United States (19-canon)

**America** is alluded to in the *Rinnarverse* as one of four superpowers that competed for global domination in the years leading to World War III, the others being "China, Russia, and Arabia". Growing tensions between two dominant ideologies caused the United States to split into several countries.

Primarily, they usually consisted of the conservative **American Federation** (AF); the leftist-dominated remnants of the **United States of America** (US); the Kingdom of Hawaii; the republics of Jefferson, Deseret, and Cascadia; the violent realms of the Second Confederacy and the terrorists of Aryanland; and the Native-majority Republic of Turtle Island. Eventually, America's realms were subsumed into the iron fist of the Earth Union.

The two Americas' methods in becoming a superpower varied greatly. For the US, it involved supporting activist movements and socialist leaders, charity and military aid to poorer nations, "pro-diversity" pop culture to influence the aforementioned countries, and attempts to rescue non-heterosexuals from persecution. For the AF, it involved destabilising hostile countries, supporting conservative/Christian leaders, military expansion, religious evangelism, and "family friendly" pop culture.

## Pre-war America

### United States of America (pre-Division)

This is the America of the present day, corresponding to that in our world but with slightly different historical personalities. It attempts to use military force to keep its own global hegemony, whether by supplying terrorist groups or by bombing hostile countries into submission.

To differentiate it from its successor, the US, the old United States is known as the "USA".

In the early 21st century, many people in this USA, especially White Americans, created names out of gibberish as a fashion trend. In response, conservative Americans used historical and religious names.

Four subcultures emerged during the Plague of 2020: the Stadomians, the Tabbackians, the Nechurzilins, and the Mourners. The Stadomians urged everyone to stay in their homes, and some of their members became notorious for harassing people in public and breaking public venues. The Tabbackians reject face masks and vaccinations: they harassed anyone who wore masks, and attacked Asians and vulnerable or healthy people, blaming them for the pandemic and the lockdowns. The Nechurzilins supported the Plague as "a method to erase pollution by killing humans", to the point that some of their members were notorious for bioterrorism. The Mourners protested the radical Stadomians' attacks by abstaining from entertainment. After the Plague of 2020, the Stadomians and the Tabbackians focused on helping people find new jobs. While many of them helped Americans start new businesses, some Stadomians established the earliest Marxist communes and pressured people into joining them.

In the middle of the 21st century, the USA became more unstable as stricter laws were imposed to control the people under a bureaucracy. Many Americans became more frustrated with the bureaucracy and eventually in the Crash of 2060, they formed two sides in opposition against the central American government. One side was formed by leftists who sought to defeat the bureaucracy and uplift the poor under a socialist government. The other side sought to secede from the rest of American society, angered by the widespread practice of shunning by the prevalent leftist and bureaucratic factions.

The Purge of Europe broke the final straw. Horrified by the sudden rise of right-wing dictatorships throughout Europe and the banishment of thousands of dissidents and minorities to Africa, many Americans supported the conversion of America into a self-proclaimed leftist state, seeking to prevent the Purge of Europe from happening in their homeland. Fearful of another purge directed against them and a possible ban on their beliefs, thousands of right-wingers revolted against the American government.

## United States of America (post-Division)

### United States remnants

See also: United States (post-Civil War)

This America consisted of the states that remained within the USA. Its territory comprised of the West and East Coasts.

### American Federation

See also: American Federation

This America consisted of the states that seceded from the USA. Its territory comprised the Midwest and the American South.

