United States of America (UN Civil War)

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US), or just simply "America", is a country primarily located in North America, consisting of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square kilometers), it is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area. With a population of roughly 438 Million. It is one most populous country in the world. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.
The United States is/was a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government, including a bicameral legislature. It is a founding member of the United Nations, the United Nations Security Command, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States (OAS), NATO (Now Dissolved), and other international organizations. It was a former member of the United Nations Security Council until 2052 when the United Nations was disavowed. The U.S. ranks rather high in international measures of economic freedom, quality of life, and quality of higher education. Despite considerable income and wealth disparities compared to other rich countries, the United States continuously ranks high in measures of socioeconomic performance. It is also one of the most racially and ethnically diverse nations in the world, often called a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities. Its population has been profoundly shaped by centuries of immigration.
== History ==
=== American Revolutionary War / War of 1812 ===
The American Revolutionary War fought by the Thirteen Colonies against the British Empire was the first successful war of independence against a European power. Americans had developed an ideology of "republicanism", asserting that government rested on the will of the people as expressed in their local legislatures. They demanded their "rights as Englishmen" and "no taxation without representation". The British insisted on administering the empire through Parliament, and the conflict escalated into war.
The Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776; this day is celebrated annually as Independence Day. In 1777, the Articles of Confederation established a decentralized government that operated until 1789.
After its defeat at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, Britain signed a peace treaty. American sovereignty became internationally recognized, and the country was granted all lands east of the Mississippi River. Tensions with Britain remained, however, leading to the War of 1812, which was fought to a draw. Nationalists led the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in writing the United States Constitution, ratified in state conventions in 1788. The federal government was reorganized into three branches in 1789, on the principle of creating salutary checks and balances. George Washington, who had led the Continental Army to victory, was the first president elected under the new constitution. The Bill of Rights, forbidding federal restriction of personal freedoms and guaranteeing a range of legal protections, was adopted in 1791.
Although the federal government outlawed American participation in the Atlantic slave trade in 1807, after 1820, cultivation of the highly profitable cotton crop exploded in the Deep South, and along with it, the slave population. The Second Great Awakening, especially in the period 1800–1840, converted millions to evangelical Protestantism. In the North, it energized multiple social reform movements, including abolitionism; in the South, Methodists and Baptists proselytized among slave populations.
Beginning in the late 18th century, American settlers began to expand westward, prompting a long series of American Indian Wars. The 1803 Louisiana Purchase almost doubled the nation's area, Spain ceded Florida and other Gulf Coast territory in 1819, the Republic of Texas was annexed in 1845 during a period of expansionism, and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Britain led to U.S. control of the present-day American Northwest. Victory in the Mexican–American War resulted in the 1848 Mexican Cession of California and much of the present-day American Southwest, making the U.S. span the continent.
The California Gold Rush of 1848–49 spurred migration to the Pacific coast, which led to the California Genocide and the creation of additional western states. The giving away of vast quantities of land to white European settlers as part of the Homestead Acts, nearly 10% of the total area of the United States, and to private railroad companies and colleges as part of land grants spurred economic development. After the Civil War, new transcontinental railways made relocation easier for settlers, expanded internal trade, and increased conflicts with Native Americans. In 1869, a new Peace Policy nominally promised to protect Native Americans from abuses, avoid further war, and secure their eventual U.S. citizenship. Nonetheless, large-scale conflicts continued throughout the West into the 1900s.
=== The American Civil War ===
Irreconcilable sectional conflict regarding the enslavement of Africans and African Americans ultimately led to the American Civil War. With the 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln, conventions in thirteen slave states declared secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "South" or the "Confederacy"), while the federal government (the "Union") maintained that secession was illegal. In order to bring about this secession, military action was initiated by the secessionists, and the Union responded in kind. The ensuing war would become the deadliest military conflict in American history, resulting in the deaths of approximately 618,000 soldiers as well as many civilians. The Union initially simply fought to keep the country united. Nevertheless, as casualties mounted after 1863 and Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation, the main purpose of the war from the Union's viewpoint became the abolition of slavery. Indeed, when the Union ultimately won the war in April 1865, each of the states in the defeated South was required to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibited slavery. Two other amendments were also ratified, ensuring citizenship for blacks and, at least in theory, voting rights for them as well.
