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History of Preusia and the Hansa Confederation
History of the Hansa Confederation and Early Preusamerican Culture 1850s - 2040s
The Hansa Confederation was a unified conglomerate of sovereign states and city-states that occupied parts of the former American Midwest, Northeast, and Canada now otherwise completely known as the American Hansa. The name was derived from the Hanseatic League found in the 14th century as an organization to protect mutual trade interests between townships and municipalities in North Germany and the Baltic. Similarly, the Hansa Confederation founded and operated under the National Assembly that originally acted as a provisional government during immediate post-crisis events such as the aftermath of the eruption of Yellowstone and the Entry of the Riftborn. Since its founding it had since acted as a very limited broker of treaties, laws, trade, etc between the self-determining states, semi-states, and municipal freeholds within the American Hansa to symbolically represent a more unified country but in reality was largely put aside in favor of direct interstate/city relations.
Before the founding of the National Assembly, however, the American Hansa was largely occupied by migrant-refugees of which include many self-identifying Americans, Native-American, African-American, and German Migrants that occupied much of the north midwest originally. During the immediate post-crisis many small townships and villages that would become future cities and freeholds were instead many quarrelling ethnic-aligned settlements that practiced rudimentary isolationism from one another originally. Overtime new settlements began to emerge in the American Hansa, some that saw more prosperity than others received large inner-migrant waves from many of the surrounding and differing communities hoping to not just survive but also thrive and accomplish even during the events post-crisis. These large and growing settlements became known as "Boomtowns" or "Bordertowns" wherein these places grew exponentially with population and wealth. Of course, this opportunity was seized by a variety of groups with large emphasis on German, American, and African-American refugees who were willing to do hard work and labor such as construction, reconstruction, shipping, farming, mining, and so on. With these flourishing cities these groups were constantly interacting with each other either directly or indirectly with there having of course been some conflict in the beginning. Overtime, however, these groups began to collaborate more and the movement of culture, food, ideas, innovations, and so on became less and less restricted. It would be in these Boomtowns that a rudimentary German-American syncretic culture began to form and that would eventually reach out to the surrounding villages and other rural settlements of the American Hansa with growing re-urbanization.
Since the founding of the National Assembly and the officialization of the Hansa Articles of Confederation written by the original Thirteen Founders these settlements across the American Hansa experienced rapid growth and prosperity and even an element of unity wherein the HAC being the first document that mentions in a multitude of lines German-American Cooperation. Though historians struggle to determine if they meant German and American or if they recognized the German-American culture initially, many have taken it as the latter especially during the century-and-a-half leading up to the second millennia where many census reports saw the exponential rise of the German-American identity. It was also during the time that groups began to call for a stronger and more unified Hansa state with the founding of several partisan groups dedicated to the emergence of a proper German-American state built on the principles of republicanism, liberalism, and other elements of the enlightened school of thought that re-emerged once the troubled era of the post-crisis began to diminish.
Around the early to mid-2000s, tensions began to flare between the different Post-American states that occupied the lands of the Old Union. This came to the forefront when in the 2020's the Dixie Republic and the American Commonwealth became engaged in a war due to Dixie's dissatisfaction with the ACCE monopolizing trade through the Potamic Seaway. A year after conflicts began to escalate drastically the Western Federation interfered in the conflict against Dixie which caused the Hansa Confederation to consider action as well. A great debate emerged at the National Assembly concerning if the Hansa Confederation should join the war and if so, to what side they should join in the conflict. Many argued that Dixie was a threat to long-term peace in America and that their actions taken against the ACCE were born out of expansionist and an imperialist agenda. Many then also took this argument and applied it to the Western Federation as it was and still remains today a great and sizable state. Many in the Assembly argued that this would spark West American policies of interventionism if not already planning to use this war as an excuse to annex Dixie into their union which greatly upset many of the now popular German-American nationalists who feared that if the Western Federation was not brought into alignment it would disrupt the American balance of power and before the century ends may result in a a single-American continental state dictated solely by West America. A vote was held in the Assembly and the result came to be entering the war against the Western Federation.
