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+ | The '''Provisional Republic of East Tennessee''' is a nation of approximately 80,000 people located in the eastern portion of the former U.S. state of Tennessee. |
| − | Its capital, and largest city, is Morristown, northeast of Knoxville and north of the former Great Smoky Mountains National Park. East Tennessee's government and constitution is modeled primarily on the former United States and secondarily on the state of Tennessee. Its head of state is a governor, with a bicameral congress consisting of a House and Senate. |
+ | Its capital, and largest city, is '''Morristown''', northeast of Knoxville and north of the former Great Smoky Mountains National Park. East Tennessee's government and constitution is modeled primarily on the former United States and secondarily on the state of Tennessee. Its head of state is a governor, with a bicameral congress consisting of a House and Senate. Though Knoxville is abandoned, the Morristown government still considers the city part of East Tennessee. |
Its borders extend west past Knoxville and northeast into Johnson City and Kingsport, and south to Cleveland; its eastern border with the Provisional Blue Ridge Republic mirrors that of former Tennessee's border with former North Carolina. |
Its borders extend west past Knoxville and northeast into Johnson City and Kingsport, and south to Cleveland; its eastern border with the Provisional Blue Ridge Republic mirrors that of former Tennessee's border with former North Carolina. |
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| ⚫ | East Tennessee has been allies with Blue Ridge since 1985. The two nations have cooperated together numerous times, including in conflicts with rebel militia based out of Johnson City and white supremacist guerrillas who briefly formed a breakaway nation-state in the Smoky Mountains in 1994. It was discovered by League of Nations scouts in the late 2000s; since then, the LoN has established relations with Morristown. Though no official announcement has ever been made, Morristown has increasingly referred to itself in official documents as "East Tennessee" or the "Republic of East Tennessee" (the LoN designates the nation as the Provisional Republic of East Tennessee). |
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Sorrell was spotted traveling by foot down old Dixie Highway into Morristown. He flagged down civliians, telling his story to them. They found Morristown police officers who, after interviewing him for two hours, ran his story by veteran officers; it checked out. Subsequent contact with Sorrell's surviving relatives confirmed that he was who he claimed to be - his story was given greater legitimacy, as one officer put it, "because you'd have to be a damned good actor to pull off a fakery, and there aren't a lot of us left anymore." |
Sorrell was spotted traveling by foot down old Dixie Highway into Morristown. He flagged down civliians, telling his story to them. They found Morristown police officers who, after interviewing him for two hours, ran his story by veteran officers; it checked out. Subsequent contact with Sorrell's surviving relatives confirmed that he was who he claimed to be - his story was given greater legitimacy, as one officer put it, "because you'd have to be a damned good actor to pull off a fakery, and there aren't a lot of us left anymore." |
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| − | Sorrell said he had been lost after running into survivalists in former VIrginia north of the Tennessee border; Sorrell decided to finish his "mission" no matter how long it took. He said he had survived over the years due to skills he learned during his tour in the U.S. Army; his subsequent post-Vietnam career as a farm hand, then as a policeman; and from his hunting and fishing hobbies. He also told officials his story of survival - several periods of months without seeing other humans, wandering from town to town in parts of Virginia, joining and going AWOL from a group called the Virginian Republic, and ultimately making his way to Washington, D.C. to see for himself what had happened. |
+ | Sorrell said he had been lost after running into survivalists in former VIrginia north of the Tennessee border; Sorrell decided to finish his "mission" no matter how long it took. He said he had survived over the years due to skills he learned during his tour in the U.S. Army; his subsequent post-Vietnam career as a farm hand, then as a policeman; and from his hunting and fishing hobbies. He also told officials his story of survival - several periods of months without seeing other humans, wandering from town to town in parts of Virginia, joining and going AWOL from a group called the Virginian Republic, and ultimately making his way to Washington, D.C. to see for himself what had happened. |
Sorrell confirmed what everyone had long assumed, that Washington no longer existed. He described it as "ruins and a sea of glass". Sorrell said he spoke with local survivalists who somehow had been able to stay alive outside the ruins of the D.C. area, seeing photographs taken by long-dead people who had gone into the ruins for any number of reasons to take pictures. Sorrell said he got as close as former Fairfax, outside D.C., in northern Virginia; he didn't dare get closer, even with equipment the survivalists claimed to offer protection from radiation. |
Sorrell confirmed what everyone had long assumed, that Washington no longer existed. He described it as "ruins and a sea of glass". Sorrell said he spoke with local survivalists who somehow had been able to stay alive outside the ruins of the D.C. area, seeing photographs taken by long-dead people who had gone into the ruins for any number of reasons to take pictures. Sorrell said he got as close as former Fairfax, outside D.C., in northern Virginia; he didn't dare get closer, even with equipment the survivalists claimed to offer protection from radiation. |
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The Provisional Republic of East Tennessee is a nation of approximately 80,000 people located in the eastern portion of the former U.S. state of Tennessee.
