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Divided States of America

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Divided States of America	comment	The United States of America began its existence as thirteen rebellious colonial governments brought together by a dislike of the central government's attempts to enforce taxation. Two-plus centuries later, that hasn't changed a whole lot. It's a small miracle that a strong central government was formed, against the states' wishes, that has lasted this long, especially since dissolution has had both perceived and dangerously real close calls. So now you're writing a story 20 Minutes into the Future, or perhaps in an Alternate Universe. How do you show that things have irrevocably but believably changed? Break up the Union. Perhaps the States suffered some sort of crisis and things went From Bad to Worse. Maybe the country was broken up by foreign invaders, dissent with an oppressive government led to a break-up, or regional separatism and nationalism took hold as it kind of did in the The American Civil War. For whatever reason, the country now consists of many smaller nation-states. The new and smaller nations, without the tempering influence of what voters on the opposite side of the continent think, will be able to run free with their own agendas, resulting in a bit of cultural Flanderization that might actually seem justified. Your Hollywood Atlas will seem a lot more authentic. You may see: The MegaCorporate Enclave of New York. In the case of a European writer, the Dutch might take it back. A Mormon theocracy in the Holy State of Deseret, formerly known as Utah, possibly with Idaho and northern Nevada joining in. The People's Republic of California. Otherwise the rich in Hollywood and Silicon Valley aren't ready to give up their wealth and California becomes One Nation Under Copyright like in Blade Runner with some Japanese influence as well. The Coalition of Las Vegas, an American Amsterdam. The loud, proud, rather jingoist Republic of Texas. Alternately, a Hispanic-majority RepÃºblica de Tejas. Sometimes, it will even get reabsorbed back into Mexico. The descendants of the Native American tribes coming together to form a new nation, complete with Braids, Beads and Buckskins. Never mind the cultural differences between the tribes and for most, it would mean abandoning their sacred lands for another tribe's lands. The South has risen again to form the resurrected Confederate States, hopefully with less overt racism this time around. Possibly, there is a Black Republic of New Afrika centered around Atlanta that is at peace, war, or something of both with the Confeds. The Southwest reclaimed by the Reformed Tribal Territories, and possibly at war with Mexico. Alternately, Mexico could fuse with it and call the new country Aztlan. Oregon, Washington, British Columbia (the latter being up in Canada), and sometimes northern California form Cascadia, which is much more left-wing than the former U.S. and built upon environmentalist principles. The New England states are also off on their own, something that both New Englanders and non-New Englanders find very appealing. Sometimes, New England is combined with the Mid-Atlantic to form a Northeast country or it joins Canada. Combining the above two examples, as well as California and the Upper Midwest states, joining with Canada to form The United States of Canada, whilst the remaining states (sometimes including Alberta and Manitoba) descend into a theocracy known as "Jesusland". A pro-conservative version keeps the same lines, but the south remains The United States of America and the north becomes "NAMBLAstan." Alaska is fused with the Canadian territories to form another Inuit province, or at the very least seeks protection from Canada. Alternatively, the Russians take it back. In some cases, if Russia is in its Soviet Russia mode, it will be named as Alaskan SSR. Hawaii going back to native rule. A powerless rump state in Washington, D.C. (or elsewhere if DC was destroyed or overrun), still claiming descent from the Federal government and issuing grandiose proclamations which are ignored by the rest of the 'country'. The Midwest not existing, or becoming a giant farming commune or something. Otherwise, those tired of the West Coast always being the leftist breakaway will have the steel belt workers form a socialist or syndicalist proletarian state. ...and so on. More details below. If you have trouble with the concept of a Balkanized America, consider the 38-state Union imagined by C. Etzel Pearcy, a geography professor at California State University, Los Angeles, in 1975. Pearcy's strategy groups cities together based on population centers, shared services, and similarity of lifestyle (for example, the New York metro area would be one state, rather than expanding into New Jersey and using bits of Connecticut and Pennsylvania as suburbs), so they would make reasonable estimates of the territory each neo-state could control. On paper, such a concept could save the country billions each year, but the obvious political Flame Warnote In the proposed state of Allegheny alone, the battle between Cleveland and Pittsburgh over which would be the capital would be epic. And bloody. makes it extremely unlikely. After the End settings can sometimes have this on a more-fractured scale, with a bunch of city-states that barely have any contact outside the random trade route. Odds are, most of them won't resemble the smoking husks they were built on at all unless it was a Cosy Catastrophe. A downplayed version of this trope can include mentioning the fall in the fiction's history but never really going into details. If there's still an "official" U.S. government, but its control over the country is massively weakened, this can overlap with Vestigial Empire and is usually Fallen States of America. See also Invaded States of America and America Is Still a Colony. The polar opposite of this is Expanded States of America, in which America instead grows larger. A Sub-Trope of Different States of America and Balkanize Me. A Super-Trope of Second American Civil War, which is a common dividing event that may or may not end in restoration of the Union. This can be combined with some form of Punk Punk.
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Divided States of America / int_10074ca6	comment	The Falcon Cannot Hear sees a whole lot of this once the Second American Civil War kicks off: A military government led by Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, nicknamed the Khakis, which controls Washington D.C., the Rockies, and the overseas possessions. After MacArthur dies during a hurricane, the Whites seize D.C., the Japanese occupy the Pacific territories, a Filipino corps stationed in Alaska begins a revolt against the Khakis there, and several Generals and Admirals become independent warlords, with Admiral Ernest King leading a rump loyalist faction out of the Alaskan Panhandle. Most of the warlords eventually align themselves with the Red Oak Pact as the war draws to a close. The American Soviet Republic, led by Communist Party General-Secretary Earl Browder, which controls a stretch of land from their capital at Chicago to New York City. The east coast Soviets, feeling that Browder is too authoritarian, eventually split and form the American Workers Collective, forming an anti-fascist Popular Front with the Blues. The ASR proper joins the Popular Front after a coup but turns against it once the Whites are all but defeated. Their defeat to the Red Oak Pact/Popular Front marks the end of the Second Civil War. The Whites, lead by Huey Long, are a collection of conservative and fascist groups composed of an official government and military under Long, and several paramilitary groups (ranging from the KKK and openly fascist groups to Businessmen's Associations, essentially armed Hoover Republicans) with strong influence over local governments. They control the South, Texas, parts of the Southwest, and eastern New England, with their capital in Montgomery, Alabama. They seize Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia after the Khakis' leadership is decapitated, but a failed coup by a group of generals fearing the growth of fascist influence causes the fascists to effectively take over. New England defects to the Continental Congress as a result, and between that, the ASR joining the Popular Front, and the fascists' dysfunctional leadership, the Whites fall apart and are soon overrun. The Provisional Government, also called the Blues, lead by John L. Lewis. A coalition of liberals and democratic socialists, they control the upper Midwest, upstate New York, western New England, and the West Coast, with their capital in St. Paul, Minnesota. They form an alliance with the Continental Congress known as the Red Oak Pact, and later one with the AWC called the Popular Front. With Canadian backing, the Red Oak Pact/Popular Front defeats the Whites and then the ASR, winning the civil war. The Continental Congress, also called the Greens, led by Milo Reno. Composed of Midwestern farmers who don't like any of the other factions, they control the Great Plains from Montana to Oklahoma. They align themselves with the Blues in the Red Oak Pact, and count themselves among the winners. And several other independent groups: William Langer, Governor of North Dakota, has declared secession from the Union. He's eventually brought to heel by Canada. Sumner Sewell, Governor of Maine. While not declaring secession, he cooperates closely with Canada and aligns himself with whichever (American) group gives him the most independence. He eventually sides with the Continental Congress, with White New England surrendering to him after they defect to the Red Oak Pact. Post-war, Maine (which now controls most of New England east of the Connecticut River) enjoys a great deal of autonomy within the Third Republic. The B.R.O.W.N. (Banner Revolutionary Organisation of Willing Negroes), a guerrilla group operating in the White territory. This causes the Whites to begin putting blacks in concentration camps where over a million of them die of disease and starvation. As the Whites fall apart, they align with the Red Oak Pact/Popular Front, and after the war, the former states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia are merged into the autonomous black state of New Africa. Henry Ford, who controls Detroit as his own personal fiefdom using army troops and mercenaries. He's eventually defeated by the Blues.
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Divided States of America / int_11282746	comment	Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War: The central premise is the dissolution of the United States owing to a combination of hyperinflation, pestilence, and disobedience in the face of growing lawlessness. The heroes occupy the Northern Confederacy/Victoria, a deeply conservative version of New England, and in the South a New Confederacy forms, torn between its cosmopolitan and rural elements. Past that, Wisconsin is taken over by Nazis, the 'Party of the Will'. Insane parodies of 'Deep Greener' environmentalists take over the Pacific Northwest, forming Cascadia. California is renamed Azania, moving the capital to the Berkley campus and outlawing men. The rest is overrun by 'orcs' as minority gangs and rioters are called in-story.
