Info about Maineiacs

Provinces (OOC: I do not RP with the 20+ billion my homepage lists as my nation's population)--

Province	Population	Capital	Population
Kalaallit Nunaat	84,122	Nuuk	27,821
Nunavut	59,111	Iqaluit	11,610
Newfoundland	789,431	St. John's	163,290 (city) 321,066 (metro)
Acadia	2,882,019	Halifax	475,052 (city) 672,816 (metro)
Québec	12,863,916	Québec City	797,703 (city) 1,248,492 (metro)
Ontario	24,204,219	Toronto	4,097,357 (city) 9,832,808 (metro)
Aroostook	5,074,448	Portland	99,323 (city) 771,147 (metro)
Plymouth	17,599,860	Boston	1,038,901 (city) 7,309,529 (metro)
Allegheny	63,753,131	Maineiacs City	12,505,226 (city) 30,273,458 (metro)
Potomac	27,544,739	Georgetown	1,034,318 (city) 13,620,810 (metro)
Carolina	23,336,720	Charlotte	1,328,562 (city) 3,955,325 (metro)
Florida	55,910,696	Atlanta	760,217 (city) 9,030,546 (metro)
Cumberland	17,125,014	Nashville	1,041,216 (city) 2,901,476 (metro)
Ohio	71,052,799	Chicago	4,040,964 (city) 14,326,547 (metro)
Dakota	11,058,383	St. Paul	462,144 (city) 5,482,362 (metro)
Nebraska	21,366,999	Omaha	717,288 (city) 1,424,163 (metro)
Mississippi	15,945,840	New Orleans	585,216 (city) 1,905,795 (metro)
Bahamas	729,087	Nassau	411,601
Cuba	17,103,462	Havana	3,195,776 (city) 7,302,350 (metro)
Antilles	47,144,796	Santo Domingo	1,511,996 (city) 4,362,911 (metro)

(Real world analogs: Kalaallit Nunaat = Greenland; Nunavut = Nunavut; Newfoundland = NL & St. Pierre and Miquelon; Québec = QC; Ontario = ON & MB; Acadia = NS, NB, PEI; Aroostook = ME, NH, VT; Plymouth = MA, RI, CT; Allegheny = NY, NJ, PA; Potomac = MD, DE, VA, WV, DC; Carolina = NC, SC; Florida = GA, FL, AL; Cumberland = KY, TN; Ohio = OH, IN, IL, MI, WI; Dakota = MN, ND, SD; Nebraska = NE, IA, KS, MO; Mississippi = MS, LA, AR; Bahamas = The Bahamas, Bermuda, & Turks and Caicos; Cuba = Cuba & Caymans; Antilles = Most of Caribbean)

Total Population: 435,628,792

25 Largest Population Centers (metro populations):

Rank	Metro area	Province	Population
1.	Maineiacs City	Allegheny/Plymouth	30,273,358
2.	Chicago	Ohio	14,436,547
3.	Georgetown/Baltimore	Potomac	13,620,810
4.	Toronto	Ontario	9,832,808
5.	Miami/Ft. Lauderdale	Florida	9,249,732
6.	Philadelphia	Allegheny/Potomac	9,104,813
7.	Atlanta	Florida	9,030,546
8.	Boston	Plymouth/Aroostook	7,309,529
9.	Havana	Cuba	7,302,350
10.	Detroit/Windsor	Ohio/Ontario	6,790,185
11.	Montréal	Québec	6,068,816
12.	Minneapolis/St. Paul	Dakota/Ohio	5,482,362
13.	Tampa/St. Petersburg	Florida	4,462,838
14.	Santo Domingo	Antilles	4,362,911
15.	St. Louis	Nebraska/Ohio	4,217,382
16.	Charlotte	Carolina	3,955,325
17.	Port-au-Prince	Antilles	3,928,341
18.	Orlando	Florida	3,580,707
19.	Pittsburgh	Allegheny	3,529,568
20.	San Juan	Antilles	3,525,189
21.	Cincinnati	Ohio/Cumberland	3,236,579
22.	Osage City	Nebraska	3,131,207
23.	Cleveland	Ohio	3,091,215
24.	Columbus	Ohio	3,032,448
25.	Wabash City	Ohio	2,983,226

Meteorological Data (in °C):

City	Jan.	Jul.
Name	Hi/Lo	Hi/Lo
Nuuk	-6/-10	9/4
Iqaluit	-23/-31	12/4
St. John’s	1/-8	21/11
Halifax	-1/-10	22/13
Québec City	-7/-16	24/14
Toronto	-2/-10	27/15
Portland	-1/-10	26/15
Boston	2/-5	28/18
Maineiacs City	4/-3	29/21
Georgetown	6/-2	31/22
Charlotte	10/-1	32/20
Atlanta	11/1	31/22
Nashville	8/-2	32/21
Chicago	-1/-9	29/18
St. Paul	-5/-15	29/17
Omaha	1/-10	31/19
New Orleans	16/6	33/23
Nassau	25/17	31/25
Havana	25/17	31/23
Santo Domingo	27/21	30/24

From A Survey of World History:

Part 10: The Collapse and its aftermath.