Its capital, and largest city, is Morristown, northeast of Knoxville and north of the former Great Smoky Mountains National Park. East Tennessee's government and constitution is modeled primarily on the former United States and secondarily on the state of Tennessee. Its head of state is a governor, with a bicameral congress consisting of a House and Senate. Though Knoxville is abandoned, the Morristown government still considers the city part of East Tennessee.
Its borders extend west past Knoxville and northeast into Johnson City and Kingsport, and south to Cleveland; its eastern border with the Provisional Blue Ridge Republic mirrors that of former Tennessee's border with former North Carolina.
Morristown is also home to the reconstituted University of Tennessee, which is located in a number of former office buildings downtown and has many items salvaged from the UT campus in Knoxville. Other important towns include Johnson City, Kingsport, Gatlinburg and Cleveland.
History
East Tennessee has been allies with Blue Ridge since 1985. The two nations have cooperated together numerous times, including in conflicts with rebel militia based out of Johnson City and white supremacist guerrillas who briefly formed a breakaway nation-state in the Smoky Mountains in 1994. It was discovered by League of Nations scouts in the late 2000s; since then, the LoN has established relations with Morristown. Though no official announcement has ever been made, Morristown has increasingly referred to itself in official documents as "East Tennessee" or the "Republic of East Tennessee" (the LoN designates the nation as the Provisional Republic of East Tennessee).
Doomsday
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Knoxville's independence
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First contact with other communities
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The coup of 1986
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War with Asheville
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The battle for Oak Ridge
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Flight to Morristown
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The Johnson City War
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Treaty of Morristown
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A "hard decision"
In 2001, Edward Sorrell, a Knoxville policeman on Doomsday and a Vietnam War veteran, made his way back to Knoxville. Sorrell had volunteered back in 1985 to travel into Virginia to find potential survivor communities; the last time he had been seen was by Tennessee State Policemen as he left the town of Harrogate, headed towards Cumberland Gap National Park.
Sorrell was spotted traveling by foot down old Dixie Highway into Morristown. He flagged down civliians, telling his story to them. They found Morristown police officers who, after interviewing him for two hours, ran his story by veteran officers; it checked out. Subsequent contact with Sorrell's surviving relatives confirmed that he was who he claimed to be - his story was given greater legitimacy, as one officer put it, "because you'd have to be a damned good actor to pull off a fakery, and there aren't a lot of us left anymore."
Sorrell said he had been lost after running into survivalists in former VIrginia north of the Tennessee border; Sorrell decided to finish his "mission" no matter how long it took. He said he had survived over the years due to skills he learned during his tour in the U.S. Army; his subsequent post-Vietnam career as a farm hand, then as a policeman; and from his hunting and fishing hobbies. He also told officials his story of survival - several periods of months without seeing other humans, wandering from town to town in parts of Virginia, joining and going AWOL from a group called the Virginian Republic, and ultimately making his way to Washington, D.C. to see for himself what had happened.
Sorrell confirmed what everyone had long assumed, that Washington no longer existed. He described it as "ruins and a sea of glass". Sorrell said he spoke with local survivalists who somehow had been able to stay alive outside the ruins of the D.C. area, seeing photographs taken by long-dead people who had gone into the ruins for any number of reasons to take pictures. Sorrell said he got as close as former Fairfax, outside D.C., in northern Virginia; he didn't dare get closer, even with equipment the survivalists claimed to offer protection from radiation.
After leaving the region, Sorrell decided to get back to Knoxville as best he could. He eventually ran into Virginia military, who had been looking for him since he went AWOL, in Lynchburg. After a lengthy interrogation, in which Sorrell offered up what he knew about the Knoxville provisional government and his experiences outside D.C., Sorrell said he was released into the custody of a colonel in Lynchburg, and held at an installation on the former campus of Liberty University. Sorrell said with help from locals, he was able to escape, and made his way out of Virginian territory, eventually finding his way into Tennessee, into Knoxville and eventually into Morristown.
With no reason not to believe Sorrell, and having heard nothing from the U.S. government or military since Doomsday, Morristown leaders decided on July 4, 2001 to formally declare the region's independence from the United States. Leaders said it was "a hard decision" despite how much sense it made; the people, and their leaders, still considered themselves Americans first and foremost. The now-formally-independent regional government conducted its business under the Morristown banner, although residents informally referred to themselves as Tennesseeans or East Tennesseeans.
Contact with the outside world
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Economy
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Demographics
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Culture
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East Tennessee is predominantly culturally conservative. Christianity and a form of agnosticism are the only observed religions in East Tennessee.
Alcohol use was banned for a time in the early 1990s, but widespread use of moonshine led to a lifting of the ban in 1997
International relations
East Tennessee was granted observer status in the League of Nations in January 2010.