The Lowland Clans
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| Flag of The Lowland Clans | |
| Motto: "Currently searching for a new root of all evil" | |
| Region | The Emerald Heights |
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| Capital | Graham City |
| Official Language(s) | English |
| Leader | President-Elect Mark Graham |
| Population | 3.8 billion |
| Currency | clan dollar (1 ASCD = $1.6369) |
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The Allied States of the Lowland Clans
Current Economical Information: Allied States Economical Overview
Geography
The Allied States is a vast and powerful nation, covering all of the British Isles, which provide four of its seven member states: England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. It also occupies the Eastern Canadian borders, providing it with it's fifth member state, the Canadian Confederation, an alliance formed of native Iroquois and Allied States settlers. It's other territories are located in the Mediterreanean, where it occupies Gibralter, which is considered a military outpost. It's other two constituent nations are the Mediterreanean Coalition, composed of the former Yugoslavian states, as well as Albania. The final member state is Trans-Mediterreanean Free Alliance, composed of Greece and all of the island of Cyprus. The Allied States has also fully annexed the former Brazillico, and is in the process of repairing the nation from the bouts of anarchy it has suffered. There is rumors that the Allied States are also going to allow Portugal to join the nation, with their government showing interest in the Alliance after the overrunning of the Portugal during the Meditereanean Conflicts. That would bring the total number of allied States up to nine.
Sport
The Allied States fields one of the most respected teams in recent memory. The first cup ever participated in was the World Cup VIII, and continued to enter competitions until they held a top ten rank of nine. In World Cup XIII, the Stars had their highest finish ever, falling only two Rejistania and Commerce Heights in the semis and third place game respectively. The Stars though hit a bump in WCXV, failing to qualify after a disastorous qualifying run marked by bribery scandals which led to having TIS squads deployed at stadia and FA headquarters throughout the world. Several Vilitan and Turorian officials were convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. They have since fought their way back up to a ranking of twenty one, and were eliminated in the group stage of the most recent cup by a freak incidence in a match between the NEWI Cefn Druids and Starblaydia.
ASFA, the Allied States Football Association, has recently been implicated in the kidnap and murder of the entire Turori national team after what was viewed as another bribery scandal took place during WC19 qualifying. Many in ASFA feared that another WCXV was going to take place, and so they kidnapped the team and demanded the changing of several fixtures in return for the teams safety. When the demands were not met, the team was murdered. The resulting uproar led most of ASFA to be sacked or quit, and the Allied States Stars barely managed to pull through in qualifying.
With ASFA recently reformed, with a dedicated sub-branch to deal with the U21 program, Jutadeb, the outlook is bright of Allied States Football.
History
Pre-Nationstates History
The Allied States of the Lowland Clans is a long, industrious civilization who has roots in the early seventeenth century. After the victory of the royalists over the Puritans after the fall of the Commonwealth, the new constitutional monarchy took steps to severely punish the Puritans, but that only led to increased unrest under the crown of William of Orange. Though a brilliant monarch, things were out of his control as mobs formed throughout England as rumors flew of Puritan conspiracy to overthrow the Church of England and reinstate the Commonwealth, centered in Canterbury.
As unrest spread, a carefully organized rebellion, thought to have been aided by the French, though no evidence was ever found, took place. Seizing most of northern and western England, the Puritan-led dissidents began preaching death to the Throne, and the Second Crown War began.
With the attention of the English focus on the Crown war, Ireland and Scotland took this chance to declare their independence from the English nation. In Scotland, the Highlanders began moving to control the nation’s new crown and parliament. Unfortunately, the Lowland Clans, led by the Grahams and MacIntyre’s, got wind of this plan to crush Lowland resistance to Highland dominance. The Clans allied together in a blood pact, and began the Scottish crown wars. With the Lowlands taking the northeastern coast, and there capital at Inverness, they launched a naval attack using hastily constructed ship yards to attack Edinbrough and seize the capital.
The attacks, led by Admiral Nathan MacIntyre, succeeded but at a heavy cost. Edinbrough was devastated, and the Parliament building destroyed by retreating Highland forces. As they expanded the beachhead, the Lowlands were offered an alliance by the Catholic Irish, who were engaged in there own problems with Protestant English settlers who sided with the Puritans. The Lowlanders readily accepted, and soon, a full scale alliance was underway. As the Irish were forcing the last remnants of the Protestant forces in Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland, the Welsh broke free from English dominance as the Puritans began to press further and further towards London. They also contacted Irish and Lowlanders in terms of joining the Alliance.
