Macedonia (1983: Doomsday)

The Kingdom of Macedonia is a constitutional monarchy located in the lower Balkan peninsula near OTL Greece and Turkey.

After Doomsday
After Doomsday struck, what would become the Kingdom of Macedonia was part of Greece, Yugolslavia, and Bulgaria. After the disaster, the man who was Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, led a group of the royal house of Karadjordjević survivors along with a small army of just 800 people with no armored vehicles, just rifles and some machine guns, to conquer the area that was Yugoslavia, when his army failed to defeat the militia and warlords there, he moved south to conquer the region around the southern Balkans. Soon, there army was able to overrun the area and bring a short-lived peace to the area. Soon Alexander had to deal with the thousands who were still infected with radiation sickness, along with the huge amount of militiants who had problems with the countries prospect of ethnic and racial unity. Though the numbers of people with radiation sickness has flatlined, though the number of people against ethnic and racial unity is still part of multiple operations in military activity, even up to today.

Creating a New Kingdom
Soon, Alexander had managed to gather up the people around a few major remaining cities, and the creation of a constitutional monarchy was announched to the public. It was announced in 1989 that in a year their would be a general election held to establish members of the national assembly who would then create a new constitution that the country would adopt. Afterwards, five political parties were established, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the National Party, and the Freedom Party, each gain support among different parts of the country. In 1990, the general election was in Skopje, the, then provisional, capital where Alexander and his government had set up shop, and canidates from each party all attended the elections where around 91% of the entire population gathered to vote. The members of the 100 member Assembly were announced, 53 Conservatives, 27 Liberals, 14 Socialists, 4 Nationalists, and 2 Freedoms, while the President who is elected is a member of the Liberal Party, giving the Conservatives the majority in the Assembly, but giving the Liberals a majority in the Federal government, however the Socialists have a a big enough seat that they can bring change and influence decisions in the Assembly though the Freedom and National Parties have little influence, soon the Assembly meets to write a constitution. The next year, in 1991, the Assembly ratifies the constitution, establishing the powers of the Legislative, Executive, and the newly created Judicial, branches, and the next day the Assembly and Federal government meets in the now, de jure and de facto, capital city of Skopje, where Alexander was officially crowned king of the new constitutional monarchy, something that he had always dreamed of.

Contact With Turkey
In 1992 a small expolaration party from Macedonia sailed south, almost dying from starvation and thrist, but on September 3 of that year they landed on the southern coast of Turkey. Soon, they were given a presence before the Sultan and told him about Macedonia and King Alexander. Then, in 1993, on New Years Day, Alexander himself and the president sailed to Turkey and also got to talk with the Sultan, and both kings became close friends. Alexander told the Sultan about the greatness of their country the huge amount of foodstuffs they had stored and how their economy was growing constantly, but he also told him the ethnic militiants who hated Macedonia and its ideal unity. Alexander and the Sultan traded ideas and talked about the common problems and troubles of being a king. But when the Sultan asked Alexander to speak about the ethnic disputes, he told the Sultan about how many people in the northeast were taking up arms and how people were talking about seceding and a civil war. The Sultan promised Alexander that if a civil war were to start within Macedonia, that the king and the Assembly would recieve as much support from Turkey as posssible.

Civil Unrest
Unrest soon developed in the northeast Macedonia as ethnic and racial dissidents demanded that some of the ethnicities in the kingdom be expelled and that they must do it as quickly as possible, but these ideas are heard very little in the Assembly. Soon, the Unity Party was founded, that, despite its name, expressed the belief that certain ethnic groups which they called "infidels" and "racially inferior" should be "expelled" from the country and soon some members declare canidacy in the Assembly and their leader, Milan Milutinović, a Serb, declares his canidacy for President. When the 1995 election came along, he ran on an his parties ideas and believed the country needed an "ethnic cleansing", he almost won thanks to the numbers of his party and the public dissaproval of the Liberal president, but was defeated by the canidate from the Conservative party, his loss in the race made the party very unpopular and many people joined other parties like the Liberals and the Socialists. Milutinović soon makes a comeback in 1996 when people begin to hear his words again and he declares that he was cheated out of being president and that he should have been elected, he also believes that the government is corrupt and that his people should rise up in rebellion. When his words are heard in Skopje, he is dismissed by the government as a lunatic with pipe dreams, but more people are hearing, and soon they talk about declaring independence where they will have the right to govern themselves, but the government ignores these ideas too.

