United States of America

The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) was a pre-War country primarily located in North America. It consisted of thirteen commonwealths. It bordered Mexico to the south, and until the 2070s, Canada to the north.
==History==
July 4th 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence we have to celebration of this is new era of American Revolutionary War came to begins, our choice to save their lives, General George Washington commander in chief of the Continental Army have achieve victory we won.
In 1812, the US Declaration of War against the British Empire, these must be stalemate officially came Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom on December 24, 1814.
By 1861 to 1865, the Union victory we have to won issue for ending of American Civil War.
By 1917, the American enters of World War I have today achievement for national defense are full alert order to President Woodrow Wilson make share to allied forces against the German Empire.
By 1941 to 1945, the United States enters of the World War II, well justice for liberty had strike back against the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, North Africa, and Japan). During the war, some 16,112,566 Americans served in the United States Armed Forces, with 405,399 killed and 671,278 wounded. There were also 130,201 American prisoners of war, of whom 116,129 returned home after the war.
By 1969, the United States Commonwealth have a new nations only just begins. The space exploration program continued into 2020, when the Delta IX was commissioned. It was the last manned rocket to go to the Moon, and was in use for almost 15 years before being converted into military use.
=== Resource Wars ===
The United States was a major player in the Resource Wars, a series of conflicts beginning in 2052, brought on by an unsustainable global economy that heavily relied on finite resources such as petroleum and uranium. Disagreement on the world's last remaining resources caused the dissolution of the United Nations in July 2052.
Things worsened with the emergence of the highly-transmissible New Plague in 2053; defense contractor West Tek established facilities to combat the virus, all the while under military control. Though no cure was known to have ever been found, the research into a cure paved the way for subsequent biochemical research efforts. West Tek was not the only industrial complex put under military command, as wartime censorship enabled the government to confiscate and destroy any material deemed seditious.
Organized labor and unions pushed back against the government and corporations, struggling for wages, benefits, and safe working conditions. In Appalachia, Hornwright Industrial, Atomic Mining Services, and RobCo Industries, supported by Governor Evans, pushed for replacing human labor with robotics and leaving workers unemployed. The unrest culminated in automation riots.
Nuclear exchanges in the Middle East, along with the devastating Euro-Middle Eastern War and the New Plague's death toll caused the federal government to initiate Project Safehouse in 2054, which created fallout shelters that would protect a percentage of the United State's population in the event of a nuclear war or fatal plague. The Vault-Tec Corporation won the contract, and this massive national defense project was set in motion. Breakthroughs in construction technology allowed for these gargantuan bunkers to be constructed at a rapid pace.
By the end of the decade, in 2059, the United States began to prepare for war, as the global situation continued to worsen. The Anchorage front line had been established in Alaska, to protect its oil reserves from foreign invaders. Canada had also begun to feel the pressure exerted by its increasingly hostile neighbor. As a peculiar consolation prize to wrap up the decade, the first artificial intelligence was born in American laboratories. Limited by memory constraints, its expansion was rapidly halted. The discovery paved the way for future research in laboratories throughout the United States.
=== Sino-American War ===
In 2060, available fuel reserves ran out worldwide. Traffic on the streets died as fuel became too valuable to waste on automobiles. The automotive industry desperately tried to come up with a solution to the problem, but electric and early fusion cars were too little, too late to help solve the growing needs of society.
Energy conflicts between the United States and China arose as oil resources dried up globally, with China becoming more aggressive in trade negotiations, even as the United States refused to export its oil to China and relations between the two broke down. Additionally, microfusion cells were invented in 2066 by U.S. scientists as a potential solution to the energy crisis, adding insult to injury for the struggling China.
In desperation, China launched an invasion of Alaska to seize its oil reserves. The Battle of Anchorage kickstarted the Sino-American War, the last known war the United States would ever fight. On the front, the deployment of the T-45 power armor aided in preventing Chinese tanks and infantry from overrunning Alaska. However, the situation rapidly deteriorated into a stalemate, with neither side capable of breaking the it and forcing peace terms on the enemy.
Despite claims of fighting a defensive war, American infantry and mechanized divisions launched an invasion of Shantou on the Chinese mainland in 2074 by way of the Philippines. The economy was stretched to the breaking point as America found itself fighting a war on three fronts: Canada, Alaska, and mainland China. Neither side was willing to yield, despite eight years of constant warfare. Conflicts also took place in the Gobi Desert and Nanjing, while other troops were present in Mambajao. By 2076, the war had raged for a decade. Both China and the United States teetered on the brink of collapse, yet both sides were in too deep to retreat.
==== Red Scare ====
The federal government attempted to use increasing national paranoia to control domestic crises, by discouraging assemblies, fueling anti-communist sentiment, and encouraging the reporting of subversive elements. The Vigilant Citizen's Hotline was even established to allow hysterical citizens to report neighbors to the government for any behavior that could be construed as in support of communism. A Red Scare unfolded as a response to the increased hostility of China and its operations on American soil.
