New Brunswick (Dixie Forever)

The province of New Brunswick (German: Neu Braunschweig) is part of the Dominion of South Hanover. As part of the peace treaties at the end of the Thirty Years' War, the Holy Roman Empire was allotted the territory between Spain and Portugal's South American colonies, which was named New Brunswick, after the home Duchy, Brunswick-Lüneburg, of the first settlers to arrive in 1653. The territory was explored and settled by various German settlers from across the Holy Roman Empire for over 150 years until the empire collapsed due to Napoleon's efforts in the Napoleonic Wars. The United Kingdom occupied the territory until 1816, when it was returned to the Germans. The German Confederation continued sending settlers to the area up to 1919, when the colony voted to join South Hanover as a province, for which Germany was compensated several million Marks in gold. After the first world war, Germany, which had borne a huge burden of the fighting on the continent, needed funding to rebuild, and with a good portion of its industry destroyed in the Rhine region, it looked to the British for help. The British authorized their southern dominion, South Hanover, to purchase with a ten year payment, the German colony of New Brunswick, and incorporate it into their dominion. The people there already had strong ties to the South Hanoverians, both economically and socially, so it was not to much of a change for them.

To this day, New Brunswick is an economically strong province, with a highly industrial society with highways, factories, and picturesque town centers, with a unique food culture and high cultural output of music, TV shows, and movies in the German language, a mixed dialect of High German with a strong Prussian influence in the vocabulary. Similar to Quebec in Canada, this province has its own strong independent streak.