Gulf States Confederation

Gulf States Confederation
Flag
Motto: "Under God, our Vindicator"
Capital	Gulfport
Largest city	New Orleans
Official languages	English
Government	Confederated presidential republic
• President	Leroy J. Samson
• Vice President	Matthew F. Bailey
Legislature	Congress
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	Assembly
Establishment
• Mississippi and Alabama sign treaty of cooperation and self-defence	May 1991
• Louisiana signs treaty with Mississippi and Alabama	October 1991
• Declaration of the Gulf States Confederation	December 1991
Population
• 2020 estimate	12,580,000
Currency	Mississippi Dollar, Alabama Dollar, Louisiana Dollar, Arkansas Dollar
Time zone	EST
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy
Driving side	right
Internet TLD	.GS

The Gulf States Confederation is a self-proclaimed breakaway state in the Gulf Coast region of North America and came into existence after the events of Shattered Union. It is comprised of parts of the former states of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, but primarily coastal areas. The new constituent states are State of Orleans, State of Northshore, State of Biloxi, State of Mobile, State of Mississippi, State of Blackbelt, State of Alabama, State of Natchez, State of North Louisiana and the State of Acadiana.

Claiming ownership over fully-operational offshore oil rigs, the Gulf States Confederation holds access to the extremely valuable commodity, exporting crude oil and refined petroleum products to the Georgia Federation and the Republic of Jackson. The GSC maintains activity in other industries such as agriculture, aquaculture and shipping.

The Gulf States Confederation has had a rough relationship with the Republic of East Texas and the newly formed Republic of Florida, which was originally a part of the GSC but struck out on its own after political disagreements and the influence of Florida independence movements. Although Georgia refused to join the GSC, the relationship between the Gulf States and the Georgia Federation has been good, and the two are active trading partners.

History

As secession movements grew in the United States, the people in Mississippi and Alabama became greatly concerned. In July 1991 the General Assembly called an election for the people to vote on whether Mississippi should hold a convention to consider secession. At the same time the voters were to elect delegates to the convention in case the vote should be favorable. On August 18, 1991, the people of Mississippi voted to call a secession convention.

Secessionist forces began calling for the seizure of the Federal Arsenals, military bases and critical infrastructure before riots and looting destroy them. When rumors were circulated that the Governor of Mississippi might not actually secede, militia companies began assembling in counties all across Mississippi by September 5, 1991, and they made their intention to seize these places in the name of an independent Mississippi.

Two weeks later, the Mississippi Secession Convention convened at the State House Montgomery. Judge George S. Harrison, who opposed secession and believed that the United States would recover, was elected its president. The convention continued in session for two and a half weeks. Feeling ran high and many fiery speeches were made about creating an independent state, proposing to work with Alabama, where similar events were happening.

The convention reconvened in Montgomery, this time with delegates from Alabama spectating and, on October 6, 1991, passed the ordinance of secession.

Alabama had similar events taking place. May 1991, the Alabama Secession Convention issued its own ordinance, in which it outlined the causes that motivated the state to declare its secession from the Union. After Mississippi had passed its ordinance of secession, delegates from Alabama arrived with the intention of arranging a treaty for cooperation and self-defence. Both states agreed.

After the Republic of East Texas was officially organized and in full effect, the various successor states of the former state of Louisiana felt that East Texas might attempt to seize territory there, and possibly seize offshore oil platforms owned by companies based in Louisiana. On October 14, 1991, delegates from North Louisiana, Avoyelles and Acadiana approached the provisional government, who agreed to "aid the successor states of eastern Louisiana against any action that threatens the security and saftey of its people within and any action that might threaten the people's right to-self determination and independence."

The aformentioned states drafted a temporary ordinance of secession, and signed into effect the treaty with the provisional government.

Florida had briefly joined in cooperation, but a subsequent coup d'etat by radical secessionists seized power, and had no intention of cooperating with the Gulf States.

As Georgia declared themselves "completely and entirely independent" on December 9, 1991, and proclaimed themselves the Georgia Federation, and as conditions in the former United States continued to worsen, the provisional governments of the various states within Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama held a constituent assembly to determine their future. After the week long meeting, it was decided that the three states would remain in cooperation as the "Gulf States Confederation". In the draft constitution, the confederate government would be responsible for national defence, trade agreements, the mediator between states and international diplomacy representing the confederation. Most other issues are left to the individual states.

On February 19, 1992, a spilter group of counties in Delta (Mississippi) who had not wanted to join with the Republic of East Texas, the Independent Republic of Arkansas or the Tennessee Valley Military Authority, approached the provisional government of the Gulf States Confederation asking for its protection. The GSC agreed, and allowed the counties to become the state of Delta within the confederation.

By June 1992, the provisional government of the Gulf States Confederation decided to shift from provisional governance to putting the constitution of the GSC into full effect.

Politics

The Senate of the Gulf States Confederation has 33 members, three from each constituent state. The Assembly has 236 members, divided based on population by each county within the states. The President of the Gulf States Confederation is elected to serve a six-year term but without the possibility of re-election. The constitution gives the president the ability to subject a bill to a line item veto, a power also held by some state governors. According to the constitution, Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for revenue, necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Gulf States Confederation. It also holds the ability to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States.

The Congress of the Gulf States Confederation could overturn either the general or the line item vetoes with two-thirds votes required.

State legislatures are free to make its own decisions except if the constitution of the Gulf States Confederation laid out other rules. States are however limited in some degree. According to the constitution, no State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on tonnage, except on sea-going vessels, for the improvement of its rivers and harbors navigated by the said vessels; but such duties shall not conflict with any treaties of the Gulf States Confederation with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue, thus derived, shall, after making such improvement, be paid into the common treasury. Nor shall any state keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. But when any river divides or flows through two or more States, they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.

In the Gulf States Confederation, there is a Supreme Court, bust most judicial matters are left to State and District Courts.