- Location
- US East Coast
Kingdom of Canada
Name: Kingdom of Canada
Common Demonym: Canadian
Type: Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy
Population: 100 million
Holdings: OTL Canada , Saint Kitts, Barbados, Nevis, Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, Bahamas, Anguilla, Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Saint Lucia. In space,, there are several space stations and a medium sized moon colony.
General Description
It's Canada. It requires no real introduction.
History
Canada has a pretty good history in the second half of the 2010's. The first private space company to launch a rocket carrying passengers into space was a huge accomplishment. New trade, new technology, everything looked great. The terror attacks beginning in 2016, and continuing for the next 8 years had many concerned; forcing the government to tighten security near the American border, as well as in transport centers- to make sure that no one could attack Canada coming from the US. That pissed off some liberals, but seeing the US continually wacked with ISIS attacks in major cities around the country, from Boston to LA, to Seattle, to Atlanta, and everywhere in between, made it a necessary thing. Canada gained some island provinces, after they decided they'd rather be part of Canada, then the British, as well. And also took that little French island off the coast.
The US military began gaining power starting in the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. This made Ottawa nervous. The US military already had unofficial influence is the government, now they were shoring it up with actual positions. This made relations cool quite a bit. When political gridlock caused the US to sit out WWIII there were concerns. But then on July 4th, 2024, when DC was nuked, things changed.
The Prime Minister was at Canada Day Weekend celebrations in Toronto, when his security rushed him out of the event, and rushed to the former CFS Carp via his official helicopter. The site, normally a tourist attraction, was being used due to the 4 story nuclear bunker that could withstand a 5 megaton hit. It had been hastily secured in the minutes after the attack by a legion of Canadian military personnel, who rushed out a few tour groups at gunpoint from the bunker (which is usually a museum). Prime Minister Trudeau, who had been PM for nearly 10 years, had not been told that DC was now rubble, and the US leadership likely dead, until he had reached the bunker. It was all over the news, which he turned on. CBC reporters had on radiation suits outside the former Canadian embassy, which had been reduced to cinders in the attack on the capitol, where there was a joint session of Congress. CNN reporters estimated a million dead, without the fallout. He went downstairs to see his family, who had been brought there as a security measure, and was informed that he'd have to make a statement at some point.
The Canadian Border Patrol informed him that tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Americans were preparing to enter Canada at the various entry points. RCMP officers caught many more going over the border were there was no entry point, in places like Maine, New Hampshire, and the Mid-West. In Vermont, where one town straddles the border with Quebec, the entire town illegally immigrated by crossing from one side of the town's library to the other. And so on. The Prime Minister, when faced with a huge crisis like this, simply accepted them into Canada, assuming they had proper documentation.
The message that the PM had was simple. Have no fear. Or so he thought he was going to say. But then he was informed that the US military was taking power. The American people didn't care about this apparently. But he did. The borders with the Americans were shut down, as was all travel into the US. Exports stopped soon after, as the government raced to figure out how to make up the economic power the US had within Canada. For lack of a better word, that came from Canadians. Cars being produced in Windsor, London, and other parts of Ontario, were now to be exported to other countries, or sold domestically. Factories reopened, as people faced economic hardship. Growers in the center of the country began sending beef once destined for the American restaurant chains, to be sold in their own country. And so on. The first 2 or 3 years were a massive economic and diplomatic shock, but Canada made its way through it.
By 2028, you could almost say things were getting back to normal. The economy, now focused on global trade, was reliant on the EU and Asia for its money now. Toronto became a bigger financial city then New York, at least until the military left the government, for financial services. And in general the economy, as well as the military, became much better off than before. The military specifically because the government did not know if the US would protect them from Russia, China, or anyone else, had a huge budget increase. The navy was modernized, and so was the Air Force. Canada began secretly researching and testing ICBMs in the Northwest Territories, for possibly armament with nuclear material as a deterrent, however nothing would come of that for a few years.