### Other Americas

* Republic of Khéya Wíta - consists of the states of Oklahoma, the Southwest, and the two Dakotas united as a federation. This federation has a Native American majority.
* New Afrika - a republic located between the US to the west, and the AF to the north. This state is formed by Black Americans who created their own community to protect themselves from the chaos of the 2060 collapse. It was later an autonomous member of the US.
* Jefferson - located somewhere between northern California, Washington, and Idaho. This republic is libertarian.
* Deseret - Utah. A Mormon republic with its conservative norms and its distinctive alphabet for English.
* Hawaii - a kingdom reestablished on the Hawaiian archipelago. Known for its athletes, scientists, and astronomers.
* Aryanland - White-ethnostate enclaves located somewhere on Montana or Minnesota, or deep within the western US or the northern AF. Most of these enclaves had close ties with the Nordic State, and may attempt terrorism or massacres to spread its territory or out of revenge. They eventually became puppet states of the Nordic State in its attempt to conquer America.
* Second Confederacy - an attempted White ethnostate located at the western parts of the American South. Unlike its predecessor, it refused to enact slavery, but it was infiltrated and dominated by fascists, which led it to attack the AF and the US.
	+ Under fascist rule, the Second Confederacy ensured boot camps and whippings for "vulgar" people, even as they were attracted to the SC for its greater tolerance of their lifestyles.
	+ Aryanland was divided on the Second Confederacy: some enclaves supported it, while others opposed and attacked it as a racially-mixed continuation of the hated United States.
* Cascadia - consists of northern Washington and parts of British Columbia. A freegoing liberal republic known for its sleek skylines, its native cultures, its cuisine, its forests, and a gryphon shrine.

## List of presidents

See also: List of American presidents (Rinnarverse)

## Later history

   *“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children!”*

- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, used by Farsider war marches.

*"The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son..."*

- Ezekiel 18:20a, used by pro-American activists who protest the attacks on Galactic Americans.

The United States became a Stalinist dictatorship, followed by the conquest of the American Federation under the Racialists. The Stalinist United States lost its northern territories to revolts, and it was replaced by a more moderate Marxist government, followed by a division into two Marxist federations. After the expulsion of the Racialists from the American Federation, the AF weakened into three factions and lost more land to the US.

When resources became more scarce on Earth, the Four Powers attempted to expand their authority across the world to unify it under their rule. The United States attempted to install socialist governments around the world, while the American Federation struggled within a civil war. Eventually, both of them were ruined by the worldwide bombings, and then swept aside by the Earth Union.

Due to its reputation, those of its ideologies, its pop culture, its un-traditional values, its divisive society in the past centuries, its people's sadistic attitude (known otherwise as "trolling"), and it being the birthplace of the warmongering Earth Union, it was reviled by many nations in the Galaxy as a source of corruption. On the other hand, some civilisations honour the Americans as protectors of liberty and the Christian faith, and bringers of happiness.

While both Americas created colonies outside the Solar System, their descendants eventually created their own cultures. In spite of this, some of those colonists continued identifying themselves as "Americans": over ideological differences, that American diaspora diverged into two different cultures: the Amecons, and the Amelios. The Amecons are the conservative descendants of the American Federation, and they tend to be either polite or recklessly backwards. The Amelios (not "Amelibs", which is derogatory) are the hedonistic descendants of the United States, and they tend to be too dependent on entertainment and pleasure. Regardless of how "proper" some Americans seem to the Galactics, both of them were treated with suspicion over their civilisation's errors: either with expulsions, violence, or with contempt.

American society in many parts of the far Galaxy was often depicted as a "schizophrenic realm", populated and torn apart by racists, rabid fans, extremists, keyboard warriors, murderers, gangsters, corrupt police officers, greedy politicians and corporate officials, and mentally-deranged people who commit destruction and murder in the name of "freedom of speech". Caricatures of these characters of the 21st century are burned or whipped in processions throughout the Galaxy.

When President York I founded the Rinnarit Republic in the 43rd century, one of his first policies included attacking people who practiced American culture out of his hatred of Earth's history. Conversely, the people of the Federal Republic of Bigton (descendants of Amelios, shunned by dozens of star systems) revere the former United States as "the birthplace of our ancestors", and they proudly adopt various customs and artistic styles from the 1950's to honour it, and welcomed American refugees who fled the Rinnarit Republic's expansion. While the Farsiders applauded York I's "retributive" policies, they condemned Bigton's embrace of American traditions and waged terrorist attacks against it.

