Kingdom of Cleveland (1983: Doomsday)
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| Capital: | Middlesbrough | ||||||
| Other cities: | Durham | ||||||
| Language: official: | English (official) | ||||||
| Other languages: | Hindi, Bangladeshi, Chinese | ||||||
| Queen: | Anne II | ||||||
| Prime Minister: | Ray Mallon | ||||||
| Currency: | Pound | ||||||
The Kingdom of Cleveland is located on the east coast of England
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[edit] Doomsday
On DD the two 20 kilotons bombs aimed for the Tees valley area missed.
- One exploded 7 miles north of Hartlepool, 40 metres under the North Sea due to a malfunction of the detonator. This caused a five metre tsunami to strike the coast killing many thousands.
- One exploded 12 miles south of Middlesbrough over the practically uninhabited North Yorkshire Moors.
Although the bombs themselves missed, radioactive fallout from the bomb that exploded in the North sea blew inland on the prevailing North-east winds and then fell in rain that fell in the following days.
Other Bombs in the North of England fell:
- one 20 kiloton bomb on Newcastle.
- one 20 Kiloton bomb on Sunderland.
- one 10 Kiloton bomb on Durham.
- one 10 Kiloton bomb on York.
other tactical nuclear weapons fell on military bases in and around the area:
- RAF Linton on Ouse - North Yorkshire.
- RAF listening base and radar station Fylingdales - North Yorkshire.
- RAF Bulmer - Northumberland.
- RAF Menwith Hill - joint UK/US base - North Yorkshire
- RAF Carlile - Cumbria
- RAF Spadeadam - Cumbria
- RAF Holmpton - East Yorkshire
- RAF Leconfield - East Yorkshire
- RAF Church Fenton - North Yorkshire
- RAF Dishforth (Airforce)/AAC Dishforth (Army)- North Yorkshire
- RAF Leeming - North Yorkshire
- RAF Radar station Staxton Wold - North Yorkshire
- RAF Topcliffe - North Yorkshire
Over the next month radioactive fallout kills over nearly two thirds of the total population of the Tees valley area. Many of those who survive take shelter in underground anhydrite, coal and potash mines located around the area. Among the notable survivors is Princess Anne (only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II) who was opening a disabled riding school outside Middlesbrough at the time of the attack, traveling with her at the time of the attack was her two year old daughter Zara.
Survivors stayed underground as long as possible with scavenging parties collection food and water from the surface and returning it to the mines for the rest of the survivors.
Due to the failure of the electricity grids the mines begin to flood by December 1983 and the had to be abandoned.
Upon the abandonment of the mines in late 1983 the Cleveland police force encorporated all surviving territorial army personnel into the new armed police units. These militant units initiate marshall law in Cleveland in mid 1985. Marshall law lasted until 1991 when a parliment of local represntatives was established, based in the town hall of Middlesbrough, elections were scheduled for 1995.
New laws were brought into effect after the elections in 1995, the death penalty was reintroduced in Cleveland for murder, paedophillia, rape, treason and armed theft. The method of death was introduced as long drop hanging.
Life term prison sentences were increased from the average pre-DD UK term of 15-20 years to life being 99 years.
Hard labour for prison inmates in introduced in 2000, hard labour consist of road building, laying of railway lines, land clearing, mining, and demolition works.
In 2005 the death penalty was recinded for rape and armed theft, the sentence will now be life in prison with hard labour.
In 2007 the death penalty for paedophilia is recinded with the sentance now chemical castration followed by life with hard labour.
After several years of social unrest, disease and famine the population of Cleveland in 1990 had fallen to just under 97,000.
[edit] Current situation
In 1995 the first elections take part in the Tees Valley, the new government is Royalist with the Prime Minster being named as former Cleveland Police Officer Ray Mallon. Princess Anne become a the constitutional monarch Queen Anne II. Under proposals by the new government the name of the area reverted to its ancient name of Cleveland and become a constitutional parlimentary Kingdom, Middlesbrough is named as the captial.
In 1996 the unradiated parts of the former counties of North Yorkshire and Durham become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland.
In 1999 many of the coal mines in Durham are reopened by royal decree, these start producing coal in early 2000 and by 2002 are producing 50,000 tonnes of coal per year.
