The Dominion

The Dominion, also known as the New Dominions of America, is the militant arm of the extreme Christian Fundamentalist ideologies in the New American Wasteland of 2035. In the chaos of civil conflict and the wake of the United States government withdrawing from the West Coast, The New Dominions and adjacent militant groups took the opportunity to seize control of communities wherever they could. Forcing their way of life onto everyone in their zone of control to rebuild the America they “lost”, and begin the America of their vision.

## Timeline/History

2021: Following a successful election, former Vice President Joseph Biden becomes president. Unable to accept the election results, the previous president rallies his support base and mounts an insurrection on the country’s Capitol Building, the day the election is to be certified. The terrorists erect gallows outside of the capital and call for the execution of opposing party officials. The capital is stormed as the nation watches in horror. Despite the odds, Capitol Police defend the building and officials, until National Guard support is reluctantly approved.

2022: The former President goes unimpeached and unpunished after his attempted coup. The sentencing for the terrorists that had stormed the capitol is light, with few insurrectionists receiving long prison sentences. The climate is heating quickly and despite calls for change little is done by the Federal Government, millions of Americans bear the brunt of heatwaves, inflation, and dystopian income inequality. Women’s rights are unraveled by a Christo-Fascist-led supreme court.

2023: The right to marriage equality is overturned, mass riots begin but are met by militarized riot police. Christo-Fascist paramilitary groups counter the protests, but rely on an overwhelmed police force for protection. Lacking numbers, the Christo-Fascists resort to gunning down their adversaries. This is ignored by police, and causes left-wing antifascists to bring their own arms. Firefights become constant in the urban centers.

2024: Facing an unwinnable election due to mass public disapproval of Right-wing legislators, GOP speakers and figureheads condemn the legitimacy of the election before it’s even begun. They call on their voter base to instead “commence 1776 again”, leading to mass shootings and bombings of polling centers and government buildings. Many states discuss seceding from the Union, but it becomes impossible to govern their own metro centers as they each become their own conflict zones between fascist, anti-fascist, and militant opportunists. Sustained heatwaves and droughts cause farmers to abandon their crops and mass migrations to the cities where amenities are more accessible begin.

2025: States become more divided along party lines, with cities becoming the hubs of armed combat between political factions and the rural areas becoming increasingly uninhabitable, cut off from necessary resources. Emergency services are overwhelmed and quickly become insignificant as casualties mount, and first responders leave their jobs to safeguard their families. The National Guard is deployed to innumerable areas in the country, but command and control is hamstrung by political schisms in the ranks and leadership. Many guardsmen and active duty service members begin to desert their units, to ensure the safety of their families.

2026: Christo-fascist groups begin installing new governments and laws in areas they now control, calling their zones “New Dominions”. The citizens who weren’t able to escape are subjected to the practices of their faith. Rumors of mass killings of LGBTQ and minority communities make it out to the general public, before Dominion territories destroy cellular towers and limit internet connection to privileged oligarchs. Very few people escape these “Dark Zones”, telling nightmarish stories of enslavement, forced marriage, and ethnic cleansing.

2027: The federal government passes new legislation, enabling the deployment of active-duty troops on U.S. soil, to retake the Dominion zones. To aid in this endeavor, the United States declares secessionist groups as terrorist cells, in effect opening a new theater in the War on Terror. Casualties mount as large portions of military units desert or defect in the fighting. Conditions are horrendous while combat units learn how to fight an American insurgency at a heavy mortal cost, often battling former comrades that absconded with intelligence and materiel.

2028: The United States is fractured into a spectrum of conflict zones. Scenes previously thought only to have been seen in Asia and the Middle East now take place regularly on American soil. Congress approves the use of USSOCOM forces and air power against the Dominion factions. Civilians suffer the worst of this decision, as the fundamentalist groups use them as human shields, to protect themselves from the worst of the bombings and air strikes. Drones are a constant presence in the sky over Dominion-controlled regions. Leftist and survivalist groups begin forming the first Independent Communities, or “InComs”, in remote regions of wilderness. Semi self-sustaining interlinked communities, tucked away in rural areas, away from the worst of the fighting.

2030: The United States government withdraws the bulk of its resources to the Eastern Seaboard, where it draws a battle line, guarded by its battered military. Special Operations Groups continue to function in the shadows in the American West, but the large military actions against Fundamentalist territories no longer take place. In the absence of the U.S. Military, fundamentalist groups blitz through formerly neutral territory and begin their genocide.

2031: U.N. forces are deployed to the Former United States. Dominion leadership declares this as a fulfilled prophecy of the End Times, and mobilizes their loyal followers to begin a crusade against “foreign invaders” in any holdout zones they seek to aid. A lengthy insurgency begins, with UN Peacekeepers faced with intense resistance, and vehicle-borne IED attacks on U.N. aid stations and bases are a regular occurrence.

2032: With U.N. approval, the Mexican Naval infantry and Canadian Army begin intervention missions in the South and North, to assist in stabilizing the American West. This inspires many countries to donate resources and manpower to aid the U.N. There are rumors of Mexican, Canadian, and American Special Forces engaging in long range missions to secure nuclear weapons stockpiles in lost territory.

2033: The Russian Federation invades Alaska and begins a costly occupation. Russia is one of the few nations that provides economic relief to the deteriorating Dominion economies, and Dominion loyalists frame the Russian occupation of a former US State as “returning God to a heathen land”.

2035: The Present Day. With the United States routed and most internal enemies expunged, the New Dominions already grow restless. Schisms quickly take place, and rival Dominions draw lines in the sand over the minutiae of their Christian dogma. New States in other regions are quickly demonized, and the fundamentalists begin conscripting a new generation of soldiers for a coming crusade against their neighbors.