These events would prompt the temporary dissolution of the Hansa Confederation into the Hansa Military Consulate led and organized by General Markus Kruber for the next twenty years the war was actually waged. Entry of the HMC who were quick to mobilize and develop the First National Army of the Hansa made up of proud and rowdy German-Americans who believed they would be fighting to protect their sovereignty from "The West". This two decade-long conflict resulted in a significant amount of destruction to occur along the shared land border as well as coastal settlements along the east of the Western Federation, West of the HMC, and southern portions of both states respectively. With the aid of Dixie many thought that the war would be over quickly though the conflict stretched ever greater with no power making enough headway to ever claim victory. Over the years morale and drive quickly waned as swift victories were met with grueling defeats and rumors spreading among HMC regiments that the Dixie army engaged in terrible, mortifying practices of skinning and wearing Demi-Humans and Riftborn races that caused many to reconsider what exactly they were fighting for. This all came to a head when the Western Federation dropped the first atomic bomb on San Antonio which both greatly confused and spread dread and despair among HMC soldiers. Many in the HMC waited, soldier and civilian alike, to see one rogue aircraft flying overhead to send them into panic. However none such came and instead, the Western Federation approached the HMC not to demand surrender but to enter an Armistice where a post-war treaty signed would have sympathy to the HMC cause and allow them to step out without significantly damaging repercussions. The war-weary HMC agreed to to the terms and withdrew from the war and in the early 2040's the war officially comes to a close with the HMC allowed air their concerns and compromise with the Western Federation and ACCE, talking them out of a full or greater annexation and puppeting of Dixie. Instead coastal states close to the Western Federation were seized and the Hansa promised to help in the rebuilding of ruined settlements as well as paying off a fair deal of reparations to the Western Federation.
The late 2040's would end with the dissolution of the HMC and General Markus Kruber stepping down into retirement and a provisional confederation being established for roughly two-years. During this time great debate circulated in the National Assembly on how the country should move forward from the North American War. Many argued on behalf of establishing a proper federalized union of the Hansa, citing the Hansa Military Consulate as an example of albeit misguided but the gateway to having a proper nationalized state for the Hansamericans. This idea gradually grew in popularity during the two -year period with it ultimately cultivating in a referendum being held on whether or not to reorganize into a federal republic. A minority of municipal leaders feared this would take away powers of the local government and thus many city leaders and state organizers voted against a federalized republic, however a majority of the people of the Hansa strengthened by the idea of unity voted for and the bill passed wherein the Hansa Provisional Confederation would work to reorganize into the Federal Republic of the American Hansa. It was at this point that a new constitution for the federal republic was in the works that was largely handled by Secretary James Hengest and Secretary Kaspar Brauer who were reported to have "communication difficulties'' during the process of drafting the constitution with other writers with Hengest making strong references to to the "...might and nobility of Prussia" which Brauer kept writing as "Preusia" as harsh translation error since Germanic speakers referred to the country in question as "Preussen". However despite the error, the name actually stuck and when the constitution and the republic were ratified in August 18th, 2048 many began to refer to themselves as Preusamerican/Preusamerikan in honor of the founding of the constitution which then resulted in the Federal Republic of the Hansa being soon renamed to the Federal Republic of Preusia.
Federal Republic of Preusia from the Beginning to Today 2050s - 2120s
Immediately after the founding of the FRP thus began the "Hansa Reconstruction Era'' where the post-war economy was being stimulated, public works projects incentivized by the government to rebuild decimated municipalities and wonders, and putting to the test the foundations of the new Preusian Republic. Cost-effective and efficient housing needs saw the rise and demand of large residential zones dominated by large apartment complexes as well as seeing industry move much closer towards these heavily-populated locations to capitalize on the opportunity of soldiers or youth looking for work post war. Also following the end of the war and founding of the republic was a significant increase in population overall as Preusia experienced a great baby-boom with returning soldiers looking to settle down properly. It soon became an era of gentle prosperity for Preusia as though there lingered a sense among those who disagreed with events leading up to now, a majority of the people relished in the new opportunities it brought as Preusia worked to amend relations with West America, ACCE, and Dixie offering their nation as a neutral ground to do inter-american trade and business which due to the Preusia's centralized location ended up paying off greatly as both domestic and foreign businesses began to rise in the country.
