New Republic of Christian America (CyberGhost1997)

The United States of America, also referred to as America or the United States, was a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. In 2020, America lost its status as a superpower after a long period of civil unrest, and economic recessions. With America reduced to a corrupted and vulnerable shadow of her former self, the European Federation eventually replaced America as the the most powerful nation on Earth. After Democratic President Elizabeth Hockley was overthrown in a bloody coup, the United States of America underwent a series of radical transformations, with the nation becoming an Ultranationalist state, while still claiming to be a federal constitutional republic. Under new president Charles Shepherd, the United States of America eventually transformed into the Ultranationalist Republic of America (URA) or simply Ultranationalist America (UA). Despite the official name change, Charles Shepherd and a large majority of Americans refer to the nation as the United States of America.
In 2024, following a sudden influx of American Conservative fundamentalist Christians obtaining various political offices in the government and radical Christian fundamentalists winning the 2024 election, the Ultranationalist Republic of America was changed forever once more, now a theocratic state known as the New Republic of Christian America (NRCA).
== History ==
=== Age of Unrest ===
In 2019, the Age of Unrest began with the 2019 Religious Riots. In February of 2019, a street preacher began to preach on the grounds of Evergreen Institute. Though the Holy Spirit of God in Him enabled the man to win people over, a majority of the student body responded angrily, perceiving the street preacher as a threat against their Constitutional right to "freedom of religion" and one's right to think for yourself. The street preaching soon came to a head when several Evergreen Institute students organized a mass protest against the street preaching, condemning the street preacher as a threat against the Constitutional right to freedom of religion. Students even complained to campus police about the man, but they did nothing. Still, the street preaching persisted, and on March 5th, Evergreen Institute students resorted to heckling and booing street preachers that preached to the institute. Still, the street preaching persisted and the students, fed up with the prosletyzing, angrily pelted the street preachers with food scraps and snowballs (during snowy weather). But their efforts seemed to be in vain: he still came back. This incensed students Doug Harris and Mathilda McCullum, who banded together and a couple of other fellow angry students decided to "go on the offensive", organizing a huge protest against the preachers. When the preachers persisted, McCullum and her fellow students resorted to verbal slander and condemnation, which soon attracted students all over the Evergreen Institute, many of whom joined the demonstration. Protesters began chanting slogans like, "Let Freedom Ring" and "Death to Religious Dogma!" One student even chanted, "Hail Satan," just to troll the street preachers. This soon escalated into a riot when the students began angrily throwing melted snow at the street preacher in an attempt to drive him away.
One day, Evergreen Institute student soon learned that Metallica would be playing a concert in Downtown St. Louis, and that the street preachers may be preaching there as well. As some of the students wanted to attend the concert, it was decided that some of the students would attend the concert, while others launch a protest against the street preachers. Sure enough, the street preachers were on the concert grounds, preaching against heavy metal and denouncing it as "Satanic music." This was the last straw for students Doug Harris and Mathilda McCullum: Harris, McCullum, and a couple of other fellow angry students launched a massive demonstration and publicly shamed the street preachers as they preached to the masses. When the preacher persisted, McCullum and her fellow students resorted to verbal slander and condemnation, which soon attracted other concertgoers who were also perturbed and angry that the preachers were ruining the show for everyone. Eventually, this escalated into physical violence when one student began physically assaulting the street preacher out of annoyance, at one point managing to destroy one of the signs carried by one of the preachers. From there, the demonstration became a massive brawl-millions of people swarmed the preachers and physically assaulted them, cursing their "fundamentalist" agenda, and at one point someone used a blowtorch to set the signposts regarding Christian doctrine of the Last Judgment on fire while another participant angrily shredded a banner proclaiming the wrath of God while shouting, "LONG LIVE FREEDOM!"
The incident soon attracted worldwide attention via the Internet, with thousands of students live-streaming the event on Facebook and uploading video footage of the incident on YouTube. One particular YouTube video, shot by Maglio, went viral, with Edward's footage, titled "The War Begins Here...." attracting millions of views seemingly overnight. Edward himself even became a poster child for the "Freethought Revolution".