More grimly, under Executive Order 99066, Chinese and Chinese-American citizens and residents were taken from their homes and placed in concentration camps without trial, sometimes by private security contractors hired by the military to conduct what were essentially abductions. The Turtledove Detention Camp in Maryland was one such camp, forcing the inmates to live in squalid conditions without access to proper sanitation facilities and its inmates being subjected to abuse, torture, and brutal interrogations. Many ended up disappearing in the various research facilities across the United States.
==== Annexation of Canada ====
The Sino-American War consumed increasing amounts of resources, materiel, and manpower, straining the ailing American economy even further. To counteract this, the United States military had begun to liberally exploit Canadian resources and violated its airspace while fighting in Anchorage. Riots, protests, and an overall contentious relationship with Canada eventually culminated in a sabotage attempt on an oil pipeline in 2072. The United States military used this incident as a pretext to outright invade Canada and begin annexation. By 2077, the annexation was complete and Canada ceased to exist as a nation. The provinces occupied by the American military became U.S. territories, remaining under its political and military control, but not a state or commonwealth in their own right. Violence escalated and security detachments equipped with combat armor were sent to suppress Canadian population and any resistance movements.
=== End of America and the Great War ===
Through a combination of attrition, loss of supply routes, and offensives conducted by the United States across the front, Chinese units in Alaska found themselves surrounded and cut off from reinforcements. The liberation of Anchorage spearheaded by winterized T-51 power armor units under the command of General Constantine Chase marked the end of the Anchorage Reclamation in 2077, after a decade of war. The campaign in mainland China was reinvigorated by the victory in Alaska and the deployment of T-51 units. Army troops clad in T-51 regularly witnessed Chinese troops surrendering upon sighting them and their miniguns, even before the Battle of Anchorage concluded. However, the effect did not last. As American troops pushed deeper into the mainland, Chinese resistance increased. By October, the situation transitioned from a rout into a stalemate. After a decade of war, there was still no end in sight. Billions of dollars and thousands of casualties were spent in vain, despite taxes and various wartime revenues ensuring the United States government had been able to fund a standing army the likes of which the United States had never before seen. To bolster the offensive, bases across the United States were sealed and troops redeployed to provide more men for the front lines.
Another contributing factor was the increasingly dire food situation, with riots a regular occurrence. The United States Army servicemen deployed to protect food banks were known for responding to altercations with violence. One notable incident in Roxbury, Massachusetts, left four dead and eight wounded, after soldiers were laughing and picking targets out in the crowd well in advance. It was far from an exception. The situation was made worse by the fact that the oligarchs ruling the United States retreated to remote locations around the globe, expecting a last-ditch nuclear strike from China at any moment. An oil rig off the Californian coast was claimed by the president and key associates, a group which would later become the foundation of the Enclave. Though contingency efforts were made, the United States was effectively leaderless.
Things came to an irreversible head on October 23, 2077. In what would come to be known as the Great War, nuclear weapons were exchanged between the United States and China. After two hours of apocalyptic destruction, the war was over and the world was destroyed. The fallout decimated society as a whole and the United States, as it was previously known, ceased to exist. Abandoned by their leaders, the survivors began rebuilding on their own.
On October 23, 2087, 10th Anniversary of Great War, we have reestablished of the United States of America raise flag always we united country our choice for freedom.
==Geography==
United States of America we still geography have to otherwise over 50 states, 13 commonwealths, and one US federal capital was happened forget to all nations.
===Flora===
Flora refers to various types of plants found throughout the wastelands.
===Fauna===
Fauna effective of nuclear wastelands our animals for creatures our strength.
===Commonwealths===
In 1969, the United States of America have to established we declaration of independence our change to peace for justice, more than 13 Commonwealth. An interesting development of American politics seen with the commonwealths, which were created in 1969, as a new intermediate level of governance between the state and federal governments. Intended to help create legislation broad enough to benefit those states with common regional concerns, but narrow enough not to affect those states with dissimilar interests or political cultures. The reality refused to conform, as the commonwealths did everything to promote their own interests at the expense of other commonwealths, not to mention the internal squabbles between states constituting the individual commonwealths.
Commonwealth 	Member states
Columbia Commonwealth 	Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C.
East Central Commonwealth 	Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee
Eastern Commonwealth 	Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Four States Commonwealth 	Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah
Gulf Commonwealth 	Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi
Great Midwest Commonwealth	Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
New England Commonwealth 	Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Northern Commonwealth 	Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming
Northwest Commonwealth 	Alaska, Idaho, Northern California, Oregon, Washington
Plains Commonwealth 	Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma
Southeast Commonwealth 	Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina
Southwest Commonwealth 	Hawaii, Nevada, Southern California
Texas Commonwealth 	Arkansas, Texas
==Economy==
Like other economies worldwide, the United States was severely affected by the resource shortage of the middle 21st century and the resulting Resource Wars. Though based on the principles of a free market and open competition, the crisis allowed a handful of mega-corporations to seize control and establish a practical monopoly in key sectors of the American and even world economy. Many of these corporations became so deeply involved and integrated in the nation's infrastructure, that trying to decide where the corporation ended and the state began, became a largely academic discussion. As a result, the corporations effectively acted as sovereign nations unto themselves. Exploitative and abusive labor practices were the norm, such as with the Vault-Tec Corporation, which was notorious for its strictly enforced 2.25 minute (135 second) bathroom breaks. Worse yet, as a strategic defense contractor for the government, Vault-Tec's affairs and all related publications (including, for example, the Vault Dweller's Survival Guide) were protected by the New Amended Espionage Act and any whistle blowing attempts would likely hurt the whistle blower more than the corporation.
