United Commonwealths (ATM Timeline)

*This article is about the United Commonwealths in Arflingotrinidomorssicania. For the United Commonwealths in 1942: Differently, see United Commonwealths (1942: Differently).*

The **United Commonwealths**, officially the **United Commonwealths of the Great Americana**, and also called the *U.C.W.*, the *U.C.*, the *U.C.G.A.*, *The Commonwealths*, and the *Commonwealth Union*, is a based transcontinental country located in North America, bordering the Casnadrican Republic from all the North, the Solomorssian Isles through the North-East (the Maritime Peninsula, and also Mexico to the South, spanning over its vast territories and landmass in North America and the nearby islands in the coast. It touches the North Pacific Ocean to the West and the Massachussetts Bay and the Floridian Bay with the Solomorssian Isles to the East.

Indigenous peoples have inhabited the Americas for thousands of years. Beginning in 1607, British colonization led to the establishment of the Ten Provincial Colonies in what is now the Massachussetts Commonwealth; including *Upper Massachussetts* (now New England), Erie (now New York and Long Island), St. Laurence, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, Georgeluck, Chattahatchee. They quarreled with the British Crown over taxation and political representation, leading to the American Revolution and ensuing Revolutionary War, inspired from the *Grand Revolt* of the Solomorssian Isles. The United Commonwealths declared independence on July 4, 1776 (or as so considered), becoming the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of unalienable natural rights, consent of the governed, and liberal democracy, or debatably second (*refer to the Enlightenment Principles Conflict*). During the 19th CE, the United Commonwealths' political philosophy was influenced by the concept of manifest destiny, as the country expanded across the continent in a number of wars, land purchases, and treaties, eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean. Sectional division over slavery led to the secession of the Confederate Commonwealth of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the American Civil War (1861–1865). With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment.

The United Commonwealths government is a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government. It has a bicameral national legislature composed of the House of Representatives, a lower house; and the Senate, an upper house based on equal representation for each state. Many policy issues are decentralized at a state or local level, with widely differing laws by jurisdiction. The U.C. ranks highly in international measures of quality of life, income and wealth, economic competitiveness, human rights, innovation, and education; it has low levels of perceived corruption. It has higher levels of incarceration and inequality than most other developed nations, and is the only developed nation without universal healthcare. As a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, the U.C. has been shaped by the world's largest immigrant population.

The United Commonwealths is a highly developed country that has the highest median income of any polity in the world, along with the Solomorssian Isles. Its economy accounts for approximately a quarter of global GDP and is the world's largest by GDP at market exchange rates. It is the world's largest importer and second-largest exporter, and possesses the largest amount of wealth of any country. The United Commonwealths is a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States, NATO, the World Health Organization, and is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. It is one of the world's foremost political, cultural, economic, military, and scientific force.