Draft:Republic of New Saint Johns
Republic of New Saint Johns | |
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| Motto: "The ruler is you, the ruler is me." | |
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| Capital and largest city | New Saint Johns (Formerly Newf City) |
| Other languages | English |
| Demonym(s) | Saint Johnner |
| Government | Dictatoral republic |
• Dictator | Cameron C. Strickland (Newfie as Nickname) |
• First Lady | Wiseday (Real name classified) |
| Legislature | Senate |
| Establishment | 12 December 2023 (as Peoples Republic of Saint Johns) 19 December 2023 (as Republic of New Saint Johns) |
| Membership | 41 |
| Currency | Slush de jure Canadian Dollar de facto |
| Time zone | Eastern Standard Time |
Please note that some events in RNSJ's history do not have dates due to them not being recorded.
New Saint Johns, officially the Republic of New Saint Johns, is a North American micronation landlocked within the city of Kitchener. It is unofficially a Socialist Dictatorship.
The Peoples Republic of Saint Johns was founded on the 12th of January, 2023 before being replaced by the Republic of New Saint Johns The young nation, ruled by a ruthless, inexperienced dictator, was immediately a superpower in its region. Its neighbor, Dominion of Flouron, had existed years before New Saint Johns and did not like its power being challenged. This has resulted in large tensions, wars, and proxy wars which have rocked the small micronation for ages.
History
New Saint Johns was founded on 12 January 2023. Known at the time as the Peoples Republic of Saint Johns, Newfieboi was declared President. The nation was calm in its first few days, besides making its flag (Same one as todays flag) and marking its territory. Eventually, on the 19th of January, just a week later, it was renamed to the Republic of New Saint Johns.
First Flouronian - Saint Johnner War
New Saint Johns first conflict was a result of Dominion of Flouron asking for a loan, and not paying it back. This conflict occurred some time in February, 2023. New Saint Johns had demanded its money back several times over the time between its formation, and the time of the conflict. As a result of Flouron not paying its debt, New Saint Johns invaded. New Saint Johns quickly took over the Flouronian Capital city, before the two sides made a peace deal and the Saint Johnner's had to retreat.
The peace treaty consisted of few demands, shown below.
- Flouron pays debt to New Saint Johns
- Flouron organizes their territorial usage
- Flouronian armed forces cease to exist
- New Saint Johns retreats back to home territories
Dominion of Flouron would proceed to refuse to do these demands afterwards, which lead to more tension.
First Allies
After the war with Dominion of Flouron, a new micronation formed just north of New Saint Johns, the Northern Empire. Northern Empire, lead by the Sister of Dictator Newfieboi, had very good relations with New Saint Johns. They had formed a military alliance which allowed New Saint Johns to send weapons to the Northern Empire in the case of a conflict with Dominion of Flouron.
Second Flouronian - Saint Johnner War
Two months later, in March 2023, Dominion of Flouron had still not paid its debts and still had a army. New Saint Johns threatened war against Flouron, stating "If you refuse, we have the right to invade" Flouron had still rejected the demands, overconfident that their struggling government and weakening army would defeat the Saint Johnner Forces. New Saint Johns had not known the issues of Flouron at the time, so they had asked for their ally, Northern Empire, to help. At 9:50 PM at an unknown date, Saint Johnner and Northern Empire Forces entered Flouronian territory. It was a quick yet intense battle, with New Saint Johns Forces busting past the defense and catching the Flouronian Forces off guard. Northern Empire Forces fired Apon the Flouronians, but they failed to neutralize any targets. Saint Johnner and Flouronian forces clashed for a short amount of time before a truce was agreed on and, with foreign influence, Flouron paid its debts.
Over the next few months, it was peaceful. New Saint Johns developed its army, got new weapons, and founded its newspaper: New Saint Johns News (Now NSJ News)
New Saint Johns Researched newer technologies, such as Artillery, Tanks, and Ships.
First ever Peacekeeping Operation
On the 23rd of June 2023 a dispute started between Dominion of Flouron and Northern Empire which resulted in conflict just next to the Republic of New Saint Johns. The conflict was over neutral territory, but still very close to New Saint Johns. New Saint Johns had heavily disliked this conflict, and without any permission by Flouron and Northern Empire, sent peacekeepers to deal with the conflict. This was the first time any micronation had sent peacekeepers to stop a conflict between other micronations, and this day is now celebrated as "Proven day" in New Saint Johns. During the peacekeeping mission, a New Saint Johns soldier was attacked by a Northern Empire soldier, and had fought in self defense. This resulted in the Republic of New Saint Johns breaking the alliance with Northern Empire and Sanctioning them. The conflict had ended shortly after and the peacekeeping operation was declared a success by the Dictator of New Saint Johns.