Civil War
With the new year coming around, many people were happy, the economy was booming and new jobs were opening in a more diverse economies, the Conservatives controlled most of the government and they develop better relations with Turkey, and they life seems to be turning around for the people of Macedonia. But, on January 27, 1997, that peace is ruined when the Serbs, headed by the basic dictatorship of Milan Milutinović, declare independence as the Serbian Republic (although this is obviously ironic). Alexander and the government, seeing this as an unlawful rebellion, refuses to recognize the country and declare war on it, sending in all their troops to battle the Serbs and introducing conscription to raise more troops. The troops from Serbia move south into Macedonia in Operation Unity, and soon they engage in several small skirmishes in with Macedonian forces. It comes as a suprise when the Macedonian troops, although highly outnumbering the Serbs, loses much land and battles to the Serbs, who have their "national pride" instilled in them by their "President". But then three major things turn the tide of the war in 1998, one, the Turks, who had promised to the help the Macedonian government in case of war and begin sending troops, arms, and food to support them, two, the Macedonians establish the Macedonia Army Air Task Force from several helipcopters they've recovered, and three, they were able to establish a navy to combat the Serb's navy, both of which include some patrol boats and a couple of gunboats. Then in the next year, in the early part of 1999, the Macedonians had drawn the war into a stalemate, as the Serbs had high morale while the Macedonians had a high sense of national pride and ethnic unity. But then in the late part of 1999, the war swinged into Macedonian favor as a majority of the Serbs army were defeated at the Battle of Skopje and the absence of their army allowed the them to enter the Serbs land unopposed, and then on November 12, 1999, Milan Milutinović is caught on found off the coast of Macedonia, trying to flee from Serbia, when he is surrounded by the MAATF helicopters and navy gunboats and is taken prisoner. He, along with several of his high-ranking officers, are taken to court in Skopje and all are initially found guilty of just minor war crimes, but as more troops advance into Serbia, they find several camps that were made for Milutinović's "ethnic cleansing" and they are dismantled and the prisoners set free. After news of these deaths reach Skopje, investigations are launched that find evidence all the officers had connections with the camp, and are found guilty of major war crimes and crimes against humanity and all are put to death with their "President". On December 31 of 1999, the remaining members of the Serbian government are gathered up in Skopje and they sign the official Serbian terms of unconditional surrender at midnight exactly, the new millenium ushers in, not only the end of the Macedonian Civil War, but a new era of unity and nationalism is embraced among the populace.

Aftermath of the Civil War
On January 2, 2000, with allowance from the Assembly, King Alexander declares that day Macedonian Unity Day, a day that will be celebrated each year to remember the death and suffering caused by the Civil War and that unity is to be a celebrated into the Kingdom, and many people all over the kingdom celebrate with parties, even the Serba, and an armed forces parade in Skopje. The previous year ended with the end of the civil war and a general election which created a supermajority in the Assembly for the Nationalist Party and the Nationalist party leader is elected president in the election and this helps with the new wave of Macedonian unity and nationalism, though popular opinion forces them to abandon their police state policy, their nationalism policy is just what the kingdom needs. A new era for the armed forces is ushered in as well when the navy is entirely nationalized and the Army Air Task Force is cut off from Army and is used as the basis for the newly created Macedonian Air Force, where Božidar Stefanović, a former Yugoslav air force officer, is made the first Marshal of the Air Force of Macedonia. Soon after the first Unity Day was celebrated, the Turkish troops who had been sent to Macedonia to combat the rebelling Serbians returned to Konya, the Turkish capital city, where they were treated as heros and warriors of Islam who defended their allies against rebelling infidels and were given their own victory parade by the Turkish people.

