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United Space of America

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United Space of America	comment	This trope is about the tendency in works of science fiction to show the default form of human government to be an American-style republic. Such settings will (generally) have American standards regarding cultural norms, rights, and freedoms (with the occasional strange addition or subtraction, just to show that we aren't dealing with modern day Earth). Sometimes the cultural supremacy of the United States over all other human or alien "nations" is explicitly declared, while other times it's shown with a bit more subtlety. In either case, most people, space stations, ships, planets, settlements, and so on will not only have names in English, but they'll also have names that are recognizably American. The Federation will be ruled by an elected President, there will be a Congress-like legislature, and so on. Even the military will use a ranking system based on American military ranks. This is largely due to the outsized role Hollywood plays in western popular culture. In short, a subtrope of Creator Provincialism. On the other hand, this can be justified, if only because the US is the only country (so far) to actually achieve manned spaceflight outside of Earth orbit, and the people who get there first will naturally set things up to their liking. The United States was established as a federal system, with protections for the rights of its constituent states combined with elements of direct representation of the people in the central government. Any democratic world government assembled from existing nations and not established by conquest would likely also take a similar federal form, either along presidential or parliamentary lines. Finally, there's an American tradition of using a science fiction setting to examine (Star Trek), criticise (The Twilight Zone (1959)) or satirize (Futurama) contemporary American culture in ways that would be uncomfortable otherwise. These shows resemble America in space because that's the whole point—a point that frequently gets lost when these shows are exported or translated into other languages. See Space Romans when other cultures are Recycled In Space. See America Takes Over the World for when the world is run by the United States of America itself. See Planetville and Planetary Nation for the general concept of treating every planet as just one city or civilization. Compare Fictional United Nations, which has a similar based-on-a-real-organization derivation.
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United Space of America / int_1ab9ad1d	comment	The Interplanetary Strategic Alliance of Killzone are this, and the UCN to a much larger extent. The ISA was formed as essentially an armed coalition like NATO, to protect the interests of the UCN and her colonies. Many of the Vektan ISA have distinctly American accents and fit a lot of the usual Space Marine tropes. They are also in a decades-long conflict with the Helghan Empire, a totalitarian state whose inhabitants have strongly British accents.
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United Space of America / int_22fa3992	comment	Both the UN and MCR feature elements of this in The Expanse. The Secretary General of the United Nations is closer to a popularly-elected executive leader rather than an administrative officer appointed and confirmed to their position; we are also told that the security detail that protects them is called the "Secret Service" and the spaceplane s/he flies in is referred to as "UN One". On the surface, the Mars Congressional Republic resembles an early American Republic: a frontier society with a culture of self-reliance that breaks away to form its own nation, governed by a representative assembly. In practice however, it is somewhat closer to a collectivist stratocratic oligarchy: Martian society is highly conformist and most affairs are dominated by military interests.
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United Space of America / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons episode "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" has a filmstrip that ends with the phrase "The moon belongs to America, and anxiously awaits the arrival of our astro-men. Will you be among them?"
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United Space of America / int_29a5124d	comment	Sunless Skies: New Winchester and the Reach in general tends to fulfill this role, with the twist that it's the colonial sort of America. New Winchester is a large colony seeking independence from the British Empire, and willing to fight them over it at any turn; in fact, the Colonial Assembly of the game and the Continental Congress have a lot of subtle similarities. Since the year is around the very, very early 1900s, long after the actual USA became independent, it looks like the Brits haven't learned a thing.
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United Space of America / int_2acb12c5	comment	The Argon Federation in the X-Universe games is an aversion. In the original German, the government is described as having a president and a senate, but the X-Encyclopedia explains that said president is the president of the senate. In other words, he/she is a prime minister rather than an American-style president, making the Argon government a parliamentary democracy instead of this trope.note The confusion stems mainly from the fact that non-English-speaking European countries generally use the local translation of "president" instead of "prime minister". Also, their official language is a simplified version of Japanese, not English.