The era was also marked by a significant development and discovery made by Gerard Muller who founded a new formula for combustible fuel known as CHOOH2 formed from patented high-sugar wheats native to the American Hansa that could be combined with yeast and processed into alcohol. This led to the founding of several newer brewer industries but more importantly the founding of a new synthetic fuel source of modified grain-based alcohol known for burning at high temperatures, combusting quickly, and burning much cleaner than diesel or gasoline. This discovery was made under Preusia Biotechnical Research Industries (Later named Biotechnica) who as a smaller corporation focused on the production and further study of high-sugar wheats (sugarwheat) and instead licensed the refining and production of CHOOH2 to Petrochemical Corp. (Later just Petrochem) which started to supply most of the gas serivce and transportation industries in the American Hansa which prompted Preusia being exploring and investing in alternative fuel source industries similar to Petrochem which saw the rise of newer public and private hydroelectic, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal and other "green" energies as they were starting to be called.
As of the 2120s, Preusia stands as a highly unified and prosperous liberalized democracy where the current zeitgeist in the nation is focused on addressing social issues rather than economic ones of the past with the current Chancellor; Jan Vahlen expressing ideals and values from both the Preusia Unionist Party and the Hansa Liberal-Democratic Party having formed a collaboration government with Olivia Tandi as his VC in hopes of continuing to fan Preusia's prosperity and large sense of unity. Preusia also stands as one of many dominant influencers in Western culture aided by them often taking in elements of surrounding cultures and being very outspoken and expressive. Also practically being aided by the nation boasting one of the highest percentages of internet access and connectivity in the world. And though the nation benefits greatly economically from the use Petrochem and the fuel being much clear than gasoline or diesel, still over-refining of Petrochem is raising health concern as more smog is generated from refining facilities, automobiles, trains, planes, etc with health and environmental activists moderately protesting continual growth of these products and emphasizing focus and development of alternative sources of energy with big interest in nuclear, hydroelectric, and solar.
History of the Hansa Confederation and Early Preusamerican Culture 1850s - 2040s
The Hansa Confederation was a unified conglomerate of sovereign states and city-states that occupied parts of the former American Midwest, Northeast, and Canada now otherwise completely known as the American Hansa. The name was derived from the Hanseatic League found in the 14th century as an organization to protect mutual trade interests between townships and municipalities in North Germany and the Baltic. Similarly, the Hansa Confederation founded and operated under the National Assembly that originally acted as a provisional government during immediate post-crisis events such as the aftermath of the eruption of Yellowstone and the Entry of the Riftborn. Since its founding it had since acted as a very limited broker of treaties, laws, trade, etc between the self-determining states, semi-states, and municipal freeholds within the American Hansa to symbolically represent a more unified country but in reality was largely put aside in favor of direct interstate/city relations.
Before the founding of the National Assembly, however, the American Hansa was largely occupied by migrant-refugees of which include many self-identifying Americans, Native-American, African-American, and German Migrants that occupied much of the north midwest originally. During the immediate post-crisis many small townships and villages that would become future cities and freeholds were instead many quarrelling ethnic-aligned settlements that practiced rudimentary isolationism from one another originally. Overtime new settlements began to emerge in the American Hansa, some that saw more prosperity than others received large inner-migrant waves from many of the surrounding and differing communities hoping to not just survive but also thrive and accomplish even during the events post-crisis. These large and growing settlements became known as "Boomtowns" or "Bordertowns" wherein these places grew exponentially with population and wealth. Of course, this opportunity was seized by a variety of groups with large emphasis on German, American, and African-American refugees who were willing to do hard work and labor such as construction, reconstruction, shipping, farming, mining, and so on. With these flourishing cities these groups were constantly interacting with each other either directly or indirectly with there having of course been some conflict in the beginning. Overtime, however, these groups began to collaborate more and the movement of culture, food, ideas, innovations, and so on became less and less restricted. It would be in these Boomtowns that a rudimentary German-American syncretic culture began to form and that would eventually reach out to the surrounding villages and other rural settlements of the American Hansa with growing re-urbanization.