Reconstruction began in earnest following the war. While President Lincoln attempted to foster friendship and forgiveness between the Union and the former Confederacy, his assassination on April 14, 1865 drove a wedge between North and South again. Republicans in the federal government made it their goal to oversee the rebuilding of the South and to ensure the rights of African Americans. They persisted until the Compromise of 1877 when the Republicans agreed to cease protecting the rights of African Americans in the South in order for Democrats to concede the presidential election of 1876.
Southern white Democrats, calling themselves "Redeemers", took control of the South after the end of Reconstruction. From 1890 to 1910, the Redeemers established so-called Jim Crow laws, disenfranchising most blacks and some poor whites throughout the region. Blacks faced racial segregation, especially in the South. They also occasionally experienced vigilante violence, including lynching.
=== World War I, Great Depression, and World War II ===
The United States remained neutral from the outbreak of World War I in 1914 until 1917 when it joined the war as an "associated power" alongside the Allies of World War I, helping to turn the tide against the Central Powers. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson took a leading diplomatic role at the Paris Peace Conference and advocated strongly for the U.S. to join the League of Nations. However, the Senate refused to approve this and did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles that established the League of Nations.
In 1920, the women's rights movement won passage of a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage. The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of radio for mass communication and the invention of early television. The prosperity of the Roaring Twenties ended with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression. After his election as president in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt responded with the New Deal. The Great Migration of millions of African Americans out of the American South began before World War I and extended through the 1960s; whereas the Dust Bowl of the mid-1930s impoverished many farming communities and spurred a new wave of western migration.
At first effectively neutral during World War II, the United States began supplying materiel to the Allies in March 1941 through the Lend-Lease program. On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, prompting the United States to join the Allies against the Axis powers and, the following year, to intern about 120,000 U.S. residents (including American citizens) of Japanese descent. Although Japan attacked the United States first, the U.S. nonetheless pursued a "Europe first" defense policy. The United States thus left its vast Asian colony, the Philippines, isolated and fighting a losing struggle against Japanese invasion and occupation. During the war, the United States was one of the "Four Powers" who met to plan the postwar world, along with Britain, the Soviet Union, and China. Although the nation lost around 400,000 military personnel, it emerged relatively undamaged from the war with even greater economic and military influence.
The United States played a leading role in the Bretton Woods and Yalta conferences, which signed agreements on new international financial institutions and Europe's postwar reorganization. As an Allied victory was won in Europe, a 1945 international conference held in San Francisco produced the United Nations Charter, which became active after the war. The United States and Japan then fought each other in the largest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The United States eventually developed the first nuclear weapons and used them on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945; the Japanese surrendered on September 2, ending World War II.
=== The Cold War ===
After World War II, the United States of America found itself in a competition for for power, influence, and prestige against the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union. During what became known as the Cold War, driven by an ideological divide between capitalism and communism. They dominated the military affairs of Europe, with the U.S. and its NATO allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies on the other. The U.S. developed a policy of containment towards the expansion of communist influence. While the U.S. and Soviet Union engaged in proxy wars and developed powerful nuclear arsenals, the two countries avoided direct military conflict.
The United States often opposed Third World movements that it viewed as Soviet-sponsored and occasionally pursued direct action for regime change against left-wing governments, even occasionally supporting authoritarian right-wing regimes (until the late 1970's). American troops fought communist Chinese and North Korean forces in the Korean War of 1950–53. The Soviet Union's 1957 launch of the first artificial satellite and its 1961 launch of the first crewed spaceflight initiated a "Space Race" in which the United States became the first nation to land a man on the Moon in 1969. A proxy war in Southeast Asia eventually evolved into the Vietnam War (1955–1975), with full American participation.
