Aragon (1983: Doomsday)

The Kingdom of Aragon (Spanish: Reino de Aragón, Catalan: Regne d'Aragó, Aragonese: Reino d'Aragón, Occitan: Reialme d'Aragon), or alternatively, Bishopric of Aragon,  (Spanish: Obispado de Aragón, Catalan: Bispat d'Aragó, Aragonese: Bispado d'Aragón, Occitan: Evesquat d'Aragon) is a pseudo-theocratic limited monarchy located in southern Catalonia.

Name
Although the nation is not located in Aragon, it does have a ruler that claims to be the King of Aragon, given the fact that revivalist beliefs are common in the nation and that the nation de facto claims most of the former Kingdom of Aragon.

Unlike in other nations of Spain (such as Extremadura), the name is not subject to controversy; Bishopric and Kingdom can be used alternatively without any major problems.

Doomsday
Barcelona was destroyed in the nuclear war on September of 1983, and, soon enough, the refugees swamped and destroyed Tarragona. To the south, Valencia was also hit, with most of the Valencian Community being destroyed in the ensuing chaos.

Post-Doomsday
Soon after Doomsday was over, the Bishop of Tortosa established the Junta d'Tolosa and ordained a rationing of food supplies in the city, as well as quickly joining up several loyal men and arming them into a Tortosa Militia. Similar measures were taken by the Jesuits from the Roquetes Observatory and the Gandesa city hall. Soon enough, this allowed the three small cities to establish varying degrees of power across the south of Catalonia, with Gandesa and Roquetes being able to establish small surpluses of their agricultural produces (wine, olives and almonds for the former and rice, olives and cereals for the latter), while Tortosa, although less productive in agriculture, was able to maintain itself without massive famines.

Tortosa, Gandesa and Roquetes soon banded together in the Generalitat de l'Ebro, establishing a provisional government (led by the Bishop of Tortosa) by 1985, and, in 1987, established more permanent, independentist measures after the feeling that not a Spanish state nor a Catalonian one would arrive to reunite the lands. The Army of the Ebro was established, as was the establishment of a more tightly-together banding of the three cities. By 1989, the Bishop of Tortosa was crowned King and Bishop of Aragon and the Generalitat was at last replaced by a permanent Kingdom of Aragon, heavily revivalist and under very conservative influences.

Occitan and Aragonese were reinstated as official tongues in 1990 (following both the revivalism found after Doomsday in hopes of re-instating the Crown of Aragon and the large influx of Aragonese and Aranese refugees into the small nation), and the nation began expanding. The three cities were entirely connected with one another by 1992, and the nation had reached the coast of the Mediterranean by the end of the year. A small Navy of Aragon was formed early in the next month.

However, soon Aragon faced two threats from its newly-found coast; pirates raiding the small Navy, and, starting in early 1994 the Republic of Sicily. However, the organised Army of the Ebro, although facing heavy losses, was able to defeat the Sicilian raiders consistently, after which the troops and raiding operations were redirected north (where the republican Generalitat de Catalunya was destroyed).

The small nation then started sending its navy to discover the survivor states of Spain; at last, despite huge attacks by pirates and raiders, the Aragonese found the Free City of Castellón and, from it, Pais del Oro. A land-based expedition in hopes of finding another Aragonese state met nothing, but did find rumours of two strong states to the north; the Iberian Confederacy and the survival of Andorra. However, the Republican nature of the two nations, as well as the high degree of nationalism common in the Kingdom caused it to have no wishes of having any contact with any of the nations in fear that they would try to re-annex it and begin reuniting Spain.

Today Aragon is a strong albeit small monarchy that controls a large amount of territory in the south of Catalonia, and influences most of the remaining southernmost Tarragona provinces. Attempts of expansion are being planned by the Aragonese monarchy, albeit they are not planning to expand northwards and reclaim Tarragona (yet) but instead take parts of Aragon proper.

Geography
The Kingdom occupies much of the southern parts of Tarragona province, Catalonia. Almost all of this area is located around the mouth of the Ebro river.

Aragonese nationalists claim all of the former states of Catalonia, Aragon, the Valencian Community, the Balears and Rousillon as part of their territory. This claim, although somewhat supported by the King of Aragon, is obviously far from reality and unlikely ever to become true.

Demography
Aragon has a population of around 165,000? inhabitants, far higher than the Ebro's mouths pre-Doomsday.

Languages
Aragon has four official languages, which are divided in two "priorities", according to their use on everyday life by Aragonese citizens. The two "primary" official languages, Catalan and Spanish, are the most used in government and are used daily by the majority of the populace; therefore most officials use the language for their declarations.

National signs such as those on roads or most buildings are also required to be in Occitan and Aragonese, the other two official "secondary" languages of Aragon.

Government
The Kingdom of Aragon has a King (also Bishop of Tolosa and Aragon), who controls both the secular and religious needs of the state. Many rights are controlled by the King, due to him being the sole part of the executive law and his having a final say in the judicial one. However, he does have a leverage in the legislative branch, in which an unicameral Congress has the only say in laws.