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| Capital | no official capital | ||
| Largest city | Kendal | ||
| Other cities | Appleby, Ulverston, Windermere Town. | ||
| Language official |
English (official) | ||
| others | Cumbric | ||
| Procurator | John Morrison | ||
| Area | 2,100 km2 (810 sq mi) km² | ||
| Population | 21,000 (Approx.) | ||
| Independence | 2011 | ||
| Currency | Cleveland Pound | ||
Post Doomsday and the Rheged Co-Operative
On doomsday in the south of the county of Cumbria, the port of Barrow in Furness is hit by a 10 kilotonne tactical nuclear device and the Sellafield Nuclear Facility was either hit by a bomb of an undetermined size or more likely the reactor went critical and suffered a major meltdown. Apart from those two irradiated areas the majority of the county survived practically unscathed.
In the days and weeks after DD Chaos reigned in Cumbria as law and order collapsed. Police officers abandonded their posts to protect their families from roving bands of bandits and former military units, which became known as reavers.
In order to protect themselves from these reavers many people retreat to the main towns of the area and erect makeshift walls around the towns to protect themselves. Bands of survivors made runs out into the wilds to gather food and other supplies. Protected farms were set up by survivors by the late 1980's in order to make the food supplies more reliable.
By the mid 1990's many of the attacks from reavers had diminished and the walled towns began to open up to the surrounding land, suprisingly even after over 10 years many of the herds of sheep that had been on the fells were still there, a little wilder but they had actually increased in numbers since the abandonment of the upland farms.
In the late 1990's the walled townships began trading with each other and in 1998 the Cumbria Co-operative was set up from the townships of Workington, Keswick, Maryport and Cockermouth so that trading would be far easier. In 2000 the townships of Carlisle, Windermere Town, Kendal and Whitehaven join the Co-operative and in 2001 the name was changed to the Rheged Co-Operative (Rheged being the old name for Cumbria) in order to distance themselves from the old United Kingdom. In 2002 a new flag was introduced using the old Westmorland coat of arms, it can be flown over trading stations to show they are offical Rheged Co-Operative buisnesses.
In 2003 contact is made with the Kingdom of Cleveland from the east side of the Pennine hills, the Cleveland soldiers chased off reavers that had been harrassing the township of Carlisle. In 2008 the Kingdom of Cleveland provided Keswick, Workington, Maryport and Kendal with electric wind generators.
End of the Rheged Co-Operative
14th January 2011
News has reached the Procurators new office in Carlisle that the Deputy Procurator, John Morrison, has begun to hold representatives meetings at Appleby's old Town Hall. As the Procurator had decreed that the meetings should start not earlier than the 7th of February, the Deputy Procurator has been ordered to report to the new office in Carlisle to give a reason for these meetings. He is expect to arrive at the Procurators office on Monday 17th of January.
17th January 2011 - the end of the unified Rheged Co-Operative
Deputy Procurator John Morrison arrives at the Procurators office building in central Carlisle, however he refuses to go inside, insisting that he meets with the Procurator Mary Johnstone in the open at Carlisle Castle so that the Representatives that have come with him from the south of Rheged can put their point across. But also so that members of the general public can hear what she has to say about the claims that Rheged is effectivly becoming a puppet state to the Kingdoms of Cleveland and Northumbria.
At Carlisle Castle the Representatives of Kendal, Ulverston, Windermere, Coniston, Ambleside, Appleby, Kirby Stephen and Egremont as well as the Deputy Procurator meet with the Procurator Mary Johnstone.
The meeting at the Castle starts good natured however is quickly deteriorates, this is mainly due to the fact that the Procurator had brought the Ambassadors of both Cleveland and Northumbria. At one point the Representative of Kendal has to be restratined from attacking the Cleveland ambassardor by his fellow representatives.
The meeting lasts over five hours and at the end of it the Procurator is asked to devolve powers to for southern Rheged to the Representatives of Southern Rheged. This she agrees to (mainly as Rheged is not a country per se, but a collection of independant townships) as such the Townships of Kendal, Ulverston, Windermere, Coniston, Ambleside, Appleby, Kirby Stephen and Egremont and their surrounding Parishes cede from the Rheged Co-Opertive as South Rheged with the Deputy Procurator John Morrison becoming the new Procurator of South Rheged.
It is planned for the first meeting of the South Rheged Co-Operative will take place on the 24th January 2011 at Appleby's old Town Hall. It is expected that the new Co-Operative will decide on a new name to distance themselves from the Rheged Co-Operative.
Birth of the Westmorland and Furness Alliance
At a meeting on the 24th Januray 2011 at Old Appleby town hall the newly created Co-Operative decided on a new name, in order to distance themselves from the former United Rheged Co-Operative they decide to name themselves the Westmorland and Furness Alliance or the WFA. At the first meeting several things were decided:
The new Alliance's first order is to investigate Barrow-in-Furness, it is expected that the area will be safe to re-inhabit due to the fact that it was only hit with a 10 KT tactical nuclear weapon. This is expected to occur in the next two weeks.
It's second second order was that, although it would continue to use the Cleveland pound for the near future the Westmorland and Furness Alliance will switch to using Lancastrian currency by late 2012.
They also decide to create trade links with the Duchy of Lancaster to the south as access to the ports of Whitehaven, Maryport and Workington are expected to be made difficult by the Rheged Procurator Mary Johnstone.
News
26th January 2011
A team has investigated the bombed town of Barrow-in-Furness has discovered that the town was severely damaged in the Doomsday attacks, the port to the south was totally destroyed by the 10 KT blast. Radiation levels in the town and the surrounding countryside is found to be at safe levels and a small survivor community of 120 people are found on the Isle of Walney in the small village of Biggar.
2nd February 2011
With the news of the representatives of both Whitehaven and Penrith withdrawing from the Rheged Co-Operative, and with the possiblity of them joining the WFA, the leadership of the WFA have approached the Duchy of Lancaster for increased trade links.
4th February 2011
The representative of Keswick asks the WFA if the town can join on the 6th of February after it left the Rheged Co-Operative. It is accepted on the 5th of February bringing the number of townships represented by the WFA to 11, these being:
- Keswick
- Penrith
- Appleby
- Whitehaven
- Ambleside
- Kendal
- Windermere
- Ulverston
- Kirby Stephen
- Egremont
- Coniston