Failed Northern Empire Coup
On the 14th of July 2023 the Republic of New Saint Johns attempted a coup on its former ally, the Northern Empire in order to remove its monarchy and replace it with a more stable government. At about 8:50 PM New Saint Johns Forces moved into Northern Empire, instantly holding their leader hostage and temporarily occupying the nation. However, the Flouronian Forces were nearby, and heard the fighting, and so the Flouronian forces moved to the Northern Empire to investigate. The NSJ Forces attacked the Flouronian Forces, believing they were helping Northern Empire. This distracted NSJ, resulting in Northern Empire freeing their leader and pushing NSJ back to the neutral territory. Flouron, wanting to assist, fired apon the NSJ Forces, but a misfire occurred and struck a Northern Empire Soldier. This resulted in the Northern Empire retaliating and causing a 3 way battle. The 3 nations fought for 40 minutes before Flouron retreated for unknown reasons and NSJ was able to continue its coup. NSJ failed to push Northern Empire anymore, and chose to retreat under enemy fire. This battle was an embarrassment for NSJ's government and resulted in a military modernization program for New saint johns.
Geography
The Republic of New Saint Johns is a pretty bland nation in terms of geography. It has no interesting landmarks... yet!
Climate
New Saint Johns has a cold climate, being pretty far north. Its average temperature during winter is -5 Degrees Celsius and in summer, 25 Degrees Celsius.
Infrastructure and tourist attractions
New Saint Johns has pretty bland infrastructure and its only tourist attraction is a wall of war documents from its conflicts.
Government and politics
New Saint Johns is a Dictatoral Republic. New Saint Johns is ruled by its Senate, but it is known that the government has rigged the senate to only have people that agree with the dictators bills and acts, so as a result; dictator Cameron has most of the control. The country has a small police force, but the police force is owned by the Minister of defense.
Political Parties
| Logo | Name | Party Leader | Spectrum | Ideologies | Senate | ||
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| Dictatoral Party | DP | Newfieboi | Authoritarian Left | w:Democratic Socialism | 6 / 6
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Economy
New Saint Johns' economy is heavily based off of secret "jobs" the government does to assist outsiders. The official currency of the Republic of New Saint Johns is the Slush, which is worth 1 Canadian Dollar. The Slush is split into 100 Flakes. The Slush is named after Slush, a watery or partly melted snow, and the Flake is named after Snowflakes. It is named after these things due to them being very common during the winter.
Population
As of July 2023, the population is currently 2. The sole official language of NSJ is English.
Culture
New Saint Johns' Culture is based off of that of the surrounding nation, Canada.
Media and music
The leading news station in New Saint Johns is "NSJ News" which has 3 variations, including:
- NSJ News Visual
- NSJ News Digital
- NSJ News Express
NSJ News Visual is the video version of NSJ News, only having 1 broadcast so far. NSJ News Digital is the digital newspaper version, its the most popular news source in NSJ NSJ News Express is the physical newspaper version, it is the least popular. NSJ News is a State owned media. New Saint Johns makes music rarely, it is typically for the state, or for outsiders.
Cuisine
Saint Johnner Cuisine is exactly the same as the Canadian cuisine.
Public holidays
Public Holidays in New Saint Johns are mainly patriotic holidays, with some being from military victories and others being major political events, however there is other events which are remembered. Holidays include:
- Johns day - 12 January
- Space Shuttle Columbia Remembrance Day - 1 February
- Dictators Day - 27 May
- Proven Day - 23 June
- Discovery Day (NEWFOUNDLAND HOLIDAY) - 26 June
- Memorial Day (NEWFOUNDLAND HOLIDAY) - 1 July
- Canada Day (CANADA HOLIDAY) - 1 July
- Terry Fox Day (CANADA HOLIDAY) - 21 August
- Dogs Day - 12 September
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - 30 September
- Thanksgiving - 9 October
- Remembrance Day - 11 November
- Christmas - 25 December
- New Years - 31 December - January 1
National symbols
New Saint Johns most well known symbol is its flag, featuring two triangles, one white triangle in the top right standing for peace and cold weather, the lower left grey triangle standing for modernization. due to issues with Microwiki, we were unable to put the flag here. The flag can be seen at the top of this page however.
Military Branches
The military has some symbols for each of its branches, seen below.
Anthem
The Republic of New Saint Johns adopted its anthem, "The Ruler is Me!" sometime during March, it was then replaced by a less controversial version in April. The second version can be seen here. The anthem is based off of the Azerbaijani anthem.
Other symbols
New Saint Johns' national food is Poutine, a food made in Quebec of which is loved within NSJ. The national animal is the Siberian Husky. The coat of arms can be seen below.