In 2001 five mothballed coal powered steam trains are discovered in a shed outside of Darlington. After extensive repairs the trains start running services twice a day in early 2005.
- Route one - Saltburn via Middlesbrough, Thornaby ending in Darlington.
- Route two - Middlesbrough via Hartlepool to Alnwick in Northumbria (this train has sealed windows for its section that travels thru the still heavily radioactive Tyne and Wear valleys)
- Route three - Middlesbrough to Harrogate, Ripon, Hawes and Settle stopping a several small stations along the way.
plans are in action to start one more route that will travel south stopping at several former NRCO towns
The Presidential Residence is in Thornaby, the Royal Residence is Wynyard Hall near Sedgefield and parliment is held in held in Middlesbrough town hall from 1995 till 2002 when a new parliment building is built near Nunthorpe, this is opened on 22nd November 2002.
In military respects the royal army consists of a full time cavalry regiment (based at Ormesby Hall) tasked with protecting the queen and a part time regiment of riflemen, as well as a small navy consisting of armed fishing trawlers and an airforce of small helicopter and single engined planes based at the former Teesside international airport (now renamed Queen Anne International)
As of 2009 the Cleveland parliment holds 35 members of parliment (MP's) as well as 20 empty seats designed for any other territories that may join the kingdom.
2nd October 2009 - Queen Anne II and Prime Minster Mallon of the Kingdom of Cleveland as well as King George I of Northumbria send a message to the Tongan King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV Secretary General of the League of Nations (1983: Doomsday) asking for admitance as a joint country due to their future unification after the accession of Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland and Crown Prince George of Nortumbria.
20th - 21st November 2009 - reports begin to be heard of a massive flood event in western Cumbria, using short and long wave radio the military of Cleveland declare they are sending 200 men to help with rescue, recovery and rebuilding of the area.
26th November 2009 - Cleveland military reach western Cumbria discovering many roads destroyed and towns severly damaged, worse hit are the market towns of Cockermouth and the fishing port of Workington. many bridges have been washed away, locals say its the worse flooding in their history, Prime minster Mallon declares that cleveland with begin rebuilding the bridges in the new year using steel from the Redcar steel works.
[edit] Royalty
The coronation of Queen Anne II takes place at Gisborough Abbey on the 15th August 1997, the crown is made of gold donated by the people of Cleveland.
In 2002 Queen Anne II married local man James Monroe in the ruins of Gisborough Abbey. The heir to the Crown, Princess Zara was one of the bridesmaids.
In 2004 Queen Anne II and Prince Consort James adopt three children, Prince Martin aged 8, Prince Jordan aged 5 and Princess Michala aged 3. All three adopted children are in line to the throne, and if Crown Princess Zara dies before producing heirs then the Throne of Cleveland will pass to Prince Martin.
On the 22nd April 2007 it is announced that Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland is dating the Crown Prince of Northumbria, George Dominic Percy.
On the 5th August 2008 it is announced that Crown Princess Zara of Cleveland is engaged the Crown Prince of Northumbria, George Dominic Percy. The wedding date was set for 4th November 2009. Princess Michala will be flower girl, Prince Jordan will be a page boy, Prince Max Percy (Crown Prince George's younger brother) will be best man.
The wedding took place at Richmond Castle.
This wedding and any children issuing from the marriage will unite the Kingdoms of Northumbria and Cleveland. it has been announced that the primogenator rule (male children having right of rule over older female siblings) has been abolished and the eldest child (no matter what sex) will rule both the kingdom of Northumbria and Cleveland.
Upon the accession of the first child of Zara and George to both thrones, the kingdoms will unite under the name Kingdom of Greater Nothumbria and will cover almost all the original area ruled by the Kingdom of Northumbria.
[edit] Expeditions
2003
In early 2003 Prime Minster Mallon ordered that reconnisance missions to go into the badlands to look for any survivors and resources that the kingdom could use.
One team followed the former transpennine highway (A66) across to North Cumbria, they discovered that nearly all the towns and villages had been destroyed, the team encountered a survivor colony in the walled castle town of Carlisle, they find that the locals are being harrassed by a former military unit know by the locals as Reavers.
