North American Union (1983: Doomsday)

The North American Union (NAU) is an economic and political alliance made up of survivor communities across the Great Plains region of the United States of America and Canada.

Economy
The economy of the NAU is primarily agricultural. Many towns and cities had to relocate most of their populations to local farms and ranches. These farms and ranches have been transformed with defensive walls built to protect against Lakotah raids during the Lakotah War. Today these farm and ranches are the center of life in the NAU. Only recently have the towns and cities began to grow again and light industry has increased.

Technological progress has been slow, as the country concentrates more on building up former prosperity.

Foreign Relations
The NAU has only recently established contact with the rest of the world thanks to the arrival of a WCRB sponsored expedition from the Municipal States of the Pacific. There are already plans among the NAU leadership to build a safe trade route to reach the MSP. Some plans include reopening old railroad lines between the two areas.

Territory disputes between Utah and the NAU over the former territories of Idaho and Wyoming has kept things tense between the two nations but so far it has remained short of all out war.

Military
The NAU requires all member nations to maintain a strong, professional militia force. The militias are equipped with old American and Canadian weapons, along with some new weapons built since Doomsday including the NAU Standard Semi-Automatic Rifle. The NAU Mounted Police, the former Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is the elite force of the NAU and keeps peace along the member nations border while also keeping brigands in check.

Provisional Government of the United States of America
Following the Lakotah War a large number of American survivor communities held a new constitutional convention, reestablishing the United States of America. Though the Constitution was adopted as is, the new government has declared itself only a provisional government that will give authority back to the existing federal US government if they ever came into contact with them. In 2009 the USA learned that the surviving American government disbanded itself in 1995. So far the current USA government has shown little interest in changing the current status quo.

The USA is divided into 9 states:


 * Montana
 * Kootenai
 * Absaroka
 * Wyoming
 * Nebraska
 * Kansas
 * Idaho
 * Lincoln
 * Colorado

Provisional Government of Canada
Like the USA, the Provisional Government of Canada adopted its old style of government with the possibility of turning control back over the surviving Canadian government. Since contact in 2009, the Provisional Government of Canada is hoping to enter into negotiations with the Canada Remainder Provinces in hopes of reuniting the nation. Exactly how this would effect Canada's position in the NAU is still up in the air.

Canada is divided into 2 provinces:
 * Alberta
 * Saskatchewen

Republic of Lakotah
The Republic of Lakotah declared independence shortly after Doomsday. It is a confederation based on libertarian principles. Though it serves as a homeland to the Lakota people, there is a substantial minority of non-Lakota who live in the borders. It is confined mostly to old American states of North and South Dakota, though there was an attempt to expand their borders during the Lakotah War. Many of the old tribes have reclaimed their old territories, some even returning to a nomadic lifestyle. Non-Lakota towns have autonomy within the republic as long as they pay a yearly tribute to the Tribal Council.

Associated Nomadic clans
Some survivors in this part of North America adopted a nomadic lifestyle in an effort to survive the aftermath of Doomsday. They have evolved into clans made up of several large extended families. Their wealth comes from their large herds of animals who they take to different pastures during the years, following them in the few remaining motorized transports or horse-drawn wheeled tents based off the yurt design used by Central Asian nomads (this became popular thanks to a history professor who joined a nomadic clan after Doomsday).

During the Lakotah War several clans fought as mercenaries on both sides of the war. Afterward, a few clans moved west and challenged the Hells Angels of the MSP for control of the area. Those few who remained eventually all became associated members of the NAU.