At home, the U.S. had experienced sustained economic expansion and a rapid growth of its population and middle class following World War II. After a surge in female labor participation, especially in the 1970s, by 1985, the majority of women aged 16 and over were employed. Construction of an Interstate Highway System transformed the nation's infrastructure over the following decades. Millions moved from farms and inner cities to large suburban housing developments. In 1959 Hawaii became the 50th and last U.S. state added to the country. The growing Civil Rights Movement used nonviolence to confront segregation and discrimination, with Martin Luther King Jr. becoming a prominent leader and figurehead. A combination of court decisions and legislation, culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1968, sought to end racial discrimination.
The 1970s and early 1980s saw the onset of stagflation. After his election in 1980, President Ronald Reagan responded to economic stagnation with free-market oriented reforms. Following the collapse of détente, he abandoned "containment" and initiated the more aggressive "rollback" strategy towards the Soviet Union. The late 1980s brought a "thaw" in relations with the Soviet Union, and its collapse in 1991 finally ended the Cold War. This brought about unipolarity with the U.S. unchallenged as the world's dominant superpower.
== Government ==
Originally, the United States of America's Ideology is one that seems to take aspects from other parts of the world. The official ideology of the United States is a "Constitutional Republic" in which representatives made up from the population run political affairs. The United States goes through both Left Wing and Right Wing parties, however it is officially only run by just two, the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party. The nation seems to follow more traditional liberal ideologies, however the US has had some Authoritarian Politicians in its rankings. Traditionally, the United States is a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government, including a bicameral legislature. 
=== United Nations Civil War ===
==== The end of American Democracy ====
After the Great Solar Flare of 2020, Humanity became more and more disconnected and disunited without the use of internet technology. As a result, Ultranationalism in the world began to arise. The Russian Federation was the first to fall, then China, then Korea, and finally the United States. In the year 2034, a new party, the "New Founding Fathers of America" took control of the United States Government, establishing an Ultranationalist Idealistic Dictatorship with only a select few people with themselves at its center. America had it's first Fascist Dictatorship much to the dismay of many old timers.
=== Federation-American War ===
After the end of the situation known as "The Great Collapse" the United States started to decline as an international great power despite its victory in the Russo-American War. Ultimately over the course of the years between 2039 and 2064, the United States to avoid becoming a Pariah State was forced to move away from its traditional Federal Republic. The Government was forced to intervene in areas that it normally wouldn't, and even at one point was forced to implement a nationwide martial law. By the time of 2075, the United States was slowly transformed from a Market Capitalist nation to something in between a State-Capitalist and Market Capitalist Nation. The US was forced to decrease its spending on its military as world events continued to not help the situation. 
== Economy ==
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The Economy of the United States of America originally started out as Market Capitalist Economy. However, by the time of the United Nations Civil War, the United States had gone through a rapid transition from a first world Democratic State to an Ultranationalist Dictatorship. With this transition, the United States Ultimately turned its economy from a Market Capitalist to a Totalitarian Capitalist nation. The US Government after the dictatorship took power declared Martial Law over the dwindling economic conditions. Surprisingly with the US Government actually enforcing the economy, the standard of living conditions started to relatively improve. However, this came at a cost with sacrificing the military budget. 
=== Federation-American War ===
The Economy of the United States originally started out as a Market Capitalist Economy, however thanks to the economic policies educed by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and the geopolitical shift caused in the 2030s, the United States outdated infrastructure and dwindling political support left the United States in the dust. As the Delhi Cough, Inflation, and just poor mismanaging of the government, the United States started to almost completely loosen its grip on its economic affairs, delegating them to certain affairs. By the time of the Federation-American War, the United States had essentially became an Oligarchy in similar style to that of the Russian Federation. 