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Divided States of America / int_11ba1b71	comment	Marie Lu's Legend Series takes place with America being divided east to west: the dystopian Republic, where the ghetto sectors are used for plague testing and the Colonies, which seems to be a utopia but actually a consumer-dominated police state.
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Divided States of America / int_16d191f7	comment	Homefront makes mention of the individual states squaring off amidst the chaos, Illinois threatening Texas with military action after border guards killed several migrating Chicagoans and such. That and the country literally being divided when the GKR occupies the Western half of the country and poisons the Mississippi with radioactive waste.
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Divided States of America / int_19958e1c	comment	The backdrop of Bushwick reveals Texas and some Southern States want to secede from the United States and to make it successful, the Secessionists covertly send mercenaries into Northern States areas like Bushwick to cause chaos. Unfortunately, the secessionists didn't expect the locals to fight back.
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Divided States of America / int_19ac0d75	comment	In DMZ, a second American Civil War has the Midwest fighting against both coasts, to the point where New Jersey and New York are on opposite sides and the title location (the Demilitarized Zone) is Manhattan Island, where an uneasy cease-fire has formed. DMZ says the free state movement was more of an idea than a territorial location, making it more in line with modern 4th generation warfare.
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Divided States of America / int_1a89d675	comment	Railroad Tycoon 3: In one add-on scenario, the location is a USA where the revolution never happened, with various territories such as New England, Roosevelt (Pacific Northwest), Dixie, and the Texahoma Republic.
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Divided States of America / int_222b64ac	comment	Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five shows Billy Pilgrim wandering into the future, where the US has been balkanised for its own good. So it goes.
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Divided States of America / int_257a9881	comment	The Choose Your Own Adventure books Escape! and Beyond Escape! and the series Trio: Rebels in the New World took place in an America that had been split into the "nice" Turtalia, the evil Dorado, and Rebellium. This setting was explored in far greater detail in the Trio series (by the same author), which elaborated on the somewhat simplistic descriptions (and presented a more realistic view) by pointing out that Turtalia was a deliberate attempt to maintain the democratic ideals of the collapsed United States, while Dorado was a military dictatorship set up by a former crusading lawyer and the remains of the New Mexican National Guard, while "Rebellium" was simply a nickname given to the collection of warring city-states that made up much of the East Coast. There was a fair amount of corruption in Turtalia, as well as a number of soldiers in Dorado who sincerely believed that the only way to preserve civilization was to enforce totalitarian rule until things stabilized, and had no doubt that they were in the right and that the Turtalians were deluded idealists whose society would eventually collapse on itself.
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Divided States of America / int_2616a1e8	comment	Richard Morgan's Black Man (also known as ''Thirteen' in North America) includes a "United States" that was forced to Balkanise through a mix of external and internal pressure; the remnants take the form of the fairly moderate, civilised North Atlantic Union, comprising the North East and New England, the extremely conservative, economically and socially backwards Confederate States of America (informally referred to as "Jesusland", in a nod to the common nickname for "Red State" America) and the capitalistic, libertarian Pacific Rim Union. The Union and the Rim don't get on particularly well, but both are united in their mutual distaste for the Republic, which is more than reciprocated.
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Divided States of America / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: This was the motive of the titular organization. Solidus Snake, disgusted with the U.S.'s plans for unprecedented censorship of oncoming data on the internet (using an A.I. to immediately filter, alter, and discard any inconvenient truths), planned to cut Manhattan loose from the mainland with an EMP bomb. The dormant island, now run by Solidus and his confederates, would be patrolled by a stolen fleet of Metal Gears, effectively turning it into a free republic. Things didn't quite pan out as such... Solidus hoped to be 'inaugurated' on the steps of Federal Hall just like George Washington two centuries to the very day, but he was assassinated on the steps instead.
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Divided States of America / int_2754c6fb	comment	The Republic of Greater New Jersey is set in a Timeline-191-based universe where the Freedom Party controlled Confederate States successfully defeated the United States in the Second Great War. Afterwards, the Confederacy annexed some states, placed others under military occupation, and spun others out as nominally independent Puppet States; the titular republic, for instance, is the result of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio being merged together.
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Divided States of America / int_286b0fc9	comment	In Castle Falkenstein, America consists of the United States of America (from the east coast to the Mississippi), the Republic of Texas, the Bear Flag Empire of California (ruled by Emperor Norton!), the Twenty Nations Confederation and the Unorganized Territories.
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Divided States of America / int_28ea616c	comment	It Could Happen Here: Robert Evans of Cracked fame discusses the possibility of this with the recent (as of 2019) political divide in the United States. The hypothetical scenario consists of the United States being wrecked by a massive financial crash, spurring the creation of far-left insurgents in urban areas, and far-right insurgents in rural areas, and the federal government struggling to effectively clamp down on both, becoming increasingly opressive as it grows more and more desperate in fighting the rebels. Evans discusses possibility of the war, with information gleaned from actual modern day civil war events like in Syria.
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Divided States of America / int_2ae406c1	comment	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: The leader of the Believers faction is specified as coming from the "Christian States of America". She is identified in the background material as born in Athens, Georgia. It seems to be a mixture of Deep South and Christian Fundamentalists. These "Christian States" obviously do not reach far north, for the Pirates' leader, Ulrik Svensgaard, comes from Gloucester, MA, which is listed as being in the United States. And the background material actually gives Miriam's country of origin as the USA.The backstories of the game mention that nations were constantly rising and falling during the last days of Earth, meaning that the CSA, and the USA coexisted or the USA became the CSA, or something wild. Bottom line, Earth wasn't in the best shape.
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Divided States of America / int_2c4166c3	comment	The webserial Sanctioned briefly mentions that America has split into God's Beloved Chosen America, and the United Northern States of America. As it's set in Scotland, not much is said about things in America.
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Divided States of America / int_2ef61533	comment	Strike Commander's backstory describes a Post-Peak Oil situation that caused all superpowers to break apart in various ways, but the United States has apparently seen the worst of it: Due to a California Collapse, the Federal government began levying huge taxes from Texas, eventually causing the state to secede from the union. However Texas itself couldn't maintain cohesion either, and broke apart into three smaller nations. To replace the oil reserves lost by the secession of Texas, the Federal government started massively exploiting the Alaskan oil fields, causing untold environmental damage. This resulted in Alaska seceding next, and with Canada recognizing its sovereignty, a war broke out in which the United States' reinvasion effort was thwarted. During the game itself, New Siberia (a break-away country from Russia) invades and conquers parts of Alaska. With aid funds to California drying up due to the war, California eventually decided to secede, but also broke in two. North and South California are now at war with each other, primarily over water resources. Both Dakotas left the union and combined to create the new nation of Dakota. Similarly, both Carolinas seceded and united with each other. Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia broke away and became individual states. However they are now bound together in a loose confederation known as the Southern Bloc. According to the manual, Hawaii has recently seceded and is amassing an army of mercenaries to defend its independence. Arizona and Nevada are both independent and at war with each other over the Grand Canyon, in which the player participates at one point. Rhode Island seceded as well, and the player is forced to assist in its re-invasion and conquest. During the game, we learn that Massachusettes and Vermont are no longer in the union, though the circumstances of their secession are not explored. Whatever states still remain in the Union, the Internal Revenue Service is effectively their new government, attempting to reconquer the secessionist states. It uses various means, mostly violent ones, to try to reassert its control.
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Divided States of America / int_30dff913	comment	Reimagined Enterprise features scenes set during the Postatomic Horror, where this has happened to the USA due to many competing continuity governments, and it is informally referred to as the Disunited States.
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Divided States of America / int_32066b8e	comment	The V for Vendetta movie, set in Britain 20 Minutes into the Future, mentions a "Second American Civil War" afflicting "the former United States" (presumably by analogy with "the former Soviet Union"). There was no nuclear war in the movie, but from what little inter-national news is shown (on the propaganda-heavy television of the Norsefire Party) it looks like they have fallen into dire poverty and are plagued by disease to no end (though famine isn't among their problems, possibly).
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Divided States of America / int_32926c5b	comment	Tarkin's Fist: Mostly averted. The North American Union is one of the few nations on Earth to maintain some semblance of order and government after the initial orbital bombardment at the start of the Empire-Earth War. Their preoccupation with the Imperial invasion of the West Coast, however, allows Alaskan nationalists to seize control of the state and secede unopposed. The self-proclaimed Alaskan Free Republic sits out the war and refuses to contribute to the defense of North America. Shortly after the war's end the Alaskan secessionists are ruthlessly crushed; their leaders captured for show trials or otherwise shot out of hand.
