History of Carolina

Creation and Growth of the Duchy System
In 1795, Napoleonic France invaded mainland Friega, forcing the King and his staff to flee the island nation. While initially fleeing to London, the Friegan Royal family eventually fled to Brunswick in the French Province of Surchaufféland. A large Frisian speaking population lived in Surchaufféland and the Friegan Royals hoped to establish a government in exile in the colony. While Louis XVII had previously been bad terms with the Friegan royal family, their shared hatred for Napoleon and the French Republic helped the two to bond.

In 1812, a farmer in Friega Proper named Anglin began a revolution against the French. He aimed to create his own country within Friega, and denounced the royal family as traitors for being on soil owned by the French Kingdom. His populist revolution helped to oust the French Republic from Friega Proper, and he established himself as King. The royal family tried to appeal to the United Kingdom and Prussia with no avail, they both saw the Friegan monarchy as a thing of the past, and the new monarchy as simply the Friegan monarchy being restored under a different dynasty. Anglin had also made sure that he was on good terms with the British and Prussian's over fear that they may oust him. With no hope to return to Freiga, the royal family in Brunswick made a plea to now King Louis XVIII. They hoped to establish a self-governing entity, similar to a state in Surchaufféland. The King approved of the motion, and Carolina adopted a new Federal system in the creation of its new constitution in 1812. States were to be called Duchy's and their governor would be a Duke. Surchaufféland became a royal duchy, a duchy which is ruled by a royal family instead of a duke. The royal duchies did not have to follow the Carolinian outline for the government and could make their own system of government within the duchy.

Due to the fact that King Charles I grew up in a time period following the July Revolution in France, he constantly feared that Bourbon's ruling in Europe would fall and that his family members would be exiled. Relatives from France, which fled to Carolina told him stories of how they were ousted from their positions in several revolutions. When Charles became King in 1852, he saw a world in which Bourbon rule could fall at any moment. Unrest was currently going on in Spain against Queen Isabella, and Italian Unification threatened the King of the Two Sicilies. When Alfonso, the brother of Francis II of the Two Sicilies requested a land grant in Carolina, Charles gave it to him, fearing that Alfonso thought the end for the Two Sicilies was near. In retrospect, Alfonso was jealous of his brother's power, and his relative lack of power. Therefore he believed his best option would to appeal to rule a royal duchy in Carolina. However in 1861, Charles' fear's came true, as the Expedition of the Thousands caused the collapse of the Two Sicilies, and Francis fled to Ausonia.

Seven years later, fears about the collapse of the Bourbons in Spain finally came true with the Glorious Revolution in Spain. While Queen Isabella initially fled to France, she was promised to rule a Royal Duchy called Andalusia in Carolina, and therefore joined her other Bourbon families in Carolina.

Creation of the Federal Republic
Nationalism began to rise in Carolina as early as the 1870's as a result of Carolina's refusal to end slavery. While slavery was essential to the daily life of most Carolinian's, the King's of both Ausonia and Oerheatland opposed it and rallied their people to oppose it as well. This created an issue because the people in the royal duchies were no longer loyal to the King of Carolina, and rather to the King of their duchy. Nationalism is Ausonia and Oerheatland soon spilled over into Andalusia and the northern duchies of North Carolina, Appalachia, and Tenasi. However, Charles denounced the idea that Carolina should devolve some of its power of let some of the duchies secede, believing that Carolina was an indivisible state.

In 1901, North Carolina gathered a convention and declared an Ordinance of Secession, declaring their intent to leave Carolina and join the United States. This was rejected by both Carolina and the United States leaving North Carolinian's in limbo. Charles sent in the millitary to suppress the secession crisis, and those who were behind it were tried and killed for treason. However, North Carolina did not receive it's old government and became a "Military Territory" of Carolina. This infuriated many groups within Carolina including the Italians, Spanish, and Freigans. Each group now feared that the French in Carolina would suppress them in order to make sure that Carolina stayed intact. Therefore, ethnic tensions rose in Carolina. In 1907, a British scholar concluded that it would be no more than two years before Carolina was embroiled in its own civil war and disintegrated into warring Kingdoms. Carolina was the "sick man of North America".

Upon King Charles' sudden death in 1908, Queen Anne Marie assumed the throne of Carolina. Presented with a