The Republic of South Africa is a nation located at the southernmost end of Africa, including the former country of Botswana. Previously it had fought on the side of the Entente, and then with the Allies, but today it finds itself increasingly isolated for its peculiar interior policies. It is led by President Charles Robberts Swart, a staunch supporter of South Africa's new Apartheid form of government. The system forcefully creates "separate yet equal" societies within the Republic, in practice functioning as a racial caste system. Apartheid was created by the Afrikaners-dominated National Party, which as its name implies, was largely made up of white South African nationalists. They believed that Pretoria's government had been corrupted by Western liberals, Trotskyists infiltrators and black extremists. Through a series of reforms, strict racial hierarchies were made absolute by law. To this date television has not reached South Africa, as its ultra-conservative government considers it a potential source of "English cultural contamination against the Afrikaners".
Since John F. Kennedy stepped up to lead the United States, the South African government has found itself increasingly isolated from even its traditional western partners, especially due to the rising prominence of the Civil Rights Movement. For Kennedy's pro-CR federal government, as well as for Africa's majority-rule insurrectionists, South Africa represents an ultimate evil. For George Wallace and his "state within the state" in the Confederate States, it represents a dream come true. Whatever international standing South Africa had remaining with the West, was brought down by the 1960 Sharpeville massacre.