Free district

Before the Revolution
The Free District is the liberated colony of the former city of Washington DC. Until 1964, DC could not participate in any elections whatsoever, either national or local. The colony was under strict rule by the federal government, voted for by no one in Washington DC, and who ignored the needs of the population entirely. Until 1973, the District could only participate in national elections and had no manner by which to govern itself: no mayor, no governor, no senator, no congressperson. In 1973, after substantial unrest, the people of DC wrested a small amount of political power away from the federal government when they were enabled to elect a mayor, but congress (a governing body in which Washington DC has no voting representation) oversaw every vote and decision, and cherry picked what they wanted from those decisions to be the ones enacted: at different times stepping in to prevent gun control law, changing a city park names from Malcom X Park (chosen by an overwhelming majority of residents) to Meridian Hill Park, removing from budgets school funding, library funding, and funding towards AIDS prevention, even though the AIDS rate in Washington DC is higher than that of most sub-Saharan African countries. Right-wing politicians in Congress set out to overturn the Assault Weapons Ban, and did so in 2004. The "DC Fair and Equal House Voting Rights Act of 2006" (which would enable DC voting representation in Congress) failed in 2007.

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The Uprising
In 2008, an enormous campaign against gentrification and the selling of public lands to private developers outside of the city came to a head with the creation of Popular Neighborhood Assemblies. With the inability of the federal government to grant self-determination (surprise!), the popularity and efficacy of Popular Assemblies, and the legal status of assault weapons within city limits, Washington DC gained popular consciousness of its status as a colony. Residents took up arms and ousted all of the their oppressors from their formerly respected positions within the colony: politicians, yuppie gentrifiers, and tourists were all driven from the city limits at bayonet point. The US capitol was moved to Kennebunkport, Maine, and DC guerrilla fighters destroyed jails all over the country freeing DC residents to return to their newly reclaimed homeland.

The Promise Fulfilled
A network of mutual aid and solidarity was established where all lands and resources are owned communally, and residents are rewarded for effort and sacrifice. Rooftop gardens (more properly, farms) and fish farms in flooded townhouse basements feed the neighborhoods for free (though the work hours gained by the farmers grant them the ability to afford luxuries like first choice of the crop), and scrap metal from abandoned government vehicles are melted down for use as tools and bicycles. Workers councils and neighborhood councils are currently enacting new education programs and retributive justice systems to disintegrate the vestiges of domination (patriarchy, homophobia, racism), and replace the values inherited by capitalist hegemony, decolonizing the everyday lives of its citizens by reordering society towards feminism, intercommunalism, and biocentrism. Former anti-colonial liberation fighters under the banner of the DC Liberation Front train the people in self-defense.

Nation Name, Capital City, Motto, Flag Descriptions
DC renamed itself the Free District scorning the genocide perpetrated by Christopher Columbus of the original peoples of the Americas, and combines the motto of the former colony of Washington DC (Justitia Omnibus, "Justice for All"), and the popular revolutionary and anarchist warcry, "Land and Liberty" into it's national motto: Terra quod Licentia Omnibus, "Land and Liberty for All." It flies an anarcho-syndicalist flag with the Washington DC flag emblazoned in green, reflecting the population of over two thirds New Afrikan, with its Red Black and Green prominent colors. A symbol for harmony and deep respect for both toilers of the field and laborers in the factories is foregrounded in white: The gear and wheat stalk is less associated with the statist atrocity of the Soviet Union's hammer and sickle, but retains its original meaning of communism.