Kingdom of Cleveland (1983: Doomsday)

The Kingdom of Cleveland is located on the east coast of England

Doomsday
At approximatly 2am on the 26th Sept 1983 nuclear weapons begin detonating over the United Kingdom.

At approximatly 2.20am the two 10 kiloton bombs aimed for the Tees valley area detonated, however they missed their designated target due to electromagnetic interferance from the detonations in the Tyne and Wear valleys.


 * One exploded 7 miles north of Hartlepool, 40 metres under the North Sea due to a malfunction of the detonator. This caused a five metre radioactive tsunami to strike the coast killing many thousands in the towns of Hartlepool, Redcar, Marske, Warrenby, Southbank and Dormanstown.


 * One exploded 12 miles south of Middlesbrough over the practically uninhabited North Yorkshire Moors.

The weather at the time of the bombing was a temperature about freezing point, a north easterly wind blowing at 15 miles per hour, with thick sea fog upto ten miles inland. Due to the detonations the fog cleared almost instantly and high level clouds formed, these produced heavy rain over the next three days.

Although the bombs themselves missed, radioactive fallout from the bomb that exploded in the North sea blew inland on the prevailing North-east winds and then fell in rain that fell in the following three days.

Other Bombs in the North of England fell:
 * one 100 kiloton bomb on Newcastle.
 * one 100 Kiloton bomb on Sunderland.
 * one 100 Kiloton bomb on Durham.
 * one 100 Kiloton bomb on York.

other tactical nuclear weapons fell on military bases in and around the area:


 * RAF Linton on Ouse - North Yorkshire.
 * RAF listening base and radar station Fylingdales - North Yorkshire.
 * RAF Bulmer - Northumberland.
 * RAF Menwith Hill - joint UK/US base - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Carlile - Cumbria
 * RAF Spadeadam - Cumbria
 * RAF Holmpton - East Yorkshire
 * RAF Leconfield - East Yorkshire
 * RAF Church Fenton - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Dishforth (Airforce)/AAC Dishforth (Army)- North Yorkshire
 * RAF Leeming - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Radar station Staxton Wold - North Yorkshire
 * RAF Topcliffe - North Yorkshire

Over the next month radioactive fallout kills over nearly two thirds of the total population of the Tees valley area. Many of those who survive take shelter in underground anhydrite, coal and potash mines located around the area. Among the notable survivors is Princess Anne (only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II) who was opening a disabled riding school outside Middlesbrough at the time of the attack, traveling with her at the time of the attack was her two year old daughter Zara.

Survivors stayed underground as long as possible with scavenging parties collection food and water from the surface and returning it to the mines for the rest of the survivors.

Due to the failure of the electricity grids the mines begin to flood by January 1984 and the had to be abandoned.

History of Cleveland - Post Doomsday
Upon the abandonment of the mines in early 1984 the Cleveland police force encorporated all surviving territorial army personnel into the new armed police units. These militant units initiate marshall law in Cleveland in mid 1984. Marshall law lasted until 1991 when a parliment of local representatives was established, based in the town hall of Middlesbrough, elections were scheduled for 1995.

1984 - In May the temporary government announces several decrees:
 * All non or low radiated parklands, gardens, and open spaces are to be turned over to agriculture. It has been asertained by the local allotment associations the a patch of land 10 feet by 10 feet can feed a family of five when planted properly.


 * The irradiated area around the coast of the former town of Hartlepool will be left to return to the wild, any remaining survivors will be evacuated to the small towns south of Middlesbrough.


 * Every person in Cleveland, who are healthy and between the ages of 18 and 40 shall serve a minimum of 6 months in the armed services.





1995 Elections - The first elections take part in the Tees Valley, there are 20 MP's. The new government is Royalist with the Prime Minster being named as former Cleveland Police Officer Ray Mallon. Princess Anne become a the constitutional monarch Queen Anne II. Under proposals by the new government the name of the area reverted to its ancient name of Cleveland and become a constitutional parlimentary Kingdom, Middlesbrough is named as the captial. Its new motto is incorporated as 'nos vadum orior oriri ortus iterum', Latin for 'We shall rise again'.