Due to Edward's footage going viral, millions of people across the nation spoke of the video. Edward's footage was even broadcast live on various news stations. In addition to re-igniting the controversial debate between the right to protest and hate speech, Edward's video footage of the Metallica Concert Demonstration sparked a new debate as to whether street preaching was in itself a violation of the Separation of Church and State as declared in the US Constitution. The nationwide community as a whole was divided: some in the international community applauded the actions of the participants of the demonstration as "warriors of free thought", while others denounced the demonstration as an infringement on freedom of religion and a showcase of bigotry and hate speech. Edward himself eventually spoke publicly regarding allegations that Edward was promoting "hatred against Christianity", claiming that it was not his intention for the demonstration to become a riot and that he was merely showcasing to the world the people's right to freedom of expression. He also insisted that he had no part in assaulting the street preachers (which the video footage clearly shows; Edward did not physically assault anybody at any point during the demonstration), though he readily admitted that he participated in the verbal shaming of the street preachers during an interview with Fox News.  Edward's viral footage also inspired other students and various other people to hold similar protests against street preachers: one student at the University of California Berkley posted on YouTube a video of a similar demonstration against Oneness Pentecostal preachers preaching against a heavy metal concert. Another student recorded himself angrily cursing and ranting against the Westboro Baptist Church, while another young man recorded an incident involving an angry mob vandalizing the Westboro Baptist Church building itself.
In May of 2019, America decided to (unofficially) declare war on a new terrorist group known as The Eternals, a narco-terrorist organization that had effectively taken over the nation of Venezuela. It began with the kidnapping and murders of an American CIA agent and a British MI6 agent, as well as the kidnapping of two tourists, Carolyn Maynard and Olivia Martin. Fearing that two women would end up like the American and British spies if they weren't rescued, tourist Edward Maglio joined forces with some of his friends and the elusive British assassin known as Deathshade to rescue the hsotages and destroy the cartel/terrorist group.
The events of February and March of 2019 were perceived by some as the beginning of a more democratic society. However, in the eyes of various religious groups, these events seemed to spark what they called "the Age of Godlessness." In the summer of that year, the town of Arcadia was almost completely wiped out thanks to a new species of carnivorous parasitic organism. Although the US government tried to suppress the truth behind the outbreak, the existence of the parasite and the truth behind the outbreak was eventually exposed to the world thanks to a US-based hacker circle, an animal rights movement, four former US soldiers turned private mercenaries, and a group of tourists.
In December of that year, reports of a mysterious new virus emerged from Russia and China, eventually known as the Yellow Fever. Despite the Chinese and Russian government's attempts to suppress the reality of the outbreak in order to avoid a mass panic, the severity of the situation forced the Chinese government to acknowledge that it was facing a real biological threat. The Chinese and Russian cities of Wuhan and Volgograd were put under lockdown.
A year later, in 2020 the situation worsened, as the virus appeared in the United States and eventually spread to other parts of the world, causing a global pandemic. Many local governments across the country ordered lockdowns and citizens were urged to socially distance from each other, as well as refraining from touching the face or mouth or eyes after handling objects.
=== American Dark Ages ===
Beginning in 2021, a series of devastating events left the Ultranationalist Republic economically and militarily weakened. President Charles Shepherd announced that he would be withdrawing military forces from the Middle East, although military forces remained in Korea. To make matters worse, the US and China were both hit with a massive cyber-attack from the island nation of Thule, putting both countries in a severe economic depression, with the Ultranationalist Republic of America being hit the hardest; America and China both lost their respective statuses as global superpowers, and gas prices in the Ultranationalist Republic of America skyrocketed, forcing the country to implement a rationing system. To make matters worse, what followed was severe deterioration in infrastructure, with highways across the country becoming too costly to repair.
By 2022, the nation was but a corrupted and vulnerable shadow of her former self, a militarily and economically weakened nation that was struggling to even stay afloat in such a turbulent time. Despite this, many Americans are still hopeful that the US will one day pull itself out of this depressing state.
