Overview
Named for Charles Lindbergh, The Autonomous Republic of Lindbergh was founded by a group of space colonies at Mars’s L5 point. The people who gathered there tended to see the mid-20th Century period of American history in a positive light, and built their society on an idealized imagination of it. Krieg Enterprises, a major mining corporation was based in the Autonomous Republic, and one of the Republic's founding fathers was Amadeus Krieg. In addition to asteroid mining, the Republic’s main industries were devoted to manufacturing consumer goods, mostly designed with an eye to the style of their preferred time period.
The government was loosely based on the US constitution, but with a much weaker central government. Racial and gender equality were enshrined in law and custom, and the society was largely secular. There were, however, a few “old-time” colonies where attitudes more closely reflected those of the actual mid-20th Century, but they were marginalized politically and socially, and tended to be the poorest as well. Since the legal framework that governed the Republic gave wide latitude to the individual colonies, the “old-time” colonies remained ossified in their archaic attitudes until the end of Era-1.
Late in Era-1, after most of the main asteroid belt had been mined out, The Republic became a popular tax haven for the wealthy, and emphasized its unique culture as a way to draw in tourism.
Throughout most of its history, The Autonomous Republic of Lindbergh only had a very small military, due to the fact that it was in a defensive pact with the Planetary League. Although it never officially joined the Planetary League, The Republic was on good terms with them overall, maintaining steady and prosperous trade.
During the Great Reckoning, the “old-time” colonies allied with Krieg Enterprises, and seized power during a brief civil war, and then promptly joined the Empire of Man.
During Era-2, Lindbergh became an industrial hub for the Imperial war machine.
