St. Georgian Connection

[Chad Stumph]

Greetings,

On behalf of the newly reinstated government of the Dominion of St. George, I would like to initiate transportational connectivity between our two nations. The St. George International Airport, situated only a few hundred meters from the Atlantic Ocean and nearby port facilities, currently serves as the North American hub for British Airways, Eurojet, and Monarch Airways. Domestic service is provided by Southwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines. Annual air traffic averages around 200,000 passengers.

The government of St. George is looking to expand our connectivity, and believe that a contract between our government, which owns the airport, and your airline would prove profitable to us both. Please consider this proposal and consider emailing me at [e-mail]. Thank you.

Chad Stumph, MP

[Matt Kovac]

Greetings sir,

Unfortunately, the Ocian Federation is what we like to call a Political Simulation so I will unfortunately have to turn don your invitation because we really don't have real planes but you are welcome to join our Simulation.

Warmest Regards,

Matt Kovac.

[Chad Stumph]

Mr. Kovac,

I appreciate your reply and apologize for the confusion. Your website is presented in such a professional manner that it can easily be mistaken for that of an established nation. I will consider joining your simulation, as I do enjoy a good political debate and need the practice. Thank you.

Chad Stumph, MP

[Matt Kovac]

Greetings,

Thank you very much for that compliment. After a little research on The Dominion of Saint George I found out that it was a former British Colony in the United States in the 1980's but the US Government took it over, is that true? I can't find any other information on it. Quite interesting actually.

[Chad Stumph]

The history of St. George is very ambiguous due to its nature. Toward the end of the American Revolutionary War, Loyalists living in North Carolina realized that England was losing the war. In 1781, a group of those Loyalists declared themselves independent of North Carolina, which was still technically a British colony. The Revolutionary War ended in 1783, and North Carolina became an independent country (until 1789 all the former colonies were independent nations-they did not become states until 1789). The citizens of St. George, which had been accepted as an independent colony by King George III in 1782, announced their intentions to remain loyal to Britain rather than the newly formed United States. The United States, being a new nation and still rather weak on the world scene, was unwilling to resume their war with Britain by forcefully occupying St. George, and so left the new colony alone. This tentative peace between the Dominion of St. George and the United States, which still held that St. George was part of the US, lasted until the Civil War, when St. George sided with the Confederacy. The United States used this belligerancy to occupy St. George until 1877, although curiously, the United States government never attempted to destroy the St. Georgian political institutions during the occupation. St. George again remained autonomous from the United States until World War I, during which it was again occupied. Its government remained active, and more importantly, St. Georgians did not pay taxes to the United States government or obey their laws, until 1984. In October 1984, the United States government finally decided to end the so-called charade of St. Georgian independence (by that time St. George was a Commonwealth nation) and invaded. The political institutions of St. George were forcefully destroyed, museums burned, the Governor-General's mansion used by the US Armed Forces until it too was burned, and the Government House deeded to the US Coast Guard. My grandfather was the last Gvernor-General and spent time in a US military prison as a political prisoner before the British government could secure his release.

The reason that very little information exists about St. George on the internet is due to when it was overthrown. The internet simply did not exist in 1984 and the majority of politicians in power at the time of the coup are either dead or very old. They have never placed information on the former nation on the web. I have been personally adding information as I have time over the last year, but there is a massive amount of information that will take me years to complete. Difficulty also lies in the fact that most of St. George's official records were burned by the US armed services between 1984 and 1988. There is very little left since the museums were also burned. If you have any othe questions about St. George, I would be happy to answer them.

Chad Stumph, MP

[Matt Kovac]

Mr. Stumph,

I found that information quite interesting and useful. It’s a shame that a great nation like St. George no longer exists and it’s even a greater shame that the international community has not acted on this horrible illegal occupation by the US government.

Hopefully St. George can one day be a fully independent nation.

Matt Kovac

[Chad Stumph]

I consider us lucky that the United States government has finally, after 24 years, to grant us autonomy and self-government much like the Native American tribes and their reservations. We are still subjugated by the US, but at least we can elect our own officials and collect our own taxes separate from the US. This action was a large move toward full sovereignty.

[Matt Kovac]

Quite interesting, does this region have a website?

[Chad Stumph]

My apologies for the delay in responding to your question, I have been campaigning for the upcoming Parliamentary elections. As of now, the St. Georgian government does not have an operational website. Parliament has commissioned a local firm to begin working on one, but they are still in the process of uploading over 200 years of history, laws, etc. I will let you know when the site is operational.

Best regards,
Chad Stumph, MP