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Divided States of America / int_3416e9	comment	Project Wingman: The nation of Cascadia is loosely implied to be a descendant of the USA after a catastrophic event reshaped much of the world's continents including North America.
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Divided States of America / int_34e5ce64	comment	Blu Rivers Revolution features the fractured United State, a massively corrupt and unstable republic controlled by corporate interests in the midst of a civil war. Most of the independent regions are also being torn apart by oppurtunistic warlords and ruthless rebel infighting.
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Divided States of America / int_36039a26	comment	Red Queen: Thousands of years into the future, the US and Canada have been split into six monarchies, a republic, and three conflict zones. Most of the main characters hail from Norta (the Northeastern United States), Farley is from the Lakelands (the Midwest and Canada east of Lake Superior), and the other monarchies are Piedmont (the South east of the Mississippi), Tiraxes (the South west of the Mississippi), Prairie (the vast North American Prairies), and Ciron (the West Coast). The sole republic is Montfort, centered on the Rocky Mountains. The conflict zones are the Choke (Niagara Falls), the Wash (Washington, D.C.), and the Disputed Lands (all along the stretch of the Mississippi, where Reds live free from Silver rule).
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Divided States of America / int_38662f0a	comment	In Escape from New York and its sequel, Escape from L.A., the title cities have been deliberately cut off from the rest of the country and turned into prison facilities. Still, the United States has also apparently expanded internationally: the second film mentions Bangkok as a U.S. territory.
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Divided States of America / int_3ae518ad	comment	In Idiocracy, the American flag has only twenty-five stars on it, so itâ€™s possible half the states have seceded. On the other hand, there are only eleven stripes, so itâ€™s possible it has simply been forgotten what the stars and stripes are supposed to represent. Or that nobody can count that high anymore.
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Divided States of America / int_3dad204a	comment	Shattered Union: The United States breaks into seven factions: the New England Alliance, the traditionalist Confederacy, the freedom-loving Republic of Texas, the Great Plains Federation, the environmentalist Pacifica, the California Commonwealth, and the grievously unpopular European Union Occupation zone in and around the ruins of DC. Hawaii goes off on its own (rejoining after America is reunited), and Alaska gets invaded by the Russians.
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Divided States of America / int_3e1b70a1	comment	ATL Stories From The Retrofuture: It's unclear what happened in "the war", but it certainly ended up with the United States broken up since there is the Republic of Georgia with Atlanta as its capital. Characters often mention "The West" as a foreign area, as well.
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Divided States of America / int_41dcabc3	comment	In the The Wastelands universe, the villains took over the US and it got broken up in several pieces with the US being the original thirteen colonies.
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Divided States of America / int_49a0a477	comment	Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash takes place in a future where America has broken up into millions of "micronations", where a given McDonald's store, for example, would be on the sovereign soil of the McDonald's nation. The US government is still around, but they just mainly run the post office.
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Divided States of America / int_4a17a92b	comment	Briefly mentioned in The Despair Kids, where there are multiple American resistance groups fighting the Ultimate Despairs. However, the Alaskan Group seems less like a resistance movement and more of a separatist one.
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Divided States of America / int_4bea6084	comment	In Europa Universalis these include Quebec and Louisiana
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Divided States of America / int_4bf9cc7b	comment	In S.M. Stirling's Emberverse novels, the world suffers 'the Change', in which electricity and gunpowder suddenly cease to work. Much of America ends up as a bone-littered wasteland, but in the inhabitable parts, small countries and fiefdoms of every stripe spring up; what used to be Oregon ends up with a half-dozen or so.In the later books, all the little nations in Oregon have formed a UN-like organisation, and we have the Church Universal and Triumphant that initially occupies what is roughly Montana, the United States of Boise which is basically Idaho (but calls itself just the United States because it thinks of itself as the Vestigial Empire), and New Deseret, the Mormon theocracy based in Utah. So large states do survive in some areas.Further east, about a dozen new nations form around the east side of the Mississippi—the Republics of Fargo, Marshall and Kirksville, the Provisional Republic of Iowa, the State of Nebraska and the Emergency Powers Zone of Concordia (basically Kansas). The rest of the U.S. is either a death zone full of corpses and cannibals (the highly populated areas, like the East Coast and California) or small townships, in places like the Gulf of Mexico and the remote parts of the Appalachians. This is a completely Justified Trope; considering just how much our civilization relies on the electricity and oil that become useless, it's not surprising that this occurs, - though Author Appeal applies, considering that Great Britain survives with its monarchy intact.
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Divided States of America / int_4dc4fbf5	comment	Jericho (2006): Has two federal governments by Season 2 in the wake of a Cosy Catastrophe; the larger of the two's flag is at the top of this article. It is the Allied States of America, a corporate dictatorship ( at least some of whose leaders were behind the catastrophe) which rules the states west of the Mississippi (except Texas) and has its capital in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The other is what's left of the legitimate federal government, with its capital in Columbus, Ohio (notably the city Hawkins was supposed to deliver his bomb to). Off on its own, able to tip the balance is the fully independent Republic of Texas. Season 1 makes a mention of six federal governments, and briefly shows a map with Sacramento, California; Cheyenne, Wyoming; San Antonio, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Albany, New York; and Montgomery, Alabama marked as capitals. There is also mention of a Senator from Oregon and a Senator from Alabama making claims to the Presidency. By season 2, though, this has been narrowed down to the above two governments and the Republic of Texas. When discussing the six factions in Season 1 mentioned above, it is stated that one of those claiming the Presidency, the man who eventually becomes the (off-screen) leader of the eastern States in season two and thus the United States, is actually the legal and legitimate successor to the Presidency as he was a member of the late President's cabinet when the attacks occurred. However, as Russell explains, there are "five other guys who seem to think the attacks have changed the rules". Not surprising given the disaster the country has experienced, which involves 23 cities destroyed by nuclear terrorism, not to mention that one of the upstarts was very likely involved in the attacks. Naturally, there's going to be some chaos. Also, each person claiming the Presidency is backed by parts of the military. Again this is narrowed to the two above plus Texas by Season 2, the latter of whom will tip the balance to whoever can recruit them. By the end of Season 2, Jake and Hawkins have exposed the Cheyenne government's conspiracy and treason, causing Texas to rejoin the United States under the legitimate government. It is then flat out said by Chavez and Jake that a Second American Civil War is about to begin. And sure enough, the six-issue comic sequel series starts with the war's beginning.
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Divided States of America / int_5022a2c4	comment	Diana: Warrior Princess and Elvis: The Legendary Journeys have this. But that's because their 31st century writers are about as accurate as 21st century writers of Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
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Divided States of America / int_52dd4a4c	comment	The 2012 Ultimate Marvel crossover Divided We Fall has this as its primary plot, as America is divided into several sovereign nations, with Texas now having access to nuclear armaments.
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Divided States of America / int_55101334	comment	The Night Mayor is set entirely in England, but there's a passing mention of a recent "War Between the States" that has resulted in political upheaval in North America including the establishment of the CSA as an independent political entity.
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Divided States of America / int_55645ba5	comment	Crimson Skies takes place in an Alternate Universe where the United States broke up in the early 30s due to Prohibition and the Great Depression.
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Divided States of America / int_5589ebc1	comment	The Deathlands action/adventure novels (by Jack Adrian et al) has a post-nuclear United States consisting entirely of feudal baronies, as no one has the technology to control anything larger.
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Divided States of America / int_56261447	comment	It's implied that the zombie infested Las Vegas in Army of the Dead is no longer counted as part of America.
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Divided States of America / int_58102fc6	comment	Twilight Histories has used this trope in a few episodes: "Cato's War" takes place in a world where the Confederacy won the American Civil War. Like most nations, the United States collapsed following the robot war in â€œProject Gliese.â€� However, several nations sprang up across the former United States, including a Mormon nation centered in Utah.
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Divided States of America / int_5851adbc	comment	In Fire on the Mountain, John Brown enlists Harriet Tubman's aid in his raid on Harper's Ferry and, thanks to her support, is successful. This sparks off a series of slave revolts that coalesce into "Nova Africa", a socialist republic run by former slaves made up of most of the states that would have become the Confederacy.note The idea was based on the real-life separatist/social movement "The Republic of New Afrika", which sought to secede states in the Deep South from the United States by a referendum of African Americans and form a new country Additionally, Mexico has taken advantage of the situation by reclaiming California, Arizona, and Texas. A Civil War does still take place, with Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, and others attempting to reclaim the former states; but the Union ultimately is defeated. The remainder of the current real continental USA is governed by several different Native American nations. In the alternate 1940s, the United States was replaced by a socialist state after another revolution.