## Geography

The New Dominions control large swathes of land that once belonged to the United States. The entirety of the American South is almost completely in Dominion control, as well as portions of the Midwest and Great Plains area. Minor groups exist in the Pacific Northwest, and a bastion of non-Christian Mormons exists in the Western Interior.

## Government and Politics

*"The sinful have had their chance, our time is now."*

By all accounts and outside observations, the New Dominions have reverted to consolidating power over their populations with revived forms of feudalism. The New Dominions govern their territories as Christo-fascist fiefdoms. Despite swaying their people with calls to “save democracy”, the New Dominions were quick to absolve their old democratic institutions, and replaced them with theocracies, governed by loyal oligarchs.

To consolidate power in their regions, the right to vote in supposed elections was stripped from virtually every non-white Christian minority that still remained in the territories. It has been reserved only for the upper crust of Dominion elites. On average, only the wealthy, white, male Christian landowners of the upper class are granted the privilege. However, it is speculated that these elections hold no actual sway on state governance, and only loyalist oligarchs are granted the power to determine governors.

The majority of state legislators are composed of pre-secession politicians that aligned themselves with the secession movements early on. Power was consolidated with high-profile pastors and extremist online bloggers, who framed narratives that these movements sought to take their perceived version of America back from undesirable people groups. Many of these leaders were rewarded for their efforts with varying stations of power in their new order.

When the Dominions took full control of individual states, the governing bodies were reorganized into systems that reflected Christo-centric ideals. State congresses and senate bodies were dissolved, and in their place were Dominion Councils. Instead of Senators or members of Congress, Elders of Dominion holdings were appointed to represent their districts. Governors of individual Dominion states were rebranded as Reverends. And ultimate heads of state were declared Chief Ministers, rather than Presidents or Prime Ministers found leading secular governments.

The Dominions have appropriated Christian iconography and monikers to give legitimacy to their titles. Common leadership roles in both civil and military departments of the Dominions are labelled as Pastors or Chaplains. As a militant state, most leaders in the Dominions serve as both governors and military leadership. Leadership amongst the Dominion is relegated to Ministers, Pastors, and Elders, most inciting up their congregations and leading them into battle. The most successful can have multiple Battalions of Crusade forces at their disposal.

## List of Known Dominions

Contrary to popular belief, the so-called "Dominion" is actually a collective nomenclature associated with approximately eight different major territorial powers, as well as dozens more minor extremist movements across the Former United States. The majority of these territories are present in virtually the entire American South, as well as portions in the West. All of these groups have come to be generalized as the greater "Dominion" movement that is currently affecting daily life in North America. Their alliances are loose, and are often in conflict with each other, when not actively staging offensives on their corporate or secular neighbors. The following states represent the largest Dominion powers:

### New Dominion Confederacy

One of the largest territorial holdings, the New Dominion Confederacy is composed of three former states in the American South. N.D.C. includes Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Their state output is largely agricultural, and serves as the breadbasket of the greater Southern region. As a state, N.D.C. claims inheritance to the legacy of the Confederate States of America, a failed slaver economic separatist movement from American history, and utilizes such iconography in their new government order.

The major cities in this Dominion were faced with some of the bloodiest violence against minority populations in the region. More prominent cities, such as Atlanta, were initially besieged by extremist forces and military turncoats, until adequate buffer zones and counter-terrorism forces could be established to segregate these new city-states from the rest of the territory. Although constantly at odds with the Dominion's narrative, the N.D.C. government still relies on the economic power of the municipal zones, who rely on the immediate territory around these cities to sustain their own agriculture demands. In the outlying rural areas, plantations and other similar labor camps are staffed with indentured subjects, largely minorities unable to escape the region, and produce staple crops and raw textile materials, such as cotton and tobacco. The UN has placed sanctions on the Confederacy for its alleged war crimes and discriminatory practices, yet their products continue to be distributed by the Incorporated States, who launder imported materials into their products, akin to other foreign sweatshop production (conveniently out of public sight or interest in Asia).

On the Florida/Georgia Line, border skirmishes frequently break out between the New Dominion Confederacy, and the Florida Southern Baptist Dominion, over territorial disputes. In the North, probing patrols are frequently routed from the Appalachians, and labor revolts are near-constant. It’s speculated that foreign interests are arming the enslaved populace to distress the Confederacy into capitulation.

### Florida Southern Baptist Dominion

The majority of territory in the former US state of Florida has been reincorporated into the Southern Baptist Dominion. In the years leading up to the mass secession, Florida had already legislated the majority of its Christo-Fascist policies, to the point that Florida was the most stably-converted of the former states, despite heavy civil unrest in the cities. Although composed of the former Orange State, its coastal holdings are currently limited to its eastern coasts around the Caribbean Sea, while a large chunk of territory has been wedged in the Florida Gulf Coast, by the New Florida Alliance. Frequent skirmishes between Florida and the New Dominion Confederacy break out occasionally on the Florida/Georgia Line, as well as with Free Black forces from Former Louisiana.

Neighboring coastal nations have served to form a blockade along the Gulf Coast, to prevent the flow of illicit goods from going into or out of the region. The growing refugee crisis has hampered efforts, both by foreign and Floridian interests, from controlling the population. It is speculated that a sophisticated underground smuggling movement has formed in the area, to facilitate the escape of runaway slaves and other refugees from Dominionist Florida.

Frequent weather hazards and flooding have battered what little infrastructure that still stood. Hurricanes frequently strike the Florida Coast, and nonexistent government resources have rendered much of Florida's structural integrity decrepit from neglect. The Florida Everglades are increasing in size and flooding vital farmland and living space, and Eastern coastal cities are deteriorating to hazardous conditions for safe habitation. The once-affluent communities of Miami and West Palm Beach have been all but abandoned, to where the former tenants have gone is still up for speculation.

