Louisiana (the Symphony That Never Ends)

The King of Louisiana ruled central North America from Nouvelle Orleans. Squeezed between Japanese and Swedish territory, the kingdom was economically dominated by Brazil and culturally a satellite of France even after its independence in 1861. Its natural wealth in agriculture, oil, and minerals enabled it to play the four superpowers off each other in a continuing war of influence. Everyone was reasonably happy with the arrangement except for the Louisianans themselves.
In 2013, Nationalist revolutionaries seized control of the kingdom and, with broad popular support expressed in a National Estate, declared their intention of opting out of the world system as completely as possible. They proceeded to nationalize all foreign possessions in the country, raise tariffs, and cut themselves off from the Tapestry to show they meant it.
As they had gambled, Brazil was restrained from reasserting its traditional hegemony by the other superpowers, who considered invasion but were unable to agree on the division of the spoils. Brazil is not at all happy at this loss of influence in "its" hemisphere and has toppled at least one government (in Cuba) that seemed to be considering following Louisiana's example.
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