History of the Free Oceanic Republics

(For context, I'm calling the island Corsica because the Italian Catholic Union requested me to, and I saw no reason not to.)

TRIBAL YEARS

For thousands of years, native tribes built villages and expanded onto the island. For years, the land of Corsica was split up into numerous tribal villages, but very slowly over the years, the tribe of Oceniyar united the divided island, and thus the tribal times came to an end, as Oceniyar slowly developed into the Kingdom of Oceania, turning it into a monarchic structure ruled by kings.

MONARCHY YEARS 900-1900s

Throughout the thousand years, the monarchy held upright, establishing the now most populated and important city "Greencoast". It was a peaceful monarchy, it did not have any colonies and rarely ended up in wars, it held a neutral position, staying just out of the way of brutal conflicts. However, the kingdom with a lot of oppression. While those among the highest ranks and the monarchs enjoyed their luxuries, the people slowly started to realise their struggle for survival was getting harder and harder.

Monarchs became more brutal for their own gain, pushing taxes higher, pushing for harsher punishment for petty crimes, forcing people to work harder, and some even had to steal, kill and lie just to survive. The nation became unstable around the 1900s, and so on 1901, king Xavier II was travelling to the city of Casshire to address instability problems, one of his bodyguards turned on the cart, pointing the gun at his head and blasting Xavier's head open.

Soon after that, rebels flooded the streets. And so, the Kingdom crumbled on March 21st, 1901, and all people in power capitulated to the rebels.

REPUBLIC YEARS 1901-1970s

After the Kingdom crumbled, the Republic of Oceania replaced it. The first leader, Miles Hudson, chosen as the ruler for his efforts in the revolution against the Kingdom, set up a good example. He made many great reforms and transitioned the country from a monarchy to a republic rather smoothly, with little instability. For the 8 years that he stood in power, he set up a good example for a new era of Oceania.

However, this example that he had laid out was not followed. It was followed up by a line of corrupt leaders, incompetent leaders and essentially some dictators. Following the years, the people became more oppressed. It was like the Kingdom had never fell. Workers were in insufferable conditions, minority groups were oppressed and the people generally suffered in an attempt of survival. Many tried revolutions, but were quickly shut down by military intervention.

Those who attempted reform and attempted to stop the long line of corruption were dealt with in various ways. Be it blackmailed into retirement, assassination and such. It was a political warzone, but one political ideology started to gain heavy traction. Communism was on the rise, and by 1970s, the revolutionary army was considered strong enough to overthrow the republic.

And so, the revolutionaries gathered in Greencoast Port, prepared everything... and all of a sudden...

THE COMMUNIST TAKE-OVER OF THE REPUBLIC (1974-Modern Day)

Power lines were cut, trains were taken hostage of, they announced their motives to the public out loud, and with the force of the hammer and sickle, the people took the streets. Using the hostaged trains to send supplies towards Greencoast so that the people could survive for the time being. The revolutionaries army defeated the Oceanic Armed Forces as they charged up north from Greencoast to the northernmost city of Orkburgh, which had been the temporary capital for the republic, where the government had moved.

At Orkburgh, Everett Remington, the last Republic ruler offered a surrender to Andrew Preston, who was the leader of the Communist revolution. From that point onwards, all land was to be considered apart of the United Socialist States of Free Oceanic Republics

November 8th 1974. End of the Republic.

Andrew Preston lead the country with an iron fist, demolishing all political parties, leaving only the Communist Party of Oceania standing. He had quickly started to modernize the country to catch up with the slow Republic, modernizing the military and modernizing the countries technology in general. Once the damages that were caused during the revolution were all fixed up, private enterprise was demolished.

The means of production were handed to the state, the wealth was redistributed leaving little difference between the rich and the poor, and the people cheered their supreme leader on. And so, Preston began cracking down on opponents. Anti-communist politicians found themselves thrown off bridges, shot between the eyes, poisoned, bludgeoned, you get the deal. Opposition to the Communist party was illegal and anyone caught doing so would either be killed or sent to work in labour camps.

To some, Preston was a brutal dictator, to a lot of the population, they saw him as the release from the corrupt Republics. They saw him as a hero to the people. They saw his rule as only necessary. However, Preston would suffer a fatal heart attack on June 24 1995, and he would pass. His death would be seen as a tragedy around the country. He knew that he was going to die, so before he died, he made sure that the next person in line would be Jamison Forrest.

Jamison Forrest is the current leader of the nation, and has been the premier since June 25 1995, the day after Andrew Preston's death. Jamison Forrest had created the SIF standing for the "Securities Investigation Force". An unknown count of SIF officers slip into the popular cities as undercover, acting as regular citizens while spying on the populous to make sure there is no dissidents of the Party, instructed to arrest anyone dissenting and to send them to be questioned.

While the Free Oceanic Republics is a totalitarian police state, the people are blind to the truths and those who speak out are quickly silenced through brutal means. Will the Free Oceanic Republics survive? Or will it crumble? Let's find out, shall we?

INFORMATION:

Population: 4.2 million (APPROVED CHANGE BY MODERATOR TemplarRoman#2838. Used to be 537,000 in registration to Hansdeltania.)

Capital: Greencoast (southern part of country where real life Hobart would be.)

Type of currency: wadurs

Premier/Leader: Jamison Forrest (51 years old)