The timing could not have been worse. The formation of the league failed miserably and promoted the New Independence movement of Warren G. Harding. Crimson Skies is a very simple game in core and concept. You play pilot Nathan Zachary. Harding won the presidency on 1920 and continued his isolationist movement until his untimely death in 1923 where new President Calvin Coolidge let the Prohibition act languish in congressional committee.
Outraged states begin to enact their own prohibition laws and form checkpoints at the state borders.
In 1927 a more virulent strain of influenza reared its deadly head and the states drew further in on themselves. Their checkpoints for prohibition quarantined enforcement zones. Consumerism and voter turnout crippled what was left of the federal government as the stock market crashed, and one by one, the states began to secede from the United States and for their own sovereign entities. Now, many smugglers and bootleggers who used airplanes to bypass the road and rail checkpoints had become legitimate cargo carriers, but not all. Some of the aces turned to piracy, and to combat this piracy militia groups and state enforcement arms were forged from the fires of the now jobless military of the federal government.