Revolutionary Republic of Liberia (1983: Doomsday)

History of the Revolutionary Republic of Liberia
More information see: Liberia

After Liberian Civil War
The Revolutionary Republic of Liberia (RRL) deveolped during the early 1990's in the south of the former nation of Liberia near the border with Ivory Coast.

It started as the city state of Barclayville in 1988, it was run by a small time dictator Saturday Johnstone.

Barclayville is found on the Na River over the following two years it was quickly joined by other towns along the river and along the coast either side of the mouth of the Na River.

In particular the towns of Grand Cess, Henriesville and Wutuken became strongholds of Johnstones troops.

By 1991, the Johnstone regime controlled all of Grand Kru county as well as sections of neighbouring River Gee County and Maryland county.

By the first General Election in 2000 the RRL controlled all of Maryland and River Gee Counties.

In 2002, the RRL made inroads in Sinoe County and currently (as of early 2012) controls roughly half of the County.

Foundation of the Revolutionary Republic of Liberia
In 1992 Saturday Johnstone calls a meeting in Barclayville, he declares the foundation of Revolutionary Republic of Liberia with Barcalyville as its capital city, he also makes himself President and his brother Abraham head of the army.

His policies were orginally Socialist, how ever after close links with the People's Republic fo Benin has led his policies to change slowly from Socialist to Beninist.

Government of the RRL
On the 30th September 2000 President Johnstone calls for a general election across the RRL, the election is held on the 1st December 2000, 22 new representatives of the Supreme Council, with Saturday Johnstone as President, took their seats in a newly built Council Building in Barclayville on the 20th December 2000.

The vote was declared totally fixed and unfair by WAU officals undercover in the RRL at the time, many towns had a choice of one candidate.

The second General Election in 2007 was also declared as seriously fixed as the first by undercover WAU officals. The total numbers of representatives was increased from 22 to 28, as nearly half of Sinoe County had come under the control of the RRL since the last election.

President Johnstone applied to become a member of the Confederation of Socialist West African Nations in early 2012. CSWAN officals arrived in March 2012 to assess the RRL.

President Johnstone has declared that if accepted into the Confederation, the nation will be renamed The Free Republic of Liberia

President of the Revolutionary Republic of Liberia
President Saturday Johnstone (born 1958)
 * President (self announced) 1992-2000.
 * President (elected) 2000- Present.

President Johnstone was born in Barclayville in early 1958, the presise date is unknown, however he celebrates his birthday on the 22nd April.

Married in 1978 to Janjay Mary Teamah, they have three children.


 * A son - Dwe Saturday Johnstone (Born 1979)
 * A daughter - Anika Mary Johnstone (Born 1982)
 * A son - Tamba Kwame Johnstone (Born 1987)

Trade and Industry
RRL has trade relations with other Liberian states as well as West African Union nations.

It has close trade links with The People's Republic of Benin and ships frequently dock offshore to deliver goods to the RRL.

In 2011 the RRL started buying weapons from the People's Republic of Benin, mainly hand and machine guns, hand grenades and rocket propelled grenades.

The main industry of the RRL is agriculture.

Military of the Revolutionary Republic of Liberia
there are two branches of the Military of the RRL

Army
There are approximatly 1000 men in the RRL army. They are split into five divisions of 200 men,

Conscription
In the RRL it is possible to have conscription into the army, in the event of war or invasion, every able bodied man from the age of 16 to the age of 40 can be called into army service.

Navy
The navy of the RRL is mostly made of fishing vessels that carry armed soldiers, there have been reports of official RRL vessels undertaking piracy or offically endorsed privateering on merchant vessels passing along the coast.

International Relations
It has trade links with other survivor nations in former Liberia,

In early 2012 the RRL applied to join the Confederation of Socialist West African Nations, on the 18th of March 2012 representatives of the Confederation arrived in the RRL to assess the nation for membership.

Relationship with the Ivory Coast
It has a difficult relationship with the WAU, in particular the WAU nation of Ivory Coast with which shares a border. They see the WAU as interfeering in former Liberia.

The RRL denounced the March invasion of the former nation of Liberia by the WAU, and they believe the setting up of border posts by the Ivory Coast troops in particular amounts to a declaration of war on the RRL by the Ivory Coast.