In the latter part of the Earth Union, its American territories were decentralised in the Valentina Reforms, causing America to be divided between several states. Among them were the revived nations of Kheya Wita, the Fifth United States, and New Afrika.

The United States was restored after several reformists took advantage of the Unionite authorities' weakening rule, followed by several new nations in the former American heartland. Several galactic armies returned to Earth to protect its people from being exterminated by the Farsider hordes. Around it, the Preservers helped the Indigenous peoples of the continent create their own nations, most of which were republics.

The Amelios and Amecons, who arrived on the Siege of Earth to retake their homeland, established two separate republics to the east of the United States and New Afrika.

The nations of America then weathered attacks in two waves. The first was by Vetarbroitar and Marixai armies, who regarded the existence of the United Stateses as "evil incarnate", seeking to punish the Americans for their historical crimes. The second was by the armies of the Shielded Nations, who sought to punish the Americans by subjecting them to strict laws. Both of these invaders were repelled by a combined force of the Native and American countries, supported by the Preservers.

### Culture

Both Americas had different monuments to different disasters in human history.

The Ussians had memorials to honour the victims of imperialism, slavery, capitalism, fascism (including the Holocaust), 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 and usher in a society dedicated to total equality, an ever-changing culture, and entertainment.

The Feddians had memorials to honour the victims of communist and Marxist regimes, various White people killed in murders and riots, billions and trillions of lost jobs due to various pandemics, and hundreds of people who attempted to overthrow the USA government to impose a right-wing regime before the Second Civil War. Their goal is to spread American values and usher in a Westernised society dedicated to obedience towards the Christian God, centred on the dominance of their people over all others.

## Other notes

### 1980s

America is also the home of one of the protagonists: Gabriel Anderson, a moody truck driver from Muncie, IN; and his friend Graham. When Gabriel and his friends ended up in the Rinnarit Republic, they were attacked by a mob over their suspected American background.

### 2080s

It was also the home of:

* A young Black man who built the portal to escape his fundamentalist dad, his extended family, and his deteriorating country
* An Evangelical who tried to use his son's portal to find a conservative society to run away to
* An obsessed fan who wanted to spread her fandom to a new world
* Several hippies who thought they could get away from the socialist US's restrictions
* A drunk racist who found a nation that he could influence
* A "boomer" who spends much of his days ranting

### 4260s

Faith, one of Minerva's friends, is of American descent: knowing this, she tries to be nicer so others would not bully her over her ancestors' deeds. Her ancestors were from the city of Denver, before immigrating to Mars.

### 4442

The "Mad King" Richard, a warlord, declared himself as an American, and gathered an army of pirates to invade the Rinnarit Republic out of revenge against its persecution of Americans during its early years.

## Trivia

* A person from the US was known informally as a "Ussie" (UHS-see), and a person from the AF was known as a "Feddie". These terms were formalised into "Ussian" and "Feddian".
* The point of diversion of this USA's timeline would be 2009: after George W. Bush, a different president was elected.
* These Americas were based on the author's observations of various news articles and Internet comments.
* Many of these Americans are known for using the word "based" when referring to something good or agreeable. Galactic people later used this stereotype to identify Americans among them, and associated the word with chaos.
* On the other hand, the term "wholesome" is sometimes considered offensive, especially in the leftist-ruled US, as it was associated with conservatives and religious fundamentalists who sought to make everyone conform to only one lifestyle. The equivalent terms in the US, when referring to something sweet and pleasant, are simply "sweet", "delightful", "inclusive", "diverse", "empathic", "social", and "roxx".
	+ That itself, avoiding a "squeaky-clean" image associated with conservatives, is one reason why media from the US may contain some degree of violence, cursing, sex, and drugs (not just struggling with addictions and emotions, but usually as entertainment).
	+ Their enemies would use "pure" or "based".
	+ As the Vetarbroitar also avoid the term for its association with the American enemy, the word is replaced by "pleasant", "soothing", or "rewarding".

## See also

* United States (Collectionverse)
* Rinnarverse timeline