Wisconsin (1983: Doomsday)

The Republic of Wisconsin is an American survivor nation in the former US state of Wisconsin, established after the Republic of Superior intervened in the city of Madison in 1997.

Pre-Doomsday
Wisconsin was a manufacturing based economy, along with agriculture. The commercial industry was big buisness in the cities of Milwakee and Madison. It was also considered to be the home of America's best cheese. Tourism had also been a fledgling industry, but all of this came to a screeching halt on Doomsday.

Doomsday
Compared to other states, Wisconsin was not hit as hard, receiving a legitimate chance at recovery. However, the south-west recieved heavy bombardment, as well as the northern city of Superior. The city would soon suffer from heavy waves of radiation coming from the Eastern Seaboard, killing around 40 to 80 thousand people. Originally, the city managed to to hold onto the immediate areas of Iowa, Green, Sauk, and Greenlake-Colombia, Jefferson, and Rock counties, but when about 350,000 people began to become dependent on an agricultural area that produced enough food for 20,000 people, starvation and chaos ensued. One by one the communications grid began to fall into dissaray, entire areas would become barren of life, and those areas that did survive fell into barbaric dictatorships until eventually the "State of Wisconsin" controlled only the Dane and Iowa counties. In these areas, martial law was declared, food rations were placed in effect, and able-bodied citizens were often forced into the vigorous task of producing food in a heavily damaged area.