### Appalachian Baptist Dominion

The former states of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Southern Virginia make up the Appalachian Baptist Dominion. Despite the US Remnant claiming authority in Virginia Proper and West Virginia, the heaviest of conflict between the US and extremist groups takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, as well as along the Ohio River. Although claiming so much territory, it’s little more than a puppet state for incorporated interests to mine coal and produce staples such as grain alcohol, a point of great contention, seeing as the Temperance regimes frequently clash with its population on the subject of prohibition. Appalachian Baptist Dominion frequently clashes with hundreds of unaffiliated guerilla fighters in the Appalachian Mountains, where some of the most rugged and isolationist of InComs are located. It also clashes with US Remnant forces, seeking to establish buffer zones for its territory along the Ohio River Front and the Appalachian Corridor.

As of 2035, The Appalachian Baptist Dominion is one of the strongest economies of the New Dominions of America, due to the wholesale outsourcing of their own local economic assets to Corporate entities. The complete co-opting of their output with little to no tax penalty on the Corporations, and the oligarchs which control them, has increased output and short term growth significantly, at the cost of long term sustainability.

### Evangelist Carolina Dominion

The former states of North and South Carolina have established the Evangelist Carolina Dominion. Although not as militant as its neighbors, this Dominion state has reintroduced the apartheid system, segregating its remaining minority populations from the dominant Christo-Fascist loyalist class of white subjects. While greatly controversial, the new government championed the move, claiming segregation as a decision in the best interest of everyone involved to avoid further alleged violence. The policy has had little success in curtailing said violence from white supremacists against the Black community, and the territory frequently suffers from incursions from New Dominion Confederacy slave raids.

### Ozark Synod

The Ozark Synod is another Dominion territory, composed of portions of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas. The name comes from the majority of its territory comprising the Ozarks, an area of mountain ranges and highlands on the Ozark Plateau. The standing Dominion government has little control over the isolationist conservative groups that make their home here, but what forces they do have are frequently engaged with Oklahoman insurgents and Missouri Private Military Contractors. Ozark Synod is also the only Eastern corridor leading into the Heartland Dominion.

### Heartland Dominion

The Heartlands of Kansas and Southern Nebraska are officially known as the Heartland Dominion, where it hosts sizable ultra-traditionalist pacifist groups, such as Mennonites and Amish. The once-minority received a surge to their population, when the US Remnant ejected the remaining Amish from their own territory in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, to seize vital farmland and living space for refugees. Compared to the rest of the Dominions, life here is relatively quiet and uncomplicated, as the land has reverted into a primitive agrarian lifestyle. Its stability is reinforced by being cushioned between the stable Corporate States of Colorado, Missouri, and Iowa. The Dominion does what it can to avoid direct conflict with the Oklahoma Confederacy, and local defense forces largely deploy along its Northern border, where it contains raiders and other criminal elements from pouring in from Ungoverned Northern Nebraska.

### Dominion of Christ

One of the most militant Christo-Fascist Dominions in the New American Wasteland, Dominion of Christ is an radical Christian terrorist group, located in the Southern portions of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Despite its claim to the territory, the movement has been persistently routed to the Southern side of the Ohio River. It is in a frequent state of conflict with the USA over vital territory for agriculture. Their alleged objective is to reclaim the entirety of these state’s territory to the Great Lakes, but they are constantly hampered by US forces and Canadian military action, in support of the UN Emergency effort.

### Dominion of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Although not necessarily “Christian” by the standards of much of the Christo-Fascist leadership of the Dominions, the LDS Dominion is the stronghold of the continent’s Mormon population. The church's clear organizational structure and hierarchy lent a great advantage to their early formative phase, allowing for the most cohesive government organization to take place in the Dominion of Latter-Day Saints. In 2028, the President of the Mormon Church issued a formal decree to all American Mormons within the Continental United States, and called for a mass pilgrimage to "Return to the Homeland. This took place during the Western refugee migration, and subsequent US Withdrawal. Its territory is almost the entirety of Utah and a quarter of Nevada's former territory, although much of the reclaimed land is now uninhabitable, due to desertification. LDS Dominion suffers many of the blights of the Southwest that plague California, Mexico, and Texas. Drought and inhospitable weather has rendered much of its territory barren, and most of the nation’s resources are dedicated to preserving what remains of the Great Salt Lake and the Colorado River. LDS Dominion allows limited foreign traffic through its borders, for the sake of stimulating commerce, but is still wary of non-Mormons or the few tolerated Christian groups. Little news comes from the region, and it's not certain how much of its population still lives in the desert. In recent news, a Christian-majority Dominion Crusade has surged from Northern Utah into Ungoverned America, carving a path into ideologically-aligned Corporate Idaho, to the corporate-state of Boise.

## Political Divisions

    With the United States routed, and territory now in the hands of the Dominions, schisms have already begun to swell between differing Dominions. The belief systems of these religious movements were as diverse as the dozens of different denominations within modern Protestant Christianity. Oligarchs have stalled on developing civil objectives, as the American withdrawal was unanticipated by all parties. Now, with enough distance between themselves and their declared enemies, the Dominions have already begun insular conflict between individual movements. Most conflict ranges to how leaders interpret biblical scripture, and what dogma to follow. Many geopolitical experts have already begun comparing the destabilization of the American Christian extremists to the previous breakdown of Muslim extremists in the Middle East and South Asia.

## Foreign Relations

The International community has been divided, regarding the legitimacy of the New Dominions in the former United States. This has hampered the progress of oligarch agendas in the territories, as civil conflict crippled supply lines to multiple regions into the American South and Interior. Despite holding large swathes of territory, manpower, and resources; the number of nations willing to establish diplomatic relations with the Dominions ranges in the low double digits. Even with publicly-xenophobic policies, the Dominions are still forced to import goods from foreign parties, as much of American industry and agricultural power was outsourced to Third World countries, in the years preceding the civil strife.

