United States (post-Civil War) (19-canon)

"Change is inevitable. The end of human suffering, and the worth of even a single human life, is worth more than every trinket and pretense of 'nobility' that continues oppression. Your whining and your losses are nothing before the liberation and welfare of the proletariat and the oppressed.

The world, too, must embrace change, for it is inevitable and it is for the greater good. Rejection will only lead to more suffering, and it is our duty to end all suffering, by *any* means necessary.

Embrace humanity, and abandon your petty goals and your luxuries."

The **United States of America** (shortened to **US**) was one of two successor states of the eponymous country after the American Federation seceded, sparking the Second Civil War.

## Factfile

* Official name: United States of America
* Anthems: Star-Spangled Banner; The Internationale; Hymn to Diversity
* Official motto: No Justice, No Peace; Workers of the World, Unite
* Capital cities: Washington DC; San Francisco; Populia; Union
* Official languages: English, Spanish
	+ Other languages include Chinese, Yoruba, Portuguese, Arabic, Bengali, Somali, and various Native American languages
* State religion: N/A, secular
	+ Major religions: Catholicism, liberal Islam, Judaism, Protestant Christianity, cartoon worship, hedonist cults
* Government: Federal presidential constitutional republic, later dictatorship, and then alternating between a single-party state and reverting to multi-party democracy under Marxist-ish principles.
* Climate:

## Flag

The US continues to use the Stars and Stripes, to show that it is the continuation of the old United States of America.

Under the new US government, the elements of the flag are reinterpreted as this:

* Red for socialism and the working class
* White for justice and equality
* Blue for peace, prosperity, and diversity forging a common nation ("e pluribus unum"?)
* The stripes also represent equality and reformation (by making the US more equal, as intended by the Constitution or certain interpretations?)
* The canton with fifty stars represents the US's ultimate goal of reunifying America under its socialist government

Sometimes, the flag is changed to have the colours of the rainbow, in support for its non-heterosexual citizens who built the country.

### Other flags

In addition to the Stars and Stripes, other flags are given semi-official status:

* The Pan-African Flag - red-black-green horizon stripes
	+ This flag represents solidarity with its African citizens.
* The Rainbow Flag - six or eight horizontal stripes resembling a rainbow
	+ This flag represents solidarity with its non-heterosexual citizens. Some groups instead add a glowing sword, representing their desire for justice.
* The Latino Standard - red-yellow-white with an eagle in flight
	+ This flag represents solidarity with its Latino citizens, who eventually became the new majority of this America.
* The Native Standard - red-yellow-white-black, forming a saltire
	+ This flag represents solidarity with its Native American citizens.
	+ When some Native Americans seceded to establish the Republic of Turtle Island, they used a slightly different flag with the same colours.
* The Worker's Banner - red with a yellow fist and five-pointed star
	+ This flag was used by the People's Worker's Party, who took over the American government as it fought the AF's rebellion.
* "Come and Find Out" - red with thirteen white stripes, a yellow fist at the upper left
	+ The war flag of the United States.
* Stars, Sea, and Fist - red with a hammer and sickle on the left, fifty (later six) yellow stars on the right, and six yellow stripes at the bottom
	+ This was the flag used during Stuart's authoritarian Stalinist regime. It was used again by the western half when it split away from the east.
* The Banner of Reform - white and blue, with a red hammer and sickle at the left.
	+ This was the flag of the United States after Stuart's authoritarian Stalinist regime. It was used in the eastern half when the west split away.

## History

### Early years

In 2025, the National Metro system was established at Denver and Topeka to upgrade all railroads in the country to high-speed railways.

In the 2050's, the leaders of the United States and their supporters implemented many rulings that made life more restrictive, to get more tax money to fund national projects and to stop militant groups. However, in the 2070's, a worldwide economic crash triggered protests from around the world against their government, including in America. The Purge of Europe, when many European countries became into right-wing dictatorships, horrified many people in the United States and drove them further into making their nation a leftist state.

This also led to a faction of militants seceding from the United States, resulting in the Second Civil War. Meanwhile, the lack of stability in parts of the US led to race wars and massacres between White and Black people in the South and the Midwest, fuelling support for the rebels and leading to the establishment of New Afrika. Some people fled the race wars to the remaining territories of the US, expecting its then-new socialistic policies to push them out of poverty.

More wars within Central America and heatwaves in Africa led to more refugees immigrating towards the United States, central Africa, and Arabia. In the United States, the refugees enjoyed more success, as they were supported by the government and various activist groups. Even though this led to the growth of Islam in parts of the US, continuous messages from their supporters and the occasional murders led to tensions between some refugee groups and the rest of Ussian society. Some Ussians condemned the refugees for rejecting their messages, while the refugees accused the Ussians of "damaging their culture" or "breaking their faith".

There were criminal gangs that followed the refugees and recruited them to set up their own businesses. Without an effective police force to stop the criminal gangs, a few of them were exposed by the citizens and activists: some were supported by the Ussian government as legitimate businesses, while others worked with a few militias in opposition to the Ussian government.

When Israel collapsed under the establishment of a unified Palestine, it was the United States that supported the Palestinian government in its war against the Israeli rump state of Negev. Negev was funded by its rival, the American Federation, and Visegrad.

