California Republic (Red Victory)

California Republic
The California Republic was one of the first formed nations in North America. Made up of the former states of California, Nevada, and the Baja California's. Due to its major exports of wine, agriculture, and entertainment (film, television etc.) It may just have the power to overtake the Soviet Union as the world's premier superpower. It is quickly becoming a new global power being the world's third largest power next to the Soviet Union and Britain. From its capital of San Francisco, it is currently led by Executor John Garamendi and Viceroy Antonio Villaraigosa.

Independence
The Republic of California first declared independence after an invasion from the drug gangs that reunified Mexico was not stopped by the 'Interim Government'. After many wars, the Republic was freed and actually spelled the end for the government. Most noted was the Battle of Monterey Bay, Los Angeles , and San Diego. Finally, the Interim was thrown out, leading to its collapse.

Energy
The California Republic is powered by a mixture of coal, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, and hydro power stations across the republic. The Colorado River, Mojave Deserts, and the Sierra Nevada provides perfect locations for windmills, solar farms, and dams. The Interstate Electric Company expects that the last non-renewable energy plant will be dismantled by 2090.

Two construction has begun on the Heilos One solar plant on the Ivanpah dry lake bed just south of Primm, Nevada; this project is to gain support from the population that using non-renewable energy is bad for the enviorment and soon bad for the economy. The other construction is the dismantling of an non-renewable plant outside of Las Vegas and replacing it with the proposed Valley of Fire Solar Plant, which would have no effect on the Valley of Fire National Park. These construction projects bring thousands of jobs to the population, dropping the unemployment rate from 22% to 17%.

Culture
The California Republic is a multicultural nation, with many cultures from Asia, Europe, Africa, and Mexico; these culturals soon mixed with each other, forming some very unique traditions. Cultural influences from Mexico have introduced three holidays to the large portion of California population's, the importance of these holidays, along with the pressure from Viceroy Villaraigosa, has led to the creation of two offical holdiays: The ones in bold mean that all corperations are required to shut down for the day and allow their workers to go spend time with their family. Only medical, fire, military, and police personnel are required to be able to report for duty with in an hour. Along with these holidays, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, George Washington Birthday, Easter, Labor Day, Forth of July, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, December 7th, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
 * September 16th has been dedicated to the beginning of the War of Independence from Spain.
 * November 1st and November 2nd has been dedicated to the Day of the Dead, which has influenced people outside of the annex state of Baja California and soon it would be celebrated in almost every home across the Republic.

Economy
The economy of California is mainly dependent on the exporting of wine, agriculture, entertainemnt (film, television, and video games.) Tourism also plays a major part in the economy as California houses an number of national parks, amusment parks, museums, and landmarks; gambling from Las Vegas is also important for the economy. Silicon Valley, in Central California, houses an number of high-tech companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and Google.

Dominating exports:


 * Agriculture: 30%
 * Wine: 25%
 * Media: 15%
 * High-tech industry: 12%
 * Defense industry: 11%
 * Other: 7%