Republic of Camden (Pandemic)

The Republic of Camden is a survior nation located in the former US States of Georgia. The Area wheathered the Pandemic better than most areas of the US, due to it rural location, and low population. It has currently applied to join the World Assembly.

Outbreak
The first month of the outbreak did not direcly effect the area. A few isloated cases were reported in nereby Jacksonville, Florida, but it was mostly overlooked. The outbreak finally hit home when thousands of refugess began pouring across the Florida State line as the Outbreak began to overun Florida. The local government could not handle the sitaution, which resulted in the Federal Government forward deploying 40,000 National Guard Troops to nereby Kingsbay Submarine Base, a partial construted US Navy Nase. The Troops only managed to act as a stop gap measure in halting the refugess, and soon the whole line was collasping as Hundreds of thousands of refugees (Many of whom where infected) began pouring across the State Line. In a act of despartion, the USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) was ordered to launch 3 ICBMs into Florida in order to halt the swarm of infected refugees. The effort worked, and within days the Swarm of Infected was reduced to a trickle, which was handled by the Military. Sadly though, by this time many other areas of the US was infected, and being overun. This resulted in the US Government relocating to the Rocky Mountains. Now completely on their own, the citizens and Miliary forces in Camden county were forced to completely close there boarders, and an act a strict quarntine, which lasted until Mid Summer. Finally though, the majority of the outbreak ended in June, allowing the citizens of Camden County to open their boarders, and begin to rebuild. More to come...

Economy
The economy of Camden is primarily agricultral and Lumber related, although many other industries are starting to make there mark. The main products of the agricultral business are used to feed the large population of Camden, although Camden does export significant quanties of Pecans, and Molasses. The agricultral sector also hosts the largest amount civilian sector,with 21,000, and contributing 40% of the GNP.

The Lumber Industry is another major economic sector, that makes up abou 20% of the GNP, and has about 8,000 workers. The Lumber Industry had long engrained it roots in the area before the outbreak, as paper production had been the major industry of the area. During the outbreak, and after, thousands of refugees crossed into Camden to escape the outbreak, this created a huge housing crisis. The only way the Local Government officials could respond to this was by converting the then paper industry into the Lumber industry. The Lumber industry skyrocketed, as Log Cabin Villiages sprung everywhere in order to meet the demand. To this day, it remains a strong Industry.

In recent years, Guano Mining has been slowly added as a industry. The lack of fertilzers for soil, and the need to replenish their Military Ammo supply resulted in the creation of 5 artificial islands. Called Bird islands, these are wooden platforms off the Coast, that have an area of 1 square Mile. Average annual production varies, but usaully stays around 2000 Tons a year. This economic sector currently employs around 900 workers, and contributes about 11% of the GNP.

The Republic of Camden is a permant member of the North American Economic Union, and is usually high rated as a place to start a business.