It was the US that established the first colonies on the Moon and Mars.

### Stuart and Nured

In 2629, a Stalinist, Stuart Lisson, implemented a Marxist regime modelled after Joseph Stalin's government. The resulting militarisation and loss of rights caused many revolts, such as the establishment of the Native American republic of Turtle Island, and revolts by various Marxist militias who considered Stuart's rule to be too autocratic and "deviant". Five of the Marxist militias stormed the Palace of the People, and Stuart himself was killed while fighting the militants. They afterwards made Marxism the official ideology of the United States, implementing democratic reforms alongside their version of the ideology; while battling other Marxist militants who accused them of "capitalist leanings" for refusing to send militants to establish new communist regimes or imposing an authoritarian government. The president during that time, Nured Elans, was inspired by Pastor Hendwors and his Sincereist movement, claiming that she wanted a nation that "practices true Marxism" rather than "pretend to be Soviet".

Still, there were two problems that the Nuredist regime had to deal with: militant communes that resisted the government, and occasional breakdowns in its service robots. These weakened the authority of the Nuredist regime and brought back a more republican government, without the conservatism or warmongering of the past USA. The collapse of the Nuredist regime led to the division of the coastal regions between several Marxist regimes, and raids by the American Federation's warriors to conquer and purge districts along the border.

The raids by the AF and Aryanland forced the thirty-seven Marxist regimes to become two federations. The western states practiced a government similar to the USSR, and the eastern states retained their semi-democratic structure. Due on ongoing debates, the two Marxist governments left the weakened US government alone, so both governments competed against each other to select the next presidents.

### World War III

When a civil war broke out in the AF, the two Marxist federations and the central government sent their armies to conquer its territories. They claimed that it was a "war of liberation", and they managed to seize control of several states. Even then, many Feddians either fled or committed suicide when they lost their cities to the conquerors. Those that survived and remained were sent to work camps as criminals, while others were shunned by the communities unless they recanted their beliefs. The AF was then split into three regimes, and the US's two halves pressed on their attacks.

The US took part in World War III. Desperate for resources, the leaders of the United States sent soldiers to install more socialist governments around the world, in response to Arabian, Chinese, and Russian conquests. The United States managed to annex Canada, Mexico, and parts of Western Europe and the Pacific under their control. Its client states looked forward for a unified world government centred on the United States, as they believed that its Marxist systems would make society more efficient, radical, and orderly to compete with other Galactic civilisations for domination.

After the Nordic State bombed New York City with a nuclear bomb, its angry president launched a nuclear missile at the Nordic capital and holy city of Uppsala. The surviving New Yorker Ussians battled against the Midwestern Dominion and the Nordic clone armies. With its society broken in the aftermath, its impoverished people pledged loyalty to the Earth Union. The Unionites later punished or recruited former Ussians, condemning their predecessors' society as "weak" for opposing the Unionites' war against the rest of the world. They were also inspired by the United States' attempts to conquer the world to outpace them by waging war on other nations.

## Geography

This America consisted of the remnants of the pre-existing historical nation. Its territory comprised of the West and East Coast (except for what is now the American South), Alaska, and the states south of the Great Lakes.

Parts of the Midwest and the Rocky Mountain States were lost during the wars against Stuart's dictatorship, and the American Southwest was given away to Mexico.

## Politics

See also: List of American presidents (Rinnarverse)

Like its predecessor, the US's government consists of a multi-party republic. However, it altered its Constitution to make socialism and leftism its national ideologies, and make certain minority rights permanent under certain amendments.

Since the days of Stuart Lisson and his Stalinist regime, the US experimented with single-party systems similar to that practiced in Cuba, but focusing more on a direct form of democracy electing the most capable person among the masses, rather than a bureaucratic system similar to Stalinism. Its subsequent rulers made a democratic version of Marxism as the state ideology of their country.

### Factions

Aside from the dominant progressive faction that rules US society, other factions existed:

