Flag of the Banded Folkdoms of Americksland
The Banded Folkdoms of Americksland (BFA) is the most indwelt land in the landstretch of North Americksland. The land's upmake is that of an evenly banded rike, with three branches of rike: the Leaderly, Lawmootly, and Rightready branches. The land's foremost tongue is English, though some Spanish is spoken there also.
Americksland, the land's shortened name, has the greatest landgeld and warband in the world, and is thought to be the world's lone overrike, since the fall of the Band of Workermootly Kithish Commonwealths (BWKC).
Americksland was banded with England until the Americkish Uprising, which began with the Saying Forth of the Selfhood of the Banded Folkdoms of Americksland in 1776. Americksland has since fought other wars, namely: the War of 1812, its war with Mexico, the Americkish Kith War, its war with Spain, and the two World Wars.
The leader of Americksland is Foresitter Barack Obama of the Folkrike Mootband. The Folkrike Mootband also holds the High Hof of the Americkish Lawmoot, but the Commonwealth Mootband holds the Low Hof. The Commonwealthers are Americksland's mootband of the right, whilst the Folkrikers are Americksland's mootband of the left.
Earthlore
The Banded Folkdoms of Americksland stretches from the Evensea (Atlantic Ocean) in the east to the Great Frithly Sea in the west, from the Arctish Sea along Alaska's shores to the Caribbean and Searm of Mexico along the southern folkdoms. Being made of fifty folkdoms, 48 of these have landlines with at least one other. Only Alaska and Hawaii's landlines do not meet those of any other folkdom.
Manifold is its landform with high bergs along the Appalachish and Rockies, to green dales, thick in growth, grasslands, and mighty highlands. Elsewhere freshseas abound, and broad drylands are also found. Wetlands can be found in Worted and Lewisland, while woodlands grow on big swaths of land throughout the BFA.
Eretide
When settlers from England began to settle in North Americksland in the 1580s, living there were many million homeborn indwellers. 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 these First Americkslanders and threatened to wholly tear down 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 1500s and the 1900s, their lives ended early: struck down by sickness, gloom, and torn asunder by war. Loremen reckon that 90 of 100 First Americkslanders died of sickness brought by the English settlers by 1620.
In 1607 a town was set up by Englishmen 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, and a band of ninety First Americkslanders 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 freedom and godly belief in Massachusetts, freedom from hounding by beadledom in Rhodesealand, and settled upon it in a written handfast in Connecticut, which some think was the first written framework of rike anywhere in the world.
In time up sprung new towns of Dutchmen (1624) and Swedish folks(1638). A town of bearing on Manhattan iland, New Amsterdam, nowaday New York, was bought from the First Americkslanders for a small fee by the Dutch. They built wharves and a landing, but cared little for the town's look and pigs wandered freely on its badly made, barely lit and untended roads.
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 Britain, a call to overthrowing. However, Britain's masters answered their call for lonestance with tougher geldish and reevish laws. At first that brought misunderstanding and loss of goodwill; then unrest and wroth; afterwards bitter gainsayings and then in 1775 uprising and the fight for lonestance. As a token of overthrowing, the settlers wrote the Saying Forth of Self Rule and spokesmen from each of the thirteen rikelings signed it on 4 July 1776, a writing that set out birth rights for most folks. That time is now known 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 Amerikslanders, 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 Britain acknowledged the lonestance of the Banded Folkdoms of Americksland. The written framework of rike, drafted in 1789, with a few wends is still sound today. At time of Lonestance there were thirteen rikelings and, as time passed, into the Folkdom came new rikelings.
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 First Americksland fighters, others died of illness and mishap, or were lost in wicked weather. In 1849, gold was found in Californland and from all over the world came men in droves hoping to "strike it rich" and to find a better life.
In the 1860s years, seven rikelings not wishing to lose a folkdom's right to hholding thralls disbanded from the Banded Folkdoms of Americksland, and a grim and bloody war between kith followed. Sadly, more Americkslanders died in this homeland infighting than in any other war they have fought elsewhere. At last, after five years of fighting, the Northern folkdoms won. In 1867 Ameriksland bought Alaska from Russland 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.
The 1870s years saw the forshaping of the BFA 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 mighthouse. Straight away they wrenched from Spain their outposts in Asia and in the Frithful Sea, amongst them the Philippines. However, their answer to the Philipinos' call for self-rule was stern and hardhearted. The outcome was the death of many thousand guiltless folk of the ilands.
The early 1900s was a sad time for mankind. Millions died in the first World War and the burden of warfaring fell heavily upon the Americkslander folk. During the 1900s years New York had become the heart of world business and wealth. In 1929 a swift downturn from thriving times to neediness and even hunger was felt in homes by millions throughout the Folkdoms.
The 1950s and 1960s years saw the heating up of the Cold Wars with Korea, Vietnam, unrest in the Middle East, the Cuban showdown alongside the Band of Workermootly Kithish Commonwealths. Tens of thousand of Americkslanders fighting-men died in these wars.
At home the drive for a fairer deal for Afro-Amerikslanders or Black Amerikslanders moved along a little more quickly. A time of greater hope for a new way forward in the stand for even rights came at Washington in 1963 with Dr. Martin Luther-King's 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.
In 1991 the breakup of the Band of Workermootly Kithish Commonwealths (BWKC) saw the end of the Cold War, and a seemingly a safer world. But with the spread of the bitterness between Palestinish and Israeli folks; the September 2001 strikes against some of Ameriksland'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 Americkslanders are up against a bitter foe brooking dreadful weapons without warning; the war in Iraq; and droves of folks 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 mind can become learned; his kithship and speechship 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 outlashing; he has the right to gather together freely with others, and find his own pathway to happiness.
Folkdoms (in ABCish layout)
(For a list of wellsprings, see here and here .)
| English | Anglish |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Southdowns |
| Alaska | Shoulderland |
| Arizona | Great Dales |
| Arkansas | Downingland |
| California | Goldland |
| Colorado | Hueland |
| Connecticut | Longbrook |
| Delaware | Bitterroots |
| Georgia | Carlland |
| Florida | Bloomland |
| Hawaii | Firelands |
| Idaho | Idaho |
| Illinois | Snowhead |
| Indiana | Frumthland |
| Iowa | Sleepland |
| Kansas | Windealand |
| Kentucky | Meadowland |
| Louisiana | Loudwyeland |
| Maine | New Canada |
| Maryland | Maryland |
| Massachusetts | Bluedowns |
| Michigan | Lakemark |
| Minnesota | Manywaters |
| Mississippi | Greatbrook |
| Missouri | Kerfinglands |
| Montana | Bergland |
| Nebraska | Flatbrook |
| Nevada | Silverland |
| New Hampshire | New Hampshire |
| New Jersey | New Geirrseit |
| New Mexico | New Moonnavel |
| New York | New Yewborough |
| North Carolina | North Churlland |
| North Dakota | North Friendland |
| Ohio | Creekland |
| Oklahoma | Redland |
| Oregon | Sheenland |
| Pennsylvania | Pennswood |
| Rhode Island | Red Iland |
| South Carolina | South Churlland |
| South Dakota | South Friendland |
| Tennessee | Thamesland |
| Texas | Lonestarland |
| Utah | Highland |
| Vermont | Greendowns |
| Virginia | Maidenland |
| Washington | Washington |
| West Virginia | West Maidenland |
| Wisconsin | Redstone |
| Wyoming | Yellowstone |