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In fiction, the USA sometimes gets split up into several successor states, whereas at other times it might get invaded by one or more other powers. And sometimes, it even falls from power. This trope, however, reverses the common factor between the aforementioned three cases (that is, the USA being "weakened"), and instead makes it more... empowered. That is, the USA gains more territory (and more often than not turns those acquisitions into new states). | |
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Watchmen takes place in an Alternate History where the United States includes the 51st state of Vietnam... or at least speculation in the newspapers that such might happen in the near future. The TV series shows that indeed happened. | |
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The United States in Julian Comstock stretches from as far north as Canada to as far as Panama in the south. By that point, however, the US had long evolved into something that neither the Founding Fathers nor a modern-day American would find very recognizable. | |
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Destiny: Prior to the Collapse, the United States and Canada were a single, retro-nationalistic nation known as the North American Empire. However, the Empire is noted to have been more of a voluntary republic than a true government (it existed after humanity was hitting The Singularity and conventional nation-states had begun to dissolve), meaning its sovereignty was actually pretty limited. | |
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UFO: Alien Invasion includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico as part of a "United America" (the name used in-game, not the trope distinction) as part of its general trend of lumping all future nations into Space Filling Empires. | |
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In 2300 AD the USA has lost California to Mexico, and Texas has become independent. However Puerto Rico and the colony world of Ellis have been granted statehood, meaning that there are still 50 states (and stars on the US flag). | |
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The The Simpsons episode "Future-Drama" has Bart's girlfriend Jenda mention the fifty-first state Saudi Israelia. A Flash Forward in "The Kid is All Right" had President Lisa Simpson considering making Afghanistan a state. | |
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In Meet the Robinsons, time-traveler Lewis tries to pass himself off as a foreign exchange student from Canada. Apparently, by 2037, it's a state called "North Montana." | |
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Guilty Gear: In the aftermath of The Crusades, the United States was devastated, having lost several major cities, including New York, but was able to rebuild thanks to support from South American nations. By 2187, the term "United States of America" now seems to refer to a national entity covering both continents, with the USA itself now referred to as Nation A. While members of the union, every nation still retains a great deal of autonomy, to the point that Old Mexico has the capability to shoot down the White House airship for violating their airspace. Despite how large the United States has become, they're only third in terms of population behind Illyria and China, with a combined total of just 100 million citizens. | |
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The United Americas from the Alien franchise, mentioned in Expanded Universe supplementary material. It comprises the two Americas. | |
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In We Stand on Guard, the US invades and occupies Canada in 2112 after the White House is destroyed. | |
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From the Front Mission franchise, the United States of the New Continent, whose In-Universe abbreviation is "U.S.N.", is formed of the North and South America; the English-dubbed versions of the games (after Front Mission 4) rename it "United Continental States" (In-Universe abbr.: "U.C.S."). Suffers from continuous unrest due to economic disparity along North-South lines, frequently requiring quashing revolts with military force. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has a relatively low-key example with the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations, usually just called "the Union", comprising all of North and South America, the Caribbean nations, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. There aren't a lot of details about the Union, but while the member states maintain at least some degree of autonomy, the Union President resides at the White House, and it's implied that the United States provides the bulk of the Union's military forces. | |
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In Calbear's The Anglo/American – Nazi War, the Russian Far East becomes the US state of West Alaska. The Marianas islands later join as the 52nd state, while the Ogasawara Islands and Netherlands Antilles become territories and 99-year leases are closed on Okinawa and oil territory along the Persian Gulf. | |
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SCP-1986 is an infinite tunnel containing books from many alternate realities. One of them is the second volume of the diary from Woodrow Wilson and his thoughts on various events during his term, one being the battle for Thailand's accession to statehood within the Imperial States of America. | |
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RoboCop: The Series had mention of Newfoundland becoming the 53rd state. However, Puerto Rico isn't one of them as another episode mentions the government selling it to a company. | |
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FTL Newsfeed, the 2142-set newscast, is broadcast from the North American Union. The NAU flag is the stars-and-stripes with the stars replaced by a maple leaf. | |
