Federal States (World War III in The Pearl World)

The Federal States of America (Also known as the Federal States of Southern America) is the name of a country located in North America. The Nation was established during the Third World War, and had chosen to align with the Russian Federation in the conflict. The Federal States intended to join both the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which Russia had led, and the expanding BRICS+, which was already growing into a rapidly expanding force and major player in the Third World War. The Nation was an unrecognized country, until the January 5 Accords, which put an end to the fighting, though the irradiated state of the planet had made this moot. 
The Federal States government, as its name suggests, is a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. It has a bicameral national legislature composed of the House of Representatives, a lower house based on population, and the Senate, an upper house based on equal representation for each state. Due to the Conservative Outline of the Government, Most policy issues are decentralized at a state or local level, with widely differing laws by jurisdiction
==History==
==Government==
The Federal States modeled itself after the United States Government, which was founded on the principles of the American Enlightenment. It is a federal republic of 20 states, and a federal district, located in the State of Texas. It is a liberal representative democracy "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law."
The federal government comprises three branches, which are headquartered in the Capitol District, surrounding Dallas, Texas, and regulated by a system of checks and balances defined by the Constitution.
*The F.S. Congress, a bicameral legislature, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, makes federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has the power of the purse, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove the President, Vice President, and presidentially-appointed civil Officers of the United States. Each chamber determines the method of trial and punishment for its own members, and may expel a member with a two-thirds majority The Senate has 40 members, elected for a six-year term in dual-seat constituencies (2 from each state), with one-third being renewed every two years. The House of Representatives has about 200 members, elected for a two-year term in single-seat constituencies of approximately equal population, and elections occur every two years, correlated with presidential elections or halfway through a president's term.
*The F.S. President is the commander-in-chief of the military, can veto legislative bills before they become law (subject to congressional override), and appoints the members of the Cabinet (subject to Senate approval) and other officers, who administer and enforce federal laws and policies through their respective agencies. The president and the vice president are elected together in a presidential election. It is an indirect election, with the winner being determined by votes cast by electors of the Electoral College. In modern times, voters in each state select a slate of electors from a list of several slates designated by different parties or candidates, and the electors typically promise in advance to vote for the candidates of their party (whose names of the presidential candidates usually appear on the ballot rather than those of the individual electors). The winner of the election is the candidate with at least 170 Electoral College votes. The President and Vice President serve a four-year term and may be elected to the office no more than twice.
*The F.S. federal judiciary, whose judges are all appointed for life by the President with Senate approval, consists primarily of the F.S. Supreme Court, the F.S. Courts of Appeals, and the F.S. District Courts. The F.S. Supreme Court interprets laws and overturn those they find unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is led by the chief justice of the Federal States. It has nine members who serve for life. The members are appointed by the sitting president when a vacancy becomes available. Federal judges, like Supreme Court justices, are appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate to serve until they resign, are impeached and convicted, retire, or are deceased.
The F.S. Constitution serves as the country's supreme legal document, establishing the structure and responsibilities of the federal government and its relationship with the individual states. The Constitution has been amended 27 times.
===Political subdivisions===
In the American federal system, sovereignty is shared between two levels of government: federal and state. Each of the 20 states has territory where it shares sovereignty with the federal government. States are subdivided into counties or county equivalents, and further divided into municipalities. The Capital District is restricted to the Presidential Estate, and the Congressional Meeting Places. The People in the states are also represented by local elected governments, which are administrative divisions of the states. The territories a are administrative divisions of the federal government. Governance on many issues is decentralized. Unlike the United States, however, the Federal States allows a greater autonomy to individual states, with states even in charge of their own regulatory processes, such as environmental and reproductive rights, which are protected in at least 15 states.
=== Foreign relations ===
The Federal States was an unrecognized entity, only being recognized by 50 countries, though it had intended to apply for United Nations membership. The Nation also sought to join the BRICS+ alliance, as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The Federal States maintains a special relationship with Russia, of which it receives a great chunk of aid and military equipment from. The Federal States is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. 
===Military===
The President is the commander-in-chief of the Federal Armed Forces and appoints its leaders, the secretary of defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Department of Defense, which is headquartered at the Federal Military Administration Building in Dallas, administers five of the six service branches, which are made up of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force. The Coast Guard is administered by the Department of Homeland Security in peacetime and can be transferred to the Department of the Navy in wartime. The Federal States has the fifth-largest combined armed forces in the world, behind the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Indian Armed Forces, the United States Armed Forces, and North Korean People's Army.
Most Federal States Military Equipment was stolen from the United States. Mostly older, retired gear, but some modern equipment. Before the War Ended, the Federal States was building up its air force. With mostly stolen equipment, it planned on creating its own versions of the F-16 and F-35 Fighter Jets, as well as B-2 and B-52 Bombers, tentatively referred to as The T and C class fighters respectively. 
===Law enforcement and crime===
There are about 10,000 police agencies from local to federal level in the Federal States. Law in the Federal States is mainly enforced by local police departments and sheriff departments in their municipal or county jurisdictions. The state police departments have authority in their respective state, and federal agencies such as the Federal Investigation Bureau (FIB), and the F.S. Marshals Service have national jurisdiction and specialized duties, such as protecting civil rights, national security and enforcing U.S. federal courts' rulings and federal laws. State courts conduct most civil and criminal trials, and federal courts handle designated crimes and appeals of state court decisions.
==Demographics==
===Urbanization===
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