Grindstone

Grindstone, a former municipality of Quebec, is a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Annexation
Grindstone (along with many other islands around the world) was forcibly annexed into what would later become the disjoint states of occupied demarchic America in 1910 due to the locality requirements of Tunguska devices. During the annexation and subsequent occupation the majority of the island's population of 3000 were forcibly displaced to make room for a burgeoning population of Tunguska Project scientists and their support staff.

During this time a sprawling scientific compound was constructed to house and support the island's Tunguska device, in addition to the continuation of the research upon which the Tunguska devices are based. This was the largest such compound in the world until the completion of the Tunguska compound on St Helena in 1917. Living on Grindstone was often a grueling process for Tunguska scientists due to long work hours, and therefore the island was often referred to colloquially as "the land of disfigured faces," a reference to the idiom "nose to the grindstone."

Independence
Grindstone seceded from the disjoint states of occupied demarchic America in 1927, partially due to the immense global pressures of the Great Repine. It is speculated that the New Underground, who gained much traction during this period, provided monetary and material support to the Grindstone separatist movement. The new government of Grindstone was led by Viktor Ilyich until his assassination by an American Perennius in 1936.