=== Changed forever ===
2023 and onwards marked the beginning of massive political tension that changed the Ultranationalist Republic and the world. It all started with the emergence of a new movement, known as the True Christians of America (TCA). This was a radical religious fundamentalist cult that adhered to a very literal interpretation of the Christian Bible, with considerable emphasis on both the Old and New Testament, and rejecting the legitimacy of all other religions, calling them "Satanic". They also believed that the economic and social unrest that was currently wreaking havoc across the country was God's judgment against the nation for centuries of godlessness. Believing that the only way to restore America to greatness was by "putting God back in America", millions of TCA followers kick-started political campaigns in various government positions. Early 2023 saw a massive increase in TCA members winning offices in various state and local governments.
In 2024, devout TCA follower Alan S. Orner won the Presidency alongside his running mate Beth J. Fox in an election that stunned the world. Under Orner and Fox, the Ultranationalist Republic of America underwent one of the most radical transformations in world history, with their most notable achievement being the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Alan won the Presidency again in 2028, but died before he could take office. His successor, Alabama native Martha J. McDonald, did more to change the United States than Alan. McDonald introduced a new set of religious edicts known as the "Law of God in America", or LGA for short, effectively replacing the US Constitution as the law of the land; this new law mandated that Christianity was to be America's state religion, denouncing the First Amendment of the US Constitution as a "blasphemous mistake" and a "Satanic invention" and that the Founding Fathers were "traitors to the Lord Jesus Christ all along" or "antichrist figures masquerading as sheep." Rather controversially, the law also criminalized any LGBTQ+ lifestyle (which was considered by the law to be "Sexual Deviancy"), pornography, and abortion, with abortion in particular being labeled a form of "terrorism" that was punishable by death. However, the most controversial element was its "Blasphemy Clause", which claimed that anyone who criticized or spoke against Christianity in any way would be guilty of blasphemy and was to be sentenced to death. It also called any attempts to criticize the Law of God in America blasphemy, which was also punishable by death.
Numerous by the various courts to strike down the law as unconstitutional, though bold, ultimately failed, with Martha ordering those who disagreed with the law immediately removed from office and arrested.
Following this, a surveillance system known as "PureNet" was instituted, which screened every single website, web image, text message, and social media post for anything deemed "ungodly". If caught, offenders faced either life imprisonment, execution, or "rehabilitation" in "Conversion Camps".
Outraged by these radical changes, various states seceded from the Union, starting a Second American Civil War that led to the deaths of thousands of people on both sides. The war ended in 2047 with the re absorption of the seceded states into the union and the introduction of harsh laws to punish the offending states that ceded. 
== Geography and territory ==
The NRCA stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the South. The nation has an abundance in various natural resources, including shale oil, coal, ore, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas and timber. There is also abundant wildlife in the territories.
== Government ==
Like the United States of America that preceded it, the Ultranationalist Republic of America was a constitutional republic and representative democracy, "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law." As laid out in the Constitution of the United States, the government is regulated by a system of checks and balances. There are three divisions of government, federal, state, and local. Once the NRCA was formed, the country became a theocracy.
The federal government comprises of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches. The legislative branch consists of the bicameral Congress, which is split into the House of Representatives and the Senate. This branch makes federal laws, declares war, approves treaties, has the power of the purse, and has the power of impeachment. The Executive Branch involves the President. The President can veto legislative bills before they become law, and appoints the members of the Cabinet (subject to Senate approval) and other officers, who administer and enforce federal laws and policies, pardon criminals, and, in some cases, can directly control the US military (as commander-in-chief). The Judicial Branch consists of the Supreme Court, as well as the lower courts. The judges are appointed by the President with Senate approval. They interpret laws and overturn those deemed unconstitutional.
The country became a theocracy following the inauguration of Alan Orner, with fundamentalist Christianity as its state religion since 2024. 
== Military ==
The United States Armed Forces is divided into the US Army, US Air Force, US Navy and US Marines. Interestingly, only the United States Army changed its name after the name of the nation had changed. Following the coup, the United States Army changed its name to the United Continental Army (UCA). With the NCRA's formation, the US Army was again renamed as the "Christian People's Army" (CPA).
== Flag ==
The flag of the United States and the Ultranationalist Republic of America consisted of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton (referred to specifically as the "union") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate with rows of five stars. The fifty stars on the flag represent the fifty states of the union. the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and became the first states in the U.S.A.
After America became a theocracy, a modified variant of the US flag was used, with the 50 stars being replaced with a massive red cross, a symbol of Christian fundamentalism that now took over the country.
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