* Deep Reds, Marxists - their goal is a society that emulates the Soviet Union, China, or Cuba; or a society without any sign of private businesses (which they considered to be exploitative) or individualism that the USA tolerated. They may or may not support making a more authoritarian, strict, militant, and obedient society if it could lead to less poverty by force, and ending the existence of capitalism on all of Earth by ruling the world. Ever since the fall of the Stuart regime, this faction became the dominant faction of the US, although they practiced a version that promoted democracy and social justice instead of authoritarianism.
	+ Contrary to popular belief, many Marxists in the US enjoy videogames and TV shows from the bygone USA, rather than ban them like the Soviet Union did. They just remake them and add themes to make them promote socialism and activism more often. There are Marxist groups that banned mass media and digital entertainment as "capitalist distractions", but the other Marxists mock them as "extreme gym rats" and "dry people".
	+ The Marxist faction of the US consists either of fervent believers among the civilians, or militants who reject the comforts of city life in favour of crafting and combat training. However, when a politician needs to be replaced, it is usually the Marxists who will propose their politicians to take over the government: they compete against rivals among the Socialist and Identity Politics factions.
	+ Like the Anarchists and some Socialists, they oppose the media and technology corporations that dominate the upper parts of US society. When the US announced that it must spread socialism to the world, some sent militants to support socialist states and militants elsewhere, while others opposed the US government's military attacks.
	+ Although many Ussians have adopted Marxist beliefs, this faction consists of more devout Marxists who seek to take over the US government and replace it with their own system, instead of people who keep the existing government. They tend to be more fanatical than the other factions, seeking to forcibly impose their society as their method to "save the people of the world from extinction"; whereas most Ussians, including Marxists, prefer a less-authoritarian society.
	+ Some Marxist militants ban all forms of luxury and anything related to royalty to direct their denizens towards a more "socialist" worldview. Others not only allowed luxuries, but also made their amenities luxurious so that anyone -- even the poorest citizen -- can enjoy them: their rivals denounced this as "promoting capitalism" for not making their residents more equal.
	+ Even with Nured's administration making Marxism the state ideology of the US, there are still Marxists who clung on to their militant groups. Some claim that living in militant communes is a healthier alternative to working in a competitive job and being saturated in entertainment; others distrusted her government as "not Marxist enough"; and some others want their faction to replace her government as the new government of the US.
	+ Eventually, the more-stronger Marxist communes began to dominate the US. With enough power to force surrounding communities to submit by withholding resources, they eventually formed a parallel authority to the US government, if not eclipsing it in power. The thirty-seven communes formed a federation in response to raids by enemies, but they split into western and eastern halves that practiced different systems.
* Greys - their goal is a society that consists of bands of volunteers. Even as the US authorities are more likely to help the poor, they still want the US government abolished and replaced with communes.
* Pinks - their goal is a society that favours and supports women, females, and non-heterosexuals above all else.
	+ Those feminists that rejected transgender people were banned and banished from the US as threats.
* Light Reds - their goal is a society where everything is affordable and everyone is out of poverty, even if it may lead to less comfort, and where everyone believes in socialist and revolutionary dogmas. This faction was most aligned with the dominant faction in US society until the Stuart regime.
* Racial Justice - their goal is a society that favours and/or supports minorities, such as Black people, Native Americans, Latinos/Latinxs, Muslims, non-heterosexuals, etc. Their views may overlap with those of the Feminists and Socialists.
	+ Many members of this faction form a sort of system that keeps US politicians in line -- should any politician utter an offensive remark, deny any help to the marginalised, or block any popular law that might help the marginalised, their Internet warriors will furiously condemn them and call for their impeachment. Once a politician is removed, they will select the most capable members among their faction to replace them -- sometimes competing with the local Marxists to have their politician win the most votes.
	+ There were a few militant groups and lone wolves who also targeted White people with violence and murder to take revenge, but most of them were punished as traitors. Some Racial Justice members fight those terrorists to prevent them from murdering more of their allies. However, they were permitted to slay billionaires to "reclaim" their wealth.
* Hedonists - their goal is a society where everything consists of nothing but art, entertainment, and sensual pleasures. As they are not as practical as the Marxists, Anarchists, and socialists, this faction is a loud but small faction mostly populated by city folk. Yet some of them possess a lot of wealth, making them targets to the Marxist and Anarchist militants who see them as "parasites".

Even within these factions, they also had their own factions that competed and disagreed with each other. Nonetheless, most of them managed to cooperate and form their own political parties, with the more militant members of these factions being lesser threats in outlying and isolated regions.

Fascism is banned in this United States, as it is associated with various terrorist incidents that broke out in the former USA, the radicalisation of the AF, mass murders by power-hungry people, and for its adherents' support for various genocides throughout history. In this United States, the promotion of fascism is considered a criminal offense, tantamount to treason. People accused of fascism are caught by mobs or reported by other citizens, and brought to reeducation camps. Once their prison sentences are completed, they are blacklisted from the rest of society until they make a public apology denouncing their beliefs. The community where the reformed criminal lives in would give the ex-inmate a punishment, usually community service without non-essential Internet usage, until the punishment expires or the community's members see that the ex-inmate has changed.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, and the like are regarded in this US as "terrorism". According to the people of this US, these acts -- altogether known as "bigotry", not only hurt mental health, but also cause people to become violent against others and the rest of society, leading to terrorism against the US and all of its people. While such acts may not necessarily lead to arrest, it will lead to almost every one shunning the perpetrator or even attacking the person to punish them. They consider this attitude -- punishing bigots and destroying them (unless they repent) -- as a form of vigilance and a duty to ensure their society will never become like the warlike AF.

Even if it their enemies consider it "harsh", the Ussians support and gladly encourage this method to keep their society in order. When their enemies condemned it as "a surveillance state", the Ussians gladly boast and laugh back that "it makes us more peaceful and safe!" In fact, continuing the risk-loving and mischievous attitude of their activist ancestors, they merrily mock the threats and insults of their enemies, making them proud when they seem more threatening and powerful than they actually are. So they use imagery that looks shocking, disruptive, and defiant, so long as it doesn't seem threatening to themselves or it resembles their fascist enemies.

It was the Purge of Europe, and the exiles of so many minority people and dissidents from Europe, that fuelled support for this attitude, so that what happened in Europe will never happen again in their country.

