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Quincy (/ˈkwɪnzi/KWIN-zee), officially the United States of Quincy (French: États-unis de Quincey), is a nation comprised of 13 states in New England. It is bordered to the west by Ohio, and Ontario, and to the south by Maryland.
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 world-renowned United States of Quincy.
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.
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 [be] 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.
The standard way to refer to a citizen of Quincy is as a "Quincois."
History For thousands of years before the existence of Quincy, several native groups inhabited the region. Notably out of all of these, the Erie Natives, which would later evolve into their current form of the Haudenosaunee, of which were by the French referred to as the Iroquois. In the mid-1600s, with the foundation of New France, the original colony of Quincy was established as Quincey in the region around and south of the Saint Lawrence River. From 1607 onwards to 1754, the colony remained firmly in French hands, serving as a valuable asset to the fur trade.
By 1754, Quincy was a very well established Imperial French colony, but this would prove to not last, as in 1763 following the events of the Seven Years' War, the colony of Quincey ceased to exist and was replaced by Upper and Lower Canada. From 1763 to 1785, the name was retired to the pages of history, but as the future would prove, the dissolution of the United States opened the gateway to a reborn Quincy.
In 1785, the idea of an independent Quincy began to take off once again, as the southern American states began to prepare to declare independence in response to the new proposed Constitution. In 1786, after the departure of the southern states, on July 2nd, the states of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island all along with the rest of the remaining states dissolved the United States of America, with the five joining together into the new Allied States of Quincy.
Immediately after its establishment, Quincy was faced with multiple issues, most notably the Haudenosaunee people group, which held many lands throughout New York. So, to put the issue permanently to rest, a referendum in the state was held over the impasse, and by a slim margin of 51%, the state was split in half between Quincy and the Haudenosaunee people, who joined with Pennsylvania and Delaware to form the Haudenosaunee Confederation. With one issue solved, Quincy turned to the other; the issue of Northern Massachusetts.
From 1789 to 1795, the British territories of Canada and Quincy argued over the issue of Northern Massachusetts, until finally in 1795, President Charles Quincy came up with a compromise that would give Northern Massachusetts to British Canada, while promising that Quincy would retain an eternal friendship with whatever form of British North America existed. This agreement, signed into law 238 years ago, is the single longest lasting foreign agreement in Quincois history. After solving the main issues facing Quincy, the country settled into its first true era of peace, known to the Quincois history books as the Quinque-Publica Pax , or the Five-State Peace. This period lasted from 1796 to 1860, where upon the outbreak of the Continental War was ended.
In 1860, the New United States of America, formed in 1801, declared war on all of North America, including British Canada. At this point, nobody truly expected the New United States to win, but by 1864 this had radically changed, as only with the full joining of the British and French Empires into the war ended their massive push which had pushed up into Northern California and the Haudenosaunee Confederation and into mild skirmishes along the Quincois border. In the peace treaty that followed in 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse, following a complete collapse of the N.U.S.A. forces at the combined Anglo-Franco-American forces, the entire New United States was dissolved, and put under military rule by Britain and France until the areas were deemed stable enough to become independent once again. This also included the outlawing of slavery in the newly re-established nations, much to the protest of the N.U.S.A. military and political leaders.
Afterwards, from 1865 to 1916, the Quintus Postbellum era began, or the Quincois Post-War era. This era was marked by Quincy's pursuing of massive technological advances, achieving machine guns in 1898. However, much of this technology was incredibly classified, but leaked only to Britain and Canada for purposes of allied benefit. In 1916, North America once again went into war, with the southern nations siding with the Central Powers and much of the rest of the continent with the Entente. With the defeat of Germany in 1918 and the restoration of the Russian Empire upon Nicholas' restoration to the throne in 1920 after surviving his family's assassination, the Second Quintus Postbellum era began, lasting from 1919 to 1940. This era saw a massive growth of the Quincois economy from 1919 to 1931, upon which began the Jacques Street Crash, which crumbled the entire Quincois economy, dragging down the British and Haudenosaunee nations with them, before bringing the entire world down as well. The era from 1932 to 1940 was a depressing time for Quincy as a whole, with lines of people simply wanting food going for kilometres on end. However, all this would change in 1940 with the single worst event in the history of Quincy, which dragged the country into World War II.
On August 17th, 1940, at 09:30 Eastern Standard Time, five German Abwehr men, carrying three bombs, entered into the Albany Capitol Building, and detonated the bombs, killing themselves in the process. 85 other casualties occurred, with 17 dead in the immediate blast and others badly injured or wounded. It was the single deadliest day in Quincois history outside of the border skirmishes of the Continental War and North American Front of the First World War.
Thirty minutes after receiving the news, the Quincois Congress declared a state of war between the Allied States of Quincy and the German Reich. In a speech, then-President Herbert Hoover said what is considered to be one of the most gravitating speeches in the entire history of Quincy.
"Citizens, and all people of Quincy, I speak to you here today to tell you of a terrible, terrible action that has taken place in the great capital city of the State of Albany. Thirty minutes ago, the Albany State Capitol was infiltrated by five German Abwehr units, who subsequently carried three bombs into the building and detonated them. 17 people were killed, and several dozen more injured gravely. This is an intolerable action that I, nor the Allied States; shall permit. Therefore; a state of war henceforth exists between Quincy, and Germany."
