Oklahoma (1983: Doomsday)

Oklahoma was a state located in the South Central region of the old United States of America. The state joined the Union on November 16, 1907 as the 46th state. The state name was derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma (meaning red people). Its capital was Oklahoma City.

Doomsday
No official exploration of the entire state has been undertaken since Doomsday, so it is not known for certain how many hits Oklahoma took on September 25, 1983. However, from sources in the survivor city-states of Broken Bow and Hugo, plus limited flyovers of major areas by Mexican Air Force jets, the following targets are assumed to have been hit:


 * Oklahoma City (two - downtown, and Tinker Air Force Base)


 * Enid - Vance Air Force Base


 * Custer - Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base


 * Altus - Altus Air Force Base


 * Lawton - Fort Sill


 * Tulsa - Tulsa International Airport

Post-Doomsday
The two recognized survivor cities are located in the far southeast portion of the former state. Broken Bow and Hugo, both independent city-states, have an estimated population of some 27,000 between them.

Stillwater, located between the destroyed cities of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and Wichita, Kansas, has also been known of for some time by area leaders and residents. Estimates of its population range from 37,000 to 100,000. It has thus far stayed out of regional politics, but area leaders expect that to change quickly over the next few years.

Locals have told stories about other survivors located throughout the state, some people living on farms in communes (particularly in the Oklahoma panhandle), some living out of abandoned buildings like animals, some roaming the landscape as bandits. The bandits in particular, along with still radioactive blast sites between Stillwater and Broken Bow/Hugo, present a challenge to politicians who wish to reunify the state.