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United Space of America / int_2ae406c1	comment	Subverted in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and averted entirely in its Spiritual Successor Civilization: Beyond Earth. In Alpha Centauri, the UNS Unity expedition to colonize a new world quickly splinters into different factions, none of which resemble the United States (although one is explicitly an attempt to recreate the United Nations). Beyond Earth takes things even further, with multiple Earth nations each launching their own "Seeding" expeditions to new worlds. The actual American faction in Beyond Earth doesn't fit the trope at all — it's a monolithic MegaCorp that doesn't even pretend to have any particular continuity with the old democratic government. The closest thing to an American culture is probably Polystralia, a conglomeration of Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, and much of the surrounding regions.
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United Space of America / int_3b73c4a0	comment	On the other hand, Caprica in, well, Caprica has a Prime Minister (despite the prevalence of American Accents) and refers to "Ministers" (indicating parliamentary government). That, and the fact that racism is directed towards foreigners (especially Taurons) rather than a subgroup of native Capricans, suggests comparisons to Britain, especially '50s Britain. The Colonies as a whole had no unified government until the Cylon War forced them to, and as a result it is hinted on occasion that the Colonial Military has more influence and power than modern American-style systems.
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United Space of America / int_3b878256	comment	The United Planets in Legion of Super-Heroes is (much like the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek) alternately this trope or the United Nations in space, depending on the needs of the story.
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United Space of America / int_4118dc1a	comment	The Terran Confederation from Wing Commander is the largest and most important human government in the setting, consisting of over 700 star systems. It is a representative democracy headed by an elected president, and the chief legislative body is the Confederation Senate which is based in Washington D.C. Additionally, the armed forces of the Terran Confederation are made up of four branches: Army, Navy, Marines, and Space Forces. Basically, the Terran Confederation is a 27th century version of the United States of America. On top of this, the Confederation logo◊ greatly resembles that of NATO.
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United Space of America / int_51b94c97	comment	AT-43: The U.N.A.(United Nations of Ava) are based off of Cold War America, fighting space commies, and aliens.
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United Space of America / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf seems to be set in an American-style society with a few British influences. The justice system uses American legal jargon, the brig is styled after American prisons and officially there isn't a Floor 13 (which is a mostly American tradition). Spacelanes are on the right and in the alternate history from Tikka to Ride, Russia's victory in the space race resulted in Red Dwarf not being built. Of course, it averts this at times as well. For example, in Back To Earth, Rimmer claims that one day he'll be First Lord Of The Star Fleet, presumably making the Space Corps a British organisation. Perhaps the series' schizophrenic approach is best summed up by the fact that the currency of the future is...the dollarpound.
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United Space of America / int_61de95d6	comment	In Freelancer, Liberty is one of the four Houses (read: nations) in the Sirius Sector. Descended from predominantly American settlers, the people of Liberty strive to recreate the US in space (the name comes from the name of the ship that brought the settlers to Sirius). The planets and systems in Liberty are named after American locations (e.g. the capital of Liberty is the planet Manhattan in the New York system). The government system appears to be an American-style democracy with an elected President.
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United Space of America / int_64ddf294	comment	The Gallente Federation in EVE Online. While they're technically descended from the French according to the lore, their system of government is rather overtly based on that of America, they're described as the most libertine and freedom-loving society in the galaxy, and they have major ethnic tensions stemming from immigration by the Minmatar, who are essentially Space Latinos.
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United Space of America / int_6e0e351	comment	Used, and quite disturbingly subverted, by Escape Velocity: Nova. The Federation has a US-like government, especially compared to the Aurorans, who have a system based around clan elders, and the Polaris, who have a caste system. However, the US (probably) isn't being run by the FBI. (Fortunately, there's also the fourth faction: the Rebellion against the Bureau.)
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United Space of America / int_72f3e556	comment	Mikhail Akhmanov's Arrivals from the Dark series has this first with the USC (United States and Canada), which has military forces in space, along with Russia (with whom they are good friends) and European Union (which seems more unified than today). All three powers deliberately keep the other nations grounded, including China. In later novels, the Earth Federation is the official government of humanity, although it is unclear if the nation-states still exist as governing bodies. It should be noted that the author specifically mentions that the ranks in the Space Navy are based on the British and American models, even though the books are Russian.
