German South West Africa (1983: Doomsday)

The Republic of German Southwest Africa is nation in the former South African mandate of Southwest Africa. After Doomsday, It takes its roots from many of the small German communities that assimilated following the economic collapse of Africa, as well as refugees from both East and West Germany. It is currently also a member of the New Union of South Africa.

Pre-Doomsday
Before 1918, it had been a colony of the Second German Empire. During the early 20th century, the Germans executed more then 80 percent of the native population. Many had thought this would later become an example for the Jewish Holocaust committed by the Third Reich.

Doomsday
On Doomsday, both mainland Germany and Southwest Africa would suffer heavy economic damage. West Germany and East Germany would be two of the heaviest-hit nations in Europe, since both were members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact respectively. However, Southwest Africa would be given the luxury of being spared of the physical effects of Doomsday, opposed to the mainland German countries. Of the small German population of Southwest Africa many of the 22,000 Germans would band together survive in the chaotic, war-filled lands of Africa. Around 4,000 of these Germans founded a small fishing and agricultural community on the abandoned resort town of Langstand. The mostly German population would initially thrive, attracting even more refugees from surrounding areas, including several Afrikaners who were allowed to stay under the condition of working 3 months of hard labor. However, multiple attacks from local warlords demanding food during the winter months caused many to die by the hands of starvation.

In March of 1983, the city was eventually discovered by a group of soldiers South African National Defense force. After describing to them the civil war that was beginning to plague much of South Africa, the contigent of 80 soldiers was absorbed as a local militia into Langstand who did not dare to return into the heartland of South Africa. This would not only help the city-state, but defend them from local warlords as well.

Post-Doomsday
Six years after Doomsday, two similar German city-states were discovered in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay. While they were initially surprised to find out that other organized settlements existed in the area, they also learned that civil war had almost completely destroyed the South African government. In order to cope better with the surrounding enviroment of African warlords or refugees coming from the war torn cities, the two city states formed the Republik Deutsch-Südwestafrika, or the German Southwest Africa on Febuary 4th, 1989 after a constitutional convention in Walvis Bay. At a population of 18,000, German Southwest Africa was the largest German settlement in Africa, as well as one of the most stable in all of South Africa. As the young nation initially thrived, it soon began to attract a large amount of refugees from all over South Africa, mainly from Cape Town, where warlords and gangs had fought off the remaining South African military. With the government not knowing how to handle so many these mainly African refugees, the apartheid was abolished to allow the African population into the existing workforce. After the provisional capital of Swakopmund had been useful at governing the nation for several years, a new capital was aventually built on the remains of Walvis Bay. The capital city of Neu Berlin was completed in late 1995.

Expeditions of Mainland Germany
Some years after Doomsday, many of the local German population began to wonder what had happened to both Germanys after the nuclear war that had quite possibly obliterated them both. In 1997, permission was given for 4 vessels, primarily recovered abandoned ships, to scout both Germanys. While the initial fact-finding mission had failed, finding few surviving settlements, a second voyage in 2002 was far successful. The Republic of North Germany was found in the regions of Schleswig-Holstein and East Frisia, as well as a struggling town of 3,000 people, all of which eventually emigrated to German Southwest Africa or North Germany. Furthermore, a third voyage in 2008, this time to East Germany, discovered the Kingdom of Prussia. In all, over 18,000 people have successfully emigrated to German Southwest Africa.

Economy
The economy of German Southwest Africa is primarily controlled by fishing, mining, and the government sector. Tourism remains a small, but noticeable business, especially in the former resort town of Langstrand. Subsistence agriculture is the primary source of income for the rural, inland areas.

International Relations
German Southwest Africa is a member of the Union of South Africa, an economic alliance throughout the former nation of South Africa, as well as its mandate Southwest Africa.

Since 2003, it has been in negotiations with regarding a possible union between the two countries. However, long distances between the two have prevented any union beyond the proposed confederation known as the