### United States of America (Remnant)

The New Dominions are still in a state of perpetual war with the remnants of the United States of America. Soldiers are regularly conscripted from their populations and mustered into irregular militias, and sent to the front lines in what are mostly human wave attacks on the Ohio River Front and Appalachian Corridor. Dominion governors are constantly denouncing the legitimacy of the US, citing their time as the dominant power in North America ended by the “Divine Right of the Dominions and their Covenant.” Occasionally, raiding parties or slavers are sent covertly into US borders, to lynch or abduct American citizens. So far, no attempts at diplomacy have been achieved by either the US or any of the Dominions.

A point of national contention between the United States and New Dominions is the actual nature of the conflict between both parties. Many political figureheads have cited the civil violence as a Second American Civil War. The New Dominions underscores that sentiment, by regularly citing their religious war as a New American Revolution to bring about a new "Christian" State. The United States has denied such rhetoric, and publicly recognizes the conflict as a domestic extension to its decades-long Global War on Terror.

### Republic of Texas

Despite hoping for Texas to fall in the same fashion as the Dominions, The Republic of Texas is a large business partner to the reluctant Christo-Fascist Dominions. Texas has become North America’s de facto petrostate, and the Dominions are heavily reliant on Texan oil to maintain their infrastructure . The Texas Dollar is also the most prolific currency in the Dominion territories. A handful of the Dominion nations have opened embassies in San Antonio, but Eastern land access into Texas has been blocked by both the Oklahoma Confederacy and Acadiana. This gives LDS Utah an economic advantage, by being allowed passage through Corporate Colorado into West Texas. Entry into Texas from the Southern Dominions is restricted to either by sea, and risk seizure by the Mexican or Cuban Navies, or by air, reserved only for the most elite Dominion oligarchs.

### Cascadian Confederation

The Dominions’ silence regarding the Confederation of Cascadia speaks volumes. Cascadia was one of the few territories to completely push its local Dominion influence out from the region, after a brutal occupation and subsequent retreat, as a result of the conflict between the Cascades Dominion and the Cascadian People’s Army in 2027-28. After the Battle of Redding, the few surviving fundies that remained fled the Pacific Northwest, and were absorbed into the LDS Dominion. In more recent years, a breakaway Christian Dominion has surged into Corporate Idaho, although it is hesitant to provoke Cascadia into another bloody guerilla war.

### United California Republics

The New Dominions had universally condemned California's sovereignty, long before its independence. Former US legislator turncoats holding power in the Dominions had been demonizing California's policies and spending, considering their rival as an easy target. Those remarks grew quiet after open conflict climaxed with mass defeats of their sympathizers in the Golden State, and direct criticism grew quieter after Dominion raider incursions were wiped out by drone strikes at every attempt. The Dominions now largely ignore California publicly, knowing they stand no chance against their technological advantage, while begrudgingly importing desperately-needed foodstuffs and contraband for their elite oligarchs, and using the Republics as an easy boogeyman to keep their masses distracted with a collective enemy, rather than focus on the problems within their own territories.

### Acadiana

Acadiana, also known as French Louisiana, is another rival state, at odds with the New Dominion Confederacy. Acadiana is a refugee state, populated by the remaining independent population of Peoples of Color in the American South. Runaway slaves too far away from the US often flee Westward, into the Mississippi Delta. By default, Acadiana works alongside the Oklahoma Confederacy, to remain as a buffer between the Dominion’s closest economic ally, Texas. Despite being populated by a majority of Black Christians and Latin/French Catholics, the New Dominions have continuously bungled an adequate stance that doesn’t outright admit to its White Supremacist agenda, at odds with other Christian denominations.

### Oklahoma Confederacy

Oklahoma is in active conflict with the Ozark Synod and the Heartland Dominion. The various Native Reservations and other independent communities were under brutal Dominion occupation for three years, before they rose up and joined together as the Oklahoma Confederacy. While prioritizing their defense against Texas’ attempts at annexation, Oklahoma has staged raids into the Ozarks, to liberate any enslaved brethren still under Dominion oppression in the Synod.

### Incorporated States

The Dominions’ oligarchic leadership maintains steady peace with the Incorporated States, whom they rely on heavily for products and foodstuffs. Some of the most profitable work in the Dominions is through labor programs, where they are loaned out to any of the major Incorporated States, such as Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, and Idaho. The Dominion’s rely heavily on the Incorporated States to purchase raw crops and textiles, cultivated by their indentured labor. The Consortium's, in turn, launder these materials into products they export abroad.

### Foreign States

Very few foreign states openly conduct business with the New Dominions. Although heavy sanctions have been levied against the territories for their crimes against humanity, these have only been adequately committed by nations in Central America, Europe, Oceania, and parts of Asia.

The most high-profile foreign trade with the Dominions is with the Russian Federation, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. The status of the New Dominions of America have sparked talking heads across the world to field a new discussion of Christo-centric governments, while other nations, such as the UK, Canada, People’s Republic of China, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Lebanon, Israel, Armenia, India, Japan, and South Korea have committed heavy crackdowns on Christian and other religious extremism within their own borders.

## Human Rights Violations

Despite growing anecdotal evidence suggesting crimes against humanity, the various New Dominions have gone to great lengths to conceal any suspected criminal activity against their populations. In the years preceding Dominion control, extremist groups and ultra-nationalist military forces sabotaged or destroyed cellular towers, telephone lines, fiber optic conduits, and power stations; virtually blinding the entire population in their offensive regions. Rebuilding efforts in those zones have been slow to nonexistent, with communication access only made available to the upper class communities proved loyal by the new governments. When military action came to a head, television and weather stations were also seized, effectively controlling the flow of information in and out of the Dominion zones. Since then, only Dominion propaganda has been approved on local airwaves, with only token pirate radio broadcasts from local insurgent groups, and limited data streamed from overhead satellite uplink.

