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Clydsdale SSR
Timeline: 1962: The Apocalypse

OTL equivalent: Lanarkshire south of and excluding Motherwell and Wishaw.
Flag [[Image:.|80px|Coat of Arms]]
Flag Coat of Arms
[[Image:.|220px|Location of Clydsdale SSR]]
Location of Clydsdale SSR
Capital: Biggar, South Lanarkshire, until 1974 and Carstairs there after.
Largest city: New Lanark
Other cities: Carluke, Lanark, Leadhills, Elvanfoot, New Lanark and Kilncadzow
Language:
  official:
 
Scots dialect English, lowland dialect Scots, Central dialect Scots, Gaelic, Northumbrian dialect English
  others: Standardised English
Religion: Church of England and Presbyterian
Ethnic groups:
  main:
 
Scotish
  others: Irish and Northern English
Type of government: Socialist soviet republic
  government: County council
President: Steven McTaggart
Prime Minister: Fiona Shona MaKay
Population: est. 254,500 (2010) 
Independence: 1964
Currency: Barter and Scots Punt in urban places.
Organizations: Scots Alliance and Red Britain
% Literacy: 99%
Number of military personnel: 225

Stats[]

Stubble below Tinto

Tinto Hill, Lanarkshire in 2009.

History[]

Doomsday[]

Missile and bomb strikes were at-

Also see- WP Targets in the UK and Ireland.

After Doomsday[]

The nuclear winter lasted between October 1962 and March 1963. A nuclear summer then lasted between April 1963 and September 1965. A major famine, plus a typhoid and Legionella outbreak killed many across the country in 1963 and 1964.

First Contact[]

Dumfriesshire was discovered by army scouts and explorers who had drifted down towards to the Lockabie aria by 1967.

1974-1984[]

1985-1999[]

Dumfriesshire became a client state of the Clydesdale SSR in 1996.

Present day[]

The famous ex-Belgian Neo-Bolshevik Andrew Le Vior died peacefully of a combination of old and an underlying heat problem in his Clydesdale house on the 18th of March 2009. He was much missed by the locals who erected a plaque in his honor later that year.

Economy[]

Media[]

Transport[]

Military[]

225 lightly armed volunteer troops.

Health care[]

Thyroid and lung cancer is still a major problem, but became much lower since 1984.

Sport[]

Quoits, bowels, curling and football. Lanark and New Lanark have a minor football team each.

Education[]

Compulsory schooling is from ages 5 to 16.

Water and food sources[]

The Death Penalty[]

For murder, treason, food/water hoarding, child abuse and sex crimes.

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