Contact With the Alpine Confederation
In the later part of 2000, an exploration party set out from Skopje, with 36 original members, they were given supplies to conquer the elements and some weapons in case of any aggresive raiders along the way. By late November, the temperature so far has been fairly mild and they have made it through to southern Balkans with little to no problems whatsoever, until in the beginning of December, when they get caught in a snowstorm in the Northern Balkans and at least 3 members of the party are killed and buried there. But in early 2001, when they almost run out of food, they decide they must commit cannibalism in order to survive, but a few minuted before they can dig up the graves, a small exploration party from the Alpine Confederation spots them and gives them the food and nutrition they need, and give their fallen friends a proper funeral on the way back. A few weeks later they arrive in the Alpine capital city of Vaduz, where they are given a presence with the Confederation President and tell him about the Kingdom of Macedonia, the King, the Assembly, and the recent Civil War. They are given transport by helicopter back to Skopje where an Alpine ambassador meets with King Alexander and they exchange the economic and political backgrounds of both countries, and soon the ambassador returns to Vaduz and a Macedonian ambassador returns with him. The ambassador is given a small office in the city which operates as his embassy and vice versa with the Alpine ambassador, and soon the relationship between the two coutnries grows and they begin some trade. Currently, the Alpine Confederation is a major allie to the Kingdom of Macedonia, sharing more trade with them and producing airplanes and helicopters for the Macedonian Air Force, although at a rate of a few per year, the rest are produced in Macedonia.

Macedonian Renaissance
The era of peace and prosperity that was formed after the end of the Macedonian Civil War is an era people now call the Macedonian Renaissance, lasting from the end of the Civil War and, is considered by many, continuing through the modern day. With the end of the Civil War, there was an era that began to usher in ethnic diversity and a great sense of nationalism in the kingdom and soon the Assembly and President began looking at ways to develop and run on the current prosperity being established. In 2001, the Skopje University and Library is established in the capital city as a place where books, written in three different languages, were kept and soon it began to offer free education to children 10-15, only including a few grades and employing teachers who get paid little and aren't very good. However, in 2003 a big turn around came when the Assembly passed the Macedonian Basic Education Act that declared that all children of ages 6-17 must be sent to school and the wages of teachers are to be increased as the value of their labor is now seen as very valuable, and soon many new books were being written that included history and mathematics so these new courses could be taught to the children and schools, who's building was funded by the government, pop up all over the kingdom. Another thing that needed to be developed, in the Assembly's idea, was the arts, and this would prove especially problematic as the Assembly had little idea on how to do it originally. Then in 2002, after raising enough money for the cause from some of Macedonia's high class, the government opens the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Skopje and soon people from all over the city flood into the museums as to see the great works of art they have never seen before, for a majority of them. In 2004, construction, with Turkish and Alpine help, begin building the Skopje Ampitheatre, an open theater that will eventually examplify the Macedonian Renaissance, and that same year the Assembly brings back the old festivals of Macedonia, including the Skopje Cultural Summer Festival, the May Opera Evenings, and the Open Youth Theatre Festival.

