October 18th, 1962
The people of Spain emerged from their homes and bomb shelters, in Barcelona the people prayed that no bombs would detonate their city. Almost as soon as the people began coming out of their homes they began wondering, what had happened to Franco? Honestly, most people would have been pleased to see him dead, but they also feared the anarchy that could ensue. They turned on their radios and TV's, amazed to find them functional. On the TV was an emergency line of colors, but at the bottom it said "Speech by our leader at 3pm"
As the Spaniards returned to their homes for what would normally have been ciesta, the image of Franco appeared on their screens.
"My fellow spaniards, yesterday marks the most horrific day in all of both Spanish History and that of the world. Luckily a nuclear missile was somewhat inaccurate and did not hit the city of Madrid directly, and we are evacuating the citizens as we speak. Europe lies in ruin, as every country except Spain, Denmark, Albania, and Yugoslavia have fallen into a state of anarchy. The United States and Canada have collapsed as well, the Soviet Union is nearly non-existant. Our brothers in South America still live however, and Africa and parts of Asia were spared of the nuclear onslaught. Spain has found itself in a unique situation, we can look around us and find no nation equalling spain in might or economic power in Europe. Now is Spain's chance, we can unite the nations of Europe under one great banner and acheive the goal for which we have strived for decades. But, we enter a new era, and do not need to worry about the specters of communism, and therefore I have decided to change many aspects of our great society. First, no logner will you be proesecuted for your beleifs, and all political prisoners suspected of being communists and socialists will be released. Not only that, but now we are guarenteed the freedom of speech, and surely thousands of jobs will be created by new media industries. Spain has also taken military action into many of our neighbors, and Portugal will soon be part of the United Iberian Peninsula, we wish to save all those trapped in anarchial nations all over Europe. For now though citizens, remain in your homes, as we will deal with the looting and pillaging that has struck ours and many other nations with any means possible. But now, we look forward to the future, a future that gives spain a potential empire like hasnt been seen since the 1500's, when our empire was in its golden age! Forward, to the second golden age! Plus Ultra!!!"
The screen returned to the normal emergency screen, and the citizens in spain dropped what they were doing and stood in shock. Even a man who had been robbing a house of its Television stopped to listen to their radio. The people had expected the usual bantering on of their not so popular leader, but suddenly cheers began to break out. People all over felt themselves one step closer to democracy, and began to rebuild their lives.