‘The Walking Dead’: 5 Things We Learned About the Civic Republic Military

The CRM sees itself as “the last light of the world”

Focused on wiping out the dead and ensuring humanity’s survival, the CRM team uses its extensive resources to study walkers. At a research facility in Ithaca, New York, Dr. Lyla Belshaw (Natalie Gold) employed walkers and the living as test subjects to study the virus. Her goals? To prevent humans from turning and wipe out already existing hordes of the dead.

They have tech and weapons

The Civic Republic maintains many of life’s conveniences from before the apocalypse. Cities and facilities possess electricity, running water, and an abundance of food. And the military is stocked with guns, vehicles, helicopters, and chlorine gas. They have the highest quality of postapocalyptic life we’ve seen in the Walking Dead Universe by far.

They’re everywhere

In Beyond, we saw that the CRM’s reach extends to much of America, from New York to Oregon. We know they were in Virginia — and their helicopters even traveled as far as Texas in Season 5 of spinoff Fear the Walking Dead.

Jadis is working for them

On Beyond, it was revealed that Rick’s former enemy Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) now works as a CRM warrant officer. She reports to the mysterious Major General Beale, who we’ll see for the first time in The Ones Who Live, played by Terry O’Quinn.

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