1995 census - the total population of the Kingdom of Cleveland stands as 104,271. With over 735,000 deaths from the coastal tsunami, radioactivity, starvation, social unrest, disease and general accidents.

In 1996 the unradiated parts of the former counties of North Yorkshire and Durham become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland.

In 1999 many of the coal mines in Durham are reopened by royal decree, these start producing coal in early 2000 and by 2002 are producing 50,000 tonnes of coal per year.

2000 elections - Prime Minster Mallon's Royalist party wins second election with 8 seats, however with a reduced majority, the Labour party becomes the opposition party with Tony Blair as it's leader with 5 seats, the Conservative party come third with 2 seats.

NRCO towns

5th May 2004 - NRCO towns of Dunforth, Ouseburn, Flaxby, Knaresborough, Wetherby and Tadcaster vote to become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland adding 19,458 to the population of the Kingdom.

12th May 2004 - all NRCO towns in the former county of North Yorkshire join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding 5,623 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland.

22nd May 2004 - the final NRCO towns of Appleby, Kirby Stephen and Hawes voted to join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding another 2,789 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland

1st June 2004 - 15 new MP's join the Cleveland parliment from the former NRCO territories.

2005 census - with the addition of the former NRCO towns in 2004, the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland is 198,274. Deaths due to cancer and birth malformations caused by the radioactivity are beginning to reduce dramitically over the past 5 years.

Health secratary James Shanley declares that the overall health of the people of Cleveland is actually higher now than it was at the beginning of 1983 due to the changes in general diet and alcohol intake levels and mainly due to the fact that the amount of smokers in the country is now practically zero.

2005 elections - Prime Minster Mallon's Royalist party wins third election with a large majority of 22 seats, the Labour party is second with 6 seats and the Conservative Party on 4 seats, there are 3 independants.

2010

17th January a referendum is held to decide the name for the country once the Kingdoms of Cleveland and Northumbria unite.

there are several possiblities they are as follows with votes cast:


 * Kingdom of Albion - 72,047


 * New United Kingdoms - 14,873


 * New Brittania - 3,497


 * Greater Cleveland - 3,267


 * Greater Northumbria - 2,564

2010 elections - The election date of June 2nd has been announced, this will be after the vote on the 21st May for possible inclusion in the Celtic Alliance.
 * all others - 1,203.

Law changes
Capital punishment

New laws were brought into effect after the elections in 1995, the death penalty was reintroduced in Cleveland for murder, paedophillia, rape, treason and armed theft. The method of death was introduced as long drop hanging.

Life term prison sentences were increased from the average pre-DD UK term of 15-20 years to life being 99 years.

Hard labour for prison inmates in introduced in 2000, hard labour consist of road building, laying of railway lines, land clearing, mining, and demolition works.

In 2005 the death penalty was recinded for rape and armed theft, the sentence will now be life in prison with hard labour.

In 2007 the death penalty for paedophilia is recinded with the sentance now chemical castration followed by life with hard labour.

Corporal punishment

In 2004 new laws were introduced, for minor law breaking such as mugging, burglary, general theft, assault, drunk and disorderly and general public disorder the punishment was between 12 and 48 hours in stocks (in 6 hour stints)

The stocks set up on the main shopping street of Linthorpe Road outside the former parliment building in Middlesbrough. The stocks are set up so that the prisioner is seated on a wooden bench (they can pay extra, about five pounds, for a cushion - money goes to local orphanage) and his or her feet are secured at the ankles. Above the stocks are a small roof (mainly to keep the rain off the prisioner) and from the roof hangs a banner showing the name and crime of the person in the stocks.

In total there are four stocks and only once have they all been filled at the same time, this was in 2002 after Middlesbrough FC had beaten Darlington FC 6-0 and all four people in the stocks had been arrested for drunk and disorderly offences.

