Country: CanadaLeadership: The People's Council of Canada (Communism)
History (From 1976):
1976: in 1976, after Canada abandoned the war, the Canadian Government became negligent of important issues in Canada, causing a general decline in the economy as jobs were lost, and the lack of care put into maintenance would damage the comfort of living for many Canadians. This of course caused a lot of unrest among the people, who demanded the Government stop catering to the large corporations and start catering to the people. These demands went largely ignored, until Justin Ducharme spearheaded a campaign to put a stop to what he claimed was "a crime against the Canadian people" by their own Government.
Montréal:
Ducharme's campaign would start in Montréal, where he would practically take over the City's management when even the police force, who had gone largely unpaid for too long, turned against the Mayor. The take over was almost entirely bloodless, recording no loss of life, very few injuries, and ended in the resignation of the Mayor. Quickly, Ducharme would get to work in setting the city on the path to revitalization, declaring that no government would be officially reformed until the matter was fully settled. Under his guidance, the people were given a system where they could report, organize and tackle any issue that came up within the city proper, putting the large homeless and jobless population back to work again. Within a month, the surrounding farmlands and smaller towns were annexed by the revolutionaries.
Québec:
It certainly did not end there, however, as Ducharme quickly moved on to Québec City to help end the revolts in a peaceful manner, through charm and wit he put an end to the violence and quickly convinced the regional government to resign - allowing Ducharme, with the support of the people, to annex the whole Province of Québec. Of course, with large amounts of land under their control, the revolutionaries needed more then just a system to repair infrastructure, and Ducharme would put a lot of emphasis on the importance of trasportation and distribution of resources.
Old Canada:
In response to losing an entire province, the Government and their Corporate backers, who had thus far been content to leave the masses to their own devices while they make as much of a profit as possible, decided that this rebellion was unacceptable and took the means necessary to prevent further rebellion in the rest of the country, while planning all the while to retake the province of Québec. These means, however, were brutal and cruel especially by the standards that were previously the norm in this Democratic country, and many riots would break out against the oppressive curfews, new taxes and the harsh discipline that came with them, which raged from beating to imprisonments. Both the beatings and the violent reactions to any riots, peaceful or otherwise, caused numerous deaths which would only further fuel the fires of revolution springing across the country.
1977:The Maritimes
by January of 1977, while Québec and most of eastern Canada were facing a particularly difficult winter, the maritimes joined the revolutionaries. New Brunswick was the first, their Premier resigned, and in the following elections broke off from Canada to join the revolutionaries. No more then a month later, Nova Scotia joined the revolutionaries when their local government was ousted in a rebellion. PEI capitulated to the rebellion shortly after, to avoid a violent resolution as Nova Scotia did. This however, sparked some interesting debates, as the French elitists in Québec insisted that this revolution was to revive the glory of La Nouvelle France, from times before The Great War. Ducharme, however, personally declared that this revolutionary was to see to the betterment of all lives, regardless of language, race or sex, as all people were deserving of fair treatment and better lives, as this was a country in which all Canadians shared, a line which became rather famous for the revolutionaries - and adding, for those who did not agree, that by enforcing such standards they broadened their work force and would later prove, through example, that with a larger workforce, they could assure better living standards for all.
Newfoundland and Labrador:
Newfoundland and Labrador were probably hardest hit by the harsh winter, with most cities losing electricity due to lack of maintenance, a crippling food shortage, and several people dieing from the intense cold. In these dire times, the Premier of the province contacted Ducharme, asking him for help, an act that sparked a lot of controversy both among the revolutionaries and the loyalists. Ducharme accepted without a second thought, and was largely successful in helping the Province hold out until spring, and many people claim that he saved the lives of many in doing so. When spring arrived, the Province officially joined the revolutionaries and work began on repairing the damage done, both during that winter alone and from the long standing neglect due to poor funding.
1978: Despite the propaganda from the Old Canadian government, and their large corporate backers, by mid 1978 the whole of Canada had joined the revolutionaries, . This was mostly in due to the large riots that were formed in any non-revolutionary city against the traditional government, causing a large amount of stress and causing a lot of damage until in May 1978 the Government of Canada officially capitulated, by popular demand, and originally giving Ducharme singular control over the country.
In autumn, 1978, once the basic infrastructure first presented in Québec was successfully integrated in the other parts of Canada, Ducharme made a public announcement to the whole of Canada, declaring that the success in re-attaining more comfortable life-styles wasn't due to him, and that for that reason, he held no right to rule the country. He claimed that it was the people of Canada, as a whole, who laid claim to this accomplishment, and not any one man, and that thus, no one man should rule the country. Over the next couple of years, the people would work hard, not only to continue repairing the damage done to the country, both through neglect and revolution, but to secure a charter that would dictate the system that would run the country - in where several "Wings" would be formed in the nation, and each Wing would elect a representative in the ruling council, effectively turning Canada into a Communist State.
Ducharme was given the title of "Orchestrator" and he was to hold no power, and no real wealth (by his own request) and would work as an adviser to the Council, and thus Canada as a whole, effectively ensuring that the new government's goal was met: To provide fair and effective administration of the country without (or with less) corruption.
