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| Capital | Santa Cruz | ||||||
| Largest city | Santa Cruz | ||||||
| Language official |
English (official) | ||||||
| others | Spanish | ||||||
| Legislature | Santa Cruz County Council | ||||||
| Supervisor | Justin Cummings | ||||||
| Area | 607 sq mi km² | ||||||
| Population | est. 130,000 (2020) | ||||||
| Independence | 1983 | ||||||
| Currency | Californian Dollar | ||||||
Santa Cruz is a County of the California Republic annexed in 2016 and admitted in 2018. It was previously a warlord-dominated territory from Doomsday to the mid 2010s, when a California-led coalition removed the warlords during the Central Coast War and reestablished the rule of law in the region.
In the post-Doomsday fallout, Santa Cruz buckled under the pressure of refugees, starvation and fuel exhaustion Its trlmpem college would become host to one of the most vicious gangs of slavers and raiders in the former United States. It is known for its' coastal culture and rapid stabilization following California and broader NAU investment.
History[]
Pre-Doomsday[]
During the 1980s the city of Santa Cruz was classified by the United States as the most dangerous city in America. When most people would enter the area it was hard not to see a gang member of some kind on the streets. The gangs were violent and it was almost impossible to go a day without hearing someone was gunned down in the news.
Doomsday[]
San Jose, a city just north of Santa Cruz, was hit on Doomsday, and when this happened the area went from the violent crime hotspot it was already in into total and complete anarchy. With no government at all, the gangs controlled the county. The police forces slowly dissolved, with officers either being killed or joining a gang. Gang wars were frequent, and by 1990 most male citizens were reported to be members of, or affiliated with, at least one of the gangs.
Establishment of an Empire[]
In the year 1996, a bold and brash gang leader named Villeado Scolari, the leader of an Italian gang, came to power, ruthlessly expanding his lower minions and conquering all of the county. Scholairi was greatly inspired by Benito Mussolini, and so he greatly admired Mussolini and his Fascist ideology. In the year 1998 he established Santa Cruz as an empire. This new Free State of Santa Cruz not only tolerated slavery, but encoureged it.
The Reign of Villeado Scolari[]
Contact was made with the Chumash Republic in 2002 when the raiders moved southward, kidnapping nomads and travelers for civilian displacement, immediately attacked frontier Chumash settlements, capturing about 20 civilians and injuring the military police. They later moved north to the MSP at night,terrorizing much of the California Republic. They would stage secret raids and capture people without alerting the authorities. The nation was officially marked as a warlord territory by the League of Nations in 2010.
Democracy Triumphs[]
A July 2016 raid of the California Republic resulted in the kidnapping a Senator from Amador County, Abel Slemons. The Californian Republic already had very bad relations with the Santa Cruz but the kidnapping of one of their senators was the last straw. California sent messengers to several neighboring states asking to form a coalition to declare war on Santa Cruz and wipe it out once and for all. As a result the nations of Visalia, Chumash, and Sierra Nevada agreed to form a short-lived coalition feeling that they themselves have grown tired of Santa Cruz's constant raider and bandit attacks. The Coalition arrived in Santa Cruz in August 2016. Coalition forces won a number of tacitcal victories, aided by a major slave revolt in Scotts Valley. Santa Cruz would face severe causalities and seeing it did not have a unified military force made it more difficult as many raiders and bandit leaders were now disserting, fighting each other, or surrendering. As a result in early November 2016, the Free State of Santa Cruz capitulated and was then completely annexed into the California Republic. Meanwhile Villeado Scolari and four of his loyal followers were able to avoid capture and flee to the nation of Ventura, where they live in exile.
Today, the city is one of California's fastest-growing, with a large port and rapid resettlement of refugees in the city, it is becoming increasingly essential.
Government[]
The County of Santa Cruz was reorganized in 2018 by authorities from Placerville, it was admitted to the Republic with full rights as an equal county in August of that year. It has a 12-person County Council, and an elected County Supervisor. The current County Supervisor is Justin Cummings, he has held the position since 2023.