Marriage laws

On 22nd December 1996 a governmental decree states that the age for marriage in the Kingdom of Cleveland has, firstly, been raised from 16 (with parental permission) to 18, this is mainly due to the number of children who had lost parents before the age of 16, and that secondly, that marriage by law was between two adults (with no mention of sex of the adults)

League of Nations Membership

2nd October 2009 - Queen Anne II and Prime Minster Mallon of the Kingdom of Cleveland as well as King George I of Northumbria send a message to the Tongan King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV Secretary General of the League of Nations (1983: Doomsday) asking for admitance as a joint country due to their future unification after the accession of Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland and Crown Prince George of Nortumbria.

Climate

Before DD the general climate of Cleveland was relativly mild with an average summer temperature of 19 Celsius with heatwaves of 30 Celsius, and average winter temperature of 5 Celsius with some cold snaps of minus 5 Celsius. Snow fall was rare with only 2 to 4 inches on average per year.

After DD it took several years for the new global climate to settle in. In the last 10 years the average summer temperature has risen slightly to 25 Celsius with heatwaves above 40 Celsius. During winter however the temperature now drops to an average of minus 10 Celsius and cold snaps below minus 25 Celsius. Snowfall now averages 2 to 3 feet per year.

Current Situation
Current situation - Kingdom of Cleveland

Trade
The main exports of the Kingdom of Cleveland are as follows:


 * Potash - used for fertilizer for crops.


 * Wool.


 * Coal.


 * Iron and steel.


 * Electric wind generators.

Trade route have been set up across land


 * North - by rail, to Northumbria and by 2011 the Celtic Alliance (Glasgow).
 * West - by road as far as the lowlands of the Pennines, and by 2012 by rail to Cumbria and the west coast.
 * South - rail to the former NRCO towns and by sea along the east coast to Woodbridge, Essex and East Britain.
 * East - by sea, trade negotiations are underway with Nordic Union

Royalty
The coronation of Queen Anne II takes place at Gisborough Abbey on the 15th August 1997, the crown is made of gold donated by the people of Cleveland.

In 2002 Queen Anne II married local man James Monroe in the ruins of Gisborough Abbey. The heir to the Crown, Princess Zara was one of the bridesmaids.

In 2004 Queen Anne II and Prince Consort James adopt three children, Prince Martin aged 8, Prince Jordan aged 5 and Princess Michala aged 3. All three adopted children are in line to the throne, and if Crown Princess Zara dies before producing heirs then the Throne of Cleveland will pass to Prince Martin.

unification of the crowns
On the 22nd April 2007 it is announced that Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland is dating the Crown Prince of Northumbria, George Dominic Percy.

On the 5th August 2008 it is announced that Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland is engaged the Crown Prince of Northumbria, George Dominic Percy.

The wedding date was set for 4th November 2009. Princess Michala was a flower girl, Prince Jordan was a page boy, Prince Max Percy (Crown Prince George's younger brother) was best man.

The wedding took place at Richmond Castle.

This wedding and any children issuing from the marriage will unite the Kingdoms of Northumbria and Cleveland. it has been announced that the primogenator rule (male children having right of rule over older female siblings) has been abolished and the eldest child (no matter what sex) will rule both the kingdom of Northumbria and Cleveland.

Upon the accession of the then Queen Zara and King George to their respective thrones the kingdoms will unite under the name United Kingdoms of Northumbria and Cleveland or the UKNC.

Upon the accession of the first child of Zara and George to both thrones, the kingdoms will become the Kingdom of Albion.

The name of Albion was chosen as it is the name that was originally given to the former British Isles. Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History says "It was itself named Albion, while all the islands about which we shall soon briefly speak were called the Britanniae."

On New Years Day 2010 it was announced from the Royal Palace at Wynyard that the Crown Princess Zara and her husband Crown Prince George are expecting their first child, it is expected to be born mid August.

Queen Anne II accident
17th April 2010 at roughly 1pm, Queen Anne II suffers a fall from her horse whilst riding in the Eston Hills.

