United States of America

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## United States of America

Map of the political extent of the US on Earth

## General information

### Government type

Federal presidential constitutional republic

### Executive branch

Office of the President of the United States

## Societal information

### Currency

United States dollar ($)
* Pegged to the Coalition Congressional Note (ᑕ)

## Historical information

### Date reorganized

1865

The **United States of America** is a continent-spanning superstate on Earth and one of the founding members of the Coalition of Congressional Republics. Alongside the European Federation, Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, it is one of the only few Terran nations to own another portion of a planet beyond the Solar System, with new territories on colonial worlds within the Olympia and Fidelidade star systems. Containing a population of nearly twenty seven billion people, the United States and its firm hold over the Americas and portions of the Pacific has been instrumental in shaping the course of Terran history - and from that, Coalition history and the fate of humankind.

Formed in 1776 as a result of the American Revolution, the United States quickly grew in economic and military power throughout the centuries to become a world superpower. Its involvement in the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War led to an explosion of technological innovation, culminating in feats such as the first astronauts to reach Mars in 1965 and first colonies opening on the Moon in 1995. A semblance of diplomatic peace was reached with the communist powers in the 2008 Vienna Accords, which assisted in the colonization of Mars in 2021.

America's later involvement in the First Martian-Terran War of 2049, Third World War of 2065, and Second Martian-Terran War of 2074 solidified its position as a key agent of Terran military might and foreign policy. This allowed the United States significant influence in the drafting of the Solar Peace Accords, which in turn lead to the formation of the Coalition in 2077. Throughout Coalition history, American troops and influence would be felt across the stars, ranging from the American involvements in colonizing Tellus and Hyperion to fighting tooth-and-nail against the interstellar megacorporations in the Corporate Wars of the 2200s. It would induct the South American Union and the latter's member states following the Treaty of Panama City in 2257 to consolidate political power in the western hemisphere following the Corporate Wars and to aid in a general "march to Terran unification".

In the modern day, the United States has recently begun direct intervention in the Bernauerstad Independence War, a subsect of the larger War on Terror, on behalf of involved American corporations and successor colonial states Auriga and Rigelia. They have also been involved in various cooperative missions with the Coalition Forces Authority in combating piracy and terrorism abroad, and have been criticized for having an "extreme level of corruption and corporate intrusion" within the government.