Summary

Actually a collection of nine separate but culturally homogenous kingdoms, the Dixie Alliance is a confederation of interrelated states.

Includes: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida

Borders: The Mississippi River to the west, against Texas and Louisiana; the Ohio River to the north against Lakes; the Ohio and Potomac Rivers to the north, against New England

Capital: Each of the nine kingdoms has an individual capital, but the de facto center of power is Atlanta

Language: English

History

The people of the Dixie Alliance claim to be the true heirs of Andrew Jackson.  It was their discontent with British Colonial rule at the dawn of the 19th Century that carried General Jackson forward into open rebellion with the United Kingdom.  His brilliant victories, coupled with British preoccupation with Napoleon in Europe and the flaring up of rebellions in the northern colonies, propelled Jackson to victory.

Andrew Jackson was crowned King Andrew I of Jacksonia and ruled in the new capital of Richmond until his death in 1845.  He was succeeded by his adopted son, King Andrew II (Andrew Jackson, Jr.), who had been educated in New England and had a greater love for the cities than the more rural colonies of his birth.  He moved his capital to Boston in 1847.  This incensed the people of the southern colonies.

The people of the south cast aspirations upon King Andrew II, who they pointed out was not Jackson’s son.  Several distant relatives of Andrew Jackson—or those who pretended to be relatives—tried to raise support in the former colonies for their claims to the throne.  King Andrew II cracked down on these pretenders, which worsened his reputation in the south.

Relations between the north and south continued to deteriorate, and ignited into the Jacksonian Civil War of 1860-1863.  The Dixie Alliance formed, and its brilliant generals won out against the much larger Jacksonia.

After the war, the victorious generals, and some of the throne claimants, held a congress to determine how the new nation would be governed and divided.  Ultimately, due to an inability of the lords and delegates to unite under a single ruler, the congress decided to form kingdoms along the lines of the old colonial boundaries, but to maintain strong military and economic ties.  Thus, the Dixie Alliance was born as a strong collection of independent kingdoms.

In the Great War of 1914-1917, the Dixie Alliance founds its confederation challenged by Jacksonia.  The Alliance held firm, and with the aid of the Dominion of Canada to the north and their European allies, brought the mighty Jacksonia to its knees.

Rulers

Each of the Nine Kingdoms of the Dixie Alliance has its own ruling family, but the most significant of these may be King Robert Edward I of Georgia.  A media mogul and billionaire, Robert Edward Turner secured the throne for himself through shrewd business deals and political maneuvers, marrying into the position.  Since assuming the kingship in 1983, he’s instituted a number of reforms that have been popular and have spread to the other kingdoms of Dixie.

Relations

The Nine Kingdoms tend to bicker with one another, but instantly unite against any larger threat.  The Dixie kingdoms love to taunt and throws barbs and both New England and Lakes, who (as Jacksonia) they’ve beaten twice in war.  In fact, it’s accepted as unquestioned truth in the south that the northerners are incapable of winning a war.  This has led to a rather cavalier attitude in trade and negotiations with the larger kingdoms of the north.

Dixie is cool towards Louisiana, which helped them neither in the War of Independence nor the Great War, and thus has done nothing to prevent it being gobbled up by other kingdoms.  Dixie likes Texas, and doesn’t worry about it expanding any farther east than the Mississippi. Nations that Dixie doesn’t border against it tends to ignore, as the attention of the independent kingdoms is more often occupied with their direct neighbors, including those in their alliance.

Of note are two secessionist movements in the Dixie Alliance.  The first is Florida, which Jacksonia opportunistically captured from the Spanish during the War of Independence.  King Andrew I put a general on that throne who ruled the newly acquired territory with little compassion for the conquered people.  A majority of the inhabitants of southern Florida are Spanish speaking, and resent being ruled by who they consider an invader.

The second movement is in Appalachia, a mountainous region that stretches through every Dixie Alliance kingdom but Florida, and up into Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.  In every kingdom it passes through, it is a poor, economically depressed region that is considered culturally backwards.  In Dixie, none of the Nine Kingdoms have done much to improve the lives, or even the basic infrastructure, of the Appalachians.  And since the 1960s, that has led to an annoying independence movement that will just not go away, despite the Appalachians having zero military, economic, or political clout.  Yet the Appalachians continue to strive for self-determination.