After the government got out of military hands in 2034, the relation with the US did not warm, apparently since the US military believed that Canada should have helped them, instead of acting as they did. Not much was lost however, as there wasn't much that the US had that Canada did not, or could not get. And things were fine for the next few years, until WWIII began in the early 2040's. Canada managed to stay out of the European part of WW III, except for sending some members of JTF2 (whose missions are still classified), as NATO was more or less a dead thing. It stayed out of the Asian portion since Korea was none of its business.
When Russia nuked much of the EU, Canada increased security again. But while they were running around doing that, the Chinese nuked the Mid-West of the US. This time the Canadians were scared for their lives. The new PM called for the secret nuclear missiles to be put on alert. More cities were hit, and again Canada closed its borders (they wouldn't open for another 6 months due to fallout concerns). But not before an even bigger waves of refugees then last time came through. Suddenly the RCAF noticed a blip on their radar screens, sitting in a bunker of their own outside Winnipeg. A nuclear missile was heading over the American border, from China. It was due to hit Toronto in 3 minutes. Luckily, however, an ABM was able to shoot it down before it killed millions.
The Prime Minister sat and wondered about his options- nuke China, and get nuked in response, or do nothing. But he decided to do something a bit different. He activated one of the missiles, and told the RAF officer in charge of them to put it in a high arc over the South China Sea. It was there within 10 minutes. It was launched from a silo far up North, and narrowly missed Hong Kong (as planned). It surprised the Chinese, who assumed it was a nuclear strike by the US, until the PM went on the CBC and claimed responsibility, due to China almost nuking Toronto. He detailed the exact response plan if China decided to actually nuke Canada, including strikes on more dams, cities, and military targets. They backed down, and the Prime Minister (Sir Donald Trump Jr, son of the former American President) was hailed as a hero, although the Americans were pissed. Then the PM received word that the US had killed ten million, or quite possibly millions more, when they nuked the Three Gorges Dam in response to the Chinese nuking the Mid-West. And peace was declared.
In 2035,Canadian Nationalists got enough support for a referendum about having a Canadian Monarch. It passed barely, but it passed. Due to the suddenness of the referendum, it took time for an acceptable monarch. Two months after the referendum, Peter Phillips was crowned the new King of Canada. He was chosen for two reasons. The most important is that he agreed to the idea immediately. The second being that his wife was Canadian. Thus, Canada got its Monarch.
In the years after, Canada got a good space program, and put people on the moon and in orbit. An orbital habitat, as well as a military space program, cemented Canada among the rising powers of the world. Closer relations with the UK, Europe, and the Pacific, at the expense of the US, which Canada sees even more as a potentially rogue state, much like when the military dictatorship happened (which could happen again). Overall, things have changed a lot in the last 100 years. But it will get better.
Culture/Society
Canada is pretty much the same as in the last century; just more people are in it. The government is still the same, except the last Quebec secessionist referendum had a 12% independence result. More people speak Chinese and other non-French languages then French (except in Quebec). State run television (CBC) still rules the airways, along with other domestic channels, as media output from the US was terrible during the military dictatorship. Many celebrities moved to Vancouver and Toronto, where a large film and TV industry exists today. There are more people in the major cities, as well as the orbital and moon colonies. It's not really that interesting.
Economy/Industry
Canada is rich. Not just in oil, as well as money, but also technology. You see, Canada has a large technology sector, specializing in robotics (Toronto and Vancouver), as well as rocketry (in Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, and Edmonton). Canada is a world leader in nuclear reactor design since the nuclear reactor was invented, with the CANDU V being the standard nuclear reactor for much of the world, as well as in many ships. The economy has moved from being based on services and somewhat agriculture to new forms of manufacturing, technology, and mining. Much like in the US, old factories now use robots to run processes at vastly cheaper prices then China or India. Robotics are also used on the orbital colony, as well as the moon colony, all made domestically.
