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| Capital | Gainesville | ||||||
| Largest city | Gainesville | ||||||
| Other cities | Cedar Key, High Springs, Micanope | ||||||
| Religion | Christian, Jewish, Atheist | ||||||
| Ethnic Group | English, Spanish | ||||||
| Demonym | Floridian | ||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||
| Legislature | City Council | ||||||
| Mayor | Harvey Ward | ||||||
| Independence | May 9, 1992 | ||||||
| Currency | Floridian Dollar (until 2024) Caribbean Dollar | ||||||
The City of Gainesville is the largest city in Florida and the Southern United States when counting within city limits only. In the chaos following Doomsday, the Provisional Republic of Gainesville (often called North Florida) emerged as the most stable region in the Floridian Panhandle. It went on to become one of the three states of the Republic of Florida prior to the foundation of the Southern Union.
History[]
Pre-Doomsday[]
The counties of North Florida all were normal farm country and didn't have much industry. However, there was significant commercial rail service throughout the area.
Doomsday[]
Most Floridians won't forget this fateful day in which most of the state was wiped out. Gainesville and South Florida in the Everglades were where most of the refugees from the targeted areas fled. The still surviving cities of Gainesville and Lake City managed to maintain a degree of order in their immediate area.
After Doomsday[]
Most of the towns were filled to their limits due to refugees and they couldn't house any more people. When riots began around the city, Gainesville city officials were unprepared. Food soon began to run out, and people were fighting over the diminishing supplies. Realizing that help was not coming from Tallahassee or Washington, the mayor and council declared martial law. The national guardsmen of the area was utilized to enforce a curfew and a distribution of rationed goods.
Soon order returned when the government finally regrouped itself and the farms in the local area were cultivated. This allowed food for the people and some jobs.
In the spring of 1984 steady contact was made with the still surviving city of Lake City which had managed to maintain order in their area.
In 1992 a constitutional convention was held and the Republic of Gainesville was official formed.
Cedar Key, a main port city of north Florida, joined in 1993 after contact with the government in Gainesville. Explorers of the republic had ventured into the northwest coast of Florida around Horseshoe Beach. Cedar Key received many of Panama City's refugees.
As explorers moved west into the Florida Panhandle, they were heart-broken to find that Tallahassee and Panama City had been flattened. Small communities and rural survivors were discovered, but overall only about 150 people were found that were willing to be re-located to the intact counties of North Florida.
Unification of Florida[]
On December 31, 2010, South Florida, North Florida, and East Florida formally united as the Republic of Florida. While the move was largely ceremonial as most control remains on the regional levels, the creation of a united government has both strengthened the economy in the area and ushered in the twilight over the remaining lawless areas sandwiched between northern and southern Florida.
Although few would consider it a metropolitan area of note prior to Doomsday, the city of Gainesville gained renown as the most populated city to emerge first in Florida, and later the entire southeast. The University of Florida had the largest capacity of any surviving university in the south, and surrounding towns soon swelled in population to satiate the ever growing food demands of the city. As the coastal areas of Florida have become increasingly accessible to development, it has lost claim to be the largest urban area to the Cape Coral-Fort Meyers metropolitian area, although when counting strictly by city limits it is still larger than either one of those cities on its own.
American Winter[]
Following the commencement of the War in the South, authorities in Gainesville and across the Floridian panhandle have grappled with the resurgence of the far-right hate group known as the Sun Coalition, which this incarnation of the group essentially being an extension of the resurgent Confederacy. As of 2025 the Sun Coalition has even denied control of entire towns and roads to Floridian and provisional SUSA authorities, making Floridian assistance to the frontlines in Alabama exceedingly difficult.
Education[]
Before Doomsday, Gainesville had been the home of the University of Florida. After the reorganization of the area into a new Republic, higher education would again be a priority in the struggle to survive in the new post-apocalyptic world. But even in the hectic years following Doomsday, the Republic of Gainesville began setting up school systems in its larger towns. Mistrust in the unknown, though, moved most parents to prefer to teach their children at home. Accommodating those fears, the Republic of Gainesville government established the "Republic of Gainesville Home School Program." With a shortage of funds to pay teachers, it made sense to give parents school books in Math, English and History left over from the county school systems.
Economy[]
Farming, fishing and government provide the vast majority of jobs.
Foreign Relations[]
The Republic of Gainesville became a member of the Republic of Florida and later the Southern United States, and thus has the same foreign relations as the other states. Several consulates for Caribbean nations, such as the Netherlands Antilles and Cuba are found in the University Park neighborhood.
Media[]
Television[]
By 2010 there were two channels on the air.
- Channel 8: Gainesville World News [NFBC]
- Channel 10: Gainesville Local News and Programming [GBC]
Radio[]
There were four radio stations,
- Channel 1: Channel 1 is the national radio news. It's controlled by North Florida's government.
- Channel 2: WHAL is a music channel for the 70s, 80s, 90s and modern music.
- Channel 5: NFWC, "North Florida Weather Channel" is for the nation's weather on the radio. [Government]
- Channel 6: GBC, "Gainesville Broadcasting Company" is the local radio for Gainesville
In addition, one of South Florida's two radio channels, "97.3 The Coast" can be heard in the southern portion of the country.