Quincy

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The United Commonwealth of Quincy Comunauté Uni du Quincey (French)
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: God Save Quincy, Our Homeland
Anthem: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Status	State of Baccalearum
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
• Governor	Arnold Landon
• Lieutenant-Governor	Pense Wells
• Speaker of the House of Commons	Miranda Huron
• Chief Justice	Tim Gerald
Legislature	State Parliament
• Upper house	House of Senators
• Lower house	House of Commons
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 (2030)	13.245 low (46 (in Baccalearum))
HDI (2030)	0.985 very high (2 (in Baccalearum))
Currency	Commonwealth 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 Commonwealth of Quincy (French: Comunauté Uni du Quincey), is a state of Baccalearum comprised of 5 regions in New England. It is bordered to the north and northeast by the State of Quėbec, and to the south and southwest by the State of Connecticut, Haudenosaunee State, and New York.

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-United Commonwealth 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

This section is covered on NationStates itself for sake of not clogging up IIWiki's database or making a separate article due to its sheer size that would be required to cover the over 200 years of history that Quincy spans. The link to this section is found at my main factbook.

Culture

State Anthem

The state anthem of Quincy, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", was adopted in 1862 officially as the Allied States' anthem during the Continental War, and remained the later United States' anthem as well as the United Commonwealth's anthem.