The Republic of New Niagara

The Republic of New Niagara or New Niagara is a nation consisting of most of the American North East, and some of South East Canada. The country has 6 states that spread across today's Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ontario, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Quebec. This country is created by MrGuineapigs.

Founding and Beginning (2015)
After the collapse of The United States of America in 2015, 51 new countries were created. Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island had very close ties and were afraid of New York and Maine. Tight borders were put in place. All countries were considered "advanced", although rumors spread throughout the New England countries that Vermont was partly corrupted.

2016
January 2016 - Maine & New York sign an alliance agreement. This rose tensions across the North East, especially to the states in between them.

March 2016 - All countries begin to line troupes along there borders. During this time, California invades most of Nevada.This made most of the superpower countries want to show their strength too.

April 2016 - On April 6th, 7 countries in the U.S. land declared war on 10 other countries in the U.S. (Texas vs Oklahoma, Nebraska vs Iowa, Illinois vs Indiana, Michigan vs Ohio, Florida vs Georgia, Maine & New York vs Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, & Massachusetts)

On April 16th, invasion began. By the end of April, most of Vermont and Connecticut were invaded by New York.

May 2016 - Vermont and Connecticut are completely annexed by New York but are not recognized as a state, yet. Maine

Geography
New Niagara is located in North America. It has one of the Great Lakes located inside of it. It has 6 states.

New Niagara is home to one of the Great Lakes and the Northern Appalachian Mountain range.
 * Lake Ontario is considered to belong to Niagara.
 * Southern New York and all of Vermont have Appalachian Mountains across them.18359

Population
New Niagara is the 32nd most populated country in the world. Over forty percent of the population lives in New York.

Notes:
 * Until 2020, New York held more than half of New Niagara's Population.
 * 2022 is the only year where every state is below a 10+ percent growth rate. Vermont was the only state above 5%.
 * South Quebec holds the record for the largest growth rate of 61.2% and is the only state above 35%. The country as a whole hit 40.7% in 2016 when there was only 5 states.
 * Vermont is the only state to enter the union with under one million people. It also had the highest growth rate for the longest amount of time. (3 years and not going below 17%)

Language
The official language of New Niagara is English and French. In 2017, after South Quebec joined the union and around half of the population speaking French.

In 2018, French began to sweep through Northern New York, most of Niagara, and Northern Western Vermont. Thousands of people began to learn French and only French speaking communities popped up.

In the 2018 state elections, all states put the question "What should be (State Name)'s "State Language". Here are the state languages of each state.

New York's Situation
+++[[File:Language vote.png|left|thumb|292x292px|New York's Vote in the state. Key:

Red Area = French Vote

Blue Area = English Vote

]] Although the majority of New York did vote for English, it was by 3%. Protests occurred in northern and western New York and there were threats to secede and become it's own state.

The state government decided that it would have two languages instead of one.

Religion
This is a work in progress! Please don't edit this until it's completed. BTW History isn't completed. Thanks :) - MrGuineapigs