Virginian Union

The Virginian Union (VU), commonly referred to as SODUV (the State of Occupied Demarchic United Virginia), is a semi-independency located in disjointed America. It is most famous for being the birthplace of Cassidy Stevenson, one of the Tunguska Seven.

History
Formed in 1922, after a decade of civil war during which most of it's present territory was occupied by either the Delaware Empire, Kentucky Federal Commonwealth, or Herzogtum of Lancaster, SODUV officially joined the disjoint states of occupied demarchic America in 1923. Although it's citizens fully embraced demarchy, they were long seen as rebellious by other states for their refusal to install their own Tunguska Device, instead relying on the Herzogtum's.

War broke out again in 1936 after Viktor Ilyich, leader of Grindstone, was killed by a Perennius (the only known Perenniora operative to hail from Virginia in their more than thirty year history). The VU took advantage of the resulting chaos by sailing it's ships to the island and capturing it through an alliance with the Kentucky Federal Commonwealth, whereby the VU supplied the fleet and Kentucky supplied an army. Upon taking the island, however, the chief magistrates of Kentucky revealed that the VU would only be permitted to keep the island if they agreed to study the island's Tunguska Device and create a duplicate back in Virginia. They refused, and Kentucky betrayed them, ordering their soldiers to sink the fleet, thus giving the inhabitants of Grindstone freedom and protection.