The team moves south into the interior of the Lakes area of Cumbria, many small market towns and villages are still working, trading with each other using sheep, wool and slate as trading tools. radios are left with five main towns (Keswick, Workington, Whitehaven, Penrith, and Ambleside) for the local parish councils to use to contact each other and Cleveland.
as the team travels south from Ambleside they record increasing levels of radiation, probably coming from the bombed Barrow in Furness military site or possibly from Barrow nuclear power station that has gone critical. The same is found south of Workington, probably from the Sellafield Nuclear power station that has gone critical.
Another team followed the great north road (A1) south and find many small villages still inhabitited (all be it at 18th centuary levels of technology). Many have joined together to former a co-operative of farms, shops and villages known locally as the North Riding Co-Operative or NRCO. Much of the farmland in the vale of York and Pickering are extreamly fertile and that radioactivity are at (relitivly) very low levels.
The team discusses with the Prime Minster over long wave radio and offers the NRCO entry to the Kingdom of Cleveland. However due to the fact that the NRCO has no governmental stucture each village voted seperatly on whether or not to become part of Cleveland. Voting took place in May 2004.
5th May 2004 - NRCO towns of Dunforth, Ouseburn, Flaxby, Knaresborough, Wetherby and Tadcaster vote to become part of the Kingdom of Cleveland adding 19,458 to the population of the Kingdom.
12th May 2004 - all NRCO towns in the former county of North Yorkshire join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding 5,623 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland.
22nd May 2004 - the final NRCO towns of Appleby, Kirby Stephen and Hawes voted to join the Kingdom of Cleveland, adding another 2,789 to the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland
1st June 2004 - 15 new MP's join the Cleveland parliment from the former NRCO territories.
2004 Kingdom of Northumbria (1983: Doomsday)
Due to the success of the expeditions south and west new teams are sent north in August 2004, they use ships to bypass the heavily irradiated Tyne and Wear valley's landing at Alnwick harbour on the 16th of August.
They discover a thriving fishing and farming community based around the fortified island of Lindisfarne.
As they travel up and down the coast they find many small villages that are also thriving on the resurgence of fish stocks in the North Sea. During this time it is found that Ralph George Percy, the 12th Duke of Northumberland has began calling himself the 'George I, King of Northumbria' again and have based his parliment in Bamburgh castle and the Percy family live at Alnwick castle.
Even pre DD the area of Northumberland was one of the lowest population levels in England. It is estimated that the population of the Kingdom of Northumbria in 2004 is roughly 29,000.
In the 21 years since DD the language of Northumbria has evolved, even in 1983 the people of Northumberland spoke a version of English crossed with Scottish/Gaelic called Northumbrian or in some southern regions a version called Pitmatic. This has evolved dramitically with no outside influence from anyone but sporadic contact the Celtic Alliance (which speak Scots Gaelic and Irish) via the short wave radio.
[edit] Language
Since DD Cleveland has been seperated from the rest of the world, as such the Teesside dialect has evolved into a seperate version of English known locally as Cleveish.
many influences from local ethnic minorities such as Hindu, Urdu, Chinese, Bangladshi, and Arabic.
[edit] Electricity supply
In early 2002 it is discovered that Hartlepool Nuclear power station has started to become dangerous and it decided that it should be shut down and replaced by 2006. Prime minster Mallon makes an executive order that the power station shall be replaced with a small coal powered station in Durham near the new coal mines and a waste to energy plant (by burning rubbish) on the outskirts of Middlesbrough as well as numerous wind turbines on the local Pennine, Eston and Cleveland hills as well as hydroelectic plants on rivers across the kingdom.
On 23rd July 2006 Prime minster Mallon announces that renewable power generators (wind and hydro-electric) will be built across the former NRCO territories, these will begin generating power by early October 2009 and the NRCO will be 90% powered by mid 2010.
[edit] Gas
In 2000 a new coal gas plant is set up in the former county Durham using coal from existing and reopened coal mines in the area.
This gas is piped along the former natural gas pipelines into many homes and businesses in Cleveland.
[edit] Football
In 2000 Prime minster Mallon announces the formation of a football league in Cleveland, to be know as the CFA (Cleveland Football Association). There will be two divisions with five teams in each.
points will be appointed as follows:
- 3 points for a win.
