Commonwealth of America

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*"Work to produce. Produce to live. Live to build a new future together."*

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The **Commonwealth of America**, or **Commonwealth**, also known as the **Greater American Republic**, **CA**/**GAR** is a commercial, civil-military alliance organized in America after the Nuclear War in underground military installations that are closely controlled. A major faction of *The Dark Future: North American Arc* and home to its protagonist, James Walker, a distinguished member of the Commonwealth military.

In the first half of the trilogy, the Commonwealth appeared neutral and allied with Walker, but when he learned that the Commonwealth was just as corrupt and tyrannical a faction as any other, seeking to gain control of what remains of America and part of the conspiracy responsible for the execution of outsiders and refugees arriving at the Commonwealth's borders. When Walker revealed this, he soon became a target of the Commonwealth who began hunting him. The Commonwealth then becomes the main antagonist of the TDF trilogy.

A coalition of several cities and underground stations, the Commonwealth is the strongest faction economically and militarily in the post-Great War American wasteland. It tightly controls Denver and their American underground bases, facilities and headquarters, so it controls more than ⅓ of the Commonwealth's central American territories.

## Overview

When the Commonwealth was formed, the military, government agencies and civil servants formed a coalition with the communities of the united municipalities by acquiring the cities and central regions of Denver and Colorado.  The Commonwealth quickly rose from the ashes of America and evolved into an economic superpower that became the new civilization of the former United States and the hyper-capitalist utopia of wealthy bureaucrats.

A coalition of several trade factions, groups of municipalities, and other underground station and fallout shelter colonies make up the Commonwealth, which is run by former government officials, local mayors and governors but is mostly under military leadership.

It is one of the few factions that functions as a rebuilt civilization, with public transport, piped water, electric lighting and its own production and infrastructure. They have their own nuclear power plant, producing electronics, electric light and heating that supplies the entire Commonwealth. They have their own infrastructure, factories to manufacture weapons and equipment. They use their own vehicles, powered by their own biofuels.

They also engage in barter trade, doing business with other post-Great War factions such as the People's Republic, the Reich, and may be allied with some such as the American Confederacy and other trade factions, either within or outside the country with a group of neighbouring countries. Some factions were heavily dependent on the resource-rich trade of the Commonwealth.

A highly developed authoritarian civilization, legitimate compared to other factions and they consider themselves democratic and republican, but an extremely capitalist faction, and mostly the high ranking officers and leaders of the Commonwealth have access to most of the currency, while the rest of society and the lower class citizens have much less, but production is constantly increasing. However, they have a functioning and thriving economy throughout the region.

The Commonwealth seems to be a more democratic faction, unlike the Reich and the People's Republic, as many citizens want to move to the Commonwealth. The Nazis and Communists do not tolerate refugees and usually both groups kill them, while the Commonwealth often rejects them because they are suspected of being outsiders, Rogues or bandits, possibly Russian spies or infiltrators. As a result, the Commonwealth has a strict border control and immigration policy, usually expelling or executing anyone who tries to cross its borders.

On very rare occasions, people are interrogated in their detention centres and their story is used to decide whether or not they can be granted citizenship. They usually have a strict entry and exit policy for non-Commonwealth citizens if they do not have a passport or identification document.

The Commonwealth is the most militarily advanced and organised in the Great American Wasteland. The Commonwealth's military force is highly militarised, and as a result the faction is able to defend its stations and cities from any mutant or hostile group. It achieves this by maintaining tight control of all its territory, borders and stations with its own motorized and motor vehicle traffic and patrols. It has various organised military branches, such as the Commonwealth Army, which is the basic armed force of the faction, and the elite Colonial Army, whose tasks include the exploration and occupation of new cities, countryside, underground stations and installations, and the exploitation of their resources. They also carry out special operations and the most dangerous routine missions.

The military also acts as a police force, keeping a tight rein on the Commonwealth's inhabitants to maintain their own order and keep their power stable. Dissenters, criminals and troublemakers are arrested, and those who are dissidents or who try to start a riot are quietly removed, by the Commonwealth's secret police.

In addition, the Commonwealth militias have a pre-war stockpile of top-quality weapons and equipment, which they are expanding by acquiring new territories and manufacturing in their own factories. They have acquired top-quality pre-war equipment such as high-grade bulletproof vests, hazmat suits, biohazard gears, gas masks, and other expendable raw materials and supplies. They have also acquired incredible amounts of technology such as working computers, generators and a nuclear reactor.

The Commonwealth has divided their headquarters, bases and areas both within and outside their borders into several districts and numbered, lettered sectors. For example, one of the most dangerous areas, the Death Sector, or the Dark Zone, where biological weapons were used during the war, and after the nuclear holocaust it became deserted, especially after the most dangerous deadly mutants appeared and took over the city and made it their basic habitat.

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