Western Sahara (1983: Doomsday)

Western Sahara, officially known as País del Oro (the golden land), is a a successor country to Spain. Its territory consists of the Spanish Canary Islands, the former colony of Western Sahara, the Balearic Islands, and the city of Melilla on the north African cost.

Doomsday
Due to Spain's ties with both the United Kingdom, and United States, along with its NATO membership, Spain was one of the countries hit by nuclear weapons on Doomsday. Targets included:


 * Madrid
 * Torrejon
 * Barcelona
 * Valencia
 * Moron
 * Bilbao
 * Malaga
 * Saragossa
 * Rota
 * Gibraltar (at the time British controlled, but the strike still effected Spanish lands)

Among the deaths included the Commander-in-chief of Spanish Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Españolas), the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, and virtually all government and defense staff. The casualty figures will never be known, but estimates are about two thirds of the nearly 38 million people who had the nation on the eve of doomsday. When in mid-1984 the military juntas of emergency who survived in the peninsula, agreed to evacuate the islands only looked at the military troops, civilians was not taken into account. They had to attend to themselves.

Creation of País del Oro
País del Oro was created after the the provincial government of the Spanish Canary Islands (in the days of doomsday was president of the autonomous canary government Jeronimo Acebedo Saavedra who declared a state of emergency in the islands and gave the command to the captain-general of the islands Miguel Fontenla Fernandez), the constitution and the Statute of Autonomy was suspended, soon established contact with most of the survivor rulers of the peninsula together despite the difficulties brought (disorders, radioactive contamination of the area of the Straits of Gibraltar, opposed by some civilian juntas) create the Junta Suprema de Coordinación, with the General Captaincy of Baleares, the General Commandancy of Melilla and other survivors of the Spanish army forces.... together with the POLISARIO rebels in the Western Sahara mainland unified to form a single country after the Spanish government was destroyed in the nuclear war on doomsday. The union was confirmed in 1985.

Due to indirect information via Andorra, little is known at this time about the situation in metropolitan Spain.