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Divided States of America / int_587fb02e	comment	Serpent had a Big Bad who not only wanted to make himself leader of a country called Angelica formed from the Southwest plus Mexico, he also had contingencies in place for the Chinese-controlled Pacifica, plus Quebec separating from Canada and the Maritime Provinces, cut off from the rest of the country, joining the remainder of the USA.
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Divided States of America / int_58e3b9fc	comment	The Last Ship: In Season 3, it's shown that in an attempt to bring stability to post-plague America whilst the federal government is rebuilt almost from scratch, President Michener has had the 48 contiguous states divided into five semi-autonomous territories (Northeast, South, Midwest, Southwest, Northwest) controlled by local leaders who report to the new capital district surrounding St. Louis. This is somewhat of a downplayed example, as it's meant to be a temporary measure until a new Congress can be elected... Or at least, that's the plan, until the regional leaders stage a coup, killing Michener and deposing Vice-President Oliver, in order to dissolve the Union and formally turn their territories into their own fiefdoms, with the treacherous White House Chief of Staff trying to get St. Louis as her own city-state as her price for planning the coup. Things get a little more complicated from there, as the Northwest leader gets cold feet and is killed for it, leading to the Southwest leader absorbing his territory, only for President Oliver and the Nathan James crew to lead a counter-coup and arrest him, turning the whole West Coast into The Remnant of the actual US. These complications are resolved by the end of the season, as the other conspirators are captured or killed, allowing Oliver to regain total control of the country. Aside from an implication that Hawaii is under Naval control, there's no mention of the status of either it or Alaska.
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Divided States of America / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: The New California Republic by then covers most of California and portions of Baja California, Nevada, and Oregon. It has now set its sights on the city of New Vegas proper, ruled by a mysterious technocrat known as Mr. House. They contest Hoover Dam with Caesarâ€™s Legion, a group of Imperial Roman wannabes that control most parts of Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico and were led by a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Honest Hearts expands on the In Name Only New Canaan, which was wiped out by a tribe affiliated with the Legion, with only a handful of characters escaping the community's destruction.
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Divided States of America / int_5c07d6ab	comment	Saints Row: The Third: One of the two endings has the Boss declaring Steelport an independent city-state after driving out the government's STAG forces.
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Divided States of America / int_5d1b7e1f	comment	Hearts of Iron II includes California, Texas and a reinstated Confederacy. Their overall ideology is technically dependent on what ideology an eventual occupier who wishes to partition the USA has, but the Confederacy ministers are all social conservative, while the Texas and California ministers are all paternal autocratnote California gets a little bit more variety in the Darkest Hour spin-off, but the others do not.. Other nations like Russia, China and large sections of the British Empire can be similarly divided.
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Divided States of America / int_5e3f9611	comment	The Handmaid's Tale: It seems Gilead only covers a portion of the former U.S., with a civil war being fought in other parts (such as Florida, according to Ofglen's comments about the oranges meaning "the fighting is going well" there). Offred mentions that Anchorage is the capital of "what's left of the United States," though it's hard to tell if she means Gilead or what remains of the original government. From the Commander's comment about going to D.C. for some meetings, it's probably the latter. It's hard to tell, given that the women in the series have no access to reliable news or other outside information. Other than Ofglen, because she's in the resistance.
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Divided States of America / int_5ec0f48	comment	∀ Gundam, which largely takes place in the New England and Dixie long After the End, has a few different independent nations. At one point the country known as Inglessa, whose geography is not terribly well defined, was at war with Lousana (Louisiana, at minimum). The nations are more clearly defined in the artbook Turn A Gundam Art Works. Inglessia is roughly everything north and east of Ohio, while Luziana is everything from its Western border to the Western border of "MIMAL"note Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana. There are also regions named Tejas, Floria, Alahama, and Cuppa; the region consisting of Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas goes unnamed.
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Divided States of America / int_60156176	comment	The historical background of the Vorkosigan Saga involves the United States falling apart due to internal conflict. The borderline utopian Beta Colony in the series was an attempt to preserve the best of America and is a rather "Blue State" kind of place.
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Divided States of America / int_60570997	comment	In S.S.D.D., the "Tower Of Babel" storyline starts with an animated map of the states and their progressive division. California, Oregon, and Washington are under the Maytec Consortium's control. New Texas has all of the southeast except Florida, which is independent. And the northeast states from New England to Wisconsin joined the Collective of Anarchist States (which also controls England and parts of Europe and the Middle East).
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Divided States of America / int_63398d01	comment	The Halo: Evolutions story The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Cole uses the term "the first American Civil War", hinting that the US fell into at least one more civil war between the present day and the 26th century.
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Divided States of America / int_63792245	comment	Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.: The backstory in a nutshell. America is divided by an event called the "Techno-Industrial Civil Wars" and all the states are turned over to the control of Mega Corps who use violence to increase their standing. The gameplay itself is the solution cooked up by the fragmented government to mediate these gargantuan corporations in order to avoid a second Techno-Industrial Civil War.
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Divided States of America / int_69ccce0e	comment	In It Can't Happen Here, widespread revolts erupt after Haik assumes power, and America is quickly divided into areas that dissidents control and areas that Haik's government controls.
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Divided States of America / int_6c1d09b1	comment	Fallout, which takes place roughly a century after the nukes fly, shows the emergence of independent city-states and communities such as The Hub, Junktown, Necropolis, the Boneyard (within which is Adytum), and Shady Sands. In addition, there is the Brotherhood of Steel, comprising the remnants of a US Army unit operating from the Lost Hills bunker. The Brotherhood deserves special mention; the original army unit seceded before the Great War after they discovered that the scientists they were protecting at the Mariposa Military Base were experimenting on human subjects for their biological weapons. Led by Captain Roger Maxson (their original commander killed himself when he discovered what was really going on), the unit declared independence from the Union on October 20, 2077... only to receive no response. Three days later, The End of the World as We Know It occurred, and none of it mattered. About a week later once the radiation had settled, Maxson led his men and their families to Lost Hills, where they established the first Post-War society.
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Divided States of America / int_6c1d09b2	comment	Fallout 2 introduces San Francisco (within which is Shi Town), Vault City, Broken Hills, and New Reno. It also sees the rise of regional powers like the New California Republic, a democratic federation incorporating several of the communities visited in Fallout 1 and the Enclave, the shadowy remnants of the pre-War government and its military-industrial complex, based in an off-shore oil rig.
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Divided States of America / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 features two fairly large communities: Megaton and Rivet City. It also introduces the Institute (located in the New England Commonwealth) which makes Ridiculously Human Robots, The Pitt (Pittsburgh) which is the local industrial powerhouse, and Ronto (rumoured to be Toronto, Canada) which seems to be significant regional power. In addition, the Brotherhood of Steel has set up shop in the region, becoming a regional power in its own right by the time Fallout 4 comes around.
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Divided States of America / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 essentially expands on the Institute and the Brotherhood, with the potential to recreate the early United States with the help of the Commonwealth Minutemen (centered around Boston). Other than that, the largest settlements are Diamond City (built atop the ruins of Fenway Park stadium inside Boston), Goodneighbor, and Bunker Hill (centered around the Revolutionary War monument of the same name).
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Divided States of America / int_6ddef913	comment	Twilight: 2000 features a nuclear war occurring in the late '90s. The US government has been divided into "Milgov" and "Civgov" factions, but they really only control small areas of the country. The rest is in anarchy.
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Divided States of America / int_723f3af4	comment	The Tabletop RPG Dogs in the Vineyard never specifically mentions any real-world locations or dates, but it takes place in an area similar to the pre-Civil War American west, in the lands of the Faith (analogous to the Mormon nation of Deseret). The Terrestrial Authority of the East is analogous to the US government and the east coast states. Though in this setting, the lands of the Faith are technically still part of the Terrestrial Authority, they give little regard to it.
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Divided States of America / int_739d59fc	comment	Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents takes place during the "Al-Can War", when Alaska successfully secedes from the United States. The rest of the country is in shambles and is being run by a fundamentalist Christian leader.
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Divided States of America / int_745711f9	comment	In Look to the West, prior to the Pandoric War (1896-1901), the Empire of North America is most of the US and a chunk of Canada (the rest being the Superior Republic and an expanded Russian Alyeska), but California (including Baja California) is its own republic, Carolina seceded from the Empire and ended up a vassal of the United Provinces of South America, and the Free City of Nouvelle-OrlÃ©ans ceceded from France to become an independent city-state. The war and its aftermath saw the ENA conquer most of these territories, except Alyeska and California (they also annexed part of Mexico, which along with Superior moves them directly to Expanded States of America).
