Quincy

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The United States of Quincy Les États-Unis de Quincey (French)
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: God Save Quincy, Our Homeland
Anthem: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Status	Sovereign State
Capital	Boston 42.3601° N, 71.0589° W
Largest city	Boston
Official languages	None
Recognised national languages	English, French
Recognised regional languages	Haudenosaunee
Ethnic groups	Quincois, Quebecois, Canadian, Haudenosaunee, etc
Demonym(s)	Quincois
Government	Federal Republic
• President	Arnold Landon
• Vice President	Pense Wells
• Speaker of the House	Miranda Huron
• Chief Justice	Tim Gerald
Legislature	Congress of the United States of Quincy (Congress)
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	House of Representatives
Independence from the United States of America
• Independence and dissolution of the United States of America	July 2nd, 1786
• Quinque-Publica Pax	1796-1860
• Continental War	1860-1865
• First Quintus Postbellum	1865-1916
• World War I involvement	1916-1918
• Second Quintus Postbellum	1919-1931
• Jacques Street Crash	October 25th-December 15th, 1931
• August 17th Bombings	August 17th, 1940
• Entry into World War II	August 17th, 1940, 9:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
• Cold War	1945-1990
• Reclassification to United States	September 29, 2033
• Joining into Baccalearum	July 4th, 2034
Area
• Total	138,808 km2 (53,594 sq mi) (83rd)
• Water (%)	47.38
Population
• 2030 estimate	9.6 million (122nd)
• 1790 census	1.45 million
• Density	543.9/km2 (1,408.7/sq mi)
Gini	13.245 low (98)
HDI	0.985 very high (5)
Currency	Quincois Dollar
Time zone	UTC -05:00/Eastern Standard Time
Date format	mm/dd/yyyy
Driving side	right (side of road)

Quincy (/ˈkwɪnzi/KWIN-zee), officially the United States of Quincy (French: Les États-Unis de Quincey), is a nation comprised of 5 states in New England. It is bordered to the north and northeast by the Commonwealth of Canada and to the south and southwest by Connecticut and the Haudenosaunee Confederation. Quincy is currently also undergoing a process to potentially integrate into the Baccalearan Commonwealth together with Georgia, Carolina, Virginia, the Haudenosaunee Confederation, and Connecticut; no concrete unification date has been set though as these nations have yet to come to a decision on the matter.

Etymology

It is unknown exactly where the name Quincy originated, but the most commonly and historically accepted origin is that it comes from the former French North American colony of Quincey, an archaic form of the word. The area applied to the word, however, has shifted much more southwards than it originally was intended, as it once meant the area around Montreal and Quebec City, whereas post-Revolutionary War it was applied to Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhodes. The word fell out of use from 1763-1785, but it picked up relevance again that year and was adopted as the name of the now world-renowned United States of Quincy.

Theories Around Its Original Meaning

Quincy as a name originates in the Latin term "Quintus", or Fifth-Born. The connection to this meaning is rather hotly debated among Quincois etymologists, but no concrete or overall opinion exists as to how the connection could play into any majorly significant meaning. Despite this, some persist with theories, a few of which, delve into more conspiratorial elements.

Conspiracies

There are two very well known conspiracies that have circulated around the origin of the name of Quincy, one being that the name originates from a Viking name, "Fimmtibarn", or Fifth-born, a literal translation of the name of Quincy from Latin. This suggestion has, however, received no genuine trend since the mid-1800s, as it lacks virtually any holding in historical truth.

The second theory, however, has a much higher number of proponents. The theory goes that, during the Crusades, Emperor Henry VI (April 14 1191-September 28 1197) of the Holy Roman Empire, in a conversation with his advisors, spoke the words "Vunf naht, vunf naht har din geben tau werdan." ("Five nights, five nights you have to born."), of which many attribute the portmanteau Vunfwerdan as an incredibly early form of the word Quincy. However, in recent years, fact checks and genuine delves into historical records of Henry VI have turned up nothing of this quote ever having been attributed to him.

History

Foundations

For thousands of years before the existence of Quincy, several native groups inhabited the region. Notably out of all of these, the Erie Natives, which would later evolve into their current form of the Haudenosaunee, of which were by the French referred to as the Iroquois. In the mid-1600s, with the foundation of New France, the original colony of Quincy was established as Quincey in the region around and south of the Saint Lawrence River. From 1607 onwards to 1754, the colony remained firmly in French hands, serving as a valuable asset to the fur trade.

By 1754, Quincy was a very well established Imperial French colony, but this would prove to not last, as in 1763 following the events of the Seven Years' War, the colony of Quincey ceased to exist and was replaced by Upper and Lower Canada. From 1763 to 1785, the name was retired to the pages of history, but as the future would prove, the dissolution of the United States opened the gateway to a reborn Quincy.