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United Space of America / int_755b343f	comment	In Halo, the Unified Earth Government and its various bodies play with this in a number of different ways: The United Nations Space Command, officially the UEG's military, exploratory, and scientific agency, has a military set up 100% identical to the modern US military's, which is particularly noticeable with its Marine Corps. However, the UNSC is politically a pretty stark aversion; thanks to the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC ends up taking control of the government, becoming in essence a military junta. Even though it officially ceded power back to the UEG after the Covenant War, the UNSC is still in practice the humanity's main ruling body, meaning that post-war humanity is more of a military empire. Even before the Covenant War, the UNSC was quite willing to resort to extreme methods of maintaining control over its citizens, like kidnapping children to turn them into super-soldiers and even nuking colonies. The Unified Earth Government itself is a pretty straight example; it's a representative democracy divided into an executive, legislative, and judicial branch, which include an elected president and a senate. That said, the UEG's capital (as well as UNSC headquarters) is located in Sydney, Australia instead of somewhere in America. While it is formally a union of independent planets, in practice Earth and the Inner Colonies are privileged in the election process. Making things more complicated, the UNSC's Office of Naval Intelligence has become a parallel government in its own right, often acting without the approval or knowledge of either the UEG or UNSC. As shown in HUNT the TRUTH, ONI often employs downright Orwellian methods of maintaining control over humanity, like completely shutting down the Internet; unlike the rest of the UNSC, ONI doesn't even make a pretense of respecting the UEG's authority. Adding to the mess, there's also a secret society of smart AIs have been influencing humanity from behind the scenes for centuries. Culturally, humanity's various worlds tend to be impressively diverse, while the UEG/UNSC itself tends to be more American. On one hand, English is the UNSC's "national" language, spoken by all the main characters in the games, and the main cast tends to be white or black with names like John, Avery, Jameson, Edward, etc. (though the UNSC's current two most powerful leaders are British and Turkish). On the other hand, even Earth itself is shown to have remained quite culturally diverse (for example, the Mombasa public service announcements heard in Halo 2 are all in Swahili), and the colonies often have cultures that aren't American in the least bit. Even Reach, the UNSC's second most important planet, has a significant portion of its population who speak Hungarian as a first language (in fact, the planet was originally settled by Hungarians, hence why most of Reach's locations and even its moons have Hungarian names); at the beginning of Halo: Reach, Jorge is the only member of Noble Team able to speak to the local civilians because they don't know English and he's the only one on the team who can speak Hungarian (being a Reach native himself). In part because of this diversity, the colonies heavily resent the UNSC, which overthrew the Colonial Administration Authority that had previously administered them.
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United Space of America / int_76e67d86	comment	In The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov, the book revolves around a document that can destroy the tyranny of the empire known as, well, the Tyranni. At the end, when the characters read the document for the first time, it turns out to be a text of the United States Constitution.
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United Space of America / int_7a7a1a86	comment	In Aliens it is clear that the United States is still a superpower and has colonized several planets. When contact is lost with LV-426, the United States Colonial Marine Corps is sent to investigate.
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United Space of America / int_7de8951a	comment	Subverted in the RPG Traveller:2300 (which, confusingly, is not in the same franchise universe as Traveller, despite being published by the same company [Game Developers Workshop]; later on it was renamed simply "2300AD"). The "universe" of Traveller:2300 was developed by the game designers actually gaming out future history. In that game, it was France that dominated, and so emerged as the major interstellar power.
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United Space of America / int_7f8a38b6	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, the L2 Colonies belong to America. Later, Earth and the space colonies are all merged into the Earth Sphere Unified Nation.
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United Space of America / int_7fde0e65	comment	The novel Ship of the Line has the captain and first officer of the border cutter USS Bozeman say that they consider themselves to be the spiritual descendants of the US Coast Guard. Yep, US coast guard, not of any other country, even giving a brief history of it. At least they mention that the word "cutter" dates back to the British Revenue Service and stuck around with the American equivalent despite not using cutter rigging.
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United Space of America / int_81692f99	comment	Two of the AI personalities represent this. Federation Builders seek to make allies and combine multiple strengths of races without subjugating any of them, and have a feel of a Star Trek style Federation. Democratic Crusaders wish to bring Democracy to the Galaxy and will be hostile to any empire that does not have a democratic government.
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United Space of America / int_8ac4e993	comment	The Earth Federation in the Universal Century Gundam works is at least nominally this given its rather American (and generally Western) aesthetic. For the space colonies however, this rings hollow given the EF's tendency of treating Spacenoids as second-class citizens (not to mention many of the original colonists being sent out due to not having the political or economic means to stay on Earth), which would give rise to Zeon (and its many offshoots), Cosmo Babylonia and the Zanscare Empire.
