Reform and the Islanders

As time entered 1930, the economic crisis had actually already reached its tail end.

Apart from several countries that had been hit especially hard by the economic crisis, the other countries had begun restoring their import and export trade.

Under such circumstances, every country could finally catch its breath and sort out its chaotic domestic economy.

As former parts of the United States, the Kingdom of California and the West Coast United Kingdom had still been hit rather severely by the economic crisis.

After the Kingdom Governments of the two countries were established, they decisively closed the stock markets and set up a centralized system for rationing supplies.

The greatest benefit of doing so was that even the unemployed could obtain a certain amount of food, preventing them from starving to death or sparking chaos.

The good news was that neither kingdom had a particularly large population, so the number of unemployed naturally remained within controllable limits.

It was a matter of gains and losses. The British had gained New York and Pennsylvania, but the unemployed population in those two states numbered more than a million. They were the worst-hit regions in the United States.

Solving the unemployment problem in those regions alone was enough to give the British a headache.

To say nothing of the fact that unemployment in Britain itself had not been resolved. The London stock market was still closed, which had a tremendous impact on Britain's economy.

To help the Kingdom of California and the West Coast United Kingdom escape the effects of the economic crisis, Arthur decided to implement certain reforms in the two kingdoms, allowing them to shed the marks of their former American identity and grow into two new countries.

The first step was to completely abolish the National Guard in every state.