Grand Confederation of Columbia (An Honorable Retelling)

Grand Confederation of Columbia (1848-1935)
Sovereign States of Columbia (1935-1943)
	Grand Confederation of Columbia (1848-1935); Sovereign States of Columbia (1935-1943)
Flag	Coat of arms
	Motto; Deo Vindice (Latin); "Under God, Our Vindicator"; Nemo me impune lacessit! (Latin); "No one provokes me with impunity!"
	Anthem; Chant of the Longspur
	The Confederacy at its height in 1941
Capital	Richmond
Largest city	Nashville
Languages	English, French
Government	Confederated federal congressional monarchy (1848-1921) ; Confederated federal congressional republic (1921-1935) ; Totalitarian federal congressional republic under a fascist dictatorship (1935-1943)
	Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister
Legislature	Confederate States Congress
History
Currency	Confederate dollar

The Grand Confederation of Columbia (GCC), (French: Grande Confédération de Columbie), commonly referred to as the Confederate States, the Confederacy, the South, and the Sovereign States of Columbia from 1934, was a sovereign, partially-recognized breakaway nation in Columbia that existed from November 20, 1848 to October 13, 1943. The Confederacy comprised eleven U.S. states that declared secession and warred against the United States during the Second Columbian War. The states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Van Buren, Alabama, Ribault, Louisiana, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, the southern half of Kosuto, and North Carolina.

The Confederacy was formed on November 20, 1848, by six slave states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Ribault, southern Kosuto, and Louisiana. All seven states were in the Deep South region of the United States, whose economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture, especially cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon enslaved Columbians of African descent for labor. They felt that their reliance on slavery was threatened by the election of Free Soil candidate and former Vice President Martin Van Buren in that year's election; in his inaugural address as John C. Calhoun declared that "the rights of the Negro lie sufficiently within the barriers of their masters, and alteration of this practice prejudices the laws granted by our divine creator."

The Grand Confederation engaged federal forces for two years in the Second Columbian War, decisively defeating the Union at the Battle of Chambersburg in early 1850. The nation was notably supported and recognized by the French Empire, whose emperor Napoleon II commissioned Prince Lucien Bonaparte as the new nation's monarch. From 1851 onwards, the Grand Confederation undertook aggressive territorial conflicts and demands and made it a prime goal to create a sphere with French assistance in Columbia. It conquered and made client states in the northern halves of Mexica, which served as its main trade opus. However, its expansion into the Gulf and Sea of the King were hampered by ethnic resistance and defeat at the hands of Mexican forces at the Battle of Tehuantepec in 1871. While indentured servitude continued to exist in codified forms, the Confederacy officially abolished slavery in 1901.

The nation emerged as a main competitor to the United States during the Third Great War from 1913 to 1917, and in the aftermath was defeated and forced to make concessions to the Allied Powers in multiple different areas economically and territoriality. Increased economic downturn and political instability led to the abolition of the monarchy and the rise of the First Union Party in the 1930s, which after the assassination of Prime Minister Huey Long in 1935, declared a state of emergency which saw the country transformed into a totalitarian dictatorship as the radical faction of the party under Theodore G. Bilbo assumed control. Rechristened as the Sovereign States of Columbia, the new regime targeted multiple different groups with the goal of creating a "white empire" dominated by the planting and wealthy elite. Discrimination, persecution, sterilization, imprisonment, and mass killings of Jews, blacks, Mexicans, Native Columbians, and other perceived undesirables became a central part of the regime.

A founding member of the Alliance of Free and Democratic Nations (AFDN), the Grand Confederation was a major combatant in the Fourth Great War, initially making heavy gains in Columbia and Muqaddas, before its acquisitions were gradually reversed and undertook strategic retreat. Columbian armies captured Richmond on May 3, 1942, and the flailing regime maintained a guerilla warfare campaign in the Appalachian mountains, which ended after Bilbo was executed by partisans on October 13, 1943, effectively dissolving the nation and resulting in the establishment of Comancheria and the independence of Afrocolumbia. One of the most well-studied former nations, the Grand Confederation' actions in the New World led to multiple treaties by the League to Enforce Peace against wars of and for conquest.

History[]

The Confederacy was established by the Montgomery Convention in November 1848 by seven states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Ribault, and Louisiana), which expanded in the coming months. While the results of the election had not officially taken place by that point, the Southerners predicted that the Free Soil Party would emerge victorious due to its high appeal among denser populated areas in the Midwest and Northeast. The delegations of these states believed that the federal government was infringing upon their rights to own slaves, and subsequently barred federal arsenals from continued operation in these areas.

Southern nationalism was rising and pride supported the new founding. Confederate nationalism prepared men to fight for "the Southern Cause". For the duration of its existence, the Confederacy underwent trial by war. The Southern Cause transcended the ideology of states' rights, tariff policy, and internal improvements. This "cause" supported, or derived from, cultural and financial dependence on the South's slavery-based economy. The convergence of race and slavery, politics, and economics raised almost all South-related policy questions to the status of moral questions over way of life, merging love of things Southern and hatred of things Northern. Not only did political parties split, but national churches and interstate families as well divided along sectional lines as the war approached.