Operation Thessaloniki
In 2005, to respond to their new wealth and fortune, the government began thinking about the possibility of Thessaloniki being rebuilt and reinhabited, but after going over the national budget in February, the funds initally believed to be possible were not found and the project was believed to have to be scraped. But then, in the later half of the year, a large-scale lottery was held in the kingdom which almost raised enough money, until thousands of more dollars were believed to be needed, but, in a miraculous strike of luck, the CEO's of multiple large corporations in Macedonia made last minute donations to the fund in November, and soon work began in late December, though the main project wouldn't really begin until 2006. In that year, the debris left behind by the destroyed city had little to no radiation left and was easily removed from the area by working crews, and soon rebuilt wrecking balls were brought in to destroy what little of the city was left standing to make room for the new buildings that the government was preparing to have built. When 2007 came around, the construction had already begun a couple months ago and soon enough wood, brick, and concrete were being brough in to finish a majority of the construction materials that are still needed, and by the later part of the year, some of the first buildings, only small shops and houses are complete. In 2008, with construction continuing and new crew members and equipment still being brought in to the project, the plot, which when they began in 2006, looked like a giant plot of dirt, ruble, and dust with the scattered corpse here and there, and soon the developments in the plot begin to look like a small town. By 2009, thousands of workers and more equipment is brought in to continue the development of the project and by the end of the year, the plot looks a bit less like a town and a bit more like a city, with new buildings, including houses, apartments, and shops rising above the earth and continuing to grow. Today, Operation Thessaloniki is still going on and continues to run on the funs initally made in 2006, although with the somewhat expected budget issues every now and again that is usually solved with little effort, and the city rises higher than ever, and to assist their neighbor, Turkey sends in workers and equipment to help to continue the building of the city, which the Macedonian government promises the Sultan that, upon its completion, Thessaloniki will become a major trading city for the two trade partners. The project has unfortunately received some negative attention from the Federation of Greece, who claims that the city lies within their claimed territory. Macedonia's response is that the city was abandoned and they took the initiative to restore it, therefore their claim is stronger.

Government
The king is the traditional head of government and state, he oversees many official, ceremonial, and representative matters of the states, he bestows honors such as heads of the military and so on, although in many political matters he is advised by the President. He also has the power to dissolve the Assembly at the recommendation of the President, the remainder of the King's powers are all limited and overseen by the Macedonian constitution. The President is the real head of government and state and is elected every 5 years and can only serve two terms, just as is the Assembly, and is the leader of the Executive government, and his powers in this branch are that he can appoint and dismiss the members of his cabinet and coordinates the policies of the and activites of the government. As head of the Assembly he guides the law-making process, usually with the goal of enacting the policies of his government, and also is the tie-breaker in case of this event in the Assembly's law-making process. The heads of the Judicial system are the members of the Supreme Court, who are all apointed by the President, they control the judicial decisions on a federal level and act as the court in a federal case, thought they are appointed by the President, they are dismissed by either their own wish, or by the King. The Assembly is divided up into the three main political parties, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, and the Socialist Workers Party, though they are allowed to have as many seats in the Assembly as voted for, their are laws in place by the constitution that limit the terms they can have to four, and a term is six years. The Assembly has the power to create new laws and add new amendments to their constitution.

Here is the descriptions of the politcal parties-
 * The Liberal Party, a mainly leftist party which fights for the basic rights and liberties of citizens and for a more democratic system of government.
 * The Conservative Party, a mostly rightist party which commits to poltical and economic practices of the democratic nations before Doomsday.
 * The Socialist Workers Party, a centre-left party which orginally was created to remake a communist country in Macedonia, but now mostly fights for the rights of the working class and the nationalization of certain industries.
 * The Freedom Party, a centre-right party dedicated to reducing the size of government, removing the monarchy, and decreasing governmental regulation of the economy.
 * The National Party, a far-right/far-left party that seeks to promote ethnic Macedonian power, and to basically turn Macedonia into a police state.

Military
The armed forces of Macedonia have expanded greatly over recent years thanks to the invention of new weapons, the introduction of new military policies, and finding of old weapons that were renovated. Originally made up of a few hundred troops gathered up by Alexander and the remaining members of the Yugoslav Royal Family, the army, after failing to take Yugoslavia, moved south to the lower Balkans and eventually help set up the Kingdom of Macedonia. In 1997, conscription was introduced to the country and now the armed forces are made up of professional soldiers who train at the three military academies across Macedonia. They have also helped recently to bring order to the outer parts of the country, which were recently ravaged by outsider warlords the anti-ethnic and racial unity militiants. The current size of the military is 150,000 troops, 100,000 in the army, 40,000 in the navy, 9,000 in the air force, and 1,000 marines..