- 1 point for each team for a draw.
- 0 points for a loss.
The champion of the 2nd divsion wil be promoted to the 1st division, the lowest points scoring team from the 1st division will be relagated to the 2nd division.
in 2001 the teams are as follows:
First Division
- Middlesbrough FC
- Darlington FC
- Hartlepool FC
- Ironopolis FC
- Norton and Stockton Ancients FC
Second Division
- Dormanstown FC
- Crook FC
- Guisborough Town FC
- Billingham FC
- Saltburn FC
RESULTS
2001/02 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions of the league, Ironopolis FC were relagated, and were replaced with promoted Crook FC.
2002/03 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Crook FC were relagated and Guisborough Town FC were promoted.
2003/04 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were relagated and Crook FC were promoted.
2004/05 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Guisborough FC were relagated and Saltburn FC were promoted.
2005/06 season - Darlington FC were crowned champions, Saltburn FC were relagated and Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were promoted.
2006/07 season - Hartlepool FC were crowned champions, Crook FC were relagated and Ironopolis FC were promoted.
2007/08 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Ironopolis FC were relagated and Guisborough FC were promoted
2008/09 season - Middlesbrough FC were crowned champions, Norton and Stockton Ancients FC were relagated and Ironopolis FC were promoted
In 2005 PM Mallon announces that a new CFA cup will be played between the champion of the 1st and the champion of the 2nd division.
2006 CFA cup winner - Ironopolis FC
2007 CFA cup winner - Middlesbrough FC
2008 CFA cup winner - Middlesbrough FC
With the inclusion of the NRCO territories in 2005, the CFA has announced that from 2010 there will be a third division formed. This will have five teams from the former NRCO territories.
Champion of the 3rd division will be promoted to the 2nd division, lowest points scorer from the 2nd division wil be relagated to the 3rd division.
Teams will be as follows:
Third Division
- Tadcaster FC
- Kirby Stephen FC
- Appleby FC
- Hawes FC
- Weatherby FC
[edit] 2010 FIFA world cup
2009 the CFA announces that there will be a national team formed for the FIFA World cup to be played in the Celtic Alliance in 2010. Players can be selected from any team in all three leagues.
Team Cleveland manager has been named as Sir Brian Clough current manager of Middlesbrough FC
The draw took place in Dublin on December 4th.
The Kingdom of Cleveland are drawn in group C along with:
- The Alpine Confederation (the defending world champions)
- USSR (aka Siberia),
- Chile.
[edit] Discovery by the Celtic Alliance
In 1997 during a fishing trip from off the east coast of Yorkshire a small Scottish trawler comes across a cobble (small open fishing boat) longline fishing.
The two crews make contact and after visiting the mainland they return to Scotland, setting up trade routes between the Kingdom of Cleveland and the Celtic Alliance.
The Tees valley had been powered by Hartlepool Nuclear power station (which had only been operational since early 1983) however this plant was closed down in 2007 and replaced by a small waste to energy plant and a coal powered plant.
There is a large iron and steel works (which has been mothballed since DD attacks in 1983) and there are several shipyards producing mid sized wooden vessels used for trading up and down the east coast and smaller fishing vessels, the small towns in unaffected areas of Yorkshire have begun farming both arable and livestock as well as fishing from the small ports such as Whitby and Ravenscar.
The Queen Anne International airport (former Teesside international) has been adapted for use as a medical staging points however PM Mallon refuses to allow an end cycle center as he believes that every life is important.
1995 census - the total population of the Kingdom of Cleveland stands as 104,271. With over 735,000 deaths from the coastal tsunami, radioactivity, starvation, social unrest, disease and general accidents.
2005 census - with the addition of the former NRCO towns in 2004, the population of the Kingdom of Cleveland is estimated to be 198,000.
The Kingdom of Cleveland is due to vote on a referendum on becoming part of the Celtic Alliance in mid 2010. However popular opinion is that the Kingdom of Cleveland will remain independent.
The date for the referendum on joining the Celtic Alliance has been announced. On May 21st 2010 the vote will take place, the results will be announced on the 28th May 2010.
[edit] International relations
The Kingdom of Cleveland is a member of the League of Nations.
[edit] See also
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