## Economy

Freed from depending on the approval of its conservative ex-citizens, the United States' government proceeded with implementing a greater socialist system. Large companies that were unable to relocate from the US were reorganised into cooperatives run by all (or usually most) of the workers, or nationalised as businesses under government control. However, a few companies managed to avoid being broken down into cooperatives, mostly media groups that entertained the people and technology corporations that supplied the country.

An expanded security net was established by the US government that was meant to push the poor out of poverty or starvation. However, this also led to a portion of its people being dependent on tax money from other citizens, as they no longer needed to work: other Ussians mockingly call them "the hamster people". In spite of every citizen receiving some money from the government every month, taxes in the US tend to be a little higher than in the AF. In larger cities, prices of goods are somewhat more expensive to ensure that the workers receive enough for their needs, although public transport and amenities are affordable, boasting higher standards and better comforts at lower prices or none. Much of the public services in Ussian society are paid with taxpayer money, where people with more wealth paying more and people with lower or no incomes having no taxes until they earned a certain amount of monthly income. Also, services in the US tend to be more "generous", giving more bonuses to customers with little or no price, unlike the AF where some companies are free to force customers to pay heavy prices to access basic services.

In spite of various attempts to redistribute wealth, celebrities and rich hedonists still existed in the US's metropolises, contributing to a form on inequality that they fiercely defended in online posts. This leads to conflict between the spoiled urbanites, against the various activist and militant groups all over the country.

Initially, the US's workforce consisted mostly of workers, willing to build their country's flagging economy while enjoying a more comfortable lifestyle with lesser hours of work. In later times, they were replaced by robots, people willing to serve others in their community, people selling their products with other workers in cooperatives, and willing workers who still enjoyed their jobs or who tried to catch up with the rising prices in their society. However, in later times, the economy has become so dependent on robotic labour and militant communes, that large parts of the country faced shortages when communes refused to trade or when the machines occasionally broke down. The resulting Marxist federations managed to slowly build their economies, but the Western Marxists were stronger because of their military buildup to prepare for conquering the AF.

Even though the US's military was stronger than its conservative counterpart, its later economy was not as strong as its predecessor. Much of it has become dependent on cooperatives and militia-communes, resulting in a lower output. And with lesser produce, the government sometimes runs out of funds even with much taxes' money, resulting in occasional austerity programmes.

A portion of the US's economy is spent on helping poorer countries rebuild, as their form of justice against colonialism by paying them part of its vast and fluctuating wealth. While the leaders of the US and many of its citizens did this because of their socialist beliefs, they also did this to avoid the warmongering of the former USA, or they took cues from China's infrastructure plans in other countries (with less of the debt).

## Military

The US's army is a powerful army, consisting of millions of volunteers and robots. Their numbers are boosted by immigrants and militants from other countries. A third of the US's people serve in militias.

The US has more advanced technology and higher numbers than its conservative counterpart.

Unlike the USA and the AF, the US refuses to establish bases in foreign countries, nor does it bomb other countries. However, in some cases when it got attacked, the vengeful people of the US would fight back either by bombing the aggressor and sending warriors to establish a friendly regime: as in the case of the Nordic State mainly because it was a fascist regime, or against the cloned armies of Europe and Africa who waged war against the US. The US sends troops to support socialistic regimes and revolutions, and prefers to spread socialism (its own variant) via activist groups, mass media, and literature -- making it more friendly to Vietnam, Cuba, China, and various other countries in Asia and Africa. Its people believe that the spread of its form of socialism to the whole world is to end all forms of suffering, discrimination, starvation, and cruelty -- perhaps with force and much sacrifice if necessary.

The very existence of a fascist nation is considered a very mournful and infuriating thing to the US, as it might lead to more cruelty and a new genocide, so the US uses various ways to undermine its rulers. If they cannot invade the nation, the US will support activist groups and local militias to overthrow the regime: but if the regime is considered weak, the US might send willing warriors to punish the fascists.

That is why it was at war with the AF, and even more so when the AF is taken over by the Racialists (which they consider as a form of fascism). But because the Ussians refuse militarism and dislike long, protracted wars that will lead to millions of pointless losses, they avoid waging direct war against Russia, the Nordic State, and Visegrad, three powerful civilisations accused of "fascism" for their reactionary sentiments. If they did, they might have repeated the protracted, exhausting wastage of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and risk a possible invasion and slaughter by those three empires.

A large number of Ussians consider military service to be evil because of its associations with the War on Terror and the coups, so some Ussians prohibit military personnel from entering their shops, businesses, and establishments: they want it abolished and replaced with a "self-defense force" similar to Japan or the Viet Cong in case of foreign invasion. Instead of punitive expeditions (except to stop fascism and racism), they want to send aid and activists to other countries, both to help them and influence them into their ideological orbit. Others either keep the military as a deterrent against invasion by Russia, the Nordic State, or the AF, while some youngsters formed their own militias either in opposition to the US government or to establish their own private regimes and communes abroad.

