Northern Texas (1983: Doomsday)

Despite the destruction of such major areas as the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and Wichita Falls, the events of Doomsday did not render northern Texas totally unhabitable.

Survivors found their way to two regions, both an hour outside of the Metroplex, and both having opened up to the outside world only in the past decade.

The City of Graham was established out of desperation, as survivors from Wichita Falls and Abilene flocked to the region because of Lake Graham and the Brazos River. Survivors worked with residents and leaders of Graham to accommodate the massive amount of refugees; that spirit of cooperation and hard work led to the area becoming one of the largest towns in the southwestern former United States. Graham residents are said to favor reunification of Texas.

The City of Paris weathered the chaos of fall 1983 and winter 1984, establishing itself as a seperate republic one year after Doomsday. Contact was made with explorers from eastern Texas in 1989, and with Mexican military in 1992.

Existing radioactivity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex region is one factor that has hampered efforts to reunite the various nation-states in former Texas; trade with the region goes through eastern Texas, but only recently have reliable, safe trade routes been established from Paris to Tyler. Graham began trading with West Texas in 1994; Graham Highway, connecting the town to Midland, was begun in 1999 and completed in summer 2009.