In the years since the Dominions assumed control, current events and census data have been virtually nonexistent. Although untold numbers of at-risk refugees fled Westward, a sizeable population of LGBTQ+, Peoples of Color, immigrants, religious outliers, and other sympathetic allies were still stranded within the zones that these new Dominion governments now oversee. What information that is available on inner matters come from refugees fleeing West into Louisiana or Oklahoma, Into New Florida Alliance territory in Florida, or across the Ohio River into the United States Safe Zone. The events recalled portray horrific war crimes and untold crimes against humanity. The few populations of minorities left outside the major cities have been concentrated in labor centers, through the former US prison system, now an efficient penal labor operation. Living conditions are deplorable, physical and sexual violence is prevalent, and wanton murder is routine. There is an alarming frequency of reports of military death squads and mass graves, of which select few have survived and escaped from.

It is highly suspected that some remnant US surveillance networks still function in the American South, and likely have direct intelligence to corroborate these claims. The probability of other states with the technological capacity to do so is also likely. Amidst the UN intervention operations, peacekeepers are unable to provide much support to the affected refugees outside of their aid camps in secured zones. The few public spokesmen of the Dominion have denied the validity of any claims against said crimes, citing the token evidence presented as misinformation, and contrary to the faith structure that their theocracies embrace. To date, there has been no such effort on the various Dominion's part to outright deny any hostile intent, towards the groups targeted.

## Military

    The most integral part of the Dominion’s identity is its hyper-militarism. Almost its entire society has been militarized by radical propaganda, to the point of rabid violence against anybody deemed alien to their Christo-Fascist ideology. As such, the New Dominions have a vast arsenal of former US troops and materiel at their disposal. A large percentage of its military was composed of entire units of the US National Guards that were radicalized by Christo-fascist propaganda, while more joined the Dominion after growing disillusioned by the US abandoning them. Much of what the US left behind during its withdrawal that wasn’t destroyed was seized by Dominion forces. Despite these claims to weapon stores, many territories lack the skilled personnel or infrastructure to keep most of their arsenal maintained. It’s speculated that most of the remaining stock of aircraft and heavy vehicles will be rendered unserviceable within the next few decades.

The quality of the numerous Dominion Armies varies, from intact Federal and National Guard assets, to poorly-trained and heavily armed irregular militias. A trademark weapon platform used by virtually all factions is the “Technical”, or any vehicle capable of having a mounted weapon and ammunition stored onto it, although heavier equipment is available in some cases.

### Combat Doctrine

The Dominion focuses on rapidly expanding and holding territory, subjecting non-compliant locals to torture and public executions. Often making examples of the most visible individuals immediately after capturing territory. Children and eligible women are usually taken deeper into Dominion territory. The children are placed into "salvation" centers to reprogram their so-called "sinful" secular notions, after they've reached a suitable age the males are either drafted or sent into the labor pool, while the women and girls are awarded as incentives to successful Crusader units as wives. Despite initial mass enlistments into Dominion militaries, combat attrition with superior forces has dwindled the number of seasoned veterans the various Dominions can draw manpower from. In the West, this was countered by the LDS Dominion with a program they called "Discipleship". Entire battalions of Disciples are almost entirely populated by younger-than-military-age males, placed into a quasi-apprenticeship with veteran unit leaders, to be used in light-engagement conflicts and gain combat experience they can rely on later. The program has had limited effect, but the sheer volume of personnel and the deliberate deployment of child soldiers gives most rival military forces pause in engaging them. Worse than even the Disciple Battalions, arguably the most criminal elements of Dominion Forces are the Striplings. Stripling units are almost entirely manned with child soldiers younger than 12 years old, led by singular pastors. Most are used as human waves or shields, and suicide bombers in the most extreme cases.

Crusader units are modeled after pre-2035 U.S. military doctrine and tactics wherever possible. Traitor U.S. soldiers and veterans serve as advisors and instructors to conscripted Crusader units, while larger groups of traitor soldiers make up the shock troops of the Crusading force. Often using the best equipment available that was either stolen, imported, or manufactured.

Typical Crusader combat doctrine involves utilizing concentrated fire from heavy weapons, integrated into squads or mounted on vehicles, with waves of conscripts drawing fire, veteran units providing direct fire support, and flanking or annihilating the exposed or exhausted enemy. The most common Crusader forces operate at the Platoon (3-4 squads), company (3-4 platoons), or battalion (3-4 companies) level. Larger forces are possible and have been fielded, but are rare due to internal conflict among leadership.

Despite claims to having access to large pools of faithful soldiers and trusted equipment, the Dominions' military actions have mostly been focused on raiding actions against civilian centers. This is speculated to be due to a lack of resources and trained personnel to operate anything more advanced than ground-based weaponry. The Dominion's combat forces are mostly centered around combined arms land-based warfare. Air support is only reserved for large-scale offensives, and Naval action is relegated to gunboats and ferrying troops. These operations are almost always stricken with heavy losses, from superior US Military stockpiles, and UN Intervention Forces.

#### New Dominion Confederacy

* Grand Army of the Confederacy - The combined uniformed military forces of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, drawn from their respective National Guards and turncoat Regular Army forces.
* Georgia Navy - Georgia's Coast Guard assets, and token USN vessels.
* Confederate Air Force - The combined air assets of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, drawn from their Air National Guard, as well as token regular USAF aircraft, mostly grounded due to lack of maintenance and parts.