Because their calls to abolish the military were not answered, many activists formed their own militias as their own defensive network against invaders and terrorists. Most of them tend to be Marxist and anarchist militias because they trusted the US government less for not being as radical as them. These militias coalesced into thirty-seven regimes, and then into two federations. The Western Marxists built up their own army, as they considered the weakness of the AF as the right time to annex it, while the Eastern Marxists only had a self-defense force.

However, occasionally militants from the US would travel to certain countries to establish their own socialist regimes, spread their ideology to the world, and overthrow unfriendly dictators; even if the US opposes their attempts to conquer other nations. These militants sometimes also attack other socialist countries, seeking to drag them into their own revolutionary standards and condemning them for not being "militant" or "revolutionary" enough; other countries mock them for their obsession with videogames and pop culture.

## Society

### Society

The society of the US is more focused on diversity (which it celebrates *very* frequently), progressivism, socialism, activism, and social justice. Sometimes, the people's anger against their enemies' wrongdoings or desire to eliminate the atrocities of the past (out of fear of them returning to hurt them) can cause their society to become more fanatical.

Ussian society also had harsh punishments against "bigotry" (offensive words or actions against women, non-heterosexuals, or minorities), as its leaders sought to end it quickly before it might harm any of its citizens or repeat any of the terrorist incidents in the 21st century. According to the people of the US, the mass shootings that were common during those days and rampant in the AF were fuelled by bigotry and desires for power.

Suspected "bigots" could be sent to reeducation camps, whether they were forced to recant their views to be accepted back into society. Even then, "bigots" who were just released from the camps were shunned by the rest of society until they proved to their neighbours that they accepted diversity and socialism (such as donating to poorer people, marching in a rally, or adding diverse characters in artistic works): saying apologies was not considered enough. They may still be permitted to access public transport and facilities, but most private businesses and citizens would shun them and bar them from entering their premises, until they make their public apologies. Some communities are more merciful, in which repentant "bigots" are given a probation period and observed by the whole community until they have been considered "trustworthy". Others are more merciful enough to send suspected "bigots" to counselling sessions, seeking to eliminate the causes of said bigotry by convincing the perpetrators to change their beliefs.

To avoid the mistakes of its police-obsessed predecessor, the US focuses more on saving lives instead of saving products, allowing their own belongings and valuables to be destroyed just to preserve any one or few of its citizens. It also allowed riots as a legal form of protest, as it was considered more effective to its people than votes: this caused some paranoid foreigners to view Americans as "unruly" or "destructive", giving them gold, valuables, jewellery, and high-tech machines to appease them before telling them to go away.

The peoples of this United States are very proud of their social system, no matter how fragmented it has become, as they believe that their way will lead to better human rights. As they believe that their way will end all suffering, the Ussians support various nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America as "decolonised nations", but they expect and pressure their allies to adopt their system or be condemned. They proudly consider themselves as "the vanguard of the working class", even as their socialist allies view them as arrogant.

Some Ussians go as far as expect to be the leaders of the world, believing that only they know the best for all of humanity, with themselves in charge and their ways as the law of the world: this led to tensions with its allies, India, Arabia, and China. These Ussians are more prone to forming their own militias to set up their own communes in other countries, seeking to replicate the leftist system of the United States in other lands or to dominate the world under a single government. They were encouraged by the two Marxist governments in their homeland splitting their homeland apart, after those militants were ashamed by the division of their homeland into two different governments.

Nonetheless, while their rivals are proud enough not to tolerate any criticism of their nations, the Ussians are very prone to criticising their own society. Even within their Marxist communes, their cadres often question the motives of their own leaders and each other's members.

### Life in the US

The US is connected by a network of high-speed railways, known as the National Metro.

Freed from their dependency on work, many Americans in urban areas began to consume most of their time on entertainment. Among the favourite activities of these urban Ussians (especially the so-called "hamster people") include video games, drawing, music, sports, fursuits, and even a lot of sex. These "hamster people" are the biggest enemies of the Marxist factions in the US, who see them as the new elites and seek to forcibly "equalise" the "hamster people" out of their pleasure-seeking lifestyles by forcing them to work on the farms and workshops.

Ussians like drawing, combat sports, videogames, writing blogs, wearing costumes, music, acting, blogging, activism, sex, and discussing leftist studies. They look down on activities that are considered too "masculine" or "feminine", associating them with the sexism of the AF. Unlike the AF, many Ussians do not eat much foods with testosterone, either out of preference for cake and vegetables or associating testosterone with "patriarchy" and the AF's obsession with meat.

In the US, women and non-heterosexuals were free to do almost anything they wish, unless they have committed an act of bigotry. Polyamoury was also legalised in the US, resulting in erotic communes or large brawls by jealous lovers.

Like their predecessors of the bygone USA, one popular hobby among youngsters is by making observations about society's weaknesses, from remaining sentiments that do not welcome the marginalised and the poor, to poorly-written works that portray diverse characters haphazardly. This is encouraged as a method to push society into perpetual revolution and equality, making youngsters into vigilantes. Many of these bloggers and writers tend to say outrageous things to shock people into listening to them or to relieve their frustrations: while in the USA this led to protests by conservatives, the rest of the US's society accepts this as simply one of countless critiques about their society that will never be enough.

