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The Banded Folkdoms of Americksland (BFA) is the most adwelt land in the landstretch of North Americksland. Its makeup is that of an evenly banded rike, with three branches of rike: the Leaderly, the Lawmootly, and the Lawlordly. The leading tongue in the land is English, though much Spanish is spoken also.

Americksland, as it is called for short, has the greatest landgeld and warband in the world, and is thought to be the world's lone Uber-rike, since the fall of the Band of Workermootly Kithish Commonwealths (BWKC).

Americksland was banded with England until the Americkish Overthrowing, which began with the Saying Forth of Self-Rule in 1776. Americksland has since fought other wars, including the War of 1812, its war with Mexico, the Americkish Amongst-Selves War, its war with Spain, and the two World Wars.

The leader of Americksland is George W. Bush of the Commonwealth Mootband, which also holds fast the Americkish Lawmoot, and the Americkish High Hof. The other big mootband in Americksland is the Folkrike Mootband. The Commonwealthers are Americksland's mootband of the right, whilst the Folkrikers are Americksland's mootband of the left.

When settlers from England began to settle in North Ameriksland in the 1580s, living there were many million red-skinned home-grown adwellers. It is thought that they had been living there up to thirty thousand years. The settling of the Land by the English almost wiped out the homeborn adwellers and threatened to tear down wholly their kithship. Driven out of their homelands, they were shut-up in steads of sorrow without rights, even that of afare. For many, between the 1600s and the 1900s, their lives ended early: struck down by sickness and gloom and torn asunder by war.

In 1607 a town was set up by English folks at what is now Jamestown, Virginia. At first the settlers underwent great hardship, but with the coming of a new Town Head, De La War, the town blossomed. The year 1620 saw the coming of the Pilgrim Fathers to nowaday New Plymouth, near Boston. They came from England, some hundred of them, on the ship "Mayflower" seeking freedom of worship and freedom from reevish hounding.

During the first winter almost half of them died through hunger and cold. At a sundry mass they spoke blessedly of God and thanked Him for their living on, and welcomed to their table ninety home-grown folk who helped them to stay alive during that first grim winter. That was the first Thanksgiving's Day in Ameriksland. At New Plymouth they set up a folkright rule, founded on godly belief and freedom from hounding by beadledom and reevedom and settled upon it in a written handfast, which some think was the first written framework of rike anywhere in the world.

In time up sprung new towns of Dutch folks (1624) and Swedish folks(1638). A town of bearing New Amsterdam,  later new-named New York, and on Manhattan Island, was bought for little fee by the Dutch from the First-folk. They built wharves and a landing, but cared little for the town's look and pigs wandered freely on its badly made, not well cared for, and barely lit ways.

By the middle of the 1700s years, thirteen rikelings had been set up. As they grew in wealth, there arose a call for freedom and lonestance from Britian. However, Britian's masters answered their call for lonestance with tougher geldish and reevish deeds. At first that brought misunderstanding and loss of goodwill; then unrest and wroth; afterwards bitter gainsayings and, in time, uprising and the fight for lonestance. As a mark of that war, and taken on 4 July 1776 was the Saying Forth of Self Rule, which set out evenrights for most folks. That time was marked as Lonestance Day.

A young tillman and afterwards Headman, George Washington, brought about a welding of men of many kinds into a true landfyrd. In one of the last great fight-outs of the war the Americans, with help from the French, made the besetted British fighting-men at Yorktown yield fully, hastening the coming of lonestance for the thirteen rikelings. By the frithwrit of Paris 1783 Britian acknowledged the lonestance of the Banded Folkdoms of Ameriksland. The written framework of rike, drafted in 1789, with a few wends is still sound today.

The more well-to-do folks began to build big homes along the Atlantic shoreline. But others, seeking a better way of life moved westward in search of thrivedom. Some found happiness and richness - others did not - and, in going westward through wilderness and over fells thousands were killed by redskin fighters, others died of illness and mishap, or were lost in wicked weather. In 1849, gold was found in California and from all over the world came men in droves hoping to "strike it rich" and to find a better life.

At time of Lonestance there were thirteen rikelings and, as time passed, into the Folkdom came new rikelings. In 1867 Ameriksland bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Many folks thought that to be unwise and unthrifty, but with the finding thereafter of a great deal of gold and rock oil, it is now easy to see that the Land was bought indeed for a small fee.

In the 1860s years, seven rikelings not wishing to free the blomen from thralldom left the Banded Folkdoms, and a grim and bloody war between kith followed. Sadly, more Americans died in this homeland infighting than in any other war they have fought elsewhere. At last, after five years of fighting, the Northern rikelings won and the bondhood for the blomen was over.

The 1870s years saw the forshaping of the Banded Folkdoms into a workcraft, skillcraft, and warfaring power. The downtrodden folk of Europe came in droves to share by tilth the boon and good tiding of the Land. Free-believers and others hounded by the reevedoms of the "Old World" sought and found freedom there. Meanwhile many homegrown folk buried their loved ones and their hearts on long walks through fields of snow to out-of-way wretchsteads. By the 1900s years only some 250,000 lived on.

The winning of the war with Spain in 1898 saw the rise of the Banded Folkdoms to a world powerhouse. Straight away they awrenched from Spain their outposts in Asia and the Pacific, amongst them the Philipines. However, their answer to the Philpinos' call for self-rule was stern and hardhearted. The outcome was the death of many thousand guiltless folk of the Islands.

The early 1900s was a sad time for mankind. Millions died in the two Great Wars and the burden of warfaring fell heavily upon the American folk. By the early 1900s years New York had become the heart of world business and wealth. In 1929 a swift downturn from thrivish times to needish times, saw a feeling of listlessness lingering over the Land. Neediness and, even hunger, was felt in homes by millions throughout the Folkdoms. Doomsayers said that the end was nigh.

The 1950s and 1960s years saw the hotting up of the Cold War with wars in Korea, Vietnam, unrest in the Middle East and the Cuban showdown. Tens of thousand of American fighting-men died in these wars.

At home the drive for a fairer deal for Afro-Americans moved along a little more quickly. A time of greater hope for a new way forward in the stand for evenright came at Washington in 1963 with Dr. Martin Luther-King soul-stirring speech, "I Have a Dream".

On July 20, 1969, the Banded Folkdoms brought off perhaps the onefold greatest skill craft wonder when starfarer Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk upon the Moon, a world other than his own.

The breakup of the Soviet Union (BWKC) saw the end of the Cold War, and a seemingly a safer world. But with the spread of the foehood between Palestinian and Israeli folks; the September 2001 strikes against some of America's great towns and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a far less safer world has come about.

During the past 400 years much good and bad has befallen the folk of the Banded Folkdoms and set-backs, whilst at times ill-boding and dreadful, have not stopped them from going forth and showing themselves to be world leaders in so many fields, such as starfaring, healcraft and witcraft.

Even in today's world where Americans are up against a bitter foe using dreadful weapons without warning; the war in Iraq; and droves of incomers unlawfully passing over its thresholds, the Banded Folkdoms is still, for most, a Land of boon and good tidings. For newcomers, even in these worrisome days, it not hard to take up folkship: thousands upon thousands do so each year. There a man can buy a home; his bairns can have learning; his kithship and leidish background is given worth; his right of freedom of worship is enshrined; he is free to put into written and spoken words his thoughts and beliefs without fear of payback; he has the right to gather together freely with others, and find his own pathway to happiness.