Since the founding of the National Assembly and the officialization of the Hansa Articles of Confederation written by the original Thirteen Founders these settlements across the American Hansa experienced rapid growth and prosperity and even an element of unity wherein the HAC being the first document that mentions in a multitude of lines German-American Cooperation. Though historians struggle to determine if they meant German and American or if they recognized the German-American culture initially, many have taken it as the latter especially during the century-and-a-half leading up to the second millennia where many census reports saw the exponential rise of the German-American identity. It was also during the time that groups began to call for a stronger and more unified Hansa state with the founding of several partisan groups dedicated to the emergence of a proper German-American state built on the principles of republicanism, liberalism, and other elements of the enlightened school of thought that re-emerged once the troubled era of the post-crisis began to diminish.
Around the early to mid-2000s, tensions began to flare between the different Post-American states that occupied the lands of the Old Union. This came to the forefront when in the 2020's the Dixie Republic and the American Commonwealth became engaged in a war due to Dixie's dissatisfaction with the ACCE monopolizing trade through the Potamic Seaway. A year after conflicts began to escalate drastically the Western Federation interfered in the conflict against Dixie which caused the Hansa Confederation to consider action as well. A great debate emerged at the National Assembly concerning if the Hansa Confederation should join the war and if so, to what side they should join in the conflict. Many argued that Dixie was a threat to long-term peace in America and that their actions taken against the ACCE were born out of expansionist and an imperialist agenda. Many then also took this argument and applied it to the Western Federation as it was and still remains today a great and sizable state. Many in the Assembly argued that this would spark West American policies of interventionism if not already planning to use this war as an excuse to annex Dixie into their union which greatly upset many of the now popular German-American nationalists who feared that if the Western Federation was not brought into alignment it would disrupt the American balance of power and before the century ends may result in a a single-American continental state dictated solely by West America. A vote was held in the Assembly and the result came to be entering the war against the Western Federation.
These events would prompt the temporary dissolution of the Hansa Confederation into the Hansa Military Consulate led and organized by General Markus Kruber for the next twenty years the war was actually waged. Entry of the HMC who were quick to mobilize and develop the First National Army of the Hansa made up of proud and rowdy German-Americans who believed they would be fighting to protect their sovereignty from "The West". This two decade-long conflict resulted in a significant amount of destruction to occur along the shared land border as well as coastal settlements along the east of the Western Federation, West of the HMC, and southern portions of both states respectively. With the aid of Dixie many thought that the war would be over quickly though the conflict stretched ever greater with no power making enough headway to ever claim victory. Over the years morale and drive quickly waned as swift victories were met with grueling defeats and rumors spreading among HMC regiments that the Dixie army engaged in terrible, mortifying practices of skinning and wearing Demi-Humans and Riftborn races that caused many to reconsider what exactly they were fighting for. This all came to a head when the Western Federation dropped the first atomic bomb on San Antonio which both greatly confused and spread dread and despair among HMC soldiers. Many in the HMC waited, soldier and civilian alike, to see one rogue aircraft flying overhead to send them into panic. However none such came and instead, the Western Federation approached the HMC not to demand surrender but to enter an Armistice where a post-war treaty signed would have sympathy to the HMC cause and allow them to step out without significantly damaging repercussions. The war-weary HMC agreed to to the terms and withdrew from the war and in the early 2040's the war officially comes to a close with the HMC allowed air their concerns and compromise with the Western Federation and ACCE, talking them out of a full or greater annexation and puppeting of Dixie. Instead coastal states close to the Western Federation were seized and the Hansa promised to help in the rebuilding of ruined settlements as well as paying off a fair deal of reparations to the Western Federation.