Among young urban Ussians, one popular hobby is "dogpiling", when a team of Internet users harass a fan or artist because they find their art offensive, or they fight against another team of keyboard warriors to force them to submit. They consider this to be more effective than criticism, as they wanted to be as shocking as possible. Like the neighbouring AF, Internet trolling is a popular sport among urban Ussians, either to force others to submit to their ideology and join their revolution, or simply for fun and "in the name of freedom of speech". Even these keyboard warriors are outnumbered by activists who find their methods to be unnecessary and excessive: if their attacks led to violence, brawling, or suicide attempts, the perpetrators are hunted down, exposed and displayed throughout the whole country, and then arrested. This practice has also spread to the AF by sadistic emigrants who did not fit in with US's society and who wanted more freedom to spout controversial and shocking content for their own amusement, even as they enjoyed battling the existing right-wing keyboard warriors that already live there. While they thrived in the AF as hired cyberwarriors, as underground hedonists, or they fought against by their rightist enemies, in Cascadia these trolls are regarded as stupid oddballs and recluses, in Jefferson they are able to thrive as self-destructive cyberwarriors and pirates, and in Deseret and Turtle Island the rest of society laughs at their petulant and entitled attitude.

To reduce cyberbullying such as the "dogpiling" behaviour among young Ussians, the government implemented morality classes for adolescents, including lessons on how to behave on the Internet. Even though a few Ussians angrily complained that this will make people less active in supporting their causes or fighting injustice (when it has more to do with fans harrassing each other), most Ussians found it to be a relief.

Many Ussians had a habit of denouncing people over their past statements, as their comments would make them become a threat to vulnerable people. The day when someone's past statements are being exposed becomes a rite of passage in Ussian culture -- almost every Ussian, even the accusers, too, will eventually have their "exposure day", and it is celebrated with criticism against the target. Many Ussians believe that exposing past posts sorts out "trustworthy" people from "potential threats", keeping people in line with the rest of society to prevent terrorism in the form of bigotry.

Due to their opponents' fanatical obsession with traditional American culture, the Ussians have a strong dislike of traditional American culture, the 1950's, "Western civilisation" (as defined by the AF), and Protestant Christianity; seeing them as symbols of oppression. The AF's obsession with White people also made many Ussians dislike their White comrades, occasionally culminating into violent revenge attacks or exiles of Whites to Europe: this was opposed by the Marxists themselves, who preferred not to lose their comrades in more race wars. Some terrorist groups and gangs even attempted to wage war against White people for the sake of vengeance, but they were stopped and punished by the Ussian government and its militias before they were able to tear the country apart.

Either because they believed it will make people help the poor, or out of spite towards the AF's right-wing curriculums in their schools, schools in the US often teach about social justice and Marxism as their "morality" or "science" classes after a certain amendment made them mandatory. They even do it in as early as elementary school: they teach their students to be cautious of "early signs of fascism" in the forms of offensive or exclusionary statements, as they consider it a way to prevent mass shootings and violent hooliganism.

### Artistic works

Artistic works in the United States tend to fall under several categories:

* artworks promoting people of colour, women, and LGBTQ people;
* half-baked attempts to score progressive points;
* the occasional "un-political" story;
* and public service announcements that teach socialist and Marxist doctrines and beliefs.

Many people in the United States of that era want their works to be as "political" as possible, both to mock their enemies in the AF and to ensure everyone in the world always knows their issues and supports them for ever. They do this by including as many social issues as possible in their work: some works managed to remain impressively well-written alongside their heavy political themes, while others are mocked in other nations as "lectures" or "diversity shows".

One thing that made Ussian shows better than their USA predecessors was that popular shows were encouraged to last for more than four or five seasons, while disliked or stale shows lasted for up to two or three at best.

### Demographics

The US's racial makeup tends to be comprised of Latinos, Chinese, and Black people; with White, Jewish, mixed, Middle Eastern, and Native American minorities. Most people in the US were bilingual, speaking in English and Spanish, while some districts also used any Native American languages that were used in their respective areas.

To replace its conservative citizens that have defected to the AF, the US invited poorer people from the rest of the world into its borders, leading to better relations with South America and Africa.

It let its immigrants carry over their rivalries and contempt towards the rest of society, but if said rivalries spilled over into violence or terrorism, the whole nation will "harmonise" the perpetrators to make them more compliant to society, preferring to let the immigrants adapt to US society at their own pace and their own terms. It cares more about housing as many people to indulge in its pleasures and work in its perpetual revolution: unlike other nations that are defined by their ethnicity or race, the US cares more about being "the greatest diverse society in the world".

To the disappointment and rage of nationalists around the world, the people of this United States have no regard on what race or ethnicity should represent the whole country, unlike other countries who defined themselves with a specific ethnicity. If one dominant people declines in terms of population, they would gladly let other people from elsewhere replace them to keep their society functioning. No matter how much the new majority was expected to continue the nation's culture, it eventually was changed by the new majority, instead of following one specific norm like traditional countries do. For example, with the socialist White majority replaced by a socialist Latino majority, outsiders consider the resulting nation as "an English-speaking extension of Mexico".