Army
The army of Macedonia started out as the small force assembled by Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, after they failed to set up a new kingdom in the northern part of Yugoslavia, they moved south, pulling together many other smaller cities and towns into their new country. After Alexander was crowned king of the new nation, the army was nationalized and the original fighting force became the core of the nations defense for the time being, though it was mostly small and new troops were only added lightly and it functioned more like a militia. In 1997, however, conscription was introduced and the number of people in the army increased greatly and soon an army academy was set up in Skopje to help train the normal troops and officers of the new, and now professional, army. Now the army uses an array of weapons found in raided former Yugolsav and Greek military bases, including assault rifles, sniper rifles, and machine guns, but a great advance happened in 2001 and 2005 when tanks were used again in the army and their regional power increased greatly. Then in 2009 they found three Howitzers and armored personel carriers, which they soon also put into production, although at a very slow pace, of two each year for each model.

Navy
In 1998, to combat the small navy of Serbia which itself was only a few small patrolboats that were launched from captured ports in Macedonia, but these boats were harassing and attacking the fishing fleet of Macedonia, thought the navy itself initially just the same in 1998, but by the next year, it consisted of a few new gunboats captured from former Greek ports. In 1999, at the battle of the Thracian Sea, the seven-boat Macedonian fleet fought the eleven-boat Serbian fleet, although outnumbered, the Macedonian fleet highly outgunned the Serbians, where as the Serbians were only patrol boats with the sailors carrying some assault rifles versus the Macedonians with machine guns attached to their boats. The fighting went on for about five hours with both sides often retreating, regrouping, and then attacking again, mostly ineffectivly, until the Macedonians and Serbians both regrouped and fought eachother head on in an arrowhead formation until all people on the Serbian ships were either shot dead or their boats had exploded after their feul tanks got hit with bullets. Today, the navy of Macedonia consists of 40,000 sailors and around 19 gunboats, 4 patrol boat, and 1 small frigate given to them by the Turkish sultan, but research has begun with some Macedonian and Turkish into building light cruisers and other types of new ships that will expand both navies powers.

Air Force
After the Civil War, in 2000, Božidar Stefanović, the man who was an air force officer in Yugoslavia before Doomsday and had convinced the king to create the Army Air Task Force, is made the first Marshal of the Air Force of Macedonia and the AATF is made into the Macedonian Air Force. They mostly prove themselves worthy of true government support during the Civil War at the battle of Skopje when machine guns from the helicopters, which the Serbians had no defense against, shoot down on to the Serbian Army and kill many troops, including some high-ranking officers and even the Serbian Field Marshal, who had only been apointed his position 1 month prior. They proved themselves again when the AATF spotted the Serbian "President's" ship and surrounded it, making him surrender so that when the navy ships arrived and captured him, he could be taken in, put to trial, and executed. Originally consisting of a few helicopters with machine guns built in, the Air Force has grown largely since then into a powerful force to reckoned with in the air, albeit with much recent help from the Air Force of Turkey. The Air Force now employs 10,000 airmen and pilots, and owns multiple helicopters, a couple dozen fighters from the raided Batajnica Air Base and Hellenic Air Force bases, and some bombers, all of which are now produced by Macedonia, but only a couple are made each year, if at all. Although in recent years, thanks to assistance from the Sultanate of Turkey and Alpine Confederation, Macedonia has been able to produce many for types of aircraft models that are mostly former Yugoslav models improved on for modern combat.

