Sermons of the End

"'Keep your rifle by your side!' —Sermonist propaganda jingle"Welcome to God's country. When the missiles flew, the old world order was undone in an instant: and from the ashes of Scornstone's devastation the Sermonists rose their flag anew. The Republic of Goldenplate has been built anew in their image, but still many forces threaten the nascent republic. The Sermonist government of Goldenplate has received no recognition from NORCOM's Joint Chiefs of Staff, and for every year following the tribulations of the nuclear exchange, the remnants of the federal government have feuded with the Sermonists, as this new God-fearing state exists in violation of the Constitution's provisions— a thorough hypocrisy, as the Constitution itself has largely been suspended due to the Military Anarchy.

It was in November of 1986 that the unspoken crisis between the Sermonist Church and the federal government came to a head, as, believing the Sermonists to be in possession of stolen ordnance from Warren Air Force Base, the National Security Bureau and the Bureau of Alcohol, Narcotics, Firearms and Lasers were deployed to Great Lake City. A 39-day siege ensued, ending in tragedy as the Great Lake City Temple was set alight by federal forces and razed to the ground, and not a single stolen piece of ordnance among the rubble. The destruction of the Sermonist holy site quickly led to the Battle of Great Lake City, ending in the ousting of federal forces from the capital of Goldenplate. A tense stalemate has since plagued the land, between the Sermonists' aspiration towards autonomy and self-determination and an increasingly imposing Estrian military government. Be it over ranch land, oil reserves or control of the highways, it seems that every month the feds find a new method by which to pester and legally threaten the Sermonists.

Beyond the Goldenplate Crisis, the Republic of Goldenplate is beset upon all sides by bandits, raiders and marauding rogue military units that crave nothing more than loot and bloodshed, forcing an often times uneasy cooperation between NORCOM and the Sermonist militias. Scornstone's ash storms have rendered much of the northern reaches of the state a wasteland, and every month more and more refugees fleeing the absolute devastation caused by the ashfalls flock into the nascent republic. Yet with this new influx of refugees come problems of their own: for one, an increasingly problematic difference in faith and worldview between the inhabitants of Goldenplate and the droves of weary survivors.

Player Introduction
Welcome to Goldenplate, cowboy. There's opportunity to be had here: be it rebuilding society and managing the influx of refugees flowing into the country, or profiteering off the ongoing crisis in the country... or perhaps simply enjoying poker in the myriad casinos of Los Perdidos, the possibilities in this land are many.

Join the Sermonists in their struggle for autonomy and survival, the Federal Army in their fight to maintain order and cohesion in the west, or the ANFL in their effort to stop the Sermonists... or simply jump in as an outsider and familiarize yourself with this land of tightly-knit people who value family, faith and homeland above all else.