Pacific States of America

Keeping the True American Ideals Alive

The **Pacific States of America** (**PSA** or **P.S.A.**) is a breakaway country from the Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Kaiserreich. It wants to keep its democracy after Douglas MacArthur turn whatever was left of the United States into a military junta with Huey Long creating the American Union State and Jack Reed creating the Combined Syndicates of America. So now they are in a middle of a multi-battle against some of the other factions that aren't with the Independence League.

## History

### Original History

With the rise of the AUS and Combined Syndicates, Douglas MacArthur comes into the capital of the United States and destroy democracy. This coup resulted in many American citizens feeling betrayed as those that still believe in democracy fled west as California, Washington state, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii declared a succession from the American Caesar's new union. Those that didn't fled ended-up in prison and treated as traitors. Thus the start of the Second American Revolution has begun.

### Psyche Multiverse

When the Kaiserreich mod launched, many played it and things got a bit...messy, for lack of a better word. There are times when the Pacific States win, they lose, make alliances, took different paths, whatever the players do on their game play that make the canon history of Kaiserreich a bit more confusing. So, every nation of Kaiserreich that broke themselves off from the other complicated affairs and became primary versions of these nations.

### The United Nations & Creations Booting and New Galaxy

Around the final months of 2020, the United Nations & Creations was formed. An alliance of multiple nations and the creations of humanity working together side by side. But only the official works. Anything that is considered modded, fan-made, or anything along there, are to be removed...by force. Because of this, the UN&C forced many non-official nations, including the Combined Syndicates, from planets that other nations "officially" claim. This also included the United Nation States of America that kicked out many unofficial Americans. Even though there was a novel published in 2019 called, The People's Flag: The Union of Britain and the Kaiserreich, but the UN&C claimed that it is based-on a fan game and not a real work.

The PSA arrived on the planet Usonia in the Cascadia Galaxy while naming the states that were under their control along with some new ones. However, they came across some old enemies as well as new ones as they all fight for their ideologies and for how America should be.

### Joining the League

The PSA was desperate in preserving their legitimacy that they had to be part of the Independence League in order to keep MacArthur away from their states and to ensure that the 1920-1930's democracy will survive. Even if they make an alliance within the League with some of their enemies, such as the AUS. But as for now, they also trade with other members of the League for technology, weapons, and some Earth-based food to keep themselves sustain. However, they don't allow immigrants in their nation unless they're human.

They don't like the United Confederacy of Exiles because it is considered "Un-American" to allow ALL citizens to vote. This nation is the 1930's version of the United States and some of the stuff by Martin Luther King Jr. and other equal rights activists didn't come to fruition until the 1960's, so...segregation is still a thing and they don't like aliens very much.

## Government

The government is all that different from the United States such as having the Cabinet as the executive branch with Congress divided with the upper house being the Senate and the House of Representatives being the lower house. Albeit smaller than the original United States. It has the 1930's version of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but it also has the Farmer-Labor Party to combat against the Combined Syndicates of America. So now there are three parties in the Pacific States that are needed to fight back against the Federalist States of America and the American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur.

### Democratic Party

Originally, the **Democratic Party** was divided into two wings, the social liberals in the Northeast and the social conservatives in the Southeast. The liberal wing of the party supports increasing investments in highway infrastructure, liberalization of trade, promotion of business interests, banking regulation, and a liberal tax policy. The conservative wing of the party supports the inaction of trade tariffs, racial segregation, investments in the Southern United States, and promotion of traditional values. Both wings promote the "gospel of wealth" espoused by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie that calls for upper-class citizens to give generously to charity. Except now, in the Pacific States, there is only the social conservatives that want to bring democracy back.

### Republican Party

The **Republican Party**, also known as the **Grand Old Party** (**GOP**), is still the same. It supports lower taxes, laissez faire capitalism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. It was strongly committed to protectionism and tariffs at its founding but grew more supportive of free trade in the 20th century. However, it also supports social conservatism in American society.