Marines
The Macedonian Marines Corp is about the same size it is now as when it was founded in 2006, as a way to expand the miltary of Macedonia and in case of a war where they must invade an island and the navy doesn't have the capacity to occupy it from an enemy force. The marines are equipped with pretty much the same guns and other pieces of equipment as the army and the navy, but they also are equipped with a dozen landing craft, with which they can cross from their ships to the island they are invading. Though technically just an extension of the navy, the Marines recieve different representation than the navy in the Assembly and are seen by a majority of the Macedonian public as an entirely different force compared to the navy. The current size of the Marines is 1,000 members and they are all trained at the Marine Corp Academy in Skopje.

Agriculture
Like many Post-Doomsday soceities, Agriculture was the main industry of Macedonia from 1991-1994, food that was in excess was stored in storehouses which were located in most towns and cities, and in times of need th food would be equally distributed among the population. However, due to the large amounts of arable farmland of Macedonia, food quickly came in excess in the storehouses, and now the government decided that people should expand into new indsutries as to expand the economy and generate a greater wealth for Macedonia. The Agricultural industry boomed once more in 1997, when the recently reopened steel industry lead to the resumed production of tractors, and soon Agriculture became a major industry again and food was in greater excess once more. Today, Agriculture is the fourth biggest industry in Macedonia, trailing only behind Mining, Steel, and Energy.

Fishing
Fishing is the second industry that evolved in the country during 1993, although at the time agriculture made up most of the economy, fishing would soon become not only a viable industry but a booming market in the modern day. After the government decided to support expanding the economy and creating new industries in 1995, fishing soon became its own viable industry in the growing economy and people began building wooden boats and fishing rods with which they began to go out farther to sea and capturing many more fish. As the years progressed, so did the fishing industry and soon the Macedonian Fishing Company (MFC) was founded to make money off this growing industry and to expand on it, and that happened very quickly as the market continued to grow and grow. Then, in 1997, when the Civil War started, the MFC was constantly harassaed by the Serbian Navy and the MFC was forced by the government to shut down temporarily to keep the fishermen and the industry safe. After the Civil War, the MFC was put back into business and the fishing industry boomed because, while the war was going on, the fish population was able to boom due to reduced fishing, and the number of fishermen in the industry was greater than ever, soon new laws were put into place by the Assembly to protect the fish by banning fishing in certain areas and limit the number of fishermen they can have out at sea. Then in 2002, two new things were put into place that changed the industry forever, one, the MFC was finally able to develop metal fishing boats powered by coal and biodiesel that could go out farther to sea, and two, the MFC, which was accused by the Assembly of monopoly on the market and was forced to split up into three different companies, the Greater Macedonian Fishing Company, the Aegean Fishing Conglomerate, and the New Macedonian Fishing Company, each headed by a former MFC executive.

Steel and Mining
In 1995, after agriculture in Macedonia flourished, the government decided it was time to diversify the economy, and that the best place to start was with mining. In the later half of that year, three new iron mines, and two new coal mines, were opened in Macedonia, and some mining equipment was made functional because they had been fitted to run on biodiesel. In 1996, mining iron and coal became became a large and booming industry in Macedonia, by then employing 10% of the population, and soon factories began to open up in the major Macedonian cities that began to produce steel from the iron that had been mined. Within the next few years, the steel industry also boomed and many people began to migrate to major cities to get jobs working at these factories, and steel would soon become a valuable resource in rebuilding the nation.

Automobiles
After 1996, when steel became producable again, many people began looking at rebuilding the automobile industry in Macedonia. In 1997, the Macedonian Automobile Company (MAC), became the first company in the new country to start building new automobiles, although at that time they only had one factory in Skopje, and it only made motorcycles that were made to run on biodiesel. Thenin 1999, they started mass-producing cars again, though at a slow rate, but by now had also made enough money to build a few more factories in the country. Then in 2001, two new companies, the Bitola Automobile Works (BAW), and the Greater Macedonian Automobiles (GMA), and the automobile industry boomed as with the added competition to the industry. In the modern day, the automobile industry is still a large industry, in fact it is the fifth largest industry in the entire kingdom.

