Once spanning 50 states across the whole southern peninsula below the bannon sea and canada to the north, and extending all the way to the great lakes and gulf of mexico in the east. The Northeast is largely deserts; the southeast is bayus and swampland, bannon sea states are great plains, the northwest, just south of the bannon sea canada, are mountainous equatorial coniferous and deciduous forests, and see frequent rain and rarely snow from the mountains, while west and southwest are equatorial plains and swamps; great for farmland. All of the western USA is buffeted by oceanic storms, and the whole central USA is home to mountains, running along the center of the peninsula, down to the yucatan peninsula, up the northeast; which buffet much of the country with rain and snowstorms.
The United States of America was formed from 13 rebelling british colonies along the Gulf of Mexico and Spanish border in 1795; during the 19th century the United States began gobbling up all the Spanish, French, and British colonies on the continent until it reached the ceres and pacific oceans; buying the land with its powerful burgeoning economy; becoming rich off the ample farmland and natural abundance of the nation. Had the Great War, later known as the First World War, fought over American Expansion, not been won by the Germans, the United States would have surely gobbled up both Mexico and Canada.
As a result of the first world war, the United States found itself divided into the Republicans and Federalists in 1910; fighting a civil war ostensibly over states rights; wounds which would not ever fully heal. In 1965, Germany, under the control of the Nazis invaded and attempted to annex the land which had split away from germany during the economic crises of 1970s and 80s, invaded the United States; over 900 years prior, the Germans, teutonic knights, under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, had occupied much of northeastern America and Southeastern Canada, but failed to conquer the natives.
After defeating the Nazis in the Second World War, the United States annexd Purssia, or Western Germany, as a state; though not before the Nazis used six nuclear weapons to try and prevent the allied D-day invasion by salting the invasion routes; killing 250,000 of their own people; many of them soldiers (for which the Nazis were tried at Nurenburg).
Millions of Americans were killed during the nuclear third world war, as long established borders and major centers of population were broken; as a result of the war people were forced into all new areas. Corruption; mob violence, corporate invasions of privacy, politicized justice, the unbelievable election and reelection of unpopular figures, weaponized federal agencies, all amid increasing scrutiny from regulators and abroad, all plagues America’s recovery from the third World War.
Wall-street rigged with insider trading, and politics through lobbying, alongside ponzi-schemes creating huge income inequality between ‘billionaires’ and the public, left America highly unstable. In 2015, several states in the northwest and east entered into a military alliance with Russia in order to deter the growing military industrial complex to the south and southwest; with a handful of bannon sea and northwest states playing the two off one another to maintain its independence as a buffer state.
Though the Russo-American Alliance styles itself as communist; the government is so corrupt and ineffectual it can barely perform the functions of a government; let alone police every business, distribute food and resources, and regulate the trade and movement of citizens; it can’t eve provide regular electricity or water, no mail, no internet or phone services, a breaking down public school system, a federalized police force which largely ignores rural areas except highways on state borders, and can only enforce a sales and income tax on the few businesses they approved of, with many independent people in rural areas working tax free.
For this reason; most homes in Rachel have solar panels, satellite antennas and hookups, there is a lot of drone traffic, water towers, and huge light condensing blocks. Rachel’s population actually tripled after the war, though most people; many children who grew up in the town and had to move out of there parents homes at some point, couldn't afford a regular home with inflation combined with stagnating wages; so they used their savings or got loans to build tiny homes, at first like shanties, thin wood and metal sheeting, placed at random, while newer developments are more orderly and made from prefabricated materials by the town itself, Sour Cream, Onion, and Cool Ranch live in one of these.
The mobs of anti-social manchildren that mierd the birth of the alliance have mostly disappeared; having to grow up and out of their high-schooler mentality, though most blame everyone else for their ideas failing or simply do not believe communism would do anything less than acknowledge their greatness by giving them free video game consoles at the expense of the working class. As of the 2030s, Russia realized things needed to change economically, and began trying to gain access to foreign markets, transitioning the alliance back to something closer to a free market, though still decades behind the rest of the world.
There are even protests against corruption in the Alliance, and people are not abused unless they get in the way of the political machine. Political corruption is virtually the only issue, driven by the competition of corporate, military, and bureaucratic interests, who make use of considerable and indiscriminate surveillance and espionage. Those who do not have useful skills; often those who remained in high school after 16 because they thought all they needed was an education, are forced to work on the factory farms or other menial labor; while the motivated usually drop out before 10th grade and go apprentice or enter the workforce.
The Southern and Southwestern states on the other hand, formed the American Empire, also known as Imperial Americana, this is the second of three successors to the old United States of America, it consists of the states that formed the American Republic, and controls the states considered to be in the American South and Southwest. After the occupation, the United States of America found itself fractured, the lingering political tensions that had been around since the nation began its decline in the 70s boiled over and the country found itself amidst a second civil war, ending in 2015.
The American Empire represents mostly the military industrial complex, formed when the majority of the defense industry took control of the southern states and became Imperial Americana, a right wing empire with a heavily antagonistic relationship with the Russo-American Alliance. The American Empire has been demonstrating its authority as a military state since the War, all while suffering from a collapsing economy, part of this is due to the reduction of Nuclear weapons as a deterrent now that almost every nation has them and with the Japanese Miracle, fallout is no longer a fear.
Although still a very important nation, America's superpower status has been giving way to the economic behemoths of Japan, Germany, and Brazil in recent years. As with all nations, its suffering from a faltering economy and a divided population, class and racial lines have divided the people into separate groups each struggling against one another, crime has risen to an all time high and the underfunded government can’t keep enough police on the streets to do anything about it, the major corporations have helped by stepping in with private law enforcement within the cities.
The only states that retained the old government of the United States of America were a handful of great northwest and Bannon Sea and great plains states, possessing little of the nations industrial base or population, the United States retained independence from Russo-America and the American Empire by playing them against each other and convincing them that it was better to allow the remnant to remain as a buffer state between the two great rivals.
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