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Divided States of America / int_76b8cb10	comment	Fallout: Sometime after the United States landed a man on the moon, each US state was organized into one of Thirteen Commonwealths, with Canada later annexed as a fourteenth Commonwealth shortly before the start of the Great War. The hope was that the creation of a new layer of bureaucracy between the state and federal level would help end political strife and would help resolve common regional concerns shared by states within those Commonwealths. In reality, it created even more civil and political strife, as the Commonwealths viciously competed against one another and the federal government to promote their own interests above the others. The energy crisis, wars, New Plague, and political oppression only made things worse. In the aftermath of the Great War, social and political organization would rarely exceed the community level. Fallout, which takes place roughly a century after the nukes fly, shows the emergence of independent city-states and communities such as The Hub, Junktown, Necropolis, the Boneyard (within which is Adytum), and Shady Sands. In addition, there is the Brotherhood of Steel, comprising the remnants of a US Army unit operating from the Lost Hills bunker. The Brotherhood deserves special mention; the original army unit seceded before the Great War after they discovered that the scientists they were protecting at the Mariposa Military Base were experimenting on human subjects for their biological weapons. Led by Captain Roger Maxson (their original commander killed himself when he discovered what was really going on), the unit declared independence from the Union on October 20, 2077... only to receive no response. Three days later, The End of the World as We Know It occurred, and none of it mattered. About a week later once the radiation had settled, Maxson led his men and their families to Lost Hills, where they established the first Post-War society. Fallout 2 introduces San Francisco (within which is Shi Town), Vault City, Broken Hills, and New Reno. It also sees the rise of regional powers like the New California Republic, a democratic federation incorporating several of the communities visited in Fallout 1 and the Enclave, the shadowy remnants of the pre-War government and its military-industrial complex, based in an off-shore oil rig. Fallout 3 features two fairly large communities: Megaton and Rivet City. It also introduces the Institute (located in the New England Commonwealth) which makes Ridiculously Human Robots, The Pitt (Pittsburgh) which is the local industrial powerhouse, and Ronto (rumoured to be Toronto, Canada) which seems to be significant regional power. In addition, the Brotherhood of Steel has set up shop in the region, becoming a regional power in its own right by the time Fallout 4 comes around. Fallout: New Vegas: The New California Republic by then covers most of California and portions of Baja California, Nevada, and Oregon. It has now set its sights on the city of New Vegas proper, ruled by a mysterious technocrat known as Mr. House. They contest Hoover Dam with Caesarâ€™s Legion, a group of Imperial Roman wannabes that control most parts of Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico and were led by a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Honest Hearts expands on the In Name Only New Canaan, which was wiped out by a tribe affiliated with the Legion, with only a handful of characters escaping the community's destruction. Fallout 4 essentially expands on the Institute and the Brotherhood, with the potential to recreate the early United States with the help of the Commonwealth Minutemen (centered around Boston). Other than that, the largest settlements are Diamond City (built atop the ruins of Fenway Park stadium inside Boston), Goodneighbor, and Bunker Hill (centered around the Revolutionary War monument of the same name).
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Divided States of America / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect makes reference to a Second American Civil War, started in 2096 in response to the U.S. annexing Canada and Mexico (with the approval of both countries' populations and governments). From what little information we get on it, it seemed to be more like The Troubles scaled up to the level of the whole of North America, rather than a conventional conflict where the rebels held territory.
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Divided States of America / int_7a8b5f6a	comment	In The Passage both California and Texas secede when the Vampire Apocalypse hits. California didn't last. Nearly a century later the Republic of Texas is still a going concern.
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Divided States of America / int_7ba56973	comment	Crimson Skies is set in an alternative universe where the USA has dissolved into several independent nations.
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Divided States of America / int_7c2f8e38	comment	Implied to be the case on Gaslight Earth in the comic book adaptation of the Infinite Crisis video game. Gaslight Hawkgirl is the Queen of the South, a country not entirely friendly to the US, and talks in a Southern Belle accent.
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Divided States of America / int_7e3dde23	comment	XCOM Terror From The Deep is set far enough into the 21st century that the U.S.' dominance has already declined. After the events of the original X-COM, everything west of the Mississippi has been eaten away by Mexico. Meanwhile, the Chinese century is upon us, as Asia and Europe have formed their own super-blocs. It's also interesting to note that Africa and Egypt are both privately-owned in the future. Many of these countries signed pacts with the invaders in the first Alien War, so it makes sense that nationalism is currently on the wane. It's a big headache for Rand & McNally, but the new borders don't substantially affect the player or their mission.
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Divided States of America / int_7fad4020	comment	Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun not only includes the Confederacy, but also the nations of Texas and California, as well as nations for the Cherokee, the Sioux, Mormon Deseret, a possible New England secession and the Manhattan Commune (of course, given the period covered, several of these nations are historical). Canada gets in on it too, as it has both a Quebec and a Metis Confederation. The sequel adds even more, including even the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in China with a patch. Why yes, Paradox does do a lot of research.
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Divided States of America / int_8098cd3a	comment	In The Schizogenic Man, America has fragmented into several small countries, including New City, Texas, Tropicana, and the Middle. Texas eventually declares war on Tropicana, causing refugees to pour into New City. When the war turns nuclear, New City is destroyed, and the governmental supercomputer MEQMAT with it. MEQMAT unsuccessfully tries to find a timeline in The Multiverse where the war doesn't happen.
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Divided States of America / int_809930aa	comment	Downplayed in the 2021 reboot version, Deadlands: The Weird West, where the subtle meddling of heroic timetravelers caused the Confederacy to fall. Whilst there are still some independent nation-states, the big split between Union and Confederacy no longer exists.
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Divided States of America / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: A smaller scale version than normal, but in the No Man's Land arc, Gotham suffers a massive earthquake that devastates the city. Rather than help fix it, the Federal Government and the state of New Jersey both carve Gotham out of their respective borders, turning it into a ruined city-state. Naturally, things got better and Gotham is back as part of the Union.
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Divided States of America / int_84dda4e9	comment	Catherverse: An AlternateHistory.com series, whose premise is the US breaking apart in the 1930s when the Business Plot takes place and assassinates FDR. By the modern day, the former US and Canada are divided into over a dozen states. The North American states that are the focus are The Industrial Republic of North America note ]covering the Mid-Atlantic states and the Industrial Midwest], the direct Spiritual Successor of the USA, the Great Plains United Republic note which makes up much of the Great Plains, plus Minnesota, and a revived Confederate States of America note which makes up the former Confederacy, minus Texas and Louisiana] which,unsurprisingly, is the Big Bad of the series.
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Divided States of America / int_876248eb	comment	Red Markets: During the Zombie Apocalypse the federal government wrote off everything west of the Mississippi as a Loss and focused their efforts on securing the eastern states. Even then, the Recession under federal control ended up worse than a third world country while the Loss has no government outside of a few ramshackle city-states established by survivors.
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Divided States of America / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion: In "Texas Constructs U.S. Border Wall To Keep Out Unwanted Americans", Texas secedes from the U.S. and builds a triple wall around itself to drive the point home. The rest of America is mostly glad to be rid of it.
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Divided States of America / int_884178da	comment	Trail of Lightning features united Navajo nation DinÃ©tah in former New Mexico, the Mormon Republic in former Utah, and the Republic of New Denver in former Colorado. Much of the remainder of the continent is flooded.
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Divided States of America / int_8894d386	comment	In the The Patriot (2000) fanfic God Save the King! How Thomas Met His Destiny, this happens mixed with America Is Still a Colony - the war ends in a negotiated peace where Maryland, Delaware and Virginia form a nation called the "United Commonwealth of America", New England also becomes independent, while Georgia, the Carolinas, the western half of Virginia (i.e Kentucky), New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania remain under British control.
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Divided States of America / int_8ace5eeb	comment	In Robert Evans' After the Revolution the Second American Civil War happened in 2041. The resulting extremely chaotic war saw the federal government pitted against several different rebel factions, and the conflict lasted for over a decade, and by the end, the USA had been split into several different entities. The remnants of the old federal government, known as the North American Federation (or just "AmFed"), still maintain control over the New England and the Middle Atlantic regions, as well as parts of the East North Central states, except for the Great Lakes area, which has become a protectorate under the Canadian government. Meanwhile, most of the Southern states has branded together into a theocratic union known as the United Christian States. Other larger states includes the Califonian Republic and Cascadia, a union of the the nothern pacific states. Several other states have attempt to strike out on their own, but to very limited success. Utah (along with parts of nothern Nevada), popularily known as "Mormonland", is embroiled in a conflict between two competing Mormon sects. The Republic of Florida is referred to as "the Banana-est Republic in North America". The Republic of Texas, where most of the story takes place, meanwhile, is a mostly failed Liberatian state, locked in a deadly conflict with the Heavenly Kingdom, a group of extremist Dominionist Christian rebels. Weirdest perhaps, is the so-called Kingdom of Albuquerque, a small dictatorship (its borders are not really defined, but it is implied to be limited to the city of Albuquerque itself) run by an autocratic ruler who has proclaimed himself king and is heavily implied to be The Caligula.