== Military ==
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The United States Military was once the most prided part of the United States of America. Its Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force, National Guard, and a host of other military branches were once the biggest obstacle to any nation willing to challenge the United States. However, by the time of the United Nations Civil War, the United States Military was not above and beyond like it once was. Thanks to the Great Solar Flare of 2020, the world was forced down a path to Rudimentary Technology for several decades. The United States was no acceptation, and the United States was forced to downsize its military spending in this new world. Because of this, and its rivalry with the Peoples Republic of China, the United States Military was slowly declined to the point it could no longer be counted on the global superpower race. 
=== Federation-American War ===
After the end of the Russo-American War and the Great Collapse, the United States Military was left in a rather awkward state. Thanks to the decline in the economic conditions around the world thanks to the shortage of fossil fuel supplies, the United States Industry and Infrastructure was not able to sustainably hold the US Militaries title of the most powerful fighting force in the world. Because of this, the US Government decided to take the action to downsize its military force to just what they needed. 
The US First Part of the plan was retiring the Aircraft Carrier USS John C Stennis joined the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The ultimate broad goal on the part of the military downsize was to re-focus its efforts on future warfare. Large Capital ships were essentially viewed and regarded as redundant, expensive and inflexible. In addition to these, the US command structure officially started retiring its F16 and F15 aircraft from its rankings, replacing them with the F-22, F-35, and FA-38 models. The US also began by retiring the Abrams tanks from its ranks, replacing them with the Garza Model Tanks. However, this drastically scaled back the American Military.
== Decline ==
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By the time of the year 2020, the United States of America was a nation that was almost in decline. The nation was once sole world superpower, however it was being outclassed by nations such as Russia, China, and the European Union. On September 17h, 2020, the Star at the center of our solar system unleashed the largest and most powerful known Solar Flare in recorded history. On September 19th, 2021, the flare hit Earths Atmosphere at immense speed. The flare was so powerful, that it knocked out the worlds supply of modern computer technology. Across the world, computers surged and exploded, and the worlds electrical grids began to shut down. Most newer automobiles and other automated machines shut down and overloaded, leading to a catastrophic collapse of society. The "Great Solar Flare of 2020" is considered to be the worst natural disaster in Human History. After this event, the atmospheric conditions caused the Coronal Mass Ejection effect to last a lot longer than expected it to be.
After the Great Solar Flare of 2020, the nations of the world that were technologically underdeveloped such as the African Union, the Russian Federation, the nations of the Middle East, and some South American nations were virtually unaffected by the Great Solar Flare of 2020, and continued to thrive. However, nations such as the United States, the European Coalition, Japan, South Korea, etc. were effected heavily by this. Over the course of the years between 2020 and 2060, Humanity had to learn how to work around the CME effect, and were forced to go backwards in time technologically.
=== Federation-American War Timeline ===
In the year 2027, after the end of the Russo-American War, the European Coalition (An evolved EU) sent a United Nations Peacekeeping force made up of forces from 51 countries (21 if you counted the European Coalition as one nation) to occupy the nations of the United States, Russia, and the Peoples Republic of China. Between 2026 and 2038, the world fell into a state of economic recession and decline. Unemployment rose and the cost of living decreased, leading to poorer living conditions across the world. This event became known as "The Great Collapse."
After the withdrawal of the European and European lead UN Forces from American Soil, the United States and the now free nations attempted to revive it's economic struggle by creating many infrastructure improvement jobs to preserve the United States. Things got worse in the following years with the decline of the Middle Eastern Oil Markets, the Delhi Cough, the Cuban Civil War, the Haiti Civil War, and other events. The worsening economic conditions continued to get worse as the access to Fresh Drinking Water started to become an issue in its supply. In the following years, a mass migration occurred to the North American Great Lakes, the Caspian Sea, and the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, and companies and nations soon became contested over Fresh Drinking Water. 
