El Kadsre/RationalWiki article

El Kadsre is a Commonwealth country in North America, located approximately halfway between the Lower 48 and Hawaii. El Kadsre has a complex history involving decades of unrest between Japanese colonists, European colonists, and native Vicnoran tribes, eventually leading to a British-backed coup, which led to the country being split into two, until some guy came along and made an offbrand USSR with a pseudo-New Age ideology known as Vlokism. That broke up into 6 countries in 1989, the largest one being El Kadsre.

The name El Kadsre is a strange blend of Spanish and Vicnoran, and literally means “The Republic”. It is unknown why this name was chosen, but the most likely guess is that it sounded more exotic than the previous name of “New Japan”.

Due to Michael Vlokozu being unable to decide between a republic and a Commonwealth realm, El Kadsre is one of the few countries to have both a President and a King.

History
The El Kadsreian island chain formed millions of years ago, and is essentially a huge mess of volcanic islands, in common with much of the rest of Micronesia and Polynesia. However, these particular volcanic islands are on their own tectonic plate, the Arito Plate, which leads to massive earthquakes and tsunamis.

El Kadsre was initially inhabited by Native Vicnoran tribes, as well as some other Polynesian tribes (including Māori from New Zealand that got lost and ended up here). All was well until the Japanese wanted to get in on that “colonization” thing the Europeans were doing, and established colonies in some then-obscure Pacific islands. The Japanese colonists eventually rebelled against their imperial masters, and formed their own empire known as the Sentanese Empire. Later on, the biggest island seceded from the rest of the Sentanese Empire to create the Kadsreius Sentanese Republic, the first iteration of modern El Kadsre. Around the same time, British and Spanish colonies were formed in the region.

The KSR eventually renamed itself to Republic of El Kadsre, and all was well until a British-backed coup in 1958. The British could have just installed a puppet republic, but for some reason, they decided to form a colony in half of El Kadsre, and give the guys they were trying to overthrow the other half. This lasted until Michael Vlokozu came along in 1969. Mikey was not only an imperialist, but also highly into New Age stuff, and wanted to imitate the trappings of the Soviet Union. He united both El Kadsres, as well as North El Kadsre, Sentan, and Mahri (and later on Vicnora), under his rule. It is worth noting that Mikey may have had dictatorial aspirations, but for the entire lifespan of the Vlokozu Union, he was constantly democratically re-elected. He was that popular with El Kadsreians.

The native Vicnorans hated Mikey for taking their land, and one of them eventually assassinated him, which led to the breakup of the Vlokozu Union, and that’s how we got the El Kadsre we know today.

Overseas territories
Earlier iterations of El Kadsre adopted a form of the States’ Manifest Destiny ideology, which has led to El Kadsreian territories in such far-flung places as Southeast Asia and New England.