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Divided States of America / int_8ae25cfe	comment	In The Peace War, the former United States has fractured into numerous smaller nations, a state of affairs encouraged by the Peace Authority because it means none of them are large enough to pose a threat. The only one that bears much resemblance to the former US is the Republic of New Mexico; other forms of government represented include the feudal autocracy of Atzlan (formerly southern California) and a region with no central government where the peace is kept by protection companies. The sequels show that after the overthrow of the Peace Authority nobody seems particularly keen on reviving the old Union, and eventually all the countries dissolve as people prefer the ungoverned land/protection company model.
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Divided States of America / int_8c771aca	comment	The Reckoning is set in USA in 2019 after a Zombie Apocalypse, and consists of a war between US Army remnants, Confederacy nostalgists, Neo-Nazis, Rednecks, Church Militants, and various bands of raiders. This being Mount & Blade: Warband, the player can either join one of them or create his own independent faction.
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Divided States of America / int_95226eb6	comment	R. Talsorian Games' Cyberpunk. Five of the original fifty states have broken off and become Free States: Alaska, Nevada, California, the Republic of Texas and Utah. California has further split up into Northern and Southern California. On top of this, Socialist Wyoming and the White Ethnostate of Idaho pay lip service to the Federal Government at most, and are generally considered "no-go"-zones for anyone associated with it. Large swathes of America are owned by Mega Corps, and while these are in theory bound by American law on American soil, in practice corporate economic and military might means that the they can write their own rules for their properties and employees. Then there are the Nomad nations, who live on US soil and are subject to US law, but would laugh if you told them that, and consider the rulings of their councils the only true authority.
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Divided States of America / int_96a4ad60	comment	Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72: Rather inevitable in the Sequel Series. As of 1985, California has seceded (or is trying to secede) from the Union. It's not hard to guess why. When Rumsfeld tries to force Pete McCloskey out of his office and then impeaches the Supreme Court for ruling against him, California officially declares itself to be a Republic. Idaho, Hawaii, and Florida also follow suit. The country becomes even more divided after the Christian Values Party takes control and re-brands the country the Christian States of America. By 1990, Texas and Alaska declare independence, Oregon merges with California to form the Pacific Free Republic, Washington votes to join Canada, the Libertarian-dominated Mountain, and Midwest states become "Bozeman enclaves" home to resistance movements, and the secessionist northeastern states continue to call themselves the United States of America, lead by Richard Nixon.
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Divided States of America / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: Referenced in "Squirm". Near the end of the movie, which takes place in the southern U.S., Crow gets aggravated and tells the South to go ahead and secede again, claiming the North won't stop them this time. Mike quickly tells the South not to listen to the "sad little robot".
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Divided States of America / int_9888a110	comment	The Man in the High Castle: In this Alternate History, the Axis powers win WWII and divide America into the Greater Nazi Reich and the Pacific Japanese States, with the Neutral Zone in the middle as a sort of neo-Wild-West. In the TV Series' finale, America regains sovereignty but is left fractured, with the Black Communist Rebellion taking the JPS after the Japanese army withdraws, the GNR local administration declaring seccession from the Nazis, and the Resistance seizing control of a super science project in the Neutral Zone to give them full autonomy. Unfortunately, all three sides hate each other too much to consider re-uniting the country.
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Divided States of America / int_99709ae6	comment	In Motherland: Fort Salem, a portion of the United States was ceded back to the First Nations peoples in exchange for the working that allows General Alder to be functionally immortal. The country is called the Chippewa Cession, or more commonly just "the Cession", and encompasses what would be Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in our world (although real-life Oklahoma is called Louisiana instead). The Cession is governed by a council who represent seven distinct language groups (Salish, Shoshone, Lakota, Ojibwe, Muscogee, Iroquois and Cherokee), six of whom are women since most societies in the Motherland world tend towards matriarchy. Not everyone who lives in the Cession is Native American; one of the main trio of the show, Raelle, is Caucasian and grew up there. Relations between witches and civilians are more equitable in the Cession, which often leads to witches who are dodging the US's country-wide draft using the Cession to hide and move around, although its borders are patrolled by the formidable Cession Marshals.
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Divided States of America / int_9a77d149	comment	Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia details the titular country, composed of the entire West Coast minus Southern California. A forerunner of "Cascadia", discussed elsewhere on this page.
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Divided States of America / int_9c33b8ab	comment	Sliders: In "The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy", the Republic of Texas is an independent country which stretched to include San Francisco. In "Greatfellas", the Greenfelds and DeBellos' plan is for California and Nevada to secede from the US. In "Asylum", California seceded from the United States after the Kromaggs left.
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Divided States of America / int_9e5079ce	comment	Piratez takes place several hundred years in the future, and the former USA are divided into several large countries. None of them a nice place to live.
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Divided States of America / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In which a map is shown of a heavily balkanized United States, including the state of Pennsylvania having split into the "Penn Republic" and "Sylvania." Washington, D.C. is, however, the capital of Earth.
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Divided States of America / int_a2a386c9	comment	Orion's Arm had California and Cascadia (which added the Yukon, Northwest Territory, and Alaska) secede from the U.S. in the late 22nd century. Both of these were regional superpowers with multiple colonies in the Asteroid Belt and outer solar system until the Nanodisaster.
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Divided States of America / int_a7b231a4	comment	In Aaron McGruder and Reginald Hudlin's Birth of a Nation, after election fraud causes a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of George W. Bush to be elected president, the city of East St. Louis declares its independence from the United States to become Black Land. Very Anvilicious.
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Divided States of America / int_a995ebfe	comment	DougDoug A.I. Invasion: The premise for the American campaign, wherein each state is completely independent.
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Divided States of America / int_aa7dca5b	comment	To Be Taught, If Fortunate follows astronauts in the twenty-second century, after the Great Shift. One grew up in a megacity along the Fraser river (presumably Vancouver) in a nation called Cascadia, which borders a nation called the Pacific Republic to the south. The border is mentioned to be desert.
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Divided States of America / int_aab02673	comment	In the alternate version of Civil War (2006) shown in Secret Wars (2015), America is divided in twain between the Iron, ruled by Tony Stark and the Blue, ruled by Steve Rogers. The Iron being analogous to the Eastern US with the Blue being the west, and St Louis, which was devastated during the escape from the Negative Zone prison, is the boundary between the two. Both sides see their side as an Utopia: The Iron clamps down on certain civil liberties, such as superpowers, but is very prosperous and growing, with many seeing them as a legitimate nation. The Blue is a free nation where there're only two real rules: don't wreck shit and don't be a deadbeat. However, most of the Blue is barren land where places to grow food is tough and other nations refuse to recognize it as anything more than a rogue state. The Iron, however, is too prosperous and is growing out of control.
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Divided States of America / int_b39f5bf3	comment	In After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America, the United States is nothing more than a memory by the start of the game, with most of its former constituents having developed their own local identities into unique national cultures.
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Divided States of America / int_b64dc62a	comment	Dallas Barr had the Florida keys successfully seceding and forming the Conch Republic.
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Divided States of America / int_b9419bd1	comment	Deus Ex: Human Revolution seems to be setting up the said civil wars for Deus Ex. Radio broadcasts and newspapers will mention secession sentiment in states that will soon be part of the Northwest War. A conversation overheard between NPCs in the Sarif Industries lobby after the Milwaukee Junction mission implies that this has already happened when one of them mentions the Texas Secession.
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Divided States of America / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun's back history includes the secession and/or annexation of parts of the US (and other nations) as corporations and mystic elements cause social upheaval. The map◊ in the back of the Fourth Edition book splits what used to be the United States into eight separate nations, with four more in what was Canada. Mexico has absorbed much of the Southwest into the new nation of Aztlan. Probably the most entertaining: California spent so long debating over whether or not to secede that the UCAS (United Canadian-American States) finally got sick of it and threw California out of the country, creating the California Free State.
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Divided States of America / int_beb703b1	comment	Capto Iugulum: The United States after the Scottist regime collapses spectacularly. Jacksonia [California] and Florida (actually in Texas) break away as independent republics and stay independent. Most of the American South gets taken by revolting proletarian blacks and eventually becomes the United Proletarist Republics of America. The rest gets split among a rump United States, other republics in New England and in the Great Lakes region, and numerous warlord states in the West. All of the latter gets reunited under a "Second Union" within a few years, and the United States remains a secondary power, albeit much reduced in strength.