With the rising demand from across the world, coupled with instability in the Persian Gulf region, caused gas prices in the US and around the world to skyrocket. The average gas prices in the United States at one point went up to $12.61 for regular, $12.81 for premium, and $12.77 for diesel. This wasn't just seen in the United States, but markets around the world were incredibly vulnerable to a variety of influences. As the political situation in the Gulf continued to get worse, the standard calculation and expectations went out the window. The state governments of the United States, and even the Federal Government were forced to implement a rationing system. 
The decline of the global economy wasn't exactly out of nowhere as economists predicted this since before the war. In some areas of the world such as in Elizabeth, New Jersey, container ships arrived less frequently, only partially filled or sometimes not at all. In Singapore containers once destined for the US and China, lied empty in massive stacks near once bustling ports. All over the United States, and presumably the world, people waited in lines for supplies that were once plentiful and easy to come by. 
In one case, at a Wal Mart outside of Phoenix after supplies failed to arrive on schedule, a riot broke out and customers raided the store. In addition to that, Amazon was forced to lay off hundreds of there workers from there stores and even shut down there online website on multiple occasions as supplies continued to dwindle. This lack of supplies wasn't entirely out of nowhere as the European Coalition stole most of it to feed its needs, but sadly due to the destruction of the war, most nations were not able to recuperate. 
By the 2050s century, what was considered the crown jewel of the United States, the transcontinental highway system. Once called the "Road Map of America" was now a barely navigable stretch of treacherous potholes and dangerously deteriorating bridges. This came at almost no surprise either: at more than a million dollars a mile, many highways and superhighways were simply too expensive for Federal and State Governments to maintain and repair.
Other parts of the national infrastructure started to crumble and collapse as well. In the Northeast United States, intermittent blackouts happened. They started small at first, but then started lasting weeks. Portions of the American Energy Grid such as Solar Power, Coal, Nuclear, Bio-Fuels, proved to be unstable and interconnected. With the United States crippled, in 2051 the nation officially lost its superpower status as the US National Guard and US Military were soon dispatched to there own soil to help repair the aging systems, with lengthy waits for replacement parts. 
This was not just happening in the United States, Governments around the world, particularly in Europe, Africa, and Asia saw a sharp decline in tax revenues as global trade from there former reliant came non existent. Faced with an almost insurmountable debt, many policy makers are were forced to slash the budgets of even essential services.
=== New World Superpowers ===
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Before the outbreak of the United Nations Civil War, the Peoples Republic of China and the United States thanks to there large industrial complex tried to work around the CME effect. This in turn caused most countries to go backwards in time technologically. However, one nation that seemed to be largely unaffected seemed to be Russia. Russia had been a technologically underdeveloped nation since before the Great Solar Flare of 2020, and when it hit Russia was virtually unaffected by this event. Over the course of the next few decades, and due to the United States and China shaking there fists at each other, the Russian Ultranationalist Government improved its standards of living and continued to gain allies across the world. 
==== United Nations Solidarity Council ====
In the year 2063, after the end of the European-Iranian War, the Russian Federation along with 14 other countries that used to make up the Strategic Defense Coalition formed the "United Nations Solidarity Council," an organization almost entirely dominated by Russian Politics. The Russian Federation unbeknownst to the United States Government grew to become the worlds sole world superpower while the United States continued to fade in and out of relevancy in the world superpower race. 
==== Federation-American War timeline ====
Over the course of between 2039 and 2054, as the situation with the traditional great powers began to worsen, the United States, the European Coalition, the Russian Federation, the Peoples Republic of China, thanks to these series of unfortunate events, the worlds traditional great powers were soon struggling to survive. As the value of the US Dollar, Russian Rubel, the Euro, and Chinese Renminbi started to tank, and many workers and companies around the world began to export for labor, some savey leaders inside Latin-America took the opportunity to monopolize there own resources. 
