New Montgomery (1983: Doomsday)

New Montgomery is a city of approximately 14,000 people located along the Tombigbee River in former southeast Alabama, outside the former Bladon Springs State Park and Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge.

The city was established in 1986 by Caucasians - mainly white supremacists - looking to reestablish the Confederate States of America. New Montgomery was named after Montgomery, the former capital of Alabama and the 19th-century Confederacy that had been destroyed by a single Soviet warhead on Doomsday. It is, for the most part, a tent city, with buildings built with materials believed to have been harvested from the state park and salvaged from nearby towns.

It considers itself to be the successor to the Confederate States and claims the entire southern United States as its territory; in reality, it controls only its city, and the adjacent state park and wildlife refuge.

New Montgomery, which refers to itself both as the Confederate States of America and the New Confederacy, is believed to have played a role in the collapse of the provisional Alabama state government based in Auburn. It fought a brutal war against the African-American community of Selma in 1989, a three-month-old conflict which is believed to have resulted in approximately 10,000 casualties on both sides. Since then a state of war has existed between the two city-states, without any conflict between the two sides (resulting in an ongoing cold war). New Montgomery has also had skirmishes over the years with Hattiesburg and Natchez, Mississippi, before and after an attempted attack on Hattiesburg in 1992 that turned into a total failure.

Over the years, citizens who advocated for better relations with Selma and Hattiesburg were tried and exiled; most have found refuge in Hattiesburg. Some were executed, some simply disappeared.

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