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United Space of America / int_905cf99c	comment	The Fifth Element has the President of the Federated Territories, of which Earth, specifically New York, appears to be merely the capital city. This is possibly meant to reference the United Nations. According to the novelization, this Federation's predecessor IS the U.S.
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United Space of America / int_90e2f673	comment	Played with in the backstory of BattleTech. Plenty of colonies that were closest to Terra traced their culture and ancestry to the United States of America, due to its powerful status within the Terran Alliance which allowed the USA to secure the best real estate around humanity's homeworld. That proximity backfired when the Succession Wars erupted, as the worlds around Terra were heavily fought over and sometimes rendered uninhabitable. As a result, by the game's opening year of 3025 Asian and European cultures are prevalent throughout the Inner Sphere, with few if any American-derived cultures depicted.
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United Space of America / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	Andrey Livadny does this in his The History of the Galaxy books with the Confederacy of Suns, which has an elected president. Not much else is known about the politics of the Confederacy. Each planet also has its own government, although everyone is subject to Confederate laws. Before the Confederacy, there was the Earth Alliance, which seems to be between this and The Empire with their treatment of the colonies and brutal suppression of any resistance. The Space Navy ranks are still Russian, though, with the addition of the "Galact" prefix.
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United Space of America / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: The United Federation of Planets was basically the United States IN SPACE! Bonus points for having the Klingons played as the counterpart for the Soviet Union and the Romulans act at least a little like Communist China. One of the most prominent examples of this trope is the use of "USS" as a ship name prefix; a particularly odd artefact since, in the Trek universe, the United States doesn't exist anymore, and sources conflict as to what it actually stands for. This especially stands out in the fact that Starfleet headquarters is in San Francisco (though the far less seen capital is Paris), Starfleet seems to be dominated by white, English-speaking humans and while many human colony worlds are shown, non-human Federation members all seem to be limited to their own Planet of Hats. Lampshaded in the Next Generation episode "The Neutral Zone". When a Human Popsicle from the twentieth century hears that he's on the USS Enterprise, he assumes it's an American ship, but Riker corrects him. Lampshaded again in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager where the crew find themselves in the modern day (read: 1990s). A band of Crazy Survivalists capture a couple of them, along with a shuttle, and when they see the USS on the side of the shuttle, they assume it's some experimental military prototype. It's also worth nothing, however, that while The Federation is ruled by a President, it's actually closer to a Parliamentary-style democratic republic rather than the one the US uses (the Presidental candidates are nominated directly by the Federation Council - the President in DS9 mentions he didn't even WANT the job, but got stuck with it through nomination - even though the final vote goes to the people), making the President more of a Prime Minister. The human-dominated nature of the Federation is generally explained by Earth having a significantly larger population than the other founding member planets, and humans having greater inclination to colonize the previously uninhabited planets within Federation space. Thus, even centuries later humans remain the most common species in the Federation (whether they're an outright majority is never specified). And it apparently took over a century before Vulcans (the most prominent of the other founding members) became comfortable with serving in the not-quite-military Starfleet, as they'd just gone through a civil war and disbanded their own military in favor of pacifism. The novel Ship of the Line has the captain and first officer of the border cutter USS Bozeman say that they consider themselves to be the spiritual descendants of the US Coast Guard. Yep, US coast guard, not of any other country, even giving a brief history of it. At least they mention that the word "cutter" dates back to the British Revenue Service and stuck around with the American equivalent despite not using cutter rigging.
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United Space of America / int_9b38e5f3	comment	In Interstellar, The colony Cooper finds himself in at the end is pretty much a piece of rural America orbiting Saturn, with NASA still overseeing things.
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United Space of America / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama does this in a big way. Technically the Earth has unified into one country that just seems to be called "Earth", but all aspects of the government that aren't just random jokes are clearly based on the present-day United States. The president of Earth is Richard Nixon's disembodied head, the Earthican flag is even the exact same as the American flag, except with a globe in place of the stars, Washington DC is the capital and the US Constitution is still the ruling document (with some minor changes in the 22nd amendment wording that allowed Nixon to claim there Ain't No Rule to prevent his reelection). There's also the Democratic Order of Planets, of which Earth is a member, and which appears to be responsible for military "protection" of Earth and allied worlds. When Zapp Brannigan accidentally destroyed the new DOOP Headquarters in the Neutral Zone, the DOOP council moved back to their old HQ in Weehawken, NJ.