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The superstate of Oceania from Nineteen Eighty-Four, encompassing the Americas, Britain (a.k.a. "Airstrip One"), Ireland, the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa below the River Congo. Well, that what the Party claims. The only parts that we know are under the Party's control is "Airstrip One" (Britain); it's all too possible that the rest is just a propaganda sham, which is par for the course in this setting. | |
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Hearts of Iron has the Armageddon campaign that portrays an alternate universe where the United States forfeited the Civil War in order to shift their focus on their war on Canada which they succeeded in resulting them to change their name to the United States of North America. Of course, since this is a strategy game, this can be expanded into the other flavors listed on this page. | |
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In Mikhail Akhmanov's Arrivals from the Dark, it's briefly mentioned that the US is now called the USC (United States and Canada). How this is achieved is not explained, although it can be inferred that the unification was peaceful. | |
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In Halo, the USA, Canada, and Mexico all merged into the United Republic of North America. | |
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All of North America unites in Mass Effect, forming the United North American States. It's stated in the backstory that the decision to do this triggered a Second American Civil War in 2096 (which led to the destruction of the Statue of Liberty, incidentally). Interestingly, and perhaps due to the relatively recent unification of North America in the franchise's lore, people in the UNAS seem to retain modern regional identities. A Vancouver-born character for instance identifies himself as Canadian on multiple occasions in Mass Effect 3, and Flavor Text refers to "Mexican" and "American" corporations that exist in the game's world. | |
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An episode of The Goodies, America infects Britain with a virus that turns people into clowns, so they can turn it into a 53rd state. | |
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In the Fallout series, it's mentioned that the US annexed Canada shortly before the Great War, and had a military presence in Mexico, ostensibly to protect its oil interests in the region. | |
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The Atlantic Federation from the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED universe. It is originally comprised the US, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, the UK, and Ireland. It later invades and annexes South America, which itself was its own superstate - the United States of South America (USSA). The USSA later regained its independence, with the exception of Central America, which remained a part of the Atlantic Federation. | |
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Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun: As a Grand Strategy series set starting in the 1800s, not only is this possible, but the integration of territories into states is also simulated in different forms through the series. Most notable for Victoria III being the first video game to have the American flag dynamically change it's number of stars as territories gain statehood. | |
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In The Red's Decisive Darkness, after the invasion of Japan, the United States annexes the Ryukyu Islands and southern Kyushu. | |
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Oddly Enough: Implied in "Old Glory", where the U.S. flag now has sixty-two stars. | |
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In Jennifer Government, the United States encompasses not only most of the Americas, but also the British Isles, South Africa, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Australia. | |
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In Transhuman Space there are 60 states by the year 2100. Puerto Rico and Guam have been admitted as states. Cibola split off from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah as a Native American-majority state. Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, New York City, Greater San Fran, San Diego, and Seattle-Tacoma have become autonomous city-states. While American Mars constitutes a commonwealth territory like 20th century Puerto Rico. | |
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Kentucky Fried Politics has Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico become official states in the Union under the administration of Jesse Jackson. | |
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This crops up quite a lot in Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfiction, ranging from historic retellings of America gaining territory like Alaska and Hawaii, America taking in other countries until they can get back on their feet, political alliances, America having a well-meant but misguided desire to help other nations, or, in darker instances, America going insane and wanting more power. | |
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S.M. Stirling's The Draka series is chock full of superstates like this, the US included. Since Canada did not benefit from a large population boost following the American Revolution, it fell to the US invasion of 1812. Since they were free states, the slave-owning southerners lobbied for full annexation after the Mexican War. William Walker succeeded in establishing a Central American empire, which was then annexed along with Cuba, the rest of the Caribbean, and the Philippines. In a similar vein, The Grand Republic of Colombia (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, northern Peru, and northwest Brazil) never broke up, nor the Empire of Brazil (Brazil & Uruguay), so South America is comprised of just 4 nations. Africa and the Mideast are likewise unified, but as a brutal slaveocracy under the boot heel of the eponymous Draka. | |