This - a nation that allows itself to simply change its demographics to preserve its own existence - is known by international observers as a "shifting nation" or "idealist state", as different from the usual nation that focuses on one (or several existing) culture and ethnicity.

### Districts

Some districts did not have any police force, as the locals or authorities considered the existence of a police force to be "oppressive": they were also shocked by the harsh methods used by police forces in Europe and Asia. Therefore, its citizens themselves enforce order, arresting or attacking anyone suspected of criminal acts, and if an incident gets out of hand (such as a terrorist attack or gang violence) they call other neighbourhood patrollers or the armed forces to stop their enemies. Some other districts are instead supervised by Marxist and anarchist militias, who sometimes enact laws considered in other countries to be "too harsh" or "strict".

Some districts and states allowed local Black, Latino, non-heterosexual, and Native neighbourhoods to become autonomous, as the US government wanted them to be more self-sufficient. Even though these neighbourhoods received a share of taxes from the government, they already had their own enforcement systems, economies, and policies, making them like "little states within states". This resulted in "allied territories", such as the enclaves of New Afrika (located along the South), Navajo Region, and Los Angeles Sur. The same policies were applied to anarchist, Marxist, and feminist communes, as the government wanted to use them as allies in their war against the AF.

When the Latinos eventually became the new majority of the United States, many young people called for the disbandment of some autonomous districts as these districts representing the majority would seem redundant. In spite of this, some of them continued to remain independent as "refuges" for poorer people and victims of abuse. A smaller portion instead either declared themselves "the League of Aztlan" or declared themselves part of Mexico.

Some districts had organised so-called "Looting Days" at every few weeks or once a month, when department stores were left unguarded for anyone to take anything from it without paying as long as it fits within their trolley. It was done mainly as a form of stress relief, or to make things more accessible to low-income citizens, and it was mandatory for every large business that operated in the US to allow their products to be taken by customers on those days. Even though they forbade any form of weapons or violence during the Looting Days, fights sometimes broke out. In later times, they are renamed as "Store Days", as crowds became more organised, fights were less frequent, to the point that they do not need to loot on those days.

In later times, several Southwestern states were given away to Mexico as "reparations", so some US residents switched to Mexican citizenship and others moved away to other states such as California.

* Selfwards enclaves - Districts mostly inhabited by a particular minority (such as Black people and Native Americans) and run by an autonomous government formed by its residents.
	+ Examples include New Afrika, Navajo Region, and Los Angeles Sur.
	+ A few of these enclaves were more militant than the rest, seeking revenge against White people by killing them. Some of these enclaves attempted to create their own ethnostates as their equivalents of the Aryanland enclaves. For attacking other citizens of the US, the government declared the militant enclaves "terrorists" and combined forces made of soldiers, local citizen bands, and friendly enclaves defeated them. However, those that targeted billionaires and very rich people were spared, only to be later used by the government to attack its opponents.
* Black and Red enclaves - Disgusted by the "softening" of the urban folk, some Americans formed Marxist and anarchist enclaves, where they spend their days on crafts and farming.
	+ Many of these enclaves were formed as an alternative defence system against the military. They also apprehended criminals and suspected bigots, and even replaced the police forces in some towns.
	+ Many of them tend to collectively own everything within their commune, except for personal items. Some enclaves only use money to buy supplies and food, and some tend to export food and handicrafts to people and communities considered "poor". A few were militants who waged war against the US government, condemning it as "not revolutionary enough": but as long as they did not launch any attacks against the cities they were mostly left alone.
	+ Some "hamster people" from the cities joined them because they want to impose more Marxism upon the whole US or convert the entire US into an anarchist federation, as they believed that this will help the poor live a more plentiful life. Other "hamster people" fear them as though the enclaves will drag them out of their sensual pleasures and force them to work in the farms.
	+ Some Black-Red enclaves banned videogames, cartoons, and luxury items (which are smelted or recycled), as these were considered "capitalist distractions" that stopped people from focusing on the marginalised. Other related enclaves and the rest of US society consider this policy to be somewhat extreme, comparing them to boot camps: they instead preferred a society that ends laziness and forces people to work. People suspected of "parasitism", such as the "hamster people", were sent to the work farms to be reconditioned through hard labour.
	+ When the Marxists took over the country, many suburbs were converted to garden-apartments or worker communes that produced the country's resources next to the remaining cooperatives. In some Marxist communes, anyone who wanted to live in a more rural setting was required to relocate to the farms and work in a mandatory job.
* Pink enclaves - Neighbourhoods for sexual orientations. Most of them became safe havens for people who grew up in troubled environments.
* Dark Pink enclaves - Erotic communes. Most of them are considered entertainment venues, so they are not listed as a separate catergory in official government maps.