#### Florida Southern Baptist Dominion

* Floridian Army (National Guard and Regular Army) State Guard (Paramilitary & Secret Police)
* Floridian Navy & Florida Marines (Absconded USN and Coast Guard ships)
* Floridian Air Force

#### Appalachian Baptist Dominion

* Kentucky Army, Tennessee Army, West Virginia Army, Virginia Army
* Tennessee Air Guard
* Southern Virginia Navy

#### Evangelist Carolina Dominion

* United Carolina Army
* Carolina Navy, Carolina Marines
* Carolina Air Force

#### Ozark Synod

* Army of the Synod
* Mississippi River Navy

#### Heartland Dominion

* Kansas and Nebraska Army National Guard
* Kansas Air Guard

#### Dominion of Christ

* Kentucky Crusaders
* Ohio River Navy

#### Dominion of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

* Mormon Army
* Mormon Air Guard
* 2nd Boise Volunteer Crusade

## Law Enforcement and Crime

    Even with claiming victory over their enemy of Old America, much of the New Dominion territories are in a perpetual state of Martial Law. Despite the vast majority of minority groups either being arrested or executed, Dominion leadership still dedicates vast resources to the search and seizure of anybody deemed enemies of the state. Turncoats of the US Intelligence Community took up operations in several of the Dominions, providing surveillance and investigative services on the populace. These elements have become the Dominion’s de-facto secret police, routinely conducting raids on homes to search for any remaining minority groups that may be harbored by sympathetic subjects.

With the New Order of the Dominions, many people groups were dubbed “Heathens” by these police agencies. Ancestry registries are used against the people to perform genetic background checks on their white-passing population. Arrests and invasive search and seizures have become a routine part of life for subjects in the Dominions.

When the Dominions took control, virtually all non-state media was outlawed, and cellular towers and telephone lines were destroyed to limit communication between people. With its subjects isolated, the people were subjected to random searches for contraband deemed heretical to the Dominion authorities. When criminals are declared, they are either enslaved by genetic determination, or publicly executed, of which attendance is mandatory for the local population, to make examples.

Most foreign historians and geopolitical experts have regularly compared civil policing in the Dominions to extremist Islamic Caliphates in the Middle East and South Asia, such as ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan.

## Economy

### Labor, Income, Poverty

One of the more horrific practices of control and cruelty was returned to the interior territories of the Dominions: Slavery. Although not outright declared as such, the mass incarceration of people of color all across the American South, and subjecting them to brutal penal labor programs, have been overwhelmingly embraced and relied upon by the new governments. Those not deemed as subjects allied to the regimes, namely the minority groups the Christo-Fascists directly targeted in the years leading to their power, were arrested by military and police forces, imprisoned at federal prison farms, reopened ore and mineral mines, revived plantations, and other “Dominion Properties”. This surge of relatively free labor provides the most direct economic boon to the Dominions, who sell their raw crops and textiles to the Incorporated States, who in turn launder the materials into their cheap products.

As a result of the reintroduction of slavery, groups that were promised wealth and prosperity for their loyalty have now been drastically impacted by free labor, and a crippling job crisis is hampering further growth in the Dominions. Few jobs pay enough to provide adequate wages, as oligarchs routinely opt for cheaper slaves instead of hiring paid labor. This labor crisis has caused inflation in local economies, with most regular subjects unable to afford ever-expensive rent or rations, while oligarchs pocket the profits of their slave labor hand-over-fist. On average, anybody in the Dominions unable to keep up with rent is summarily arrested as well, and indentured to the Dominion. Wherever outright slavery doesn’t flourish, wage slavery fills in. Most available work to them is in sweatshops and shale mines, where child labor is also heavily exploited.

Staple currencies have been difficult for the Dominions to apply. Most stockpiles of American money were either taken or destroyed by the United States in its withdrawal, and with the Remnant printing new money, leftover dollars are now worthless. With no minting infrastructure of their own, the Dominions have had to rely on foreign currencies to conduct business. The most popular by far is the Texas Dollar, now considered North America's petrodollar. UCR Peso Dollars are completely rejected and outlawed in the territories, but still found being used by oligarchs for their buying power abroad. What few Dominion currencies that exist are usually printed by individual banks, where exchange rates may vary drastically, by county.

### Science, Technology, Energy

When the Christo-Fascists began violently wrestling for power, many regular citizens recognized the coming danger, and fled for safer territory, such as the Northern US States, or Westward, before it became impossible. Some of the most impacted industries of this withdrawal were the high-technology sectors of the Dominion Territories. Early on in their seizing of authority, leadership of these sectors was appointed to state-approved loyalists, with little regard for qualification.

Subsequent brain drain has forced incompetent personnel into vital jobs of local tech and energy industries, such as manning the remaining grid stations, barely-functional power plants, and deteriorating hydroelectric dams. Instead of actively investing in educating or training their populace for these roles, the Dominions have instead outsourced much of this labor to Incorporated State contractors in the hands of local oligarchs. This has further implications for long-term stability in the future of the Dominions.

Like most religious fanatical groups, the pursuit of science and knowledge had long been undermined in the years leading up to their power, and the Dominions have declared most knowledge collection as contrary to their faith structure, and outlawed most scientific pursuits outright. The subject of Global Warming/Climate Change, while widely accepted in the developing world, has been declared heretical thinking and outlawed. This has ranged between the shuttering of think tanks, schools, and other organizations dedicated to collecting data on the environment, to the destruction of vital technology such as weather monitoring equipment. Any scientific pursuits not explicitly approved by the state have been branded as heretical, although there are few left in these territories capable enough that hadn’t already fled the region earlier.