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Divided States of America / int_bfa1d565	comment	Boston Legal: The town of Concord, Massachusetts tried to secede from the United States in one episode, citing reasons involving disagreement with the government's current policy. Judge Brown threw it out as ridiculous.
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Divided States of America / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd of 2000 AD has Mega-Cities One (includes eastern Ontario) and Two (later nuked) on the east and west coasts, Mega-City Three (Texas City), Uranium City (in Alaska), Las Vegas (also eventually nuked) and the ungoverned and desolated Cursed Earth in between. After Chaos Day, The leadership of Texas City tried to overthrow their counterparts in Mega City One to reunite the United States; it backfired on them. The Origins arc, which features archival footage that fleshes out a lot of the history of Dredd's world, reveals that this process started in the 2050's, 25 years before the Atomic Wars - the Mega-Cities were originally formed out of the urban sprawls covering the U.S coasts and heartland, forming semi-autonomous city-states that were only subject to the federal government on military and foreign affair issues, essentially an extreme form of state rights. Robert Booth, the future President Evil who'd set off the apocalypse decades later, was one of the supporters during his days as the governor of Texas City.
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Divided States of America / int_c4d37e84	comment	11/22/63: In the alternate universe created by the prevention of JFK's assassination, Maine is a Province of Canada.
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Divided States of America / int_c565e657	comment	A Canticle for Leibowitz is set in a postapocalyptic North America and spans several hundred years. In the opening chapters, North America is divided into feudal kingdoms such as "Texarkana". Texarkana is the name of a city that straddles the border of Texas and Arkansas, likely one of the cities that managed to escape the war, and became a power center when people began to rebuild civilization. There's also the Kingdom of Laredo (based in what used to be Laredo, Texas), a cowboy-esque nomadic warrior culture (a little along the lines of the Mongols) who look down on the agrarian "grass-eaters" of Texarkana.
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Divided States of America / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex: In the Back Story, parts of the United States declared their independence when the federal government ignored them due to half of California sinking in the ocean. The NSF at this time was the Northwestern Secession Forces. The U.S. got them back, but the war allowed Mexico to take back parts of the Southwest when they aligned with Russia. In some sense, the US still is in a Civil War, with many of its citizens in open revolt by being part of the NSF. At any rate, some dialogue said by JC hints that the United States may be due for the third round of all-out war. Deus Ex: Human Revolution seems to be setting up the said civil wars for Deus Ex. Radio broadcasts and newspapers will mention secession sentiment in states that will soon be part of the Northwest War. A conversation overheard between NPCs in the Sarif Industries lobby after the Milwaukee Junction mission implies that this has already happened when one of them mentions the Texas Secession.
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Divided States of America / int_c7539344	comment	Singularity: Inverted. In an alternate timeline, Unobtainium E-99 is used by the Soviet Union to conquer the world, starting by utterly destroying America, but in one ending you kill everyone involved with E-99, causing the Soviet Union to shatter into tiny little warring states, while someone with a handheld time machine similar to yours reunites America and beyond into a cult-of-personality dictatorship.
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Divided States of America / int_c92af9b	comment	Though it doesn't impact the story directly, in George Alec Effinger's MarÃ®d Audran series, this is mentioned as one of the reasons that the Islamic world has risen to dominate world politics. Bill the cab driver was born in the nation of Deseret, centered around the former state of Utah.
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Divided States of America / int_c9f912e	comment	Max Barry (of NationStates fame) explored a similar setting in the novel Jennifer Government. Nearly all society and law is individually administered by corporations (right down to corporate sponsored schools and security firms), while what's left of the government is relatively weak and looked down upon. At the same time, however, what's known as "The United States" is a Space-Filling Empire, albeit one without a meaningful central government. It covers both North and South America, Great Britain, Australia, parts of Asia, and possibly other areas as well.
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Divided States of America / int_cb598662	comment	Lucifer's Hammer: The protagonist survivors, living in and around California's San Joaquin Valley, all make jokes about the five announcements they've received over short-wave radio, each proclaiming a different person President of the United States. The only one they give any level of credence to is the group in Colorado Springs because a) the person making the proclamation is the former Speaker of the House and thus might actually have legal authority and b) apparently NORAD survived and they still have nukes and working bombers. As far as they are concerned, Arthur Jellison (former US Senator and leader of the effort to organize and rebuild) is their leader. One person jokes that Jellison is "the Duke of San Joaquin". In the epilogue, after Jellison's death, Tim notes that Harvey and Maureen "would have to come to terms" with the Colorado Springs group, implying either that either they do have that authority or that they're powerful enough to be respected anyway.
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Divided States of America / int_cdeed79a	comment	Steve Jackson's Tabletop RPG Car Wars features something like this in an After the End of easy oil scenario. Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma fall away to become a spirited republic called "the Free Oil States" (convenient for the Austin-based Jackson), a theocracy, and a corporate plutocracy. Utah tries breaking away as well. Quebec makes a run for it from Canada, too.
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Divided States of America / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Played straight in the Superman story Red Son. The USA experiences a second civil war, with 16 "prodigal states" (including Georgia) successfully seceding. America gets better, but it takes President Lex Luthor to do so.
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Divided States of America / int_d31cdea	comment	In the Hunger Games series, the United States has been renamed "Panem" and split into a Capitol (the Rockies) and twelve distinct and separate Districts in various parts of the country, such as Appalachia. The name "Panem" is derived from the Latin phrase "panem et circenses" or "bread and circuses", hence Peeta being the son of a baker and the titular "Games" serving as circuses to entertain the masses and keep them in check. It could also mean "Pan-am", as in "Pan-American".
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Divided States of America / int_d46beefd	comment	In the Wild Wild West film, Loveless proposes to ally with some foreign governments to do this to the burgeoning United States. This has roots in the original series in which Dr. Loveless believed that California was rightfully his due to a Spanish land grant to his family before the Mexican Revolution.
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Divided States of America / int_d532f73	comment	In Christian Nation, after President Steve Jordan decides to suspend the Constitution in favor of the Fifty Blessings based on his fundamentalist Christian view of God's law, several states in the Northeast, as well as California, decide to split off from the rest of the union to form the Secular Bloc States. It does not last, however, as Steve Jordan uses military force to recapture the seceding states and force them to submit to the new laws of the country.
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Divided States of America / int_d537677b	comment	Unsong is set in the "Untied States of America" (sic), an EU style federation of sovereign countries. The release of the Broadcast by the forces of hell, via Nixon, caused the collapse of the American federal government. The United States proper still exists but controls only the east coast. Independent countries include the California Republic, the Texas Republic, the Salish Free State, and the Oklahoma Ochlocracy. The Midwest is an anarchic land ruled by feudal warlords. The American Southwest and northern Mexico were ruled by the Comet King, and have since been mostly usurped by the Other King.
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Divided States of America / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Imperial Americana AKA the American Empire takes up all the rest, including Washington D.C. After Non-Nuclear World War IV in 2019-2020, this industrial and militaristic extreme right-wing conservative nation resorted to aggressive foreign policies to help stabilize their economy, casting them as antagonists in Appleseed and in the second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex as a result.
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Divided States of America / int_d7e8cfe1	comment	In Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka's novel War Day, following a (relatively) limited nuclear exchange with the USSR, Washington DC has been destroyed and the US is slowly splintering into a collection of Balkanized nations, with California aggressively leading the pack.
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Divided States of America / int_dae43125	comment	The Forest of Time has a similar premise to The Disunited States of America, though with much less westward expansion. The main focus is on the conflicts between the Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking Pennsylvania and its English-speaking neighbors New York and Virginia.
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Divided States of America / int_dbd793bc	comment	Otherverse America, a d20 Modern campaign setting, plays with the trope. America is still one country, but civil authority has partly collapsed due to the Abortion War, and both the "Choicers" (a covenant of believers in various pagan faiths united by pro-choice views) and the Lifers (predominantly fundamentalist Christian antiabortionists) have forced the government to allow them to govern themselves as "pseudonations." Choicers and Lifers are citizens and voters in America, but also citizens of their own communities, and various groups within the two movements are fighting terrorist wars against each other.
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Divided States of America / int_dc251c75	comment	Fracture has America's East Coast joining with Europe to form the cybernetics-using Atlantic Alliance, while the West Coast joins with Asia in the genetics-focused Republic of Pacifica.
