Znojmo Frontier Territory (1983: Doomsday)

The Znojmo Frontier Territory is a small military district operated by the Alpine Militia in the former South Moravian Region of former Czechoslovakia. This region has been claimed by the Moravian state based in Olomouc and kept relations frosty with the AC, though the relations began to warm up in recent years. It currently controls part of the former Austro-Czechoslovak border.

Doomsday
The events of Doomsday largely spared the region, because radiation from Vienna blowing in the direction of Bratislava's ruins, radiated only the eastern extreme of the Frontier around Břeclav. However, much of the region fell into chaos and many deaths occurred due to food shortages, widespread panic or due to the mass of refugees from Brno, Trencin and Bratislava that either died because of radiation, disease, murder, suicide or killed themselves the natives in despair. Many were also killed trying to contact other communities by bandits and rogue Soviet troops.

1983-1984: Hunger and Famine
While smaller cities like Mikulov and Valtice had already put down the Communist government, in Znojmo and Břeclav, however, the communist officials were imposing strict rules, which imposed confiscation of all food that was in the households, due to the Warsaw Pact-Austria, which was already little, due to communist laws and principles. The corrupt government officials mostly fed themselves and their families and the population and the common folk were left to starve. Many people were angry and most elderly and a lot of children died of famine and other hunger-related conditions.

At the beginning of the year 1984, Austrian troops began to march in Czechoslovakia, taking first Hrušovany and Jevišovkou, one of the strongholds of the remainders of the Czechoslovak army, forcefully. This frightened the government and military, which was already highly on guard due to the recent fights with Austria. Through an official war declaration, they put more of a strain in the feeding of the population. Many people died in a new wave of famine and disease. One person who was opposed to this new laws was Karel Sobotka, a taught man that was under supervision of the government and house arrest for denouncing the 1968 attack of the Warsaw Pact on Czechoslovakia. He with other persons, which called themselves the Moravian Liberation Circle (Czech: Moravská Osvobození Kroužek), planned a coup against the corrupt government. Meanwhile, the towns of Mikulov and Valtice were forced to join Austria.

On 26th February 1984, massive riots began occurring on the streets of Znojmo, because the people wantex food and medicine. While the city was in a crisis, Austrian troops, which were already 1 km from the city, saw this an opportunity to take the city for themselves. As Austrian troops marched in Znojmo, the members of the MLC/MOK joined the fight of the Austrian troops against the police and militia of the Znojmo Governor. After two days, the city was finally taken and the Znojmo Governor as well as seven other high ranking officials were arrested and were taken to an Austrian prison. Their fate is unknown. The region was occupied by the Austrian army. Two days later, Břeclav fell in Austrian hands.

1984-1997: A Bright Future
Already at the beginning of March 1984, the Austro-Swiss military began to employ Znojmo residents and refugees for the building of several military bases for the protection of the region. The bases was finished in 1987 with the military headquarters based in Znojmo Castle.

With the taking of the region, the question, where to house all the refugees, came to the Austro-Swiss government in Bern. While some lucky refugees took the houses of the dead and some locals taking survivors in their households, there were still many survivors living in tents in cold winter temperatures. The government decided that natives with warmed cellars and attics, or ones that have guest rooms in the towns are obliged to take families in their households, and many farms were constructed for refugees for two reasons: To give the refugees a roof and to produce more food locally.

After the Austro-Swiss Union became the Alpine Confederation, the region remained under Austrian possesion. One of the first acts of the AC was to establish or repair train routes either for transport towards the other parts of Austria or locally, with a track being build from Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou to Břeclav for local use and with tracks being built from Hrušovany nad Jevišovko and Znojmo to Linz and Graz, respectively.

In 1997 in the occupied regions around Znojmo and Sopron (today the Sopron Frontier Territory) were made own entities: The Military Frontier Territories. The MLC/MOK, now being a minor party, was granted the civilian chairman seat. Karel Sobotka became the first chairman of the Frontier.

1997-2000: The Own Way
The beginning was not a good one for the Znojmo Military Frontier: A flood destroyed parts of Znojmo and Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou in July 1997. For this reason, the capital of the Military Frontier was temporarily moved to Mikulov until October of the same year.

Soon, people began to rebuild the wine farms for production. In no time, the so called Znaimer Wein (English: Znojmo Wine, Czech: Znojemská vinařská) became one of the most popular ones in the AC.

In 1998, a party from the city of Olomouc arrived at the border, declaring themselves the 'Harbingers of Moravia'. They demanded access to whoever ruled Southern Moravia. The party was escorted to the government in Vaduz. Given that the nation was a Communist one, relations between Moravia and the AC were frosty and general opinion of the inhabitants of the Frontier was negative.

Seeing that aggression was more likely coming from Moravia than from the Soviet and Yugoslav rogues in the Pannonian plains, the Alpine Confederation moved many troops to Znojmo Territory and Northern Lower Austria from Sopron Territory, Eastern Lower Austria and Burgenland.

In the year 2000, electricity came back in work for the first time in 27 years, first only in Znojmo and surroundings, then to Břeclav and then finally to most of the region in December 2000, when Christmas and New Year were first celebrated with electricity since 1982.

2001-present: The New Century
The new year was for the first time in many years greeted with firework, like everywhere in the AC. This happened because the AC government in Vaduz wanted to greet the new century, which was also dawning, with respect.

Since the warmup in relations with Moravia, many traders began to establish themselves in Znojmo, transforming Znojmo in an economic center.

A new flood destroyed parts of Znojmo and Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou again in 2002. This time, the capital was moved to Valtice. Seeing that the floods kept destroying the cities, dams where built to keep the water out of the cities.

Television was introduced again in 2003, followed by BMW motorcycles imported from Prussia powered by wood gas with their respective gas stations for the rich ones in 2005, though the latter have not seen much success even with the rich, with them preferring to walk on foot or, if needed, to travel by train.

In 2006, a third flood visited the Znojmo Frontier, however this time, most damage was in the orchards and farms surrounding Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou. A new dam was built for the protection of the surrounding countryside.

Recently, factories began to be reopened in the region, mostly around Břeclav and Znojmo.

Given the fact that life has been so peaceful in the region since 2007, Znojmo Governor Karel Sobotka organised an event called 'Peace in Znojmo' (German: 'Znaimer Frieden', Czech: 'Mír ve Znojmě'), in order to celebrate 5 years of peace in the region. The event took place during the summer 2012 and attracted tourists from the rest of the AC, Prussia, Slovenia and Croatia, and to a lesser extent from Nitra, Bavaria, Bohemia and Venice. In the spring of 2012 inns and museums were built and even a evacuation of the beggars in the Znojmo Catacombs was organised. Because of this, tourism began to flourish in the summers following.

Geography
The Znojmo Frontier Territory controls the southern extreme of the former Southern Moravian Region of Czechoslovakia around the former border with Austria. The region is mostly hilly, making it perfect for orchards.

Economy
Most of the economy of the Znojmo Frontier comes through agricultural means, either by the AC-renowned orchards or by simply the farms. Trade is also an important part of the economy, as all trade from Moravia needs to flows through the region, as the AC government refused to build train tracks towards Moravia, meaning that traders need to come to Znojmo first before being able to leave towards the AC proper. The military employees a relatively big number of the population. Tourism is also steadily on the rise, but it still is only a small part of the economy, as the industry also is.