Kingdom of Cleveland (1983: Doomsday)

The Kingdom of Cleveland is located on the east coast of England

Doomsday
On DD the two 20 kilotons bombs aimed for the Tees valley area missed.
 * One exploded 7 miles north of Hartlepool, 40 metres under the North Sea due to a malfunction of the detonator. This caused a five metre tsunami to strike the coast killing many thousands.
 * One exploded 12 miles south of Middlesbrough over the practically uninhabited North Yorkshire Moors.

Although the bombs themselves missed, radioactive fallout from the bomb that exploded in the North sea blew inland on the prevailing North-east winds.

Over the next month radioactive fallout kills over nearly two thirds of the total population of the Tees valley area. Many of those who survive take shelter in underground anhydrite, coal and potash mines located around the area. Among the notable survivors is Princess Anne (only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II) who was opening a disabled riding school outside Middlesbrough at the time of the attack, traveling with her at the time of the attack was her two year old daughter Zara.

Survivors stayed underground as long as possible with scavenging parties collection food and water from the surface and returning it to the mines for the rest of the survivors.

Due to the failure of the electricity grids the mines begin to flood by December 1983 and the had to be abandoned.

Upon the abandonment of the mines in late 1983 the Cleveland police force encorporated all surviving territorial army personnel into the new armed police units. These militant units initiate marshall law in Cleveland in mid 1985. Marshall law lasted until 1991 when a parliment of local represntatives was established, based in the town hall of Middlesbrough, elections were scheduled for 1995.

After several years of social unrest, disease and famine the population of Cleveland in 1990 had fallen to just under 97,000.

Current situation
In 1995 the first elections take part in the Tees Valley, the new government is Royalist with the Prime Minster being named as former Cleveland Police Officer Ray Mallon. Princess Anne become a the constitutional monarch Queen Anne II. Under proposals by the new government the name of the area reverted to its ancient name of Cleveland and become a constitutional parlimentary Kingdom, Middlesbrough is named as the captial.

The Presidential Residence is in Thornaby, the Royal Residence is Wynyard Hall near Sedgefield and parliment is held in held in Middlesbrough town hall from 1995 till 2002 when a new parliment building is built near Nunthorpe, this is opened on 22nd November 2002.

As of July 2009 the Cleveland parliment holds 35 members of parliment (MP's) as well as 20 empty seats designed for any other territories that may join the kingdom.

In 1996 the unradiated parts of the former counties of North Yorkshire and Durham become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland.

In 2002 Queen Anne II married local man James Monroe in the ruins of Guisborough Abbey. The heir to the Crown, Princess Zara was one of the bridesmaids.

In military respects the royal army consists of a full time cavalry regiment (based at Ormesby Hall) tasked with protecting the queen and a part time regiment of riflemen, as well as a small navy consisting of armed fishing trawlers and an airforce of small helicopter and single engined planes based at the former Teesside international airport (now renamed Queen Anne International)

Expeditions
In early 2003 Prime Minster Mallon ordered that reconnisance missions to go into the badlands to look for any survivors and resources that the kingdom could use.

One team followed the former transpennine highway (A66) across to Cumbria, they discovered that nearly all the towns and villages had been destroyed, the team encountered a survivor colony in the walled castle town of Carlisle, they find that the locals are being harrassed by a former military unit know by the locals as Reavers.

Another team followed the great north road (A1) south and find many small villages still inhabitited (all be it at 18th centuary levels of technology). Many have joined together to former a co-operative of farms, shops and villages known locally as the North Riding Co-Operative or NRCO. Much of the farmland in the vale of York and Pickering are extreamly fertile and that radioactivity are at (relitivly) very low levels.

The team discusses with the Prime Minster over long wave radio and offers the NRCO entry to the Kingdom of Cleveland. However due to the fact that the NRCO has no governmental stucture each village voted seperatly on whether or not to become part of Cleveland. Voting took place in May 2009.

5th May 2003 - NRCO towns of Dunforth, Ouseburn, Flaxby, Knaresborough, Wetherby and Tadcaster vote to become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland adding 19,458 to the population of the Kingdom.

12th May 2003 - all NRCO towns in the former county of North Yorkshire join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding 5,623 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland.

22nd May 2003 - the final NRCO towns of Appleby, Kirby Stephen and Hawes voted to join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding another 2,789 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland

1st June 2003 - 15 new MP's join the Cleveland parliment from the former NRCO territories.

Due to the success of the expeditions south and west new teams are sent north in August 2004, they use ships to bypass the heavily irradiated Tyne and Wear valley's landing at Alnwick harbour on the 16th of August.

They discover a thriving fishing and farming community based around the fortified island of Lindisfarne.

As they travel up and down the coast they find many small villages that are also thriving on the resurgence of fish stocks in the North Sea. During this time it is found that Ralph George Percy, the 12th Duke of Northumberland has began calling himself the 'King of Northumbria' again and have based his parliment in Bamburgh castle and the Percy family live at Alnwick castle.

