United States of America

Flag of the United States of America

The **United States of America** (**USA**), commonly known as the **United States** (**US**) or **America**, is a federal republic primarily located in North America. Throughout the 21st century, America served as one of the superpowers on Earth and is one of the dominant factions in the supernatural world, alongside the Angels and Fallen Angels. The US has developed advanced technology mostly centered around Helium-2 and nuclear fusion, from orbital research stations to advanced robotics. This also included large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, primarily nuclear weapons.

Once considered a regional faction, the US has become one of the dominant factions in the supernatural world, following their victory against the Devils during the American–Devils War. As the victor of the American–Devils War, America now occupied the vast Devils' Region with holdings on Earth and replaced the Devils as one of the supernatural great powers. The American superpower are now actively engaged in unnatural foreign affairs, including building alliances and supporting factions, often their nations allied, in regional conflicts.

## History

America was discovered by European explorers in 1492. In 1607, Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement to be established in America. In 1775, the Thirteen Colonies declared independence from the British Empire, and the American Revolutionary War began. The Revolutionary War ended in 1783 as a global conflict, with the United States winning, and later recognized as a sovereign state. The USA would soon gain more territory, with Louisiana in 1803, Florida in 1822, and the Mexican Cession after the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), which finally spanned the USA from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast. The American Civil War would be fought over slavery. Non-contiguous territories, like Hawaii in 1898, and Alaska in 1867 from the Russian Empire, would join the Union. The Franco-American War, Spanish-American War and World War I marked the United States as a military power. During World War II, the United States was the first country to develop nuclear weapons, and shortly after the war ended, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union started. The Cold War ended in 1991 with the collapse of the USSR and the US becoming the world's sole superpower. The United States would launch the War on Jihadism after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

### American–Devils War

Following a failed invasion of America by rouge Devils faction in November 1963, the United States declare war on the Devils Faction, creating the American–Devils War. After withstand the first Devils assault, the United States quickly besieged and seized all the Devils territories in North America. However without the the mean to properly land troops the Underworld, the American advance was stopped which created a stalemate. This changed as the creation of the Manhattan Device, which allows the opening of permanent gates connecting the human world with the Underworld, was completed. This allowed the United States to deployed its military in the Underworld, catching the Devils off guard. The American landed in the Devils southeast region in Operation Hellwalker and swiftly push the Satan Army all the way to the 'heart' of the Devils faction. After invading the southern and eastern regions, the American offensive slow downed at the southwest Eligos Territory and in the northwest Valefor Territory which created a stalemate that would last 5 months. But finally, in March 1919, the American offensive on the Eligos Front finally succeeded in overrunning the Devils defences. As their army collapsed, the exhausted Anti-Satan Faction, believing that continued fighting would lead the Devil race into extinction, coups the Satan government and surrendered, with the surrender documents finally signed at Gusion Castle Town on 2 September 1972, ending the war.

### Instrument of Surrender and the Aftermath

At the end of the war, millions of people, mainly Devils, were dead and millions more homeless, the Devils economy had collapsed, and much of the Underworld industrial infrastructure had been destroyed. The Devils' Region was occupied and administered by the United States and required to pay reparations to the US. Restrictions were imposed upon the post-war Devils military and were intended to make the Devils incapable of a major offensive action. The occupation was overseen by the U.S. General William Westmoreland, who was appointed Supreme Commander for the Provisional Government of the Devils by the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. All the Devils supernatural territories in the United States were annexed by the USA. Other Devils territories on the human world, were either annexed by their respective national government or governed by the United States, although large portion of it outside of North America were taken by other supernatural factions.

The aftermath of American–Devils War saw the rise of the United States as one of the dominant factions in the supernatural world, replacing the Devils. With the fall of the Devils, the stalemate caused by the Biblical Great War was broken, leaving the Angels and Fallen Angels as the dominant factions in the Judeo-Christian world, open the path for future hostility. The end of the war also opened the way for the rise of human factions, especially nations, and destroyed the idea of humans as being the weakest among all the races.