Originally transfered to South Tees General Hospital in Middlesbrough it is asertaind that she has suffered a major head injury and has bleeding on the brain, this is beyond the medical capibilities of the Cleveland Hospital service.

A radio call is placed to the Celtic Alliance asking for assistance. They decide to send an air ambulance helicopter to recover the Queen and take her to St James's hospital in Dublin which is a more advanced hospital.

The helicopter arrives at 8pm and takes off at 8.15pm heading west.

At 9.45pm the helicopter sends out a mayday call saying it is having engine difficulties and is having to make an emergency landing. After that mayday call all contact with the air ambulance helicopter is lost.

In the early morning of the 18th April radio contact from Keswick describes a burning fellside to the east of the town, moutain rescue teams head to the area and arrive just after dawn on the 18th they find the air ambulance crash site, amazingly there are survivors, the co-pilot, main paramedic and Queen Anne II have survived the crash however the queen is in serious condition.

All survivors are evacuated to Keswick. Once in Keswick the Queens health begins to deteriate quickly, local historian John McDowell gives a possible idea to the local doctor, Trepanation. Seeing that this is the only option a temporary operating theatre is set up in the Moot Hall in the centre of the town. The operation begins at 12.30pm on the 18th April, it takes 2 hours to do the operation which is decided it has been a limited success and by 6pm the Queen is showing signs of regaining conciousness.

By the morning of the 19th April Queen Anne II has regained conciousness however it is obvious that some damage has occured to the Queens brain as she is paralised down her left side and is having major problems with her short term memory retention.

It is decided to evacuate the Queen to St James's hospital in Dublin she was originally heading for, Queen Anne II is loaded onto another air ambulance helicopter on the 20th of April. It lands in Dublin at 3pm.

Scans of the Queen brain on the morning of the 21st show that the bleed has stopped, and the trepanation saved her life, however the delay in treatment has caused some permenant brain damage.

Prime Minster Ray Mallon arrives at her bedside on the night of the 21st along with Crown Princess Zara and Queen Annes Husband Prince James.

After discussions between the Queen, Prime Minster and Crown Princess it is decided to transfer the Queens responsiblities to the Crown Princess until a point where they can be transfered back or kept permenantly by the Crown Princess. This is announced in the Kingdom of Cleveland at 5pm on the 22nd April. From the 23rd April Crown Princess Zara becomes the Crown Regent Zara.

An investigation by a joint Celtic Alliance/Cleveland task force discovers that a volcano in southern Iceland has erupted and the crash was caused by the engine of the helicopter becoming clogged with glass formed from ash taken in and melted on the engine parts.

Expeditions
2003

In early 2003 Prime Minster Mallon ordered that reconnisance missions to go into the badlands to look for any survivors and resources that the kingdom could use.

WEST

One team followed the former transpennine highway (A66) across to North Cumbria, they discovered that nearly all the towns and villages had been destroyed, the team encountered a survivor colony in the walled castle town of Carlisle, they find that the locals are being harrassed by a former military unit know by the locals as Reavers.

The team moves south into the interior of the Lakes area of Cumbria, many small market towns and villages are still working, trading with each other using sheep, wool and slate as trading tools. radios are left with five main towns (Keswick, Workington, Whitehaven, Penrith, and Ambleside) for the local parish councils to use to contact each other and Cleveland.

as the team travels south from Ambleside they record increasing levels of radiation, probably coming from the bombed Barrow in Furness military site or possibly from Barrow nuclear power station that has gone critical. The same is found south of Workington, probably from the Sellafield Nuclear power station that has gone critical.

SOUTH

Another team followed the great north road (A1) south and find many small villages still inhabitited (all be it at 18th centuary levels of technology). Many have joined together to former a co-operative of farms, shops and villages known locally as the North Riding Co-Operative or NRCO. Much of the farmland in the vale of York and Pickering are extreamly fertile and that radioactivity are at (relitivly) very low levels.