In 1785, the idea of an independent Quincy began to take off once again, as the southern American states began to prepare to declare independence in response to the new proposed Constitution. In 1786, after the departure of the southern states, on July 2nd, the states of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island all along with the rest of the remaining states dissolved the United States of America, with the five joining together into the new Allied States of Quincy.

Jacques Xavier and the 19th Century

Immediately after its establishment, Quincy was faced with multiple issues, most notably the Haudenosaunee people group, which held many lands throughout New York. So, to put the issue permanently to rest, a referendum in the state was held over the impasse, and by a slim margin of 51%, the state was split in half between Quincy and the Haudenosaunee people, who joined with Pennsylvania and Delaware to form the Haudenosaunee Confederation. With one issue solved, Quincy turned to the other; the issue of Northern Massachusetts.

From 1789 to 1795, the British territories of Canada and Quincy argued over the issue of Northern Massachusetts, until finally in 1795, President Jacques Xavier of Quincy came up with a compromise that would give Northern Massachusetts to British Canada, while promising that Quincy would retain an eternal friendship with whatever form of British North America existed. This agreement, signed into law 238 years ago, is the single longest lasting foreign agreement in Quincois history. After solving the main issues facing Quincy, the country settled into its first true era of peace, known to the Quincois history books as the Quinque-Publica Pax, or the Five-State Peace. This period lasted from 1796 to 1860, where upon the outbreak of the Continental War was ended.

Continental War

In 1860, the New United States of America, formed in 1801, declared war on all of North America, including British Canada. At this point, nobody truly expected the New United States to win, but by 1864 this had radically changed, as only with the full joining of the British and French Empires into the war ended their massive push which had pushed up into Northern California and the Haudenosaunee Confederation and into mild skirmishes along the Quincois border. In the peace treaty that followed in 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse, following a complete collapse of the N.U.S.A. forces at the combined Anglo-Franco-American forces, the entire New United States was dissolved, and put under military rule by Britain and France until the areas were deemed stable enough to become independent once again. This also included the outlawing of slavery in the newly re-established nations, much to the protest of the N.U.S.A. military and political leaders.

Quintus Postbellum

Afterwards, from 1865 to 1916, the Quintus Postbellum era began, or the Quincois Post-War era. This era was marked by Quincy's pursuing of massive technological advances, achieving machine guns in 1898. However, much of this technology was incredibly classified, but leaked only to Britain and Canada for purposes of allied benefit. In 1916, North America once again went into war, with the southern nations siding with the Central Powers and much of the rest of the continent with the Entente. With the defeat of Germany in 1918 and the restoration of the Russian Empire upon Nicholas' restoration to the throne in 1920 after surviving his family's assassination, the Second Quintus Postbellum era began, lasting from 1919 to 1940. This era saw a massive growth of the Quincois economy from 1919 to 1931, upon which began the Jacques Street Crash, which crumbled the entire Quincois economy, dragging down the British and Haudenosaunee nations with them, before bringing the entire world down as well. The era from 1932 to 1940 was a depressing time for Quincy as a whole, with lines of people simply wanting food going for kilometres on end. However, all this would change in 1940 with the single worst event in the history of Quincy, which dragged the country into World War II.

World War II

On August 17th, 1940, at 09:30 Eastern Standard Time, five German Abwehr men, carrying three bombs, entered into the Albany Capitol Building, and detonated the bombs, killing themselves in the process. 85 other casualties occurred, with 17 dead in the immediate blast and others badly injured or wounded. It was the single deadliest day in Quincois history outside of the border skirmishes of the Continental War and North American Front of the First World War.

Thirty minutes after receiving the news, the Quincois Congress declared a state of war between the Allied States of Quincy and the German Reich. In a speech, then-President Langley Eustace said what is considered to be one of the most gravitating speeches in the entire history of Quincy.

"Citizens, and all people of Quincy, I speak to you here today to tell you of a terrible, terrible action that has taken place in the great capital city of the State of Albany. Thirty minutes ago, the Albany State Capitol was infiltrated by five German Abwehr units, who subsequently carried three bombs into the building and detonated them. 17 people were killed, and several dozen more injured gravely. This is an intolerable action that I, nor the Allied States; shall permit. Therefore; a state of war henceforth exists between Quincy, and Germany."

Once again, similar to World War One, the frontlines more or less remained the same, with the southern nations once again being defeated. However, fueled by rage against the August 17th Attacks, the Quincois Armed Forces participated in the Operation Overlord invasion of Normandy, landing on Omaha beach with some Canadian divisions as well. In 1945, following Quincy's landmark liberation of Amsterdam, and the surrender of the Axis and Germany, Quincy demanded an occupation zone of the country, of which was split along with Austria into four occupied zones; one for the French, one for the British, one for the Quincois, and one for the Imperial Russian.

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