Lewiston, Maine (1983: Doomsday)

The Federal Republic of Maine is an American survivor nation in southwestern Maine, containing all of the former Maine counties of Cumberland, York, Sagadahoc, and Androscoggin. Originally only Cumberland County was under Maine's control, but throughout the late 1980s And 1990s the Federal Republic Of Maine via peaceful means incorporated more counties into its ranks.

Doomsday
The American state of Maine, despite its relatively small population, was not spared from Soviet attack during Doomsday. Portland, Brunswick (Naval Air Station Brunswick), Bath (Bath Iron Works) and Limestone (Loring Air Force Base) were all targeted causing massive devastation to the region. The town of Kittery was also devastated from the bomb that hit nearby Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This sent refugees from the areas hit toward Augusta, the state capitol, where the state government organized refugee camps. The refugees, however, put too much strain on government’s ability and soon fighting broke out between various factions over the scarce resources.

Post-Doomsday
An attempt by Governor Joseph E. Brennan to organize a convoy of National Guardsman and State Police to escort state officials to northern Maine was thought to be destroyed shortly after they prepared to leave. However, this was untrue as the governor and the half of the state's legislators that had gone with his convoy escaped along with 4000 National Guard And State Police forces to Portland where they quickly restored order and gave a speech to the people of Portland telling them to head for Gray, Maine where it was safe. After that, the majority of Portland's people was relocated to Gray but about 1000 people stayed in Portland to scavenge the area at their own wish. After that what was left of the state government in southern Maine began operating out of the town hall in Gray and the new National Guard Barracks set up in the old Gray fire station. After that the main priority was to get food and clean water. So with that said the part of the Maine National Guard Corps of Engineering built the Purifier Facility on Little Sebago Lake and the Sebago Wind Farm restoring both food, water and electricity to the area making the State Police and National Guard's job much easier as now nobody was fighting over water and food greatly reducing deaths in refugee camps and the massive drop in crime everywhere in Cumberland County was a major relief for many. The day of December 20th is a holiday declared by the people called Joseph E. Brennan Day on the day that he brought back electricity to Cumberland was a massive boost to moral as they got power up just 17 months after doomsday and people worked harder rationalizing the harder they worked the sooner things would return to normal and they were right about that as by 1990 all territory controlled by the Federal Republic Of Maine had clean water, food and electricity, but Sagdahoc and Cumberland Counties have their own Government Radio Stations that broadcasts the local news, global news, announcements, played music, and then gave local weather report.

1983-1986
By New Year's Eve 1984 the situation was stabilized and order had been returned to Cumberland and Sagdahoc counties Maine, but Cumberland spent the years 1983-1985 destroying bandit groups on their border raiding border towns, however in the meantime a Desalination Plant was built in 1985 at Saco, In 1984 a new State Police Barracks is built in Windham, And In 1986 the construction on the New State House built in Gray was finished. Also during these years many expeditions were sent to west to New Hampshire and north to Maine where they discovered bandits had setup strongholds in Brunswick, Bath, Portsmouth And Kittery, But they also discovered small survivor communities in York and Androscoggin which petitioned Governor Joseph E. Brennan to join the Provisional Republic Of Cumberland on May 5th 1985 which the governor accepted resulting in York County and Androscoggin County joining Cumberland. However, because Cumberland now contained more counties than just Cumberland County and because of the loss of contact with the United States Federal government for over three years the people wanted the governor to become the president. So one July 4th the Provisional Republic Of Cumberland was renamed to the Federal Republic Of Maine and Joseph E. Brennan was sworn in as the first president of the Federal Republic of Maine. Between July-September Joseph spent the majority of the federal budget on reforming the healthcare system, rebuilding roads and railways, and improving the economy. which by the end of the year would be in the best condition they had been in since before doomsday because of this the time between 1985 and 1990 was know as the "Golden Age Of Maine". However, Maine's military was severely lacking with only 500 National Guard Troops combat ready and with only 1000 more National Guard Soliders in reserve, and with the number of raiders attacking Maine from Portsmouth, New Hampshire estimated to be around 4,000 Strong the situation was dire for the government of Maine. So in a vain attempt to save Maine Emergency Order 24-B "TOTAL RECALL PROTOCOL" was activated.