The team discusses with the Prime Minster over long wave radio and offers the NRCO entry to the Kingdom of Cleveland. However due to the fact that the NRCO has no governmental stucture each village voted seperatly on whether or not to become part of Cleveland. Voting took place in May 2004.

5th May 2004 - NRCO towns of Dunforth, Ouseburn, Flaxby, Knaresborough, Wetherby and Tadcaster vote to become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland adding 19,458 to the population of the Kingdom.

12th May 2004 - all NRCO towns in the former county of North Yorkshire join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding 5,623 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland.

22nd May 2004 - the final NRCO towns of Appleby, Kirby Stephen and Hawes voted to join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding another 2,789 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland

1st June 2004 - 15 new MP's join the Cleveland parliment from the former NRCO territories.

Journeys further south were halted by high levels of radioactive fall out coming from the bombed cities of Bradford, Leeds, Hull and Sheffield.

2004

NORTH

Kingdom of Northumbria (1983: Doomsday)

Due to the success of the expeditions south and west new teams are sent north in August 2004, they use ships to bypass the heavily irradiated Tyne and Wear valley's landing at Alnwick harbour on the 16th of August.

They discover a thriving fishing and farming community based around the fortified island of Lindisfarne.

As they travel up and down the coast they find many small villages that are also thriving on the resurgence of fish stocks in the North Sea. During this time it is found that Ralph George Percy, the 12th Duke of Northumberland has began calling himself the 'George I, King of Northumbria' again and have based his parliment in Bamburgh castle and the Percy family live at Alnwick castle.

Even pre DD the area of Northumberland was one of the lowest population levels in England. It is estimated that the population of the Kingdom of Northumbria in 2004 is roughly 29,000.

In the 21 years since DD the language of Northumbria has evolved, even in 1983 the people of Northumberland spoke a version of English crossed with Scottish/Gaelic called Northumbrian or in some southern regions a version called Pitmatic. This has evolved dramitically with no outside influence from anyone but sporadic contact the Celtic Alliance (which speak Scots Gaelic and Irish) via the short wave radio.

Language
Since DD Cleveland has been seperated from the rest of the world, as such the Teesside dialect has evolved into a seperate version of English known locally as Cleveish.

many influences from local ethnic minorities such as Hindu, Urdu, Chinese, Bangladshi, and Arabic.

an example of this new language is below(with translation):

Cleveish "Whodder y'men like y'canna't understan yan? There aint nowt wrong with 'ow thee talk. Youse lot just 'aven't been 'ere long enough, another few months and y'll be yakking like the rest of yan!"

Translation - "what do you mean you cannot understand me? there is nothing wrong with how we talk. you lot haven't been here long enough, another few months and you will all talking like the rest of us!"

Electricity supply
There are several coal electric power stations working throughout the Kingdom

In early 2002 it is discovered that Hartlepool Nuclear power station has started to become dangerous and it decided that it should be shut down and replaced by 2006. Prime minster Mallon makes an executive order that the power station shall be replaced with a small coal powered station in Durham near the new coal mines and a waste to energy plant (by burning rubbish) on the outskirts of Middlesbrough as well as numerous wind turbines on the local Pennine, Eston and Cleveland hills as well as hydroelectic plants on rivers across the kingdom.

On 23rd July 2006 Prime minster Mallon announces that renewable power generators (wind and hydro-electric) will be built across the former NRCO territories, these will begin generating power by early October 2009 and the NRCO will be 90% powered by mid 2010.

Gas
In 2000 a new coal gas plant is set up in the former county Durham using coal from existing and reopened coal mines in the area.

This gas is piped along the former natural gas pipelines into many homes and businesses in Cleveland.

Sport
Kingdom of Cleveland:Sports (1983:doomsday) In 2000 Prime minster Mallon announces the formation of a football league in Cleveland, to be know as the CFA (Cleveland Football Association). There will be two divisions with five teams in each.

points will be appointed as follows:
 * 3 points for a win.
 * 1 point for each team for a draw.
 * 0 points for a loss.