The seeds of what has become known as the Collapse were sown in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The unsound economic policies of many nations led to a series of small scale crises for a number of years (Japan 1986; U.S. 1987, 2001, 2008 & 2010; Finland 1991; Mexico 1994; UK 1997 & 2016; Thailand 1997; Russia 1998; Turkey 2000; Argentina 2001 & 2014; Greece 2010, 2013 & 2015; Spain 2013; China 2015, 2016 & 2020). As well as the worldwide economic downturn due to the Covid pandemic of 2019 - 2021. Many of the "remedies" sought for these crises were mere stop-gap measures at best and did little to nothing to address the underlying causes. It was in 2025 however, that the world was forced to face up to what it had wrought. The austerity measures ("budget sequesters") pursued by the U.S. Government in its budgets for FY 2014 to 2024 did not address such issues as crumbling infrastructure and income inequality, nor did it address the practices of the financial community that had led to the previous crises. Instead, "blame" was laid at the feet of the poorer levels of society. Eliminate the dependency of "freeloaders", it was said, and prosperity would eventually come to all. This notion was shattered on “Black Monday”; July 13, 2025. Spurred by rumors of a default by the U.S. government on its foreign debt for the third time in little more than a decade combined with the nervousness already present due to several years of extreme volatility in Chinese markets, a panic in financial circles sent the Wall Street Exchange plummeting to unprecedented losses. The free fall continued for weeks, despite measures taken in the late 1980s to ensure that catastrophic one-day losses did not recur. By summer's end the Dow Jones Industrial Index (a grouping of supposedly "sound" companies used as the main economic barometer) had fallen 95%. The reverberations were immediate, and global. In quick succession, U.K., Japan, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, and then all other markets collapsed completely, leading to a fifty year-long depression known as “The Dark Years”.

The crisis destroyed a European Union already weakened by the departure of the United Kingdom in the years preceding the Collapse (until its rebirth as a more straightforward governmental body two generations later), destroyed OPEC as member nations cut off the quickly dwindling supply of oil in a fit of protectionism ostensibly to minimize the impact of the Panic of '25, and sent nation after nation to the brink of civil war. Martial law was declared in the U.S. in the spring of 2025 in response to food riots in several major cities, and many other nations followed suit. By 2026 however, the U.S. government had ceased to function at all, as transportation, trade, and money flow either slowed or ceased completely. Most other countries faced similar dilemmas. The states were left to fill the void, and were to a one unprepared to do so. Mankind was on the verge of falling back to the tribal stage as local warlords sprang up in many areas, attempting to fill the power vacuum.

Society cannot not long last without some sort of centralized co-ordination, so eventually new countries were forged from the ashes of the old. The route taken toward this consolidation varied from region to region. In North America, the remnants of the governments of most of the eastern U.S. states and Canadian provinces began to coalesce in to a new centralized government based in what was once known as New York City beginning in 2072, as the world was just beginning to come out of the chaos of The Dark Years. Eventually, Greenland (left on its own after the Danish government collapsed) and the island nations of the Caribbean joined this new nation. The one small mercy of the Collapse had been that, due to the very fact that every nation on earth had been economically ravaged by the Collapse, no country had the infrastructure nor the economic means and were too filled with internal strife to attack its neighbors, so fears of a global nuclear exchange never came to fruition; the exceptions being the Israeli-Iranian War of 2026 which tragically resulted in the destruction of both Jerusalem and Tehran and the Second Korean War, in which a similar nuclear exchange obliterated Seoul and Pyongyang. This relatively fortunate circumstance meant that technology was still useful, once the local populace was stable enough to begin to rebuild. Computer networks could be rebuilt, as could more mundane things like roads and ports. Medical treatments would be once again possible, and the dramatic shortening of human life spans from otherwise preventable diseases that occurred during the Dark Years could begin to be reversed.

This new Eastern North American nation needed a name. Someone jokingly suggested an old derogatory name for citizens from the American state of Maine, and the name "Maineiacs" stuck (in much the same way that 18th century British soldiers referred to American rebels as "Yankee" or "Yankee Doodle" in derision, and the American Colonists took the name, adopted it as their own, and wore it as a badge of honor), while New York City was renamed Maineiacs City. The Constitution of Maineiacs, based partly on American and partly on Canadian law, took effect in 2076 (ironically the 300th anniversary of the formation of the U.S.), and the nation's first elections were held. There were many changes made in the way this new nation would conduct itself. Numerous restrictions on corporate greed were put in place. The once "dirty word" of Socialism now became the modus operandi of the new nation, and a mixed capitalist-socialist economy began to flourish. While some complained of high tax burdens, most saw this as the surest way to rebuild quickly; the Austrian school of economics having fallen decidedly out of favor and supplanted by a more Keynesian approach. The idea worked, and for FY 2111 Maineiacs boasted a per capita GDP (PPP) of 27,209.33 Energy Credits ($47,735.67 US pre-Collapse); slightly more than the United Kingdom had held before the Collapse; so, although per capita production was not yet at The United States' (nor Canada's) pre-Collapse levels, average income was 134,434ECr ($235,849.12 US pre-Collapse) far higher than any pre-Collapse nation, with very little income disparity; meaning poverty was all but non-existent in a very short period of time following the nation's founding. The revenue intake has helped pay for a modernized infrastructure, technological breakthroughs in areas such as communications (holo-phones), medicine (AIDS vaccine, organ cloning), transport (improved fuel cell cars, hypersonic air travel), and computerization (research into virtual intelligence), and also an extensive social safety net, and has resulted in 25 straight years of budget surpluses. The government began a program of returning the surpluses to its citizens in the form of tax refunds beginning in 2101.

A discussion of how other regions handled rebuilding will be discussed in the following subsection, followed by a more in-depth look at the formation of the Maineiacs Government and its more recent move away from the isolationist policy it had pursued for the first 30 years of its existence...