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New Montgomery is a city of approximately 24,000 people, all Caucasian, located along the Tombigbee River in former southeast Alabama, outside the former Bladon Springs State Park and Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge.
It considers itself to be the successor to the 19th-century Confederate States of America and claims the entire southern United States as its territory; in reality, it controls only its city, and the adjacent state park and wildlife refuge. It refers to itself as both the Confederate States of America and the New Confederacy, with New Montgomery as its capital.
History
The city was established in 1985 by Caucasians - mainly white supremacists - looking to reestablish the Confederate States of America. New Montgomery was named after Montgomery, the former capital of Alabama and the 19th-century Confederacy that had been destroyed by a single Soviet warhead on Doomsday. It is, for the most part, a tent city, with buildings built with materials believed to have been harvested from the state park and salvaged from nearby towns.
The founders of New Montgomery/CSA are believed to have played a key role in the 1984 collapse of the provisional Alabama state government based in Auburn. They led a group from Auburn that passed through various towns around the region before settling at Bladon Springs in 1985. They were joined by similar groups from Mississippi and southern Alabama, and declared the reformation of the CSA that April. Scouts discovered a survivor community based in nearby Selma; historians among the New Montgomery survivors told the leaders of the importance of Selma to the Confederacy during the 19th-century Civil War. New Montgomery leaders and strategists then began forming a plan to attack and conquer Selma; the leaders' supremacist attitudes also led them to form plans for enslaving - or killing - the African-Americans in the region.
This led to a brutal war against the African-American community of Selma in 1986, a three-month-old conflict which is believed to have resulted in approximately 10,000 casualties on both sides. The sides simply stopped fighting, after realizing that feelings were so strong that both sides had to walk away or "finish it out" and exterminate the remainder of what they thought to be the last survivors of the human race. Since then, a state of war has existed between the two city-states, without any significant conflict between the two sides (resulting in an ongoing cold war). New Montgomery has also had skirmishes over the years with Hattiesburg and Natchez, Mississippi, before and after an attempted attack on Hattiesburg in 1992 that turned into a total failure.
Over the years, citizens who advocated for better relations with Selma and Hattiesburg were tried and exiled; most have found refuge in Hattiesburg. Some were executed, some simply disappeared.
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Government
Intelligence from military and police agents from Hattiesburg and Natchez indicate that the "New Confederacy"/"CSA" nominally holds to the constitution of the orginal Confederate States of America as established in 1861. In reality, the city-state is ruled by a council that has varied in number over the years, from five to 20, and often dominated by three to five members. One oversees the military arm of the government, another the economy, another day-to-day governance of New Montgomery and another the police arm, which enforces the peace in the city and also monitors for dissent.