History of Volkstat(1771-1806)

March 27, 1771: A 7 year old orphan named Frank Engel on the verge of death comes out of the hospital completely fine this day. He soon, however, starts experiencing strange behavior, spending much of his time in the library and near extensive notes.

September 1, 1774: Frank Engel, now 11, begins to make strange theories about diseases, going to other children to gather particles from their coughs. A local doctor hires him as apprentice.

January 2, 1778: The fifteen year old Engel begins publishing his theories about diseases, suggesting injecti a lesser version to train the immune system would help the body adapt. They are for now ridiculed.

February 6th, 1780: An opportunity arises when a woman in a neighboring street catches an extreme cold. The doctor who teaches Frank, Johanh Ebert, accepts testing out the cure. To Johanh's surprise, the woman gets better.

October 12, 1781: After sales of Frank's and Johans books spread across their village, Frank begins to organize the community into a cure selling business. It expands into other villages over time. Frank grows richer, but surprisingly more benefactoriall to the people, and eventually joins the council.

May 12, 1787: After gathering an enormous amount of wealth due to his cures, and eventually being noticed by Friesland, the duchy he resides it (near the Dutch Republic on the 1789 map), he is declared a noble. A few weeks later,on May 31st, he buys a piece of land near the border of the dutch, on a river, with one part extending to the Dutch, and another going down the river, like a boomerang. He names it Volkstat, and crowns himself prince.

August 8th, 1788: After the combination of the several villages into three towns is finished, city councils are elected. Frank I starts implementing populist reforms, and opens up many buisness to be used by the peasantry.

September 1st, 1788: After the school year begins, Frank declares the monarchy abolished and for elections to a 10 member body called the Supreme Council to take place soon, saying he will abdicate on February. He also states 3 judges must be appointed by the town councils and a corruption committee to be installed. 4 parties compete(results of election and government institutions will be explained later.)

February 1, 1789: After the council assembles until a new election 10 months later, a lottery is held on who will represent them at the Imperial Diet.

July 1, 1789: After the previous representatives fail to negotiate the Holy Roman Empire, one FINNALY manages to negotiate something. The assembly is recognized.

April 20, 1792: The revolutionary wars start. Volkstat originally dosn't send any troops, but when the executions in France reach high levels, they send 50 to fight under the representatives command and 50 as doctors, but never declare war.

May 20, 1803: When the Napoleonic wars start, Volkstat strangely sits idle. However, neighboring towns observe them to be digging some ditches in the ground around the border perimeter. Weapons are eventually added in.

September 1, 1806: After the fall of the HRE, Volkstat refuses to acknowledge it. They ask Napoleon to not be in the confederation of the Rhine, trying to mimic San Marino, but he refuses. He orders them to go in or be annihilated. They refuse, and he launches an offensive, but using the ditches Volkstat stop the assault with practically no deaths. The Franco-Volkstati war has begun.