Tennessee is an independent state in the Southeastern region of the former United States. A member of the American Alliance was a state in the former United States of America. It was admitted into the U.S. in 1796 as its 16th state. Its capital was in Nashville, in middle Tennessee.
Much of the region is officially recognized by the League of Nations as unincorporated. The LoN officially recognized the city-state of Portland, in north central Tennessee, and the Provisional Republic of East Tennessee, which had its capital in Morristown and Jackson which was jointly administered by Virginia and Kentucky. A fourth entity, the Provisional State of Tennessee, was located in the south central portion of the former state, with most of the population in the capital of Waynesboro and the town of Adamsville. After the Virginian-Jacksonian War and reunification of the four largest survivor states in 2013, the new provisional state government remains based out of Murfreesboro.
History[]
See also:
Portland, Tennessee
Jackson
Virginian-Jacksonian War
Tennessee (Waynesboro)
East Tennessee
Doomsday[]
Tennessee was hit by several nuclear strikes on Doomsday. Memphis - a key port located along the Mississippi River - and the state capital of Nashville were hit by strikes. The city of Chattanooga in southeastern Tennessee was hit, along with adjacent Signal Mountain.
The other major city in Tennessee, Knoxville, was not hit; however, it took very minor damage from a low-yield strike that destroyed nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory and all but destroyed the adjacent town of Anderson.
Anticipated strikes on Knoxville; nearby Alcoa (home to a large aluminum smelting plant); and the various dams and plants operated throughout the state by the Tennessee Valley Authority never materialized.
Post-Doomsday[]
As of March 25, 2011, the situation regarding the former state of Tennessee was as follows:
Location of Portland.
The counties in red belong to the internationally-recognized Provisional Republic of East Tennessee.
Location of Jackson.
Location of Waynesboro.
Re-Unification[]
Over the decades, sentiment to reunify the state of Tennessee had always been present. Through the first decade of the 21st century, it remained a sentimental idea, with many areas of the state depopulated and travel between the populated areas hampered by severely deteriorated roadways and railways and ever present threats from bandits. After the East Kentucky Alliance liberated the city state of Jackson in the west, East Tennessee leaders quietly began discussing reunification with leaders in Waynesboro, Portland, the new EAA-backed Jackson government and other surviving towns in west and central Tennessee.
In early August 2011, the East American Alliance agreed to help in restoring railways and roadways connecting the largest towns throughout Tennessee, and sending in Army and Marine groups to provide security. The reunification of Tennessee was formally announced on September 8, with the new state capital to be in the rebuilt town of Murfreesboro in central Tennessee. Murfreesboro is a short distance from the old state capital of Nashville - which, once the city is cleared and is authorized for resettlement, may be where the state government eventually returns to, once the region is declared to be safe.
The process to select representatives from each surviving town and city began in October, for a constitutional convention which was held at the University of Tennessee in April 2012. Elections for governor and the new General Assembly were scheduled for November 2012, and the state to formally become an entity on January 1, 2013.
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