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The Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" cartoon "Saddam and Osama" (portraying Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden as the heroes of an '80s-esque action cartoon supposedly broadcast in the Middle East) has Dick Cheney mention that they're planning to rename Iraq "East Dakota". | |
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In Shadowrun, the North American map has been considerably redrawn, but the UCAS (United Canadian and American States) is politically and economically the most powerful successor state. It's an amalgam of the northeastern USA and eastern Canada, notably not including Quebec. However, they've lost everything west of Denver or south of St. Louis to various other interests, among them the Confederation of American States (CAS), so this is actually a zig-zag blend between this trope and Divided States of America, with Invaded States of America coming into play when Aztlan (formerly Mexico) eventually invades both California and Texas, gaining some territory but failing to annex either. Of course since Califonia is an independent nation and Texas is part of the CAS, this may be a subversion. | |
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Terra Invicta: With several of the research-able technologies allowing for countries to make claims on others to form mega-states, this is naturally one of them, and it can go so far as including the Caribbean and Greenland. Generally the purpose of mega-states is to reduce the management burden of the player's chosen N.G.O. Superpower in controlling said country, allowing for taking more of the world to support their side in the central Space Cold War. | |
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In Second Renaissance, the US annexes Canada due to Quebec seceding, and since climate change was screwing the tundras up, the First Nations left. This led the United States to annex Canada after World War III, but this later leads to the entire United States to annex all of the Anglosphere, leading to Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand to be annexed due to harsh climate change going on. Eventually the Third Mexican-American War, leads to a global devastating war that leads to the US not only annexing Mexico but all the damn world. Talk about a happy ending........ | |
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In the Wild Cards universe, both Puerto Rico and Cuba are US states. | |
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In Escape from L.A., Bangkok, Thailand (where Snake has been at some point between 1997 and 2013) is mentioned as being United States territory. | |
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The alternate history series Decades of Darkness has an American Empire in all but name. Most of, but not all, of the traditional states are present, albeit some with different names and boundaries. They have also acquired/conquered Mexico, most Caribbean islands, and Central America and divided the territory into new American states. And finally, there is a lone American colony in West Africa. Subtracted from this is most of real-world New England (and New York), which separated via secession just a few decades after the Revolution and later joined with Canada in a pro-British North American bloc. Later on the USA also conquers Colombia, Peru, Chile, and parts of Brazil and lays claim to an Antarctic territory. This coupled with their earlier acquisition of Alaska from Canada means that the USA now claims to stretch not just "From Sea to Shining Sea", but also "From Pole to Frozen Pole". |
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In the early Lensman novels, North America is a single united nation, and the most powerful on Earth. Part of the climax of First Lensman is Rod Kinnison running for President of North America, in an election that obviously parallels those of the United States. | |
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In The New Order Last Days Of Europe, if the Holy Russian Empire reunifies Russia and inevitably collapses, one of the successor states, the United Siberian Salvation Committee, aims to join the US as a territory. | |
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In Brewster's Millions (1985), a reference is made to the title character purchasing advertising for his political campaign in "all fifty-two states." No further reference to this is made, nor is there any hint as to the identities of the additional states. | |
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In Night Probe by Clive Cussler, a major component of the plot is centered around a fictional agreement signed between Canada and the United States in 1916 which would officially unite the two countries, making the Canadian provinces into additional American states. In the story, it was more or less ignored after both physical copies of the agreement — and about half the people who knew about it — were lost simultaneously due to an unrelated train hijacking and passenger ship crash. Supposedly, the novel ends with one of the copies being recovered and the agreement retroactively enforced, but later books in the same continuity more or less ignore that development. | |
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A subtle case: in 1953's Project Moonbase, the two US Space Force orbital shuttles we see in far-off 1970 are named "Canada" and "Mexico." It would be deeply odd to name your military-operated spacecraft after foreign countries. | |
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In David Brin's Existence the United States has sixty-two states. One of them is Panhandle, formed from the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. | |
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In Americathon, Great Britain is mentioned as yet another of the (bankrupt) U.S. states. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Royale," a US flag with 52 stars dates the wreckage of an old NASA mission found by the Enterprise to some time between 2033 and 2079. No canonical explanation for the identity of the two extra states was given. | |
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