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Divided States of America / int_de3de959	comment	In Incompatible System, after the Quick War, USA had been split into pieces, some annexed by the neighbors, some independent now. The author elaborates on this a couple of times, but is yet to present a map.
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Divided States of America / int_e0b66623	comment	In An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government: The Guatemala Incorporated timeline has an example based on The Falcon Cannot Hear below. In this universe, a Second American Civil War broke out in the 1930s, which resolved in a ceasefire between variant claimants to legitimacy — a military government runs the Pacific holdings from Hawaii (though is now a Japanese Puppet State), the Constituent Assembly controls the West Coast and part of the southwest, the British-backed Continental Congress controls most of the center of the continent, the American Soviet Republic controls things from New England to the Great Lakes and down to part of the Upper South, and a remnant of the fascist "White" movement controls Florida. There are also several breakaways — Maine declared independence and eventually joined Canada (taking part of New Hampshire with it), most of the Deep South and part of the Upper South is the black socialist Republic of New Africa, there's a warlord state running things in the region surrounding the Grand Canyon, and the US Navy forces in Guantanamo (while technically loyal to the military government) run it as a de facto city-state. In the Southron Popular Republic timeline, the Confederate States win the American Civil War and successfully break away. But furthermore, after the CSA ends up on the losing side of the Great War, they suffer a Communist revolution, which results in Texas and the Indian Republic (OTL Indian Territories/Oklahoma) breaking away and declaring independence. And back in the US, a second civil war breaks out in the 1930s due to a public backlash against government corruption during the Great Depression; by the time it's done, California has declared its own independence. The Republic of Greater New Jersey is set in a Timeline-191-based universe where the Freedom Party controlled Confederate States successfully defeated the United States in the Second Great War. Afterwards, the Confederacy annexed some states, placed others under military occupation, and spun others out as nominally independent Puppet States; the titular republic, for instance, is the result of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio being merged together.
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Divided States of America / int_e0e18eca	comment	In Decades of Darkness, New England secedes after the early death of president Thomas Jefferson at the most inopportune moment and manages to stay independent.
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Divided States of America / int_e3bc88fc	comment	In The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman, the main character visits a future in which the northeastern part of the United States has become a theocracy and closed itself off from the rest of the country.
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Divided States of America / int_e58673ff	comment	Amerika (1987): The Soviet Union plans to do this to the United States in order to prevent a resurgent America from posing a threat. At the end of the series the protagonist Devin Milford is shot by the leader of Heartland's defence force as he's about to make a radio broadcast calling for Americans to resist the breakup; this is viewed as 'treason' against Heartland.
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Divided States of America / int_e5c5bc22	comment	The GURPS Infinite Worlds meta-setting includes no less than six "Dixies" and one "Gallatin", where the States didn't really Unite in the first place. And that's not counting parallel timelines where the American Revolution failed, where Native Americans held on to their lands, or where other colonial powers managed to establish lasting colonies. Then there's GURPS Infinite Worlds: Britannica-6, in which the New England Confederacy seceded from the USA. Of course, many of the more divergent timelines like Ezcalli, Roma Aeterna or Midgard never had anything remotely similar to the United States.
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Divided States of America / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts: Following the collapse of civilization with the Coming of the Rifts, most of Canada, the West Coast, the Rockies and the Great Plains were swallowed by immense forests and house no civilization beyond a few scattered and highly isolated settlements (both human and non) and roving nomads and barbarians, while the desert states are somewhat more settled in that the scattered settlements are less distant and the barbarians more common. Texas is divided between a multitude of feudal statelets and a powerful bandit kingdom, the Midwest and Ontario are mostly ruled by the powerful Coalition States, and Minnesota and Upper Michigan are home to hundreds of tiny farming and industrial communities (though a significant portion of Minnesota - particularly the area around what used to be Duluth - is overtaken by a Horde of Alien Locusts, the Xiticix). The Mississippi, Ohio River Valley and Appalachians are another wilderness, filled with demons and monsters from the intense Rift activity there and home to no civilization beyond an evil rump Magocracy. Lower Michigan and the Toronto area are likewise filled with monsters and torn apart by Rifts, but are home to numerous kingdoms of mystics, psychics and non-human beings. Most of the Deep South and the East Coast have been washed into the sea, leaving only isolated settlements along the Gulf, a dinosaur-infested swamp where Florida and Georgia used to be and yet more monster-filed wilderness going north, with small communities and kingdoms scattered here and there, while Quebec is ruled by an independent nation.
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Divided States of America / int_e9eb81a7	comment	Key West: In one episode, the residents of Key West decide to secede from the Union forming the Conch Republic, reflecting a similar "Conch Republic" set up in real life (see Real Life, below).
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Divided States of America / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy Parodied in comically small-scale episode "E. Peterbus Unum", in which Peter secedes from the United States (due to a clerical error, Griffin's property didn't technically count as part of the U.S), creating the nation of Petoria—consisting of his house and yard. Peter annexes Joe's backyard pool and rechristens it "Joe-hio", provoking American sanctions. In "Back To The Pilot", Brian warns his past self about 9/11 during a time travel adventure to the first episode of the series, leading to him preventing the destruction of the World Trade Center. As a consequence, George W Bush loses his re-election campaign and instead ends up leading several southern states into forming a second Confederacy and seceding from the U.S. This spirals into a second Civil War and eventually reduces the East Coast to an irradiated wasteland.
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Divided States of America / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in Night City in the Free State of Northern California. Background material reveals that the New United States of America has re-conquered most of the Free States except the Republic of Texas during what has become known as the Unification War, and Night City has remained independent only thanks to Arasaka's influence. However tensions remain high between the Eastern states and the semi-autonomous West, particularly given the Mega Corps which all but rule both.
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Divided States of America / int_eec04867	comment	Dirk Pitt Adventures: Flood Tide had a secret plan to carve a Latin nation called "Hispania" in the Southwest east from Los Angeles, and a Chinese-run nation of Pacifica on the West Coast from San Francisco, through Seattle and Vancouver up to Alaska. Even the President (in this book, a less honorable guy) feels that this is inevitable.
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Divided States of America / int_f582e400	comment	Aprils in Abaddon: The US exploded into civil war in 2017, and several de facto nation-states have emerged, from the conservative Federal Republic of America to the Stalin-esque Eastern American Workers' Army. In a slightly more literal sense, the Provisional Government of the United States controls two large but geographically separate blocks of territory (the Northeast and the Southwest).
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Divided States of America / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: The show has several examples of how the United States (and to a lesser extent Canada and Mexico) have been broken up (There is also a map first shown in episode 5) Note that since some of these nations extend into Canada and/or Mexico this trope is combined with Expanded States of America: The Monroe Republic: New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes areas as well as the Canadian Maritime Provinces and Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River The Georgia Federation: The Southeast. Apparently the major rival to the Monroe Republic, and possibly allying with the Plains Nation to eliminate it Texas: Texas, with what appears to be parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, as well as a sizable chunk of Mexico The Plains Nation: the Midwest from Minnesota to Montana The Wasteland: Utah and the Rockies The California Commonwealth: The West Coast including a sizable chunk of British Columbia and all of Baja California. Considered to be "heathens" by at least one high-level Monroe Militia officer (Neville)
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Divided States of America / int_fd66235f	comment	In John Michael Greer's Star's Reach, during the end of the old time, the United States fractured into several countries. By the 25th century, Meriga only comprises some of the states in the center of the country. Other countries formed from its collapse include Jinya in the Appalacians and Nuwinga around New England, and the expanded Meycan Empire is implied to have absorbed some of the southern states. Other states were lost entirely to the rising oceans.
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∀ Gundam / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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Snow Crash / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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Assassins (Theatre) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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Crimson Skies (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Death Stranding (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Extremis Ultimis (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Fracture (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Going Under (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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Hearts of Iron (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Homefront (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Judgement Day: Aftermath of the Red Flood (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Kaiserredux (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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Kalterkrieg: Shadow of the Weltkrieg (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Killing Floor 2 (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Old World Blues (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Piratez (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Railroad Tycoon (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Shattered Union (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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Sprite Wars (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Strike Commander (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Tacoma (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Technobabylon (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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The Reckoning (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun (Video Game) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
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Alternate History Hub (Web Animation) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Dirigible Days (Web Video) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
DougDoug A.I. Invasion (Web Video) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
THE MONUMENT MYTHOS (Web Video) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Namir Deiter (Webcomic) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
S.S.D.D. (Webcomic) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
String Theory (2009) (Webcomic) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Sundown Boys (Webcomic) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
UNA Frontiers (Webcomic) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Atlas of Medieval America (Website) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Orion's Arm (Website) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Undocumented Features / Fan Fic / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Marîd Audran / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Appleseed (Manga) / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Jericho / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America

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