However, the most iconic mega-corporation was Poseidon Energy. It had a near-monopoly on the energy market in the United States, controlling nuclear power plants, exploitation of remaining oil fields, and even sustainable energy projects, like Helios One. It hid its involvement by operation through numerous companies established as fronts to influence and eventually control key industries. It also conducted a slew of its own military research projects, including development and implementation of orbital beam weapons.
The war with China also allowed smaller companies to cut support for their workers by a considerable margin. Workman's compensation was among many staples of labor law suspended as part of the war effort, denying vital support to laborers injured in the course of their work. The deteriorating economy also made it easier for corporations to take advantage not just of their employees, but also of the general public. The Big Mountain Research and Development company was particularly infamous for luring isolated communities into Faustian pacts, where they agreed to act as test subjects for bleeding edge technologies – often with disastrous effects.
Of course, giving corporations free reign did not alter the harsh reality of an imminent economic collapse. One way in which this was delayed was by annexing and exploiting resources of sovereign countries. Mexican oil refineries were occupied in 2051 to keep the pipelines open, while Canadian timberland, ore deposits and other critical resources were claimed in 2069, as the Sino-American War lumbered on with no end in sight. Formal annexation began in 2072, following a sabotage attempt and occupation of Canadian soil by American military forces.
Even with these resources propping up the economy, shortages were common. When the first fusion-powered cars were introduced by Chryslus Motors in 2070, the number of units produced was far less than the demand, as most factories nationwide were converted to manufacturing military ordnance. However, voluntary compliance with government control was not enough. Critical defense contractors were effectively nationalized without compensation, by being put under military command – as was the case with West Tek's Californian facility. Some companies, like Poseidon Energy, were only placed under military command in 2077 – although the degree to which the oligarchs controlled the American government alongside the junta made it a cosmetic change, at best.
==Politics==
===Organizations===
As an increasingly militarist superpower, the United States had given priority to their military forces, which asserted increasing control over law enforcement and public affairs. Bolstered by a jingoist culture and widespread propaganda, the military controlled by the Department of Defense was one of the pillars of the American regime, supported by a network of vigilant citizens reporting suspected sedition and crime. The division of the Armed Forces into dedicated departments had been retained, though the Army was still one of the most powerful elements directly involved. In fact, cold fusion, the life-saving technology that allowed the American economy to last a while longer, was an off-shoot of a military weapons program.
Most units outside the veteran formations fighting on the front lines against the Chinese and subjugating Canada suffered from poor training regimens. The situation was particularly bad with auxiliary units of the National Guard.
The situation eventually led to the authorization and issuance of military-grade laser weapons to civilians, in order to use them as cannon fodder in case of a communist invasion or insurgency on American soil. Private security companies were also contracted to perform arrests and round up civilians, completely blurring the line between the public and private sectors.
==Appearances==
All Fallout games to date have been set exclusively within United States territory, but following the collapse of civilization, in most cases, this territory is now either claimed by other groups or not governed at all. Ruins/relics of now long-defunct government institutions are seen throughout the series.
Newsreel footage of the U.S. Army in action is present in Fallout. The Enclave appear as a major enemy faction in Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 and a handful of retired members appear in Fallout: New Vegas and the Fallout 4 add-on Far Harbor. A simulated, fictionalized representation of the U.S. Army appears in the Fallout 3 add-on Operation: Anchorage. The prologue sequence of Fallout 4 takes place in the United States' final moments before the Great War.
==Behind the scenes==
* Red, a prominent modder, corrected Chris Avellone and Tim Cain by pointing out that there are only 11 stars on the texture (basing on the visible parts of the flag in the render). This was later corrected by J.E. Sawyer in 2005, stating that Tramell Ray Isaac rendered the flag using a texture with thirteen stars.
* J.E. Sawyer developed the idea of the country being divided into 13 super states, creating the map and allocating the states to the commonwealths.
* The number of stars on the flag has been a matter of some contention. Prior to the release of Fallout 3 in 2008, the 13 star version (thirteen stars centered around a larger one in the middle) was widely accepted as the canon version. However, Bethesda Game Studios used a different flag, with 12 stars surrounding the central one, raising questions as to the canonicity of the original. Obsidian Entertainment has used the earlier, 13 star variant extensively in Lonesome Road and other add-ons for Fallout: New Vegas. Given that the flags co-exist and the context in which they are presented, the thirteenth star was added after the annexation of Canada and the United States simply lacked either the funds or will to update all the flags and insignia in their possession.
* The flags resemble American Revolutionary War flags, more precisely the one used during the Battle of Cowpens (12 star circle, using proportions of the stars on the flag of the European Union) and the famous Betsy Ross Flag (13 stars). The 13 star variant was mandated Second Continental Congress' Flag Resolution of 1777.
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