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United Space of America / int_a4bc7eed	comment	The United Earthes in Universal War One is supposed to be the United Nations Organisation's sucessor, but the military is NATO-like and civil society is very similar to the american one. The United Earthes flag features stars and red/white stripes like the american flag. We have no information about the government, except that its capital is New York, and one of the characters comments that they could not have Washington as capital as it would have been too obvious that the USA are dominating the United Earthes.
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United Space of America / int_a78fff6d	comment	SeaQuest DSV: The U.E.O., despite claiming to have a U.N.-like mandate, certainly acts like the United States. Then you have Macronesia in Season 3, which is in a Cold War-like state with UEO. They have a charismatic president, who doesn't shy from using illegal means to achieve his goals. Macronesia is frequently shown annexing other territories. They don't always reveal that a territory has been annexed either, which forms the plot of one episode, when a seaQuest crewmembers is arrested by Macronesian forces "trespassing" in a recently-annexed territory. She thought she was in a free territory.
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United Space of America / int_bc713e81	comment	Crisis of the Confederation's Frontier, one of the Terran Confederation's constituent republics, was explicitly patterned on the earthbound United States government and largely settled by a population with Anglo-American backgrounds. The New Frontier is in turn an outgrowth of the old, but the two are divided by the fact that the New Frontier believes that the Confederation has betrayed the core values of liberty and democracy on which it was founded, and thus they have sided with the Orion League against the Confederation to gain independence and start again with a clean slate.
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United Space of America / int_c211d8bf	comment	In Star Trek Beyond, the gigantic space station is called the Yorktown. This name has no significance to anyone outside the USA.note It's where the last battle of the American Revolution happened.
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United Space of America / int_c35747a3	comment	Averted in The Jenkinsverse: while the private corporations exploiting space are mostly American, the first human colony is a Brit-influenced liberal utopia, and the majority of the human spacefleet consists of British-made V-Class destroyers, with the American-made San Diego class cruisers still being under construction in 10 AV.
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United Space of America / int_cbad9b62	comment	The Free Planets Alliance in Legend of the Galactic Heroes clearly invokes the USA (right down to the English lyrics of the anthem), to the point that they might as well be called "Space Americans" At the same time, however, it's revealed to be an increasingly dysfunctional democracy wracked by corruption. By the time the series begins, the efforts of a few good men like Yang Wen-li and the threat posed by their Space German enemies are pretty much the only things effectively holding them together. Most of the Alliance eventually does fall to Reinhard about halfway into the show. It should be noted that the Alliance was originally a breakout faction of the Space German Empire and therefore younger than them by several hundred years. Which only serves to strengthen analogies to the American War of Independence against the British. This is one of the rare instances where the Space Germans are not modeled on Nazi Germany, but rather 19th Century Prussia. This makes it easy to sympathize with them as much as the Space Americans. Thus, Space America, instead of being looked upon as the default "good guy", can be viewed just as objectively.
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United Space of America / int_d461f757	comment	In Battlestar Galactica (2003), the Twelve Colonies of Kobol needed only one more colony to be guilty of cultural copyright infringement; it mixes the United Space of America with the Twelve Tribes of Israel and Ancient Grome IN SPACE!. On the other hand, Caprica in, well, Caprica has a Prime Minister (despite the prevalence of American Accents) and refers to "Ministers" (indicating parliamentary government). That, and the fact that racism is directed towards foreigners (especially Taurons) rather than a subgroup of native Capricans, suggests comparisons to Britain, especially '50s Britain. The Colonies as a whole had no unified government until the Cylon War forced them to, and as a result it is hinted on occasion that the Colonial Military has more influence and power than modern American-style systems.