Arms
In 1997, after steel had become a large industry in Macedonia and consctription had been introduced to the military, an arms industry was created in the kingdom to make weapons for the army, and also make it so the government didn't have to make the weapons themselves, the first of such companies was the Macedonian Arms Corporation. In 1998, the first new machine guns and assault rifles began to roll off the line and they were bought by the government, almost immediately, and were distributed to the armed forces soon after. Then in 2001, after years of being an industry and with steel and energy major industry and a model being found in an old Yugoslav military outpost, the government ordered the companies to begin making the T-55 tank again, and by 2005, they had developed M-84 main battle tank, and also put it into production, although they don't have the capacity to mass-produce them the make a few each year. After 2006, when howitzers and armored personel carrier were introduced again, the MAC began making them again, although at a very slow rate for each year.

Energy
In the mid 90's, when the automobile and mining industry boomed in Macedonia, energy was obviously the next part if the economy that had to be made viable again. The mining industry fed into energy as coal was made the first major source of energy for Macedonia and was first used to power new mining equipment and eventually in 1999, coal was used to power their brand coal-burning electricity factories, that at first only supplied energy to the king's palace and other government offices. Then in 2005, the Macedonian Energy Company (MEC), began building coal-burning factories in the major Macedonian cities and for the first time in over 20 years, electricity was brought to the people of Macedon. In 2006, biodiesel, which had originally been only made by the government and some other farmers, was first being made by the MEC and sold to people to support the automobile industry, and now research is being started on new, renewable energy sources. Currently, the MEC has also prospered from the success of the Macedonia sports leagues which now use electricity from their coal-buring plants to power their arenas, including scoreboards and big screens.

Alcohol
In 1996, the amount of wheat and corn in Macedonia was growing and soon grapes became a huge resource in the agriculture industry and many people began looking to alcohol as the next big inustry to be formed. Unfortunatly, the Civil War put an end to that idea as all wheat, corn, and grapes were used by the government to feed troops and the alcohol industry idea was put on hold as the war progressed and more foodstuffs continued to be sent to the troops. However, a huge turn around came after the war, in 2001 the Macedonian Beer and Whiskey Company (MBWC) was founded that began using the recent excess in crops to make beer and whiskey and soon parties were sent out to find old wine distilleries that still had wine in them, although little wine being found and most of the beer and whiskey being sold to only the rich people and government officers were big handicaps of the industry. However, a huge breakthrough came in 2004, when huge amounts of wine were discovered in northern Greece and soon the Macedonian Wine Corporation (MWC) which funded more wine searches and sold the wine back in Macedonia, and eventually in that year the price of beer and whiskey had been cheapened enough that middle class people were now able to buy it and soon wine was being produced in Macedonia, although little wine was acutally produced due to the long-fermenting process.

Tourism
In 2003, when reports from a small resort on the coast being found by an exploration party, people in Macedonia jumped at the chance to be able go on vacation again and soon the Macedonian Vacation and Resort Company (MVRC) bought the resort from the government and made it part of their corporation and soon they soon began sending more parties to find similar coastal resorts, eventually they found 3 more resorts and began building some more of their own. In 2005, the resorts, after months of repair and coal-burning factories built to power the buildings by the MEC, were opened to the public and soon tourists, hoping to get away from the stresses of the city. Although the government and several CEO's argued against the huge number of of tourists going to the resorts and the decreased workforce, but this turned around when the tourists returned from vacations and showed the energy that came from their rests and began to put out more products than ever, and the huge money the MVRC was producing for the state made the government turn around, too. Then in 2007, many tourists began arriving from out of country, mainly from Turkey and the Alpine Confederation, and the tourism industry boomed again, and is still today a major industry in Macedonia.

