From Alternative History

Georgia comprises, more or less, OTL US states of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, as well as west Florida and parts of southeastern Louisiana.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Slavery 2 Geography 2.1 Borders 2.2 Administrative divissions

[edit] History

Georgia was one of the 13 English colonies that joined the Continental Congress and declared independence in 1776, and the only one of these colonies that have not joint other former colonies. Georgia was originally established as a monarchy, and claimed all territories south of the 35th parallel whith and undefined border in the west and recognizing the existance of Florida, who has returned to Spanish hands.

While Georgian prettentions where opposed to Spanish prettensions on West Florida and Louisiana, there was an agreement between Spanish and Georgian authorities granting Georgians to settle north of the 31st parallel and east of the Perdido river and its meridian.

This did not stop Georgians to settle west of the Perdido River or in East and West Florida. In 1806, the detention by Spanish authorities of several Georgians in West Florida triggered an armed invassion by Georgia.

Spanish naval supperiority and St Augustine fortifications proved essentials for prottecting East Florida and the peninsula, however greater manpower allowed Georgians to control West Florida and the territories between the Perdido and Mississippi Rivers.

In the Mobile Treaty of 1808, Spain ceeded the territories between the Appalachicola and the Pearl Rivers (south of the 31st parallel) and all territories East of the Mississippi (north of 31st parallel) to Georgia. On the other hand Georgia recongized Spanish authority over East Florida and the peninsula.

In 1836, the Capital was trasladed form Augusta to Mobile.

In 1915, a succession crisis in the monarchy provoked the declararion of the republic. There was some kind of functional presidencialist democracy up to 1950 when the socialist president McCaine was deposed by reactionary General Montgomery few months before his period ended. Three non-elected presidents have Georgia had since then: Montgomery, Rodham, and Wallace.

[edit] Slavery

Georgia was the last nation in the Americas to ban slavery, however slave based economy had declined since the 1880's. In 1947, socialist president McCaine passed and ammend banning slavery. By this time, only three big landowners owned some 50 slaves. Compensations were paid.

[edit] Geography

[edit] Borders

The Republic of Georgia limits: North: Virginia. West: Louisiana. South: Gulf of Mexico and Florida. East: Atlantic Ocean.

[edit] Administrative divissions

The Republic of Georgia is a unitary republic divided in 14 Districts and the Districts are further divided in Counties, Cities or Communes.

Some of the Districts are:

• Alabama
• Atlanta
• Augusta
• Florida
• Mississippi
• Mobile (Capital District, undivided)
• Savanah