MAINE
Maine is not doing as well as it should. With the isolation of geography and the type of population, Maine should be well into recovery. The problem is food, the harvests have been lousy with the growing seasons screwed up by the nuclear autumn, and the winters have been especially cold. It seems like everyone in the state is hungry and sick. Governor John Hathaway Reed is doing what he can, having long ago defederalized the National Guard and done pretty well at keeping most of the out of state refugees out. Since then, however, he has been forced to become more and more autocratic, and the NG has served more as his own private army than anything else.
1) NUCLEAR TARGETS
None.
2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES
None other than the reformed and reorganized remains of the Maine National Guard, which are largely garrisoned in Augusta.
3) MAINE ATLANTIC COAST
The coast is an environmental disaster area, severely reducing the fishing crops which were once the staple of the state. In January of 1963, two fully-laden oil tankers were torpedoed off the mouth of the Bay of Fundy by a Russian submarine. Both broke up and spilled their crude oil cargos over the beaches from the Bay of Fundy south down the Maine coast to as far as Portland and as far east as Brier Island off Nova Scotia. The sludge still stains the rocks and sand.
4) SOUTHERN MAINE
While a few power-plants remained functioning for some months after the nuclear exchange, the skilled personnel and the upkeep equipment required were not to be found, and eventually all power plants were shut down, plunging the cities into darkness. In the cities, life is now difficult.
Augusta: The state capital and the center of Governor Reed's power. The majority of the National Guard is here in the city and industry and trade are flourishing. The city's defenses include an anti-aircraft regiment, nine platoons of a National Guard Battalion, a couple of police companies, a couple of engineer companies, and twenty militia companies which could be called up. The AA regiment's guns are mostly obsolete guns of various calibers and there are very few rounds per gun. The population is growing as the food situation deteriorates out in the countryside.
Bangor: Recently a group known as the "Red Knights of the Communist" has appeared in Bangor. Originating in the devastated area around this city, this radical group is spreading directly north, taking villages and disrupting life as it goes along.
Portland: Portland, being the southernmost city in the state, was repeatedly sacked by bands of people fleeing radiated and devastated areas to the south and is a shell today. The docks are kept alive by an outpost of the Gloucestermen.
5) NORTHERN MAINE
With the major population centers to the south ravaged by rioting and the collapse of civil control, and most communication equipment rendered useless by EMP, the people of northern Maine have been forced to revert to pre-1900 levels of existence. Pumas have begun to reappear in the northern forests for the first time in a century and the bears are an increasing problem. The country-wide white supremacy group New America has a large enclave in the north woods of the Maine (and across the border in New Brunswick), where they now exercise effective control over a number of larger towns in the area.
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