### Farmer-Labor Party

The **Farmer-Labor Party** is a political party that originally emerged in Minnesota in 1918. Economic dislocation at the beginning of the decade set declining agricultural prices and workers' wages against rapidly increasing consumer prices, and farmers and workers sought to make common cause in the political sphere to address their grievances. The Farmer-Labor Party advocates for various progressive policies such as a reduction in federal taxes, reducing corruption, a more democratic electoral system, federal aid to farmers and strengthening of labor rights, environmental conservation, and the nationalization of various industries related to energy and transportation.

## Culture and Society

As stated, much of it is based-on the United States in the 1930's except not as great. The prohibition of alcohol is still a thing, yet jazz is more appreciated as it is a "melting pot" of cuisine, music, art, literature, and, most importantly, politics. Despite everything, they still want to preserve the democracy and freedom that the United States stood for as they use propaganda against Douglas MacArthur while conserving much of the traditions, honor, values and national patriotism for democracy. They even spread scare propaganda against Huey Long's American Union State and Jack Reed's Combined Syndicates of America.

The nation boasts its powerful factories and engineering along with a navy. However, they do have a strong air force since they have to fight against the Federalist States of America. Back on the factories, they do support the idea of automation in order to out perform the Combined Syndicates of America and to keep up with the output of the FSA. Yet they do support the idea of laissez faire capitalism with some trade with the members of the Independence League and only support human immigrants.

The flag was suppose to be based-off of the California flag except had yellow and three red stars, but they use the blue part of the original United States flag with the stars as insult to injury to Douglas MacArthur.

## Economy

Much of the PSA's economy is mostly focus on industries related to energy and transportation since the Farmer-Labor Party want to focus on conserving the environment with new technologies. This include solar panels, wind turbines, a few dams, and energy efficient technologies. Which some of they got by trading a few resources. They also use electric cars which the Democratic Party was against the way of life but both parties pointed out that it was made by Robert Anderson in 1832, so all parties let it slide long as it is the 1930's version. Some factories are nationalized by the PSA government to be used to make weapons for their military yet some are used to process raw materials for the civilian factories.

They do have a degree of farming in many parts of the Pacific States of America that focus more on Earth-based agriculture such as fruits, wheat, hops, vegetables, hay, mint, almonds, pistachios, surgar cane, macadamia nuts, coffee and walnuts. However, they also have rice as they also have many Asian immigrants in certain parts of the PSA. Livestock include cattle, chickens, turkeys, sheep, goats, and rabbits. They also do commercial fishing, crabbing and clamming. They forbid any alien or mystical crops and livestock since they want to preserve their culture as they consider, according to them, "a threat to the true ways of America and democracy". Any of these found in the PSA are to be purged along with the farmers that plant them and smugglers that brought them.

There is plenty of mining in the PSA as resources such as gold, silver, coal, feldspar, soda ash, and many other boron and rare earth minerals along with copper and iron. Much of these are processed and used for other means. With all the non-toxic rocks they managed to mined, they turned them into concrete mixes that they use for trading and construction. Yet they also mined uranium to make new energy sources yet it also attracted the unwanted attention of the Federalist States of America that had their own nukes and want more. Even by force.

## Military

The military of the PSA is the **Pacific Guard** yet it is divided into two halves. The first being the Nissei Volunteer Militia that is a more organized and semi-centralized in the PSA. The Rocky Mountain Rangers are former rangers of the national parks in the Rocky Mountains that form their own branch in the military that act as scouts, surveyors, spies and survivalists in the east despite not being anywhere near the Rocky Mountains. The title is more of a reminder of what the United States used to be before splitting into the various successor states there are now.

The PSA also boast a powerful navy with a large fleet patrolling the shores of the PSA with multiple battleships that are actually outfitted with railguns and nuclear-powered engines which is against the traditional values of the PSA.

## Trivia

* Much of the information of the Pacific States of America in Kaiserreich is scarce so had to make up as much as we can with what little there is.
* The original flag of the PSA in Kaiserreich was suppose to be similar to the flag of California, but the creators change the flag out.