Iowa Commonwealth (1983: Doomsday)

The Iowa Commonwealth also know as ( Iowa ) is a formation of cities of Ames, Fort Dodge and Mason City with other small farming communitys.

Pre-Doomsday
Iowa - the heart of the Midwest and part of the Cornbelt, its know for having corn parades and large farming communites.

Doomsday
Camp Dodge was a base ready for a incoming attack by us missles, The facility serves double duty as a continuity of government facility for the state of Iowa. As soon as missles were detected - Camp Dodge and the Iowa state Government left north to Ames. Camp Dodge also orderd evacuation of the city to the North, South, West and East and needed all to meet in central Iowa cities. With Des Moines one of the lowest populated state capitals(191,121) in the nation - a major precentage was able to leave the city in time and with the help of a good road working system and the help of Camp Dodge national guardsmen. Once the EMP was hit the long trail of cars from a reasonablly safe distance from Des Moines were shut down. The Humvees of the Camp Dodge had been built to wistand the EMP, having a plan for any type of Nuclear attack. The long trail of men and women began to march to Ames, while the old and young were able to ride in trucks. Des Moines - being one of the most central locations in America was finaly nuked at 3:09, in the southern portion and downtown area had been destroyed, finaly the alarms that had been on since 8:00 September 25 had finaly turnend off. While most were lucking - some were not and died during the blast.

After Doomsday
Once arriving in Ames - the population and National Guard were greeted by already stationed guardsmen from around the state and Camp Dodge and the Governor and had already linked up with Fort Dodge and Mason City. They also reported that West and East Iowa were to much damaged to be able to be taken control of and coulden't spend the supplies on help the entire state. Governor Robert D. Ray (R) lead a strong cause against criminals and other vandals. After just one day, the mayor of Ames had asked for the major population leave to Fort Dodge or Mason City, in order to keep the city in peace. Iowa's few engineers began to fix small cars that ran on little fuel in the large mess of cars on the road leading to Ames and Des Moines. They Government also began to tap into the large amounts of cars gas supplie. The National Guards men used the fuel and small cars to be able to ride across central Iowa to inform small community towns and they're police - which would get to the farmers. The Governor had a large map of each county and the perfect square farms and would shade in every farm and if all complied - he would shade in the entire county. If any county or farmer opossed him - the national guard would take the farm or convince the people to join. With still a large amount of fuel - the guardsmen began to spread familes to diffrent cities ( Most to Fort Dodge). With using the same stratagy with central Iowa in Ames to get the counties to join - Robert began a large operation in northern Iowa from Mason City. This same stratagy was used over and over again - and still used to this day. The present borders have stayed the same since 2009, the last county to join is Dickinson.

Government
Iowa kept is old Government and kept with the usal elections, Democrats gained control after Doomsday and have a positive mind to re-joining the United States. The current Governor is Richard Noble (D).

They keep there state status but are considerd a indpendent nation, they nations offical name is "The Iowa Commonwealth" but is still known as "The State of Iowa"