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Posadist Internationale
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Political Environment and Government Type:
The Posadist Internationale encompasses less a centralized authority than it does a confederation of communalized states and regions that survived the nuclear blast and subsequent rise of the world's oceans. Regularly, the member states of the Internationale meet on Havana Island to negotiate common issues and pass legislation. The nominal head of the Internationale is the Comrade High-commander, elected through the Internationale Congress. Likewise, additional high-commanders rule – if chosen necessary – to preside over the outlying regions as elected by local councils or politburos.
Location On Map:
Cuban and Caribbean islands, northern South America, Central America, and Southern Mexico
Demographics:
Latin American (Cuban, Afro-Carib, Colombian, Venezuelan, etc), Haitian, Mayan/indigenous
As a whole, Christian tradition has been somewhat maintained in the territories of the Internationale. However, severed from Europe as an effect of the nuclear war and general collapse of the modern world, the Catholic Church effectively ceased to exist, at least in the Americas. To fill the void left behind and a stronger center to their beliefs the nature of Christianity evolved to encompass and adapt aboriginal beliefs to make a heresy in of itself. Voodoo and other ancient religions imported to the New World as an effect of the Slave Trade integrated itself and the Creole and Spanish traditions of Voodoo more seamlessly meshing in the regional diaspora.
Compounding it further is the now widespread Cult of the Extraterrestrial, a belief that aliens exist and guide humanity and where the trinity and God take the form of unknown aliens beyond Earth. To the believers, extraterrestrial life has perfected the way to live and its followers seek to emulate their ways to ascend to a high means of existence more in harmony with themselves and world. To the believers, nuclear Armageddon was a necessity to purge the world and lay the way to rebuild humanity in an enlightened harmony.
Culture:
Nominally Latin American still. French-Creole, Spanish, and English is spoken. Within Central America indigenous practices have seen a resurgence.
Important States and Cities:
Havana Island – the seat of the Internationale
Tegucigalpa
Managuqa
San Jose
Barranquilla
Caracas
Belize
Guatemala
Tuxtla Gutierrez
San Juan
Santiago De Los Caballeros
History:
Following the nuclear wars, the devastation was not limited solely to the Great Powers. The nuclear fallout flowed over the Gulf of Mexico as the fires burned north over the horizon. As the seas rose, the problems were compounded as much the Caribbean was thrown into disarray. The governments of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic were thrown into as much disarray as the United States. Enveloped in crisis, the governments of the Caribbean islands collapsed as they were drowned by the sea or in migrants fleeing the United States or their not inundated homes.
What was left of international aid proved feeble and week and collapsed within the year. Incapable of hosting large populations, people fled the islands for the mainland, either choosing to brave nascent radiation in America or the relative health of South America. Either way, the crisis banded communities together who took charge of the situation to mostly save themselves. By this point all semblance of government had eroded and what remained in the likes of Cuba of government was isolated on an island and incapable of exercising control over the rest of its former nation.
The ideological importance of the Castros faded in favor of pragmatic survival as large groups turned whole scale to agricultural economies from the now stalled and faded manufacturing economy that the recent reforms in Cuba had been trying to capitalize on to expand the island nation's way of life. But much of this had lost value, and with the ocean waters heated from nuclear radiation hurricanes became all the more powerful and stunning as annually they were hammered by immense storms that swept the Caribbean and Gulf State of the Southern United States.
In the lack of control however, and the call for answers an ember that had been simmering hidden for almost fifty or sixty years became to pop and spark with life. With nuclear annihilation came the rebirth of the fringe philosophy of J. Posadas. While long dead, Posadas' legacy had been carried on by its few believers and on into the 21st century by a group of radical alien believers or ultra-left activists and no less than a few comedic types. But according to the philosophy of Posadas, nuclear annihilation was considered a way to wipe the slate clean, to rebuild the world free from the old sins. And not only that, that it was an inevitability anyways.
The resurgence of Posadism in the discourse of Cubans who have lived under a communist system for decades came as no effort of any one man, and for the most part the early fringe proselytes faded from common history like so many missionaries of the middle ages. Attracted on the promise of a responsive people's democracy, and that all was ultimately well in the world – no matter the crisis past or present – that they could begin again. And with the might and fury of the United States removed from the equation, they could begin again.
It was however another question in how to reconstruct Cuba. As an experiment over the next few hundred years Cuba was stitched together community by community. Ultimately the former government in a much maligned and decayed Havana was itself annexed into the new people's movement. Following which was bringing the revolution to the other islands and the chain of islands remaining in the Caribbean was steadily liberated and incorporated into the collective.
Forays on the coast of South America expanded the new tradition to new communities and swathes of the coastal and near coastal communities of Colombia and Venezuela were brought in over time. As was central America. Though, efforts to bring Revolution to North America were resisted by the city states there, operations have not let up. While in the south the rural inland and jungles proved to the Posadists that their position at sea may have perhaps put them at a disadvantage as a power of the inland sea.
All the same, for the Hispanic communities of central America they became an attractive force, ultimately meeting resistance from the “zombie” government of Mexico and elsewhere with incorporation of Chiapas and the Maya.
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