Telecommunications and Electronics
In 2007, with much help from both Alpine and mainly Turkish scientists and economic experts, the Kingdom of Macedonia was able to craft a stable telecommunications and electronics industry which soon lead to the creation of the Macedonian Telecom Conglomerate (MTC) and the Macedonian Electronics Corporation (MEC) which now have large holdings in the market. By 2008, the first televisions and radios began rolling of the line, and with Turkish help, the MTC was able to build new radio stations and even a few television stations are built which provide mainly news and sports shot with the MEC's new cameras. By 2009, they begin supplying televisions to the MVRC's hotels and setting up new television stations that now accept commercials, which makes the industry even more viable and money-making, allows the MEC and MTC to employ more workers and create new products and stations. By 2010, both companies are a major player in a hugely successful market that continues to grow and both countries now export their products and service to the countries who helped them build their market, Turkey and the Alpine Confederation.

Sports
Prior to the Civil War, sports were only small competitions held in small towns or regions in the lands across Macedonia, and sports were seen by the Assembly as a minor cultural aspect at the country's beginning. However, after the Civil War, national unity became a great priority in the Assembly and a common culture was seen as just high a priority as any, and soon talks over creating some national sport leagues became commonplace in the Assembly's meetings. In 2002, after a final meeting on the subject, the Macedonian Football League was established, football meaning soccer, and seven teams from some of Macedonia's largest cities were created and the Phillip II Arena in Skopje was reopened to host these new games. The cleanup of the arena was a huge undertaking as hundreds of workers had to work around the clock to cleanup all the dust and grime that had developed in the 19 years the arena had been closed, and soon the arena was cleaned and the games began. Today, the MFL includes 15 teams from Macedonia and 1 team from Turkey who represent their country in the games, the Turkish team represents the good relations between the country and is often seen by visiting Turkish citizens and political dignitaries. Then in 2005, the Macedonian Handball League and Macedonian Basketball League was also created and new arenas in other Macedonian cities were opened to host these games as well, with 9 teams in the MHL and 11 teams in the MBL, and both competitions are often visited by tourists and visiting dignitaries.



Ethnicity
Being in the area that it is, Macedonia envolves multiple ethnic groups in the kingdom, these different ethnic groups, although recently learning to cooperate, have had their disputes and problems with each other in the past, the foremost example of course being the Macedonian Civil War. The Macedonian Civil War started when the Serbs, an ethnic group living in mainly northeast Macedonia, declared independence as the Serbian Republic, although contrary to its name, it was actually a Fascist Dictatorship run by the "President" Milan Milutinović, who began "ethnically cleansing" the country. The Macedonian Army found several death camps that were made to kill the non-Serbs that were left in the Republic because they couldn't afford to leave or were banned from leaving by the "President's" laws. After searching these camps, the army found hundreds dead, and even more were tired from being forced to work in Serbian mines all day, and many were also starving because of the little food they were served. After the finding of the camps, all officers and soldiers in the Unity Party's "Police Corp", as they were officially called, were rounded up by Macedonian soldiers and a majority were taken to court where huge show trial were performed to further shame these soldiers, the majority of these "Policemen" were executed, however, those who had little to now part in the "ethnic cleansing" were given only mild sentences for low treason. After the Civil War, January 2 became Macedonian Unity Day, a day that celebrates the unity of Macedonian ethnicities and the great sense of nationalism instilled by the Civil War's end, even many Serbs celebrate the holiday. Today, the legacy of the Civil War can still be felt every January 2, and a statue was erected in Skopje to memorize the people who's lives were lost in the, as of yet, deadliest conflict in the history of the Kingdom.

International Relations
Macedonia currently has open diplomatic relations and political alliances with all trading partners of their close ally and trading partner, Turkey, including Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Sicily, and Jordan. They also have an open diplomatic and economic relationship with the Alpine Confederation, and through their partnership with them, they are currently and applicant for the League of Nations.