The New Richmond Republic is a federal, socialist-oriented, republican micronation based in the Central Appalachian Coalfields of Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia, the Bluegrass region of Central Kentucky, and Appalachian Ohio. A successor to various preceding micronations, modern New Richmonder society began as a colony of the Empire of Austenasia in 2013; since then, it has evolved to become an independent state dedicated to progressivism, preservation and promotion of Appalachian culture, and the establishment of microsocialism - realistic micronational socialism.