The late 2040's would end with the dissolution of the HMC and General Markus Kruber stepping down into retirement and a provisional confederation being established for roughly two-years. During this time great debate circulated in the National Assembly on how the country should move forward from the North American War. Many argued on behalf of establishing a proper federalized union of the Hansa, citing the Hansa Military Consulate as an example of albeit misguided but the gateway to having a proper nationalized state for the Hansamericans. This idea gradually grew in popularity during the two -year period with it ultimately cultivating in a referendum being held on whether or not to reorganize into a federal republic. A minority of municipal leaders feared this would take away powers of the local government and thus many city leaders and state organizers voted against a federalized republic, however a majority of the people of the Hansa strengthened by the idea of unity voted for and the bill passed wherein the Hansa Provisional Confederation would work to reorganize into the Federal Republic of the American Hansa. It was at this point that a new constitution for the federal republic was in the works that was largely handled by Secretary James Hengest and Secretary Kaspar Brauer who were reported to have "communication difficulties'' during the process of drafting the constitution with other writers with Hengest making strong references to to the "...might and nobility of Prussia" which Brauer kept writing as "Preusia" as harsh translation error since Germanic speakers referred to the country in question as "Preussen". However despite the error, the name actually stuck and when the constitution and the republic were ratified in August 18th, 2048 many began to refer to themselves as Preusamerican/Preusamerikan in honor of the founding of the constitution which then resulted in the Federal Republic of the Hansa being soon renamed to the Federal Republic of Preusia.
Federal Republic of Preusia from the Beginning to Today 2050s - 2120s
Immediately after the founding of the FRP thus began the "Hansa Reconstruction Era'' where the post-war economy was being stimulated, public works projects incentivized by the government to rebuild decimated municipalities and wonders, and putting to the test the foundations of the new Preusian Republic. Cost-effective and efficient housing needs saw the rise and demand of large residential zones dominated by large apartment complexes as well as seeing industry move much closer towards these heavily-populated locations to capitalize on the opportunity of soldiers or youth looking for work post war. Also following the end of the war and founding of the republic was a significant increase in population overall as Preusia experienced a great baby-boom with returning soldiers looking to settle down properly. It soon became an era of gentle prosperity for Preusia as though there lingered a sense among those who disagreed with events leading up to now, a majority of the people relished in the new opportunities it brought as Preusia worked to amend relations with West America, ACCE, and Dixie offering their nation as a neutral ground to do inter-american trade and business which due to the Preusia's centralized location ended up paying off greatly as both domestic and foreign businesses began to rise in the country.
The era was also marked by a significant development and discovery made by Gerard Muller who founded a new formula for combustible fuel known as CHOOH2 formed from patented high-sugar wheats native to the American Hansa that could be combined with yeast and processed into alcohol. This led to the founding of several newer brewer industries but more importantly the founding of a new synthetic fuel source of modified grain-based alcohol known for burning at high temperatures, combusting quickly, and burning much cleaner than diesel or gasoline. This discovery was made under Preusia Biotechnical Research Industries (Later named Biotechnica) who as a smaller corporation focused on the production and further study of high-sugar wheats (sugarwheat) and instead licensed the refining and production of CHOOH2 to Petrochemical Corp. (Later just Petrochem) which started to supply most of the gas serivce and transportation industries in the American Hansa which prompted Preusia being exploring and investing in alternative fuel source industries similar to Petrochem which saw the rise of newer public and private hydroelectic, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal and other "green" energies as they were starting to be called.
As of the 2120s, Preusia stands as a highly unified and prosperous liberalized democracy where the current zeitgeist in the nation is focused on addressing social issues rather than economic ones of the past with the current Chancellor; Jan Vahlen expressing ideals and values from both the Preusia Unionist Party and the Hansa Liberal-Democratic Party having formed a collaboration government with Olivia Tandi as his VC in hopes of continuing to fan Preusia's prosperity and large sense of unity. Preusia also stands as one of many dominant influencers in Western culture aided by them often taking in elements of surrounding cultures and being very outspoken and expressive. Also practically being aided by the nation boasting one of the highest percentages of internet access and connectivity in the world. And though the nation benefits greatly economically from the use Petrochem and the fuel being much clear than gasoline or diesel, still over-refining of Petrochem is raising health concern as more smog is generated from refining facilities, automobiles, trains, planes, etc with health and environmental activists moderately protesting continual growth of these products and emphasizing focus and development of alternative sources of energy with big interest in nuclear, hydroelectric, and solar.