it learned its lesson and would never, ever take hostages from a country with nukes and that it could go on without occupation. President Brown agreed, and Iran became a nice pro-western democracy and then anarchy in AI, and coincidentally the nation with the largest amount of Confederate troops besides the Confederacy.

All the while the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ground on, but in 1987, the Syndicalist Union said that the country was free of Islamic terrorists, and the troops went home.

However, the Unoin would lose control over one corner of the country whith the Mercenery War to Big Boss, and avoided being victum to Operation OUTER HEAVEN by freely surrendering all its nukes. The same applied for the Stainless Confederacy.

In the mid-‘90s, an anarchist movement grew worldwide, and achieved success in several countries, mainly in western Europe, and Latin America, taking Belgium, Norway Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Faroe Islands, Estonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Hertzagovnia., Macedon, the Phillippines, Hawaii, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, San Marino, Luxembourg, and Andorra, all of which (except Sweden and Switzerland) joined AI. Anti-apartheid anarchists reached power in South Africa as well. The federal government of the Confederacy also finally closed its doors.