Even pre DD the area of Northumberland was one of the lowest population levels in England. It is estimated that the population of the Kingdom of Northumbria in 2009 is roughly 21,000.

electricity supply
In early 2002 it is discovered that Hartlepool Nuclear power station has started to become dangerous and it decided that it should be shut down and replaced by 2006. Prime minster Mallon makes an executive order that the power station shall be replaced with a small coal powered station in Durham near the new coal mines and a waste to energy plant (by burning rubbish) on the outskirts of Middlesbrough as well as numerous wind turbines on the local Pennine, Eston and Cleveland hills as well as hydroelectic plants on rivers across the kingdom.

On 23rd July 2009 Prime minster Mallon announces that renewable power generators (wind and hydro-electric) will be built across the former NRCO territories, these will begin generating power by early October 2009 and the NRCO will be 90% powered by mid 2010.

Gas
In 2000 a new coal gas plant is set up in the former county Durham using coal from existing and reopened coal mines in the area.

This gas is piped along the former natural gas pipelines into many homes and businesses in Cleveland.

Football
In 2000 Prime minster Mallon announces the formation of a football league in Cleveland, to be know as the CFA (Cleveland Football Association). There will be two divisions with five teams in each.

points will be appointed as follows:
 * 3 points for a win.
 * 1 point for each team for a draw.
 * 0 points for a loss.

The champion of the 2nd divsion wil be promoted to the 1st division, the lowest points scoring team from the 1st division will be relagated to the 2nd division.

in 2001 the teams are as follows:

First Division
 * Middlesbrough FC
 * Darlington FC
 * Hartlepool FC
 * Ironopolis FC
 * Norton and Stockton Ancients FC

Second Division
 * Dormanstown FC
 * Crook FC
 * Guisborough Town FC
 * Billingham FC
 * Saltburn FC

RESULTS

2001/02 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions of the league, Ironopolis FC were relagated, and were replaced with promoted Crook FC.

2002/03 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Crook FC were relagated and Guisborough Town FC were promoted.

2003/04 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were relagated and Crook FC were promoted.

2004/05 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Guisborough FC were relagated and Saltburn FC were promoted.

2005/06 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Saltburn FC were relagated and Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were promoted.

2006/07 season - Hartlepool FC were crowned champions, Crook FC were relagated and Ironopolis FC were promoted.

2007/08 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Ironopolis FC were relagated and Guisborough FC were promoted

2008/09 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were relagated and Ironopolis FC were promoted

In 2005 PM Mallon announces that a new CFA cup will be played between the champion of the 1st and the champion of the 2nd division.

2006 CFA cup winner - Ironopolis FC

2007 CFA cup winner - Middlesbrough FC

2008 CFA cup winner - Middlesbrough FC

With the inclusion of the NRCO territories in 2005, the CFA has announced that from 2010 there will be a third division formed. This will have five teams from the former NRCO territories.

Champion of the 3rd division will be promoted to the 2nd division, lowest points scorer from the 2nd division wil be relagated to the 3rd division.

Teams will be as follows:

Third Division
 * Tadcaster FC
 * Kirby Stephen FC
 * Appleby FC
 * Hawes FC
 * Weatherby FC

2009 the CFA announces that there will be a national team formed for the FIFA World cup to be played in the Celtic Alliance in 2010. Players can be selected from any team in all three leagues.

Discovery by the Celtic Alliance
In 1997 during a fishing trip from off the east coast of Yorkshire a small Scottish trawler comes across a cobble (small open fishing boat) longline fishing.

The two crews make contact and after visiting the mainland they return to Scotland, setting up trade routes between the Kingdom of Cleveland and the Celtic Alliance.

The Tees valley had been powered by Hartlepool Nuclear power station (which had only been operational since early 1983) however this plant was closed down in 2007 and replaced by a small waste to energy plant and a coal powered plant.

There is a large iron and steel works (which has been mothballed since DD attacks in 1983) and there are several shipyards producing mid sized wooden vessels used for trading up and down the east coast and smaller fishing vessels, the small towns in unaffected areas of Yorkshire have begun farming both arable and livestock as well as fishing from the small ports such as Whitby and Ravenscar.

The Queen Anne International airport (former Teesside international) has been adapted for use as a medical staging points however PM Mallon refuses to allow an end cycle center as he believes that every life is important.

1995 census - the total population of the Kingdom of Cleveland stands as 104,271. With over 735,000 deaths from the coastal tsunami, radioactivity, starvation, social unrest, disease and general accidents.

2005 census - with the addition of the former NRCO towns in 2003, the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland is estimated to be 198,000.

The Kingdom of Cleveland is due to vote on a referendum on becoming part of the Celtic Alliance in mid 2010. However popular opinion is that the Kingdom of Cleveland will remain independent.

The date for the referendum on joining the Celtic Alliance has been announced. On May 21st 2010 the vote will take place, the results will be announced on the 28th May 2010.