### Public holidays

* MLK Day - January 17
* Women's Day - March 8
* Democracy Day - April 15
	+ This was the day when President Hefasteo declared the USA to be dedicated to leftism. To the supporters of the succeeding US, they consider it a defense or an upgrade of democracy by making social justice the official ideology of the country.
	+ It later replaced July 4th as the national day until the Stuart administration.
* Labour Day - May 1
* Marxism Day - May 5
	+ This was the national day of the US from the Stuart administration onwards. It is marked with film festivals, debates, dance shows, or with military parades.
* Juneteenth Day - June 16
* Remembrance Day - July 4
* Socialism Day - November 7
* Native Americans' Day - fourth Friday of November
* Christmas - December 25

### Cultural holidays

* Black History Month
* Pride Month
* Store Days
* days of celebrities' performances

### Memorials

The Ussians had memorials to honour the victims of imperialism, slavery, capitalism, fascism (including the Holocaust and all known forms of bigotry), violence against Blacks, Latinos, and natives up to the Second Civil War, and the millions who died during the plague of 2020. Their goal is to spread socialism to the world and usher in a society dedicated to total equality, an ever-changing culture that always celebrates diversity, and total entertainment and hedonism.

Because this United States was founded by a party of activists, they decided to use new symbols to replace what they considered as "oppressive, imperialistic White tyrants". Instead of the Founding Fathers, who were slaveowners who appeased the Southern slave societies, the new Founders (or Xhenia ("ZHEH-nyah"), in a popular conlang from Reltak) consisted of the most prominent activists who took control of the remnant after the American Federation seceded.

## Religion

Angered by abuse from religious fundamentalists, the Ussians dislike religion in general, but allow its citizens to practice any religious belief (as long as it is not abusive to minorities).

The most prominent religions in the US include Sunni Islam (or a more liberal version that is considered "deviant" to the Middle East and Asia), Roman Catholicism, Judaism (many Jews were welcomed who fled from the Racialist punitive campaigns), Hinduism, and the small remnants of Protestant and Catholic Christianity. Some Americans instead practice forms of paganism, cartoon worship, and sex cults. The rest of the US's people are atheists.

## Terminology

### Official

* The Socialist States of America
* The Progressive States of America
* The Democratic Republic of America
* The People's Republic of America (during Stuart's Stalinist regime)

### Unofficial

#### Positive

* Worker's Paradise
* Land of the Rose
* Land of the Hammer and Sickle
* Land of Justice
* Land of Equality
* Diversidad
* The Liberated States of America
* Red America
* Champion of Diversity
* Marx Will Be Proud of Us
* One Step to Communism
* Liberation
* Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time
	+ This is used to represent the heavy proportion of younger people in the US, compared to the higher amount of middle-aged and elderly people in the AF. During the 2060s and in later generations, most people were adept users of the Internet, and as they dominated the entertainment industry of the US they carried over their memes and their ideological devotion with them.
* Vanguard of the Proletariat
* The Uplifter of Humanity
* Future Capital of Humanity

#### Negative

* Soviet Traitors (AF)
* Leftistland (AF)
* Rainbowland (AF)
* Marxistan/Stalinland (AF)
	+ Due to the promotion of Marxism and socialism in public schools all over the US.
* Soviet America (AF, Russia)
* He Who Fights Monsters, Land of Irony, Becoming Their Enemy (Russia, Visegrad)
* The Godless Realm of America (AF)
* Red America (AF, Visegrad, Russia)
* Babylon (AF, Visegrad)
* North Mexico/English Mexico/Great Mexico (Visegrad, Mexico)
	+ Those names are used to make fun of the US's English-speaking Latino majority, accusing them of being an extension of Mexico.
	+ Even Mexicans often make jokes about the US as "our edgy little brother from the north" or "those weird commies with videogames". They also think that the Americans are quite annoying for constantly pressuring them and their neighbours to adopt their form of socialism, even though they already follow an existing form of socialism practiced throughout Latin America.
* Airstrip One
* Riotland
* Diversity Zoo (fascists)
* God-Haters (Visegrad, AF)
* Anti-Whites (fascists, NeoNazis)
* Parasites (AF)
	+ Referring to the heavy social programmes used by the government which led to higher taxes.
* Wokeland (AF)
* Empire of Woke, the Woke Empire, The Woke Regime (AF, Visegrad, Russia, India)
	+ Referring to the nearly-endless, in-your-face promotion of diversity and progressive values, according to angry Feddians. Its attempts to spread its progressive values to all countries in the world is considered a form of imperialism to nationalist regimes in other continents.
* I Demand More

## Trivia

* Americans from the US are known as "Ussies" or "Ussians", from "u-s" (united states).
* This America is based on left-wing groups, activists, and extremists on the Internet (such as Twitter) and news reports. This whole article is a sort of "stimulation" on what society they would create if they became the rulers of America.
	+ The Marxist factions and influence in this US's society may be influenced by the presence of Marxists, Leninists, and Stalinists on Twitter, and many young artists on Twitter placing hammers and sickles on their profiles or declaring themselves "communists". So the author assumes that if these people would dominate American society, they might make Marxism an unofficial doctrine for the whole country.
	+ The heavy sexual aspects of this US may be a reference to pornography in American society.

## See also

* Cosmopolitan Empire
* Red Ardesch - a more militant and warmongering version
* Eastern Enclaves - its probable equivalent in the Rabydosverse
* Shaunetor - another example of a "shifting nation", a state that allows itself to change its national identity instead of sticking to one ethnicity. It is also a nation of nonbinary people.
* Denlotia - a world system after Red Ardesch that attempted to use a mixture of traditionalist and socialist methods to uplift its world's inhabitants