Florida-Caribbea
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| National motto: ... | |
| Languages | |
| Official | Castilian |
| Other | English, Scandinavian |
| Capital | Miami |
| Important Cities | Havana |
| Last President | Jaime Bush |
| Independence | from Castile and Leon |
| (declared) | 1898 |
| (recognized) | 1898 |
| Currency | 1 peso = 16 soles |
| Organizations | CELCAGOM |
La Presidencia de la Tierra Florida y las Antillas (originally La República Nacionalista y Revolucionista de las Floridas), or simply Florida-Caribbea as it was commonly known, was composed of mainland Florida and all of the Caribbean islands.
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Administration
Government
Florida-Caribbea was nominally a federal republic, lead by a Presidente. In practice, it was a dictatorship for much of its history
Incomplete List of Presidentes
- 19??-1970 Villanueva
- 1970-1983 Francisco López
- 1983-1988 Villa-Lobos
- 1988-1990 Andersen-Matamoros
- 1990-2004 Jaime Bush
Administrative Divisions
Florida-Carribea was divided into 3 Estados and (nominally) 6 Provincias, each further subdivided into Distritos
- Estado de la Florida
- El Transperdido
- Pensacola
- Bahía de San Andrés
- Apalachicola
- Aucilla
- Suani
- Avilés
- San Agustín
- Alachua
- Bahía de Tampa
- Orlando
- Ais
- Bahía de Carlota
- Ocachobi
- Miami i los Cayos
- Estado de Cuba
- Pinar del Río
- La Habana
- Matanzas
- Las Villas
- Camagüey
- Oriente
- Turcas i Caicos
- Caimán
- Estado de Hispañola
- Provincia de Hispañola Occidental (Hayti)*
- Provincia de Pôrto Rico
- Provincia de las Bahamas
- Provincia de Jamaica
- Provincia de las Antillas Menores
- Antigua i Barbuda
- San Cristóbal i Nieves
- Montserrat
- Guadalupe
- Dominica
- Martinica
- Santa Lucía
- Grenada
- Barbados
- Tobago
- Trinidad
- Nueva Holanda (Batavian Antilles)
- Provincia de las Islas Cruzadas
*Note: The nominal Provincia de Hispañola Occidental was officially reckoned by FC to be a rebel province. It governed itself as a de facto sovreign state
History
In 1898, the former Castilian territory of Florida broke away as three new republics, West Florida, East Florida, and South Florida. Two years and two revolutions later, they merged into the Nationalist and Revolutionary Republic of the Floridas, and their "Gran Armada Libertadora" began wars of conquest against their neighbours, and in short order had conquered the majority of the region: Turks and Caicos (1900); Santo Domingo, Lesser Antilles (1903-5), Trinidad and Tobago (1911), Caymans (1912), Cruzans (1946), Cuba (1953), Bahamas (1974), Jamaica (1979), Batavian Antilles, Okefenokee (2000), Mosquito Cays (2002, returned to England and the Mosquito Coast in 2003).
Not all of Florida's actions in the region have been violent. Santo Domingo joined Florida willingly in 1904; conflicting documents allude to payolas between the President of the Floridas and the colonial governors of Martinique and Guadeloupe in 1915, resulting in the peaceful annexation of those territories. Florida took advantage of Cuba's 1953 Revolution, by supporting certain key events and members of the Cuban revolutionary movement, in order to take the Crown Jewel of the Caribbean. Shortly after that, in 1955, the "Constitución de la Nación" was reformed to reflect the addition of Cuba and Hispañola as member states coequal with Florida, a new state formed from the merger of East Florida, West Florida, and South Florida. In 2002-2003, Florida-Caribbea was at war again with Hayti, in an attempt to reconquer and subdue the Creole-French speaking nation. It had long been Florida's position that Hayti is a renegade territory in a state of rebellion against the Federal Government.
The last president was Jaime Bush (1990-2004), brother and frequent rival of the former Tejan dictator Jorge Walker Bush. Due to Florida's less than ideal treatment of some of its smaller territories, talk began in '03 of a new war between a League of Nations sanctioned Grand Coalition ( NAL, the FK, the SR, France, Castille-Leon and Dalmatia) and Florida-Caribbea.
By June 2003, Florida had definitively supressed the "Haytian Rebellion"; and proffered its "Caribbean Plan" to the NAL, FK and SR, most likely in an attempt to prevent a war with those powers. The Plan called for international recognition of FC's aggrandised territory; and offered condominium status between several of its provinces and their former colonial governments as a conciliatory move designed to remove the principal reason the NAL and the SR desired to go to war in the first place. Before the war, rumors of a Constitutional Convention slated for 2004 or 2005 abounded, with the end of cementing the Plan and its effects into national Law. However, the end of the nation came before that could go into effect. The war officially lasted from March 13, 2004 until March 25 of the same year. During this period, on March 18, Bush was overthrown by General Silva-Gonzales, who was later convicted for war crimes (on June 16) by a SR court to exile in Antarctica.
The General, one day after the coup, ordered the use of an atomic bomb in Charlotte Amalie, capital of the Cruzans. A few days later came the attempted atom-bombing of Nouvelle Orleans in Louisianne, which resulted in an atomic blast on the Gulf Coast, causing radioactive rain to fall on St. Onge, the Gulf Coast NAL provinces and some of Florida. Currently, Cuba and Porto Rico have been restored as nations, while the rest of the Caribbean has been returned to their pre-"Liberation" status. Florida itself is currently occupied by the Irish in the south east, and the Republic of the Two Crowns in the southwest. The north has become two NAL provinces, East Florida and West Florida. The status of Southern Florida is at present unclear.
Geography
Borders
North: North American League
West: Louisianne, Gulf of Mexico, Carribean Sea
South: Carribean Sea
East: Atlantic Ocean
See also
- http://www.geocities.com/ill_bethisad/florida.htm for more information on Florida
- http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad/news.htm, for news about this troubled country.