As a result of the systemic turnover of its populace, infrastructure has already begun to fail, even in the most developed of regions. Foreign experts speculate that this was quasi-intentional on the Dominion’s part, as an extension of their control over their subjects. With oligarchs in control of most heads of energy, renewable technology was all-but criminalized, with wind and solar farms shut down or destroyed, to the benefit of oil and coal barons that made their fortunes in the Dominion territories. This development has far-reaching implications, to the growing concern of the international community. As a result, the remote few nuclear engineers that opted to stay and monitor the fission plants in Dominion territory have gained untold bargaining power, for themselves and their families, being the only qualified people in the region now able to prevent unprecedented environmental disaster from plaguing the Dominion populace.

With no way to rely on their own infrastructure, the New Dominions were forced to import much of their energy demands from the Republic of Texas. Despite being sympathetic to the Dominions, Texas still maintains a quasi-secular policy in governance, which leaves them at odds with the Dominions, but also in a position of power over their client base.

### Transportation

Another consequence of the Dominions taking power in their territories has been the crippling of most transportation networks. Public transportation has been either neglected or deteriorated beyond function. With rising global fuel costs, most fuel is reserved only for law enforcement and military operations, and what little is left is rationed out to those deemed loyal, such as approved courier services and oligarch leadership.

Most imports and goods in Dominion territory are transported via rail. Regular derailments and lack of resources to clean up wrecks and repair railways has rendered many tracks unserviceable, further hampering commerce abroad. What little that does export to the Corporate States is subject to frequent attacks by their enemies, either seized by US Special Operations groups, corrupt Corporate P.M.C. toll stations, or renegade warlords.

Much of the former interstates have fallen into disrepair, and cars in untold numbers litter the lanes, long abandoned after state borders were closed, and fuel was no longer available. This makes further operations for couriers even more dangerous, as many of these car lineups are routinely used by raiders or Dominion Highway Patrolmen to ambush or extort them.

## Demographics

While not outright declared, the majority of Dominions were led under a White Supremacist agenda, and now that consequence is evident by a very low pool of personnel to draw from. Early on, minority groups deemed loyal by their employers, or enlisted in police or military forces, were given leeway. This condition deteriorated quickly, as many minority peoples were unwilling to take part in reporting, arresting, or allegedly executing LGBTQ+ or People of Color. Many of the grassroots resistance groups in the Dominions are made up of these peoples, who exist in holdout regions with the few remote InComs still standing in the territory.

The conditions of these disenfranchised people in the Dominions is ranging, but not far, as the best-case scenario is mandatory segregation in the apartheid Evangelist Carolina Dominion, Enslavement in the New Dominion Confederacy, or speculated mass executions and lynchings by the Dominion of Christ.

### Populations

Census data on the people of the Dominions has been unavailable since 2026, and this is likely intentional, on their part. There have long been speculations by foreign watchdogs that a systemic genocide has been carried out against LGBTQ+ people that were unable to escape the territory, before the Christo-Fascists took control. Since then, new measures have been put in place by the regimes on who qualifies for citizenship. On average, only white male landowners are declared as whole people, with any women, children, or servants declared as personal property.

While horrifying, the actual practice has only been remotely verified, with very few meeting those requirements. The oligarch ruling class is the only pool of people this has affected, with the average working class Dominionists having little access to any resources that would afford them the same privileges.

### Language

The Dominionists have mandated many xenophobic policies within their territories, including language requirements. American English becoming the mandatory language of the land was one of the Christo-Fascists' platforms. Other dominant cultural and trade languages, such as Spanish and Indigenous languages, have been outlawed from use in common Dominion society. This measure started small, such as the removal of multilingual instructions on business fronts, but grew to more extreme measures once the Dominion groups took tangible control of their territories. This has made extreme and lasting impacts on remaining groups branded “outsiders” by the Dominions, such as Caribbean and Latin Americans.

The mandatory language measures are heavily speculated to have been one of the major catalysts to the formation of the Native Confederacies in North America. The territories that now make up the Oklahoma and Sioux Confederacies had been suffering Dominion occupation on their tribal reservations, after the United States withdrew their authority from these regions. Oklahoma had been suffering routine raids from Dominion forces from both the Heartlands and the Ozark Synod, while also dealing with annexation from the Republic of Texas. When Dominion Crusaders and Missionaries announced the outlawing of written and spoken languages such as Cherokee, many resistance groups in the region took that as the final insult to this latest chapter in the genocide of their people.

### Religion

    By far the most impactful measure in Dominion society has been proselytizing their subjects to their brands of extremist Christianity. Christo-Fascism is the base Law of the Land in the New Dominions, with no tolerance for any deviancy from this new law. What started as bad-faith legislation, by corrupt politicians in the mid 2020s, to “enshrine traditional values of the Founding Fathers” quickly mutated into terrorist militias attacking any and all synagogues, mosques, and other non-Christian temples in their declared territories. This was one of the catalysts that sparked the refugee migration to California and the Pacific Northwest. What groups that stayed were subjected to an oppressive regime of Militant Christian Theocracy.

The groups that chose to stay were subjected to mandatory state-wide compulsion to the new fundamentalist order. Any that outwardly advertised non-belief were summarily arrested and sentenced to “penance” at “salvation centers”, or mandatory reeducation camps, of which very little evidence has suggested anybody returns from. To further enforce the Dominionist regime, schools and workplaces issue routine theology tests to ensure compliance, with penance as punishment for failure.

While objectively achieving their goals, the New Dominions now have a growing problem within their own borders. With the United States routed, and new borders drawn, compliance has now sparked schisms in theology between the new territories. The original ideal was to create a monolithic Dominion of faith, which had quickly cracked into multiple conflicting Neo-denominations. Evangelicals, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, and several other sub denominations of Christian doctrine now threaten their fragile order with new religious war. This has ensured that the Dominions stay actively at war with their foreign neighbors, and avoid civil conflict. Foreign religious experts speculate that this could turn North America into a battleground for individual religious extremist groups, akin to the Middle East.