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United Space of America / int_d5166b43	comment	Culturally, humanity's various worlds tend to be impressively diverse, while the UEG/UNSC itself tends to be more American. On one hand, English is the UNSC's "national" language, spoken by all the main characters in the games, and the main cast tends to be white or black with names like John, Avery, Jameson, Edward, etc. (though the UNSC's current two most powerful leaders are British and Turkish). On the other hand, even Earth itself is shown to have remained quite culturally diverse (for example, the Mombasa public service announcements heard in Halo 2 are all in Swahili), and the colonies often have cultures that aren't American in the least bit. Even Reach, the UNSC's second most important planet, has a significant portion of its population who speak Hungarian as a first language (in fact, the planet was originally settled by Hungarians, hence why most of Reach's locations and even its moons have Hungarian names); at the beginning of Halo: Reach, Jorge is the only member of Noble Team able to speak to the local civilians because they don't know English and he's the only one on the team who can speak Hungarian (being a Reach native himself). In part because of this diversity, the colonies heavily resent the UNSC, which overthrew the Colonial Administration Authority that had previously administered them.
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United Space of America / int_de8ae019	comment	The Terran Confederation in the Star Carrier is a true confederacy in that its member nations are still independent in their own right, including having their own Space Navies. However, the Confederation has been slowly centralizing its power despite objections from the more independent-mind nations like the United States of North America. In fact, the largest conflict stems from the USNA refusing to kowtow to the Paneuropean-dominated Confederate Senate and admirals. In fleet actions, the biggest conflicts come from the different military traditions, with Paneuropean officers being the more obedient, and USNA officers being more independent-minded. Historical precedents are also important to the friction between the Confederation and the USNA, with the Confederation being more willing to accept the Sh'daar demands to survive, while the USNA adopting the usual "live free or die" attitude. The USNA finally secedes in the fourth book, after the Confederation attempts to forcibly take a hyper-advanced AI created by USNA scientists as a "strategic resource" and force the USNA to toe the partly line. The Confederacy responds by using illegal weapons and attacking civilian targets, including wiping out the capital of the USNA with a Grey Goo bomb. After a relatively brief war, the Confederation collapses from within (thanks to some information warfare by the same USNA AI). It's implied that it will be re-created to be more USNA-dominated, fulfilling this trope.
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United Space of America / int_e030b382	comment	PlanetSide's New Conglomerate, a collective of Mega Corps, pirates, mercenaries, and libertarians, aims to overthrow the Terran Republic - an oppressive oligarchy in the first game, and a struggling collectivist state in the second - and establish a democratic freedom-loving state. The NC soundtrack incorporates rock and country themes and their selection of Micro-Transactions cosmetics include homages to the USA in the form of decals and a ten gallon hat.
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United Space of America / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris: Two of the AI personalities represent this. Federation Builders seek to make allies and combine multiple strengths of races without subjugating any of them, and have a feel of a Star Trek style Federation. Democratic Crusaders wish to bring Democracy to the Galaxy and will be hostile to any empire that does not have a democratic government. One of the two pre-made human empires, the United Nations of Earth, is a mix of an idealized America and the United Nations in space. Its starting ethics are Xenophile and Fanatic Egalitarian, and its starting civics are Beacon of Liberty and Idealistic Foundation. If you encounter them in gameplay, they will have the Federation Builders personality.
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United Space of America / int_e5fd2cef	comment	There's a plot-important election in the Lensman series, in which the proto-Lensmen are trying to get Rod "the Rock" Kinnison elected to what amounts to President of North America. It's explicitly stated that the only part of Earth that really matters is North America, the implication being that the other backwater regions will fall in line with whatever North America says. "North America" in this context is the post-World War III successor state to the United States but clearly has an American Federalism style government.
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United Space of America / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: Complete with a Wild West motif and allusions to The American Civil War. On the other hand, there's extensive use of Chinese culture, with lots of use of Chinese-style dress, writing system, and language (but oddly, almost no Asian-looking people). The backstory explains the whole mess as the result of an alliance between the US and China. It's also mentioned that the areas surrounding the American-settled capital world (in contrast to the Chinese one) match this trope much more closely.
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United Space of America / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 does this by having the Earth Alliance be created by the major powers in the wake of World War III to replace the UN, with the United States being the country that made the initial proposal (even offering their own military as the core for what would become Earthforce). The President and Vice President are directly elected, but the various countries of Earth still exist, all subject to Earth Alliance law. However, 'Earthdome' is in Geneva, home of many League of Nations entities, not San Fransisco or New York.
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