Tayloria

Tayloria (officially the Republic of Tayloria) is a sovereign state located in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, composed of an archipelago of approximately 21,469 islands.

Tayloria is a permanent member of the UNSC.

Info
Anthem: “Vpered Teyloriya” Motto: “To dwell together in unity” Capital and largest city: Taylor City Official languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese Currency: Taylorian dollar (TYD) Internet TLD: .ty Drives on the: right

History
The Taylorian Archipelago was formed by a series of volcanic eruptions, tectonic plate shifts, floods, and earthquakes, shortly after North and South America split from Pangaea.

Native Taylorians mostly came from Siberia and Polynesia via makeshift rafts.

During the colonial period, the archipelago was colonized by 5 countries: Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, and Japan. These colonial powers, known as the “Eurasian Powers”, poorly treated the area and its inhabitants, both colonists and Native Americans. Eventually, the colonies of these powers united in a rebellion against their colonial masters, starting in 1822. After 4 years of the Thousand Islands Revolutionary War, the 5 Eurasian powers finally surrendered and recognized the independence of the area then known as Thousand Islands on July 3, 1826, now known as Tayloria Day.

One of the first things done once Thousand Islands gained independence, was to free all the slaves in the country. This was because slavery was already thought to be outdated by the residents of the archipelago at that point.

The country was called Thousand Islands until 1845, when it was renamed after its first President, James Allen Taylor.

Tayloria was one of the first countries to implement women’s suffrage, in 1856.

Tayloria was neutral in the First World War.

Tayloria was not affected by the Great Depression as badly as other countries; in Tayloria, the Depression only lasted from 1930 to 1933 (only 3 years).

Tayloria originally intended to be neutral in the Second World War, but was forced to participate in the war after Japan started “kamikaze” air attacks on Taylorian cities, similar to the Nazi Blitz bombings on London and other British cities. Tayloria emerged from WWII as a great power, having helped the United States research the atomic bombs which were dropped on Japan, though the US took all the credit.

Despite being a capitalist country, Tayloria was neutral during the Cold War, and worked together with both the United States and Soviet Union during the Space Race. Tayloria formed the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961.

Tayloria and the United States worked together to land astronauts on Mars in the late 1960s-early 1970s, ultimately landing their astronauts, along with American and Taylorian flags to be planted on the surface for photo-ops, in July 1975.

Taylorian technology companies such as TayTek invented early desktop computers including the Deskmate-I (released in 1975, 2 years before the Apple II). Tayloria’s late-1980s/early-1990s computer-based dial-up teletext system, “.ty”, owned by state broadcaster TBC in cooperation with TayTek, was infiltrated by spies from ARPA and other US government agencies, which used some of its infrastructure for internal government networks like ARPANET, and was later studied by Swiss researchers at CERN, which used its technologies to create the World Wide Web. TayTek also invented an early digital television animation system in 1979, almost 2 decades before the first versions of Macromedia Flash came out.

Tayloria introduced widescreen TV in 1995. In 1999, Tayloria became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage.

During the 21st century, Tayloria invested in land reclamation projects and artificial islands, the largest such artificial island being Castine Island.