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Nation name: Republic of Canada
Population: 21 million (de jure), 23 million (client states included)
Claim: Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Greenland (official). Canada also has de facto control over Alaska, Maine, and Iceland
Military force: 225,000 professional, 3.5 million civilian paramilitary, 50,000 client state forces
Government: federal parliamentary democracy
Economic system: Command economy
Resources in surplus: Oil, natural gas, uranium, timber, among many others
Resources in scarcity: Consumer goods, automobiles, various machines and tools that used to be imported from the US and the EU. A small scale famine is felt nationwide
History: Canada is believed to have been the second country where the outbreak occurred. Canadian medical researchers uncovered three dead bodies in Montreal that confirmed that they experienced direct contact with Patient Zero during a vacation in New York. Thus, when the plague was discovered in 2015, over 3 million people were already suffering the plague.
In 2016, struggling with skyrocketing infection rates in Toronto and Montreal, the Canadian government instituted the ECP Patient Quarantine Act, forcing many of those diagnosed with ECP to be uprooted from their homes and sent to camps up north where many ECP patients died of illnesses completely unrelated to ECP. Canada's major cities fell under military occupation with highly tightened movement and 8 PM - 6 AM curfews. Vigilantes roamed the streets, sometimes with help from the police and military, finding and killing those they suspected of carrying the plague.
Paranoia reached it's peak with 2017, when it was confined in March that 70 sufferers of the plague had died in the US due to the illness. Extra judicial violence against ECP sufferers became commonplace while hundreds of thousands were hastily deported to quarantine camps that could only house thousands at most. Economic problems severely worsened when riots in major cities became a weekly occurrence, and many Canadians simply refused to leave their homes for work out of fear of ECP.
By 2018, the Canadian government legalized killing ECP patients, while also slowly transitioning to full scale martial law, starting the Dark Years. The Canadian economy had collapsed, angry mobs would drag entire families suffering ECP from their homes and burn them alive, the quarantine camps were universally recognized as just death camps, HAZMAT teams randomly murdered potential ECP patients when visiting them for diagnosis.
The US had collapsed into chaos by 2022, along with most of Western Europe but Canada remained intact, albeit as a police state. It's abundance in natural resources gave it an advantage when self sufficiency was necessary to survive. At that point, ECP sufferers would neither seek medical help nor try to hide their ailment, but would squat in abandoned neighborhoods, waiting for the plague to eventually kill them. The state of Alaska survived the collapse of America and asked Canada to send in food and protection in exchange for natural resources, which they obliged. St. Pierre and Miquelon and Greenland made similar agreements, resulting in annexation. In 2025, Canadian troops launched a campaign to conquer Maine and Iceland when both places became severe piracy hubs. Infection rates died down by 2026, and with that society very, very slowly started to return to normal. The police state was eventually dismantled in 2028. Canada was also one of the first countries to obtain and administer the cure for ECP, but nearly 15 million had already died.
