The Lowland Clans

The Allied States of the Lowland Clans

Flag of the Lowland Clans
Motto: One Nation Under God, Loyal to the Flag
File:Ao highlighting bedistan.png Full map: [1]
Region	Atlantian Oceania
Official languages	English, Greek, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian
Capital	Graham City, 174.63 million
Largest city	London, 213.23 million
President	John Patrick Kingsly
Population (2080 est.)	5,207,000,000
Establishment	RL Time: 26 December, 2003; NS Time: July 12th, 1678
National animal	Sheep
GDP (2080 est.)   - Total   - GDP/capita	$169.7 trillion $32,578.18
Currency	1 Clan Dollar (Ð) = 100 cents (c) = US$1.6802
Time Zone  - in summer	GMT -0200 GMT -0100
Internet TLD	.tlc
International sporting abbreviation	TLC
Calling Code	+123

NOTE: This Wiki is a severe work in progress. Everything here is subject to change without notice, and the information is mostly still here to use as a template.

Geography

The Allied States of the Lowland Clans is located in the southeastern portion of the main continent in Atlantian Oceania, and have begun exploration of the northern most portion of the largest eastern island. The nation consists of nine member states, each spereated into multiple provinces and municipalities. The captial, Graham City is a special Federal Municipality which counts a province during presidential elections. The Capital is located on the southeastern coast, and is located about a two hundred kilometers north of the Pedrianan border.

The Allied States is seperated into three main climate zones. In the nothern part of the country, from the Rendition border to thr Crystilakere Channel, edging south, is very mountainous and is the location of most of the Allied States heavy industry. The central portion of the country, about sixty kilometers north of the border edging north till it meets the mountains, is the forested region of the nation. Reknowned for it's cold winters and excellent summer winters, a majority of the Allied States population lives in this area. In the remaining southern portion of the country is the grassland region, where ninety percent of all agriculture takes place. This is the least populated portion of the country, but the coastal resorts are incredibly popular across the region.

The Allied States population as January 2080 is 5,207,000,000 billion. The country is nearly all urban, with the few country lands well protected for over-eager realty developers by layers of State-Senate laws. The Allied States has seven major ports, Graham City, London, Thessolaniki, Limassol, Belgrade, Liverpool and Belfast.

Member States

The Allied States of the Lowland Clans operates as a confederation of individual nation-states. Currently, there are 9 member states in the Alliance. Four of them have their roots in the British Isles, which were abandoned when the Allied States fled to SGN. They are the Kingdom of England, the Scottish Republic, The Free Republic of Ireland, and the Dominion of Wales. The fifth member state is the Confederation of Canada, formed with a pact between the native Five Nations alliance and the Allied settlers. The Mediterranean Coalition is a nationstate formed by the former Yugoslavian republics and Albania, taken during the Meditterranean Conflicts with Abu Dhabi Khristatata. The second republic to be formed from the Mediterranean Conflicts was the United Mediterranean Alliance, composed of Greece and the island of Cyprus. The third state to come out of the Mediterranean Conflicts is the Free Republic of Portugal. The only State to be included since the move to Atlantian Oceania is the Legal Republic, composed of annexed portions of Former Legalese, but they have not yet sent representatives to the State Senate because of the unrest by the Anarchist faction and UN mercenaries.

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History

The Isle Crown Wars and Founding of the Allied States

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.

Industrialization and Beginnings of an Empire

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The Allied States becomes the Empire of the Isles

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The Fall of the Empire of the Isles

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SGN War and the Pudding Invasions

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The Mediterranean Conflicts and Expansion

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The Serbian Revolution: Allied States Civil War

Current International Relations

The Civics of the Allied States

Municipal Level of Federal Government

Provincial Level of Federal Government

State Level of Federal Government

Executive Level of the Federal Government

Legislative Branch

Executive Branch

Judicial Branch

Elections

Political Mores, Trends, and Parties

The Armed Forces of the Allied States: AFAS (A-fus)

Allied States Army

Military Hardware

Brief History

Allied States Navy

Military Hardware

Brief History

Allied States Air Force

Military Hardware

Brief History

Allied States Special Forces

Military Hardware

Brief History

Allied States Orbital Command

Military Hardware

Brief History

Culture

Language

Sports and Entertainment

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.

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