Before 2016, Santa Cruz was a military dictatorship. Most power was held by Commander Scolari, but some of his most very trusted loyal high ranked men did have some authority over maintaining order. Scolari appointed "capos" to oversee different neighborhoods and cities of Santa Cruz County.
History of Slavey[]
When it came to laws there was not many laws in Santa Cruz, at least in the sense you would see in a civilized society. Santa Cruz did in fact have something called the "8 Rules", which all civilians and gang members had to obey. Which are as followed.
- All slaves and servants must respect and obey the authority of the gang leader that rules over you. Disobedience of any sort is to be dealt with severe punishment (which the gang leader can choose whatever punishment they want to act upon).
- Running away is automatic treason, if any gang member or slave is caught trying to flee Santa Cruz they are to be put to death via hanging for everyone to see. Afterwards their corpse is to be left hanging to rot for 7 days, after which they are to be then burnt into a fire pit.
- A gang leader can have up to 10 wives or husbands. However a gang member can only have 1 spouse, if he or she wants another spouse they must commit their first raid in which they will be proven "worthy" of having another spouse. If a gang member wishes to have 3 spouses then he or she must kill a slave in order to prove they are "worthy" of power.
- A slave or servant is to never be treated as "human", they are the lowest of nature and can be easily replaced at any given time.
- Furthermore a slave or servant is to be renamed in which their first name will be first and then fit with "of" and then the gang member or gang leader that owns them. (For example Ben of Raulo)
- A gang leader or gang member can be allowed to murder a slave for any reason they wish, provided the slave is not under 5 years old. Underage slaves are valuable and can be very important in use, unless they are disabled.
- If two gang members have a dispute, it must be settled by a duel in which the two of them must fight each other with only their fists. Whoever cries to mercy or unable to continue the fight automatically becomes a new slave to the victor.
- Slaves cannot be allowed to leave Santa Cruz, there is no exceptions whatsoever.
Economy[]
The Port of Santa Cruz is one of the largest ports on the West Coast of North America. It is the Republic's prime port as it works to repair the San Francisco Bay, and serves as the primary point for the importation of goods. The economy, like most of the Republic, is mostly based on agriculture.
Armed Groups[]
Santa Cruz never had a genuine military as the nation only heavily relied on gang leaders, bandits, and raiders for defense and protection. When did came to "protection" a person who didn't want his/her family to be enslaved, they would have to give something up to Santa Cruz gang leaders or raiders (in most cases usually giving up your youngest child to life of slavery) in order to be given "protection". However when it came to military equipment like firearms, the bandits and raiders were equipped with basically anything they could find that was useful for combat.
Some bandits and gangsters were armed with assault rifles stolen from veterans, police stations, or former military compounds in the areas near Santa Cruz. But they were limited in numbers as most would run out of ammo and once ammo for a specific rifle became scarce it either meant that Santa Cruz raiders had to raid neighboring areas in search for the said ammo, or just get rid of the rifle altogether seeing it was now useless.
A lot of bandits also used various things as weapons from knives, wooden carved sticks, metal pipes, and so on. They even would craft weapons from spare parts they found during raids, that even some were able to create firearms from scratch. Albeit those guns were poorly well made and often would fail when being used.
When the Coalition invaded Santa Cruz in 2017, they quickly banded together several battalions of raiders, bandits, and gangsters armed with anything they could find. Even some slaves were forced into fighting for Santa Cruz as they were promised freedom if Santa Cruz won the war.
Today, several hundred Californian military peacekeepers remained stationed in Santa Cruz County. Considering many of the former slavers have slipped into the general population, there has been little incentive to build a resident police force as of yet.
Culture[]
Flag[]
The flag of Santa Cruz under the slavers took clear inspirations from Benito Mussolini's Italy, combining the Italian flag "il Tricolore" and the fasces, the premier symbol of the National Fascist Party and the Republican Fascist Party, the two Fascist parties Benito Mussolini was a member of in Italy, and where the word "Fascism" derives from. Today, they fly the Bear of the California Republic.
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