==== The Federation is created ====
On June 2nd, 2039, and officially consolidating power on June 15th, 2039, the "Federation of the Americas" was created. Uniting the countries of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, occupied Venezuela, and occupied Cuba, with the Capital of the new country being decided as Rio De Janerio, which was later moved to Caracas, Venezuela. The new nation had a questionable start, and was viewed as a sideshow compared to the others. However, after the end of the Latin-American Wars, and the PMC Wars, the Federation of the Americas transformed itself from an impoverished nation state, to a global superpower, and the largest economy in the known world. 
=== After the wars ===
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After the end of the United Nations Civil War in 2096, the worlds nations states were left in an economic and political mess. Most notably in the United States, which saw 248 Million Casualties out of a population of 498 Million. Once again though, the United States of America came out victorious in the war, but it's infrastructure was completely shattered, it's Military short on supplies, and its resource stockpile was nearly nonexistent. With the US congress and most of the United States Government purged out, it was very difficult for the New Founding Fathers of America to continue it's hold on American Politics. During the Second Great Depression between 2097 and 2108, the European Federation fell into civil war, the Russian Currency crashed, and the United States ran out of food. On top of that, regions of the Middle East, parts of North America, and Europe were turned into literal glass, causing Earth's Magnetic field to alter. Electromagnetic Storms became a daily occurrence throughout the effected parts of the world. The United States of America was forced to reorganize its government, and the country became divided up along the lines of 12 different Administrative Regions just like during the United Nations Civil War.
In the year 2107, the United States began to unravel. The states of California, Nevada, and Hawaii officially succeeded from the United States Government, becoming the New California Republic, an independent country. In 2108, the South Central Administrative Area comprising of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana voted to succeed from the United States of America, forming the South Central Republic of America, all except for New Orleans who offered to remain. Then in 2109, the American Overseas territories had a choice to either vote for independence and become there own nation, or continue to be apart of the United States. Puerto Rico voted to join the United States of America, so did Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and then Cuba unexpectedly voted to join the United States. The rest voted for independence. 
==== Federation-American War ====
After the end of the Federation-American War in 2087, the worlds nation states were left in a state of political and economic disarray. The United States lost 248 Million out of a population of 538 Million people, almost 1.2 Billion People were lost in the fighting, several cities were contaminated, and almost an entire continent had a geography change. Despite the victory over the Federation, the United States was still left in no position to recover. At the end of the war, two more political parties were added to the US Congress, the Progressive/Bull Moose Party and the Reform Party were added to the ballots, so were the Green Party. In the 2090 US Presidential Election, the Bull Moose Party took power of the US Government for the first time since the 1900's. 
== Current Status ==
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As of the year 2110, the United States of America has lost seven states, and added three states to it, making the United States of America comprised of 48 states. There have been rumors that the US States of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, apart of the Central Administrative Region, were planning to succeed from the United States of America, and the New California Republic was reconsidering there succession due to a currency crash. The South Central Republic of America is divided on whether to rejoin the United States of America, however the country might remain independent. 
=== Federation-American War timeline ===
As of the year 2100, the United States of America and the European Federation have become essentially apart of one organization, the United Nations Security Command, despite once resenting each other. On top of this, the United Nations Security Council has been viewed with a greater purpose by most of the worlds populations. However this has come at a cost. 
As of the year 2100, the effects of the Federation-American War. Many regions such as the Middle East, North Africa, and South America have been turned to literal glass. The use of Orbital Weapons in during the conflict has turned the Southeastern United States, most of South America, North Africa, and Europe into no mans land regions. On top of this, with the topography and geography of Earth having changed after the war, the atmospheric conditions have changed drastically. Electromagnetic Storms have become a regular occurrence, and resources are scarce. 
Since Earth is becoming increasingly uninhabitable, in the year 2110, the United Nations Security Council was officially given it's first governmental authority. And as of the year 2113, the United Nations Security Command and the Eurasian States Alliance under the flag of the United Nations have begun plans to expand beyond Earths Atmosphere and maybe abandoning Earth all together.
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