Since the Terror Wars, Canada has been increasing its industry, and was one of the first countries to successfully revive manufacturing as a major industry. Once the military dictatorship in the US came about, the government used the less-then-open US economy to their advantage, painting Canada as an investment and manufacturing paradise, which it was. Since WW III, Canada's share in manufacturing has been surpassed by the US, but Canada is still one of the biggest.
Also during the Terror Wars, Canada acquired struggling world's 3rd largest aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, for the song of a price of 3 billion USD. It later also bought robotics and space technology giant MDA, for an undisclosed amount that was reportedly only exceeded when the British government bought BAE off the London Stock Exchange in a hostile takeover for a still undisclosed price over 80 years later. Other companies including Canada Air, and many telecommunications companies, are also under government control.
A rather historical company, PlanetSpace, is also Canadian. Why is it historical? On January 27th, 2017, it became the first private company to launch a (3 passenger) rocket (the Canadian Arrow) into space. A year later it beat out SpaceX, Virgin, Blue Origin, as well as a few different defense contractors, by launching their spaceplane, the Silver Dart, into space from Florida. The company made quite a bit of money from NASA deliveries to the ISS, as well as launching satellites. It was bought by MDA a few years later, before MDA was bought by the government. Until the large space guns were constructed, the CSA used variants of the two to launch people and supplies into orbit, and still uses a successor of the Silver Dart for deliveries to orbital habitats, as well as extremely fast package delivery from the Canadian post office. It also has developed a line of chemical rockets, for those times when the space elevator or space guns are impractical.
Military
The Royal Canadian forces are actually better armed then many countries a hundred years ago, and that's without the space fleet. They used to be less powerful then the Australians or even Israel, and now they would rank with last century's Germany or France. But that's beside the point. Since the purchase of Bombardier in the early 2020's, the Canadian government has sought to produce most of its equipment domestically. With the exception of its tanks, as well as some of its space-based ships, it has achieved this goal. Even its drones are produced in Canada, with robotics coming from the large industry in Vancouver and Toronto, as opposed to the United States. Each infantryman is equipped with a technological system much like the British one, with a C9 rifle chambered in 7.62×51, as their main weapon.
Notably, Canada is a nuclear power, possessing ICBMs, as well as nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, bombs, and other such things, only missing SSBNs due to the cost.
Number of Troops
Royal Canadian Army:
200,000 x Regulars
3,000 x Special Operations Division (with power armor)
2,000 x JTF (with power armor)
Total: 205,000
Royal Canadian Navy
25,000 Marines
45,000 Pilots/ship crew
Total: 70,000
Royal Canadian Aerospace Force
50,000 Space Marines
75,000 pilots/ship crew
Total: 125,000
Total: 400,000 active duty troops
Equipment
Royal Canadian Army:
1,000 Leopard III tank
5,000 LAV IV IFV
1,000 Railgun Artillery
1,000 Bombardier Talon II UGV
Royal Canadian Navy:
1 King-class aircraft carrier (50 plane capacity)
4 Flower-class destroyer
8 Prime Minister-class SSN
50 Bombardier Scorpion II Medium Attack Aircraft (basically the IRL Textron Scorpion, but heavier and better armed)
50 Bombardier Swan VTOL transports
1,000 Bombardier Rapier UUV
Royal Canadian Aerospace Force
Ground Based:
200 Bombardier Scorpion II Medium Attack Aircraft
100 Bombardier Swan VTOL transports
2,500 Bombardier Sentinel UAV
50 Mink Strategic Bombers
Space Based:
Planes:
400 Tiger Aerospace Fighter/bomber
50 Flower Transports/Gunships
20 Lynx Strategic Transports
300 Ark Royal Non-Antimatter SSTO fighters
Ships:
1 Prime Minister-class Assault Carrier (50 plane capacity)
4 Duke of Ottawa-class Frigates
4 Lord-class Destroyers
Person of Importance
King Peter III
Prime Minister John Clarke
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