As Welsh troops began to ship out, mainly to western Scotland to deal with the Highland stronghold of Glasgow, Puritans prepared to make the final thrust on the Monarchists, whose territory now included just London, Reading and Oxford and the area between. The Puritans cut off London from Oxford and Reading, and prepared for what appeared to be the final battle for England. Unfortunately for them, the Monarchists had a trick up their sleeve. After the particularly devastating battle for Colchester, the Monarchists found battle plans for an invasion of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Quickly moving to inform the alliance, the papers quickly did what they were intended to do. After the fall of Glasgow, the Alliance would strike a blow for the Monarchists.
At Glasgow however, the story was different. The city was heavily fortified, and the last true stronghold of the Highlanders. The city itself was in ruins. As the entire Lowland army, along with a strong Welsh contingent, many inside the city were ready to capitulate, but the Highland leader, Baron Devon, refused to give in. The siege lasted a week, with the walls of Glasgow caving in on the seventh dawn of the siege. The city was nearly burned to the ground in the ensuing battle, where Baron Devon was captured and executed by the victorious General Graham, leader of the Lowland Grahams. Inverness was renamed Graham City in his honour, and the Scottish Crown Wars were brought to an end.
A warning message was sent to General Cromwell II from the now Lord-General Graham, leader of the Allied States of Ireland, Wales and Scotland, and it was to abandon the rebellion, lay down your weapons and surrender or be wiped from the face of England. Cromwell ignored the warning, and two days later it proved to be a fatal mistake. The Welsh struck at the Isle of Man, easily overwhelming the defenders and defeating the prison garrison. With the release of the Monarchist prisoners there, the Monarchists had begun a revival, defeating the Puritan forces at all three cities. They soon took total control of the Thames, and a joint British-Welsh task force took the port City of Bristol after heavy fighting. This move split England into three parts, the stronger lower half of the Puritan Crown Territories, the Monarchist middle and the weaker northern section of the Puritan Crown Territories.
The Irish and English took responsibility to invade the Southern half of the Puritan Crown Territories, while the Welsh and Scots took responsibility to invade the northern half. The battles went extremely well in the North, where Carlisle, Middlesbrough and Durham all fell within the first week. In the South though, things were different. An attempt to launch an attack on the capital at Canterbury was easily repulsed by the coastal fortress that had been constructed there. Attacks against Exeter and Plymouth failed miserably. As the Welsh swept through Manchester and Liverpool, the Scots attacked Leeds and Sheffield. The northern half, where troops were only station sparsely, couldn't contain the following unrest. The northnern half broke off and joind the Alliance, just a month after the invasion.
But the soutern half continued to hold. After the third battle for Canterbury, the Alliance was ready to simply burn the city to the ground using spies. But soon, a breakthrough was made in the west. Exeter fell after the reinforcement and the addition of Scottish siege machines, and Plymouth surrendered after the death of seventy-five percent of theri population due to starvation. The southern downs were the last Puritan strongholds remaining. In only a year, the Allied States did what it took the Puritans almost twelve years to do: drive their enemy to the edge of defeat.
After the fall of Brighton, which had been under seige for a month after the fall of Portsmouth, Canterbury was the last Puritan (they now called themselves the Chosen) city. It had been almost twenty years since the Isles had known peace. Canterbury would not surrender, and a join land-sea operation took place. An advanced guard of Gallic Berserkirs was placed inside the city thanks to extensive infiltration of the crumbling chosen government. As the Berserkirs went loose just after sunset, the Allied fleet under the command of Admiral McIntyre bombard the ramparts of the coastal fortress, catching them by surprise as they destroy the fortesses fearsome guns. On land, a massive army of a hundred thousand soldiers plus artillery support crashed the walls of Canterbury. This combined pressure led to the capture of the so-called "Saviour of the Curch, Mankind and All Creation" Lord Cromwell II.
Military History
The Allied States have had an illustrious military history, conquering most of the Commonwealth of Abu-Dhabi Khristatata in two wars the have been combined to be called the Mediterreanean Conflicts, which led the forces of the Allied States and their close ally, the Military Replublic of Jace, called the Coalition forces over the Allied forces of Iraqstan, the Commonwealth of ADK, and Endless Crimes. The war cumulated in an epic sea battle in at Gibralter and a massive offensive in Portugal, which led to the surrender of the Allies and the aquisition of Mediterreanean territory.