### Urban and Rural Life

The living conditions in the Dominion have reverted back to an enforced rural agrarian lifestyle. The majority of Christo-Fascists drew their numbers from working class Americans, in the small rural communities outside of cities. In turn, a majority of cities were sacked during intense violence, in the years that led up to the Dominion’s seizure of power. City populations were the most vulnerable targets for Dominion violence, who demonized the mixed cultures that communal living develops in most major urban centers.

The most influential of major cities in the Southern US have reorganized themselves into battered city-states. Despite public culture war and media propaganda, the Dominionist regimes understood the need for commerce to stimulate their economies, and allowed the urban centers to remain largely segregated from the main Dominion authorities. Major cities such as Nashville, Raleigh, Charleston, Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta, and Orlando maintain their own territories as limited autonomous zones, protected from the routine purges that the Dominion inflicts on the rural population.

Although much of the violence devastated several major cities in Dominion territory, only a select few ever actually capitulated. St. Louis was thoroughly purged by the Dominion of Christ, before the Corporate States retook control of the territory, and relocated much of their capital infrastructure to Kansas City. Orlando reorganized itself into a special economic zone that the Dominions heavily tax and quarantine, but still rely upon for commerce. And despite perimeter-wide a military siege lasting a year, Atlanta has remained a thorn in the New Dominion Confederacy’s side for total state control.

### Health

The New Dominions quality of life, on average, is about on par with the United States Remnant, or the Republic of Texas. General health quality had been deteriorating, long before the civil strife in North America. Many Dominions had previously been US States that were the most-impacted by the Opioid Epidemic. This chronic addiction still plagues the average Dominion subject, even with painkillers only available through black market means. The biggest defining difference with the Dominions is the prohibitive cost of what doctors remain. Only the most elite of oligarchs can afford regular healthcare, through credit. With new invasive Dominion laws, there is no longer any doctor-patient confidentiality. Even then, most with that level of wealth are also able to pass over borders to either a Corporate State or another foreign country with no extradition laws.

The Dominions face a crisis of lacking qualified doctors of most vital healthcare services. In the years leading up to the civil strife and secession, medical professionals were being legislated against to deny healthcare to certain people groups, or report their patients, in the event they sought specific care, such as women’s health or gender affirming care. Many healthcare providers withdrew their services in these regions, and most personnel fled to more stable territories.

The growing climate catastrophe has impacted every territory in North America, and abroad. Generally poor air quality, toxic water sources, food scarcity,  and toxic exposure affects every North American, regardless of borders.

### Education

The education system in the New Dominions has deteriorated so badly, that adequate learning is virtually nonexistent. Only the upper class of loyalist oligarchs can afford to enroll their children into private schools. The American Education System had been gutted in these territories, in the years leading up to secession. Public schools have mostly been abandoned, or the facilities converted into “salvation centers”.

The few schools that remain are the private schools for the upper class. Even then, the curriculum is shoddy, at best. Dominion mandates require very narrow Christo-centric education. Most education in the Dominions is now informal, and performed by individual households. The disenfranchisement of women in the Dominions has also barred them from schooling of any kind.

The Universities in the Dominions were the source of many counter-protests against the rising Christo-Fascists that took power. When the Dominions had adequate military and police support, these schools were purged, with students being arrested and sent to proselytization, conscripted into civil or military units, or enslaved.

The international community has genuine concerns on the brain drain of this society. It’s heavily speculated that the next generation will be intentionally illiterate, and lack any critical thinking skills. What few refugees that flee the Dominions for the US Remnant or other free territories only carry tales of rampant anti-intellectualism, and a neutered proletariat easily swayed by the pastoral owner class to remain compliant.

### Culture and Society

Despite attempts on the individual states’ part to retain their individual cultures, the Dominions have homogenized most of their territories, to maintain a compliant subject class. Any form of societal culture seen as non-biblical is declared sinful, and outlawed. What little that remains is a manufactured facade, mostly advertised in the rare propaganda broadcasts that the Dominions attempt to send to their neighbors. What little that has been seen or heard is a claim to returning American society to an era of excellence, akin to quintessential 1950 pop culture tropes. Nuclear families, wearing conservative traditional clothing, with a dominant patriarch figure, women relegated to homemaking duties, children restricted to segregated gender roles and hobbies, and all centered around reciting biblical scripture. The most alien of all these adverts is the lack of any people of color or LGBTQ+ from public sight, besides obvious servant roles. The subject matter has shocked the international community, and attempts to attract new followership has most likely backfired, on the Dominions’ part.

What little that is confirmed by the international community is rare, but sobering. Hidden POV cameras, drone surveillance, and refugee anecdotes give a much more disturbing account. The reality of verified Dominion public society is much more sobering. Public commerce is a quiet and tense affair. Business is done quickly and quietly, with most patrons rushing to make their purchases and rush home, out of public sight. Sociological experts have compared these exchanges as similar to how commerce is conducted in heavily-surveilled societies, such as North Korea, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, or earlier iterations of the People’s Republic of China or Soviet Union.

With women disenfranchised in Dominion society, they are rarely seen outside individual homes, unless accompanied by a male relative or spouse. Most household duties, such as grocery shopping, are relegated to household errands, left to a homemaker role that women in the Dominions are restricted to. With most schooling centers gutted, male children are sent to work in labor roles, or the few youth programs that prepare the youth for pastoral or military service. Female children are even more restricted, barred from leaving their homes. In most cases, they are educated by the mother, or another state-issued care provider, to groom them for eventual bridal selection.

In general, individuals are untrusting of each other, as the state encourages them to report their neighbors for any arbitrary violation. The overall state of Dominion society is deeply troubling, and a clear indicator for the difficult road ahead for them to evolve as a society of any substance, in this new uncertain future.