United States of America

"In God We Trust,"

- The motto of the USA

The United States of America (USA), commonly truncated as the United States, U.S., or simply America, is a federal republic, and one of the only four known nuclear superpowers remaining by the end of the Resource Wars in 2055. By that point, the U.S. had around 400 million citizens, with a political system increasingly controlled by a military-corporate oligarchy with access to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, nuclear fusion and fission technology, orbital facilities, and other advanced technologies it had pioneered.

The United States was one of only three known nations to exist after the catastrophic nuclear exchange known as the Great Collapse. The American government controlled by the military-corporate oligarchs largely abandoned the country shortly before the nuclear exchanges began, and so there was no command and control structure remaining that could organize any recovery efforts, leading to the total or near collapse of society, economy, and its military. Several states reorganized into the New United States to create a new federal government structure that began attemtps to forcibly assimilate former U.S states back into its territory. However, most survivors went on to organize themselves on their own, creating new tribes, states, and other recognizable organizations, including the Republic of Northern California, the Montana Republic, and the Commonwealth of Atlantica.