The American Coalition

The American Coalition is the predominant national power in North America, rivaled only by the People's Republic of California  and the Texan Republic. It is also, the largest country in the world at approximately 14.3 million square kilometers, and a significant military power. Internationally it is regarded as the legitimate successor state to the United States of America.
==History==
The Coalition originated out of Chicago, starting out in the aftermath of the Two-Week War. Unlike Europe, the heart of which seemingly rode out the war little worse for wear, the United States found itself split apart in its attempts to fight off the technologically superior Vanna not only from all sides of North America, but in Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. With the general breakdown in communications that immediately followed the nearly instant destruction of Earth's global satellites, these spread out forces became disjointed and disunified, falling back to more localized commands as the ascendancy of the Vannai progressed. The city of Chicago inadvertently became a rally point for military forces and civilian refugees in the Midwestern United States.
After the Bright Offensive reduced the threat posed by the Vannai Puppets substantially, Chicago's priority switched from simply surviving to reestablishing control over the vast swathes of territory in the midwest that had been depopulated by the alien's genocidal agents. Starting with the Great Lakes area, the distinct government that had seated itself in Chicago during the crisis of the invasion quickly annexed more and more cities and absorbed surviving populations where they encountered them. Some of these cities had followed the same path that Chicago had, forming closed city states in their attempts to survive the cleansing efforts. For these polities, joining with the rapidly expanding Chicago citystate was an easy decision, and thus the American Coalition was founded.
After its creation, the Coalition's number one priority became the expansion of its borders as far as possible throughout North America. Not all enclaves encountered by the AmC were open to joining the coalition and resisted with force, but luckily these tended to be small groups rarely with access to heavy weaponry. Occasionally, groups of Vannai Puppets or independent groups of Pilots would be encountered, leading to a practice of formal solicitation of other factionless Pilots as an alternative countermeasure to pitting disadvantaged troops against Suits or leveling valuable infrastructure with sufficient conventional firepower. A major roadblock to this "reconquest" became the Appalachia Reclamation Project, a supposedly independent venture to resettle the Appalachian region of North America that in reality was receiving significant under the table support from the Green Initiative and Tommy's Engineers due to personal relationships with these factions and the ARP's leadership. Although the AmC's ability to conquer the region by force was never in doubt, it was felt that doing so at the risk of angering the Armor Corps Coalition was to invite a great deal of risk, and so the ARP region became a no-go zone for the AmC, ironically denying for years most of the US East Coast its best hope for relief from the destruction brought on by the invasion.
Beyond the various enclaves, personal fiefdoms and micronations that the AmC encountered and crushed and/or integrated, it eventually encountered several rival polities in North America. The first of these was Quebec, which remained largely intact thanks to the first Knights of Montreal during the war, and with the destruction of Vancouver and Ottawa was the last substantial constituent body of Canada remaining. The close borders shared by the two nations became a no-man's-land for several years before the tragic death of a certain political figurehead removed any obstacles towards Quebec relenting to joining the Coalition in 2019.
Aside from Quebec, three other powers were known; the nation of Deseret, formed from Mormons that had fled to Chicago in 2015 and returned to the Western United States two years later, the Texan Republic, which shared a similar history to that of Chicago itself as a major holdout of North American forces in the Gulf Coast area, and the government of Florida, which had become home to the what remained of the US federal government's figureheads and therefor made the loudest claims of legitimacy.
As time went on and more and more of the map became colored in, the AmC turned its focus away from expansion and invested heavily into rebuilding the infrastructure lost during the war and returning quality of life to the standards held prior to the Vannai's attack. The emphasis on reconstruction and economic revival has made the new nation an attractive startup location for a new generation of companies and corporations - indeed, with the state of the rest of the world, it is essentially the only free market economy left on Earth aside from the Texan Republic's.
==Political Governance==
The American Coalition government consists of 2 separate legislative assemblies. The first is the House of Representatives and the second is the Senate. The head of state is the President, who is also a member of the House of Representatives. Due to the current state of danger to mankind, there is no plan for elections nor is there a term limit for Members of Parliament. All members of Parliament are expected to have work outside of legislative duties. Currently most Representatives remain in the city that they represent and continue to work towards their restoration. Legislative matters are discussed via teleconferencing with major matters discussed in person in Chicago
===Senate===
The Senate is a 20 member elected body. The members can be any citizen of the American Coalition regardless of location. The original election gave each citizen 5 votes. Each vote needed to be for a different candidate. At the end of the election  the top 20 candidates as ranked by share of the vote were elected to office.The Senate does not expand as more cities are liberated. With the recent election, the Senate is still very Rust Belt-centric but is more representative of the actual population.
===President===
The President of the American Coalition is elected by the members of the House of Representatives. He/she is the head of state for the nation. The President is able to choose cabinet members to assist with decision making and researching upcoming legislation/policies. Despite this the President has no veto power over legislation.
The President is the commander-in-chief of the militia/military, but is not allowed to make military decisions except in the broadest of terms. The American Coalition's first and current president is the Honorable Adam Bedford.
===Military===
(See also: American Coalition Armed Forces and Military Equipment of the American Coalition)
Although depleted of much of its strength from grappling with the Vannai Puppets, the American Coalition still possesses substantial military power on par with if not still superior to any other nation remaining on Earth after 2014. Compared to other nations, there has been little interest shown in radical adaptation of Vannai technology. More commonly the AmC will instead update pre-existing platforms with newer technology, increasing capability or efficiency rather than redesigning platforms from scratch. This is largely in the interest of curbing development costs as much as possible so resources can be diverted elsewhere - namely to the major exception of the prior rule in the development of the American Coalition's Space Force.
Despite possessing substantial military power, the AmC has followed a firm policy of isolation, more or less retiring from its predecessor's role of highly interventionist foreign policy to better serve its own citizens.
===Economic===
Immediately after the fall the AmC ran on a central command/barter economy. Humanitarian needs such as food, water, living supplies, and housing are assigned to citizens by the government. The system of rationing was to allow for the stockpiling of goods in the event that a major VP attack is able to cut supply lines between the cities. For luxury goods, non-necessary services, and entertainment a barter system was used. This barter system relied on either the AmC-backed currency, contracts based on future work, or by whatever the buyer had.
With more normalcy returned to international trade, the command economy was no longer needed. Trade between AmC citizens is mostly unrestricted, however records of transactions are required for all businesses. Post-Japanese Insurrection, international trade is heavily watched to prevent the arming of subversive groups. For similar reasons, trade with the European Federation is also heavily limited.
===Diplomacy===
For a period of time, the AmC was on poor terms with every ACC faction other than Moqaddas. This lasted until the recapture of Cheyenne Mountain from a group of Puppets.
For cities/towns in the path of AmC expansion, the group is first given the option to join the AmC with no conditions. If they refuse, AmC diplomats will first see if there are any requests the city/town wishes filled before joining. If they are simple enough or would be fulfilled by joining, the AmC will fulfill the requests as to allow a non-violent resolution. Should they refuse outright, the group is taken out.
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