The champion of the 2nd divsion wil be promoted to the 1st division, the lowest points scoring team from the 1st division will be relagated to the 2nd division.

in 2001 the teams are as follows:

First Division
 * Middlesbrough FC
 * Darlington FC
 * Hartlepool FC
 * Ironopolis FC
 * Norton and Stockton Ancients FC

Second Division
 * Dormanstown FC
 * Crook FC
 * Guisborough Town FC
 * Billingham FC
 * Saltburn FC

RESULTS

2001/02 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions of the league, Ironopolis FC were relagated, and were replaced with promoted Crook FC.

2002/03 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Crook FC were relagated and Guisborough Town FC were promoted.

2003/04 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were relagated and Crook FC were promoted.

2004/05 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Guisborough FC were relagated and Saltburn FC were promoted.

2005/06 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Saltburn FC were relagated and Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were promoted.

2006/07 season - Hartlepool FC were crowned champions, Crook FC were relagated and Ironopolis FC were promoted.

2007/08 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Ironopolis FC were relagated and Guisborough FC were promoted

2008/09 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were relagated and Ironopolis FC were promoted

In 2005 PM Mallon announces that a new CFA cup will be played between the champion of the 1st and the champion of the 2nd division.

2006 CFA cup winner - Ironopolis FC

2007 CFA cup winner - Middlesbrough FC

2008 CFA cup winner - Middlesbrough FC

2009 CFA cup winner - Middlesbrough FC

With the inclusion of the NRCO territories in 2005, the CFA has announced that from 2010 there will be a third division formed. This will have five teams from the former NRCO territories.

Champion of the 3rd division will be promoted to the 2nd division, lowest points scorer from the 2nd division wil be relagated to the 3rd division.

Teams will be as follows:

Third Division
 * Tadcaster FC
 * Kirby Stephen FC
 * Appleby FC
 * Hawes FC
 * Weatherby FC

2010 FIFA world cup
2009 the CFA announces that there will be a national team formed for the FIFA World cup to be played in the Celtic Alliance in 2010. Players can be selected from any team in all three leagues.

Team Cleveland manager has been named as Sir Brian Clough current manager of Middlesbrough FC

The draw took place in Dublin on December 4th.

The Kingdom of Cleveland are drawn in group C along with:


 * The Alpine Confederation (the defending world champions)
 * USSR (aka Siberia),
 * Chile.

FIFA World Cup

Discovery by the Celtic Alliance
In 1997 during a fishing trip from off the east coast of Yorkshire a small Scottish trawler comes across a cobble (small open fishing boat) longline fishing.

The two crews make contact and after visiting the mainland they return to Scotland, setting up trade routes between the Kingdom of Cleveland and the Celtic Alliance.

The Tees valley had been powered by Hartlepool Nuclear power station (which had only been operational since early 1983) however this plant was closed down in 2007 and replaced by a small waste to energy plant and a coal powered plant.

There is a large iron and steel works (which has been mothballed since DD attacks in 1983) and there are several shipyards producing mid sized wooden vessels used for trading up and down the east coast and smaller fishing vessels, the small towns in unaffected areas of Yorkshire have begun farming both arable and livestock as well as fishing from the small ports such as Whitby and Ravenscar.

The Queen Anne International airport (former Teesside international) has been adapted for use as a medical staging points however PM Mallon refuses to allow an end cycle center as he believes that every life is important.

1995 census - the total population of the Kingdom of Cleveland stands as 104,271. With over 735,000 deaths from the coastal tsunami, radioactivity, starvation, social unrest, disease and general accidents.

2005 census - with the addition of the former NRCO towns in 2004, the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland is estimated to be 198,000.

The Kingdom of Cleveland is due to vote on a referendum on becoming part of the Celtic Alliance in mid 2010. However popular opinion is that the Kingdom of Cleveland will remain independent.

The date for the referendum on joining the Celtic Alliance has been announced. On May 21st 2010 the vote will take place, the results will be announced on the 28th May 2010.

International relations
The Kingdom of Cleveland is a member of the.