Once again, similar to World War One, the frontlines more or less remained the same, with the southern nations once again being defeated. However, fueled by rage against the August 17th Attacks, the Quincois Armed Forces participated in the Operation Overlord invasion of Normandy, landing on Omaha beach with some Canadian divisions as well. In 1945, following Quincy's landmark liberation of Amsterdam, and the surrender of the Axis and Germany, Quincy demanded an occupation zone of the country, of which was split along with Austria into four occupied zones; one for the French, one for the British, one for the Quincois, and one for the Imperial Russian.
Following the war's end, drafts for a global alliance were drafted, which would succeed the former League of Nations, and would be called the Global Entente. Immediately upon the proposal, the French suggested an article be added prohibiting a state of war between any member state, so as to keep humanity from destroying itself any further. The British, Russian, and Quincois delegations had their hesitation to this, but overall agreed. The British and French, however, would come to regret this in years afterwards as their colonies began to declare independence.
With the Global Entente, two parts were established; them being the General Assembly and the Security Council, of which consisted of the Allied States of Quincy, the Russian Empire, United Kingdom, French Republic, and Republic of China. After its establishment, the Global Entente also was given the ability to deter war via nuclear threat, as to keep the world in check. Following the end of the Chinese Civil War in a nationalist victory in 1950, the world entered into the Pax Mundi , or World Peace. This period would begin in 1950, and continue to modern day.
For Quincy, the years following World War II were of massive social, technological, and economic progress, with many advances made in all categories. By the 1980s, Quincy had begun progress on modern computers, and was debating legislation that would allow same-sex marriage and ban conversion therapy. This law passed with a 85% approval rating, and Quincy would continue to advance its progressiveness towards all aspects of life, until in 2030, seeing the dangers of climate change, developed a process known as "Genetic Restructuring", which would take atoms from existing nonrenewables, foods, and beverages, and clone them. This immediately gave Quincy an incredulous amount of oil that they could manipulate to be environmentally friendly, which led to in 2032 Quincy being alongside the Kingdom of Bhutan classified as carbon-negative.
Geography The Amethyst Empire's territory spans a truly gargantuan size, expanding over 22 Sectors in the Sol System. Through this, the nation encompasses a vast array of physical geographies and climates, with Earth, the center of all known life within the system being marked by deserts, deciduous and tropical rainforests, taigas, tundras, and many other biomes and biospheres.
In terms of climate, at large, the Empire's average temperature is 0°C, or 32°F, as much of its territory sits on barren, frozen planets that are slowly being terraformed. At its hottest, Death Valley on Earth clocks in at a scorching 150°F.
Demography The approximate genetic and ethnic makeup of the Amethyst Empire is innumerable to count due to the sheer size of the Empire, but most Imperial censi acclaim the Empire to consist of 45% American, 32% Afroeurasian, 21% Oceanian or Antarctican, and the remaining 2% being natively born on the planets, moons, and stations beyond Earth.
Languages
Religion
Ethnic and Racial Makeup
Largest Cities
Rank
City
Population
State/District
1
Citadelle Améthyste
489,208,108
Earth Sector
2
Arrakis
155,120,597
Luna Sector
3
Artemis Station
108,597,508
Mars Sector
4
Solas
93,208,444
Belt Sector
5
Odyseé
45,109,497
Titan, Jupiter Sector
6
Astérion
22,201,222
Jupiter Sector
7
Victoria
9,608,104
Venus Sector
8
Minerva Outpost
3,200,000
Mercury Sector
9
Tranquillité
1,000,000
Venus Sector
10
Azura Station
950,000
Ceres, Mars Sector
Government
The Amethyst Empire, as prescribed in its Constitution, is a unitary absolute monarchy, with the Imperator wielding absolute executive, legislative, and judicial authority.
In practice, this power dynamic is exercised with the Imperator as the Head of State with the Imperial Council centered around him or her (depending on gender), functioning as a legislative advisory body to the Imperator.
On the judicial level, the Imperial Council delegates some power to the Imperial High Court, which in turn delegates authority to Sector-wide High Courts to handle smaller cases, while the Imperial High Court deals with issues of legality at the national level.
Foreign Relations and Military
As the sole power within the Sol System, the Amethyst Empire exercises a doctrine of "Cautious Expansionism," which declares the nation's hunger for expansion, but the idea of being restrained so as to not overextend the bureaucracy.
In terms of military strength, the Imperial Armed Forces possess a firepower of roughly 1.2 billion active duty soldiers at any given point, with a fleet of 150 corvettes, 250 destroyers, 300 cruisers, 550 battleships, and 25 superbattleships.
Economy
Economic Indicators Economic Indicators
Rank: Frightening
Currency: Imperial Credit (ς)
Fiscal Year: 7 April — February 27th
GDP (nominal): ς923.77 septillion
GDP (nominal) per capita: ς1.3 million
Labor Force: 12.8 billion
Unemployment: 0.009%
With the sheer scale of the Amethyst Empire in terms of its massive size, much of the economy is funded through the mining of asteroids in the Belt Sector, which has resulted in hefty boons to the Imperial economy for centuries.
Culture Stoic, hard-working, brutish, and blunt are all ways that Quincois are described as, with the Empire priding itself on the fact that most Quincois are unfaltering and unwilling to compromise, which has led to the culture of the nation becoming staunchly conservative and fiercely unchanging.
Infrastructure and Energy On Earth, massive hyperbullet train networks interconnect the planet, while beyond the borders of Earth, semi-Faster-than-Light travel systems allow for swift navigation of the Sol System, though true F-T-L tech is still yet to be comprehended.
In terms of infrastructure, the Amethyst Empire consists of a vast array of "city-planets," a term referring to the planet-wide style of cities the Empire is known for.
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