Commonwealth of Greater America

* Alice Salvatore (2292-Present)

Vice-President

* Jeremias Klink (2292-Present)

The **Commonwealth of Greater America** (Also known as the CGA) is post-War Authoritarian Republic founded over the ashes of the Provisional Commonwealth of Texas in the Southern Texas region controlling the Austin area.

Considering itself the heir to American values. The Commonwealth is quite expansionist and militaristic. Seeking to purify their neighbors into their ranks.

## Background

### Provisional Commonwealth of Texas

The United States Marine Corps in the late era of the Sino-American War was sidelined by the Department of Defense and the President himself. First with the guarding of posts which should have been done by reservists such as Sugar Grove, Mount Desert Island, Turtledove Detention Camp and then the removal from Executive Order 99066 to be done by mercenaries. Despite the importance of their involvement in the Yangtze Campaign. Securing Shanghai and Nanjing, there was a sense of the marines being second class. Rumblings of the Army’s involvement with a certain Presidential Oil Rig became incredibly hard to ignore. So the Marine Corps began developing it’s own continuity of governmental protocols independent of the Federal Government. With the Marine rifle creed at the center of it’s doctrine. They would not surrender until every rifle and man were dead and destroyed. That until victory is America’s and there is no enemy, but peace.

At Camp Mabry near Austin Texas, elements of the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, and Marine Corps Reserve were stationed when the bombs dropped in 2077. While Army and Navy personnel scrambled and cried for assistance that was never coming. The Marine Corp reserve asserted itself above the call of duty. Securing the base by having its members weather the storm in bomb shelters. While this did not prevent some from suffering ghoulification depending on FEV and radiation exposure. It did ensure victory over the challenge. For the first few years the Marine administration at Camp Mabry managed to grow and expand with civilians to a major settlement. Time would pass and while the emblem of the marines faded. The flag was always preserved. Flying high just without a central figurehead. Instead portraits of the first commander-in-chief were portrayed for all to live in his ideal of America. Soon a Christian Cult around Washington established a new official government. Continuing the United States just as it was but before the advent of the two party system. Instead it was now forbidden and all would have to pledge loyalty to Washington and America.

In the following centuries the group would retake Austin for their government and fight a successful war against Texas Secessionists called the Lonestar Confederation who disagreed with their beliefs on the American way. Without any quite successful nearby settlements that they hadn’t completely destroyed. Growth took a very long time to come. They would eventually encompass Fort Hood and make their way to the edge with Waco to their north and San Antonio to their south. Both completely unsalvageable spots of deadly mutant creatures. With more resources or even just effort, the places might be able to be recovered.

In the last decade of the 22nd century. The government faces peril as vandals from the north plunder the small independent communities. The Wound prevents them from cultivating the more fertile plains to the East.

In the final year of the Republic, a lawsuit against the President for violating the constitution under Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 would cause him to be removed from office without an impeachment inquiry considering his Presidency was illegitimate form the start. A snap election would be held in the late winter of 2292. The results tallied secured a narrow victory for the combined forces of former NCR Colonel Alice Salvatore and Plantiff Jeremias Klink.

### Commonwealth of Greater America

The Commonwealth of Greater America or CGA is a Authoritarian-Democratic State, paralleling states like Portugal under Salazar or Italy under Mussolini.. although viewing itself as truly American in Nature. Originally the CGA was known as the Provisional Government of Texas, started by Military Remnants scattered across Austin and the thousands upon thousands that survived the nuclear warheads across Austin, thanks due to most of the Nuclear Defenses centered around Austin, mixed with the fact most of the warheads targeted Dallas. With this, a Democratic Bastion State was formed, believing itself one of the few remaining American government and military officials left. With the coming decades the PCT grew and grew, participating in great wars and fighting off countless insurrections (listed in Lore).. but come 2291 the current President Emerson broke the Constitution, getting impeached in a quick manner which opened up a surprising emergency election. The Growing ‘National-Union Party’ quickly used the turmoil to grab a relatively unknown figure, one former NCR-Colonel Alice Salvatore, and push her as their Candidate. Alice was surprisingly Charismatic, and with her running mate Klink, they quickly stole the election. In the following months Alice would secure a majority both in Senate and in House.. leading to her renaming the country, to the Commonwealth of Greater America, and then soon more.. January 2nd, 5 PM, 2292.. the day the Lonestar would be forever changed. President Alice Salvatore gained full Unitary Powers in government, in essence establishing herself as dictator using the Super-Majority in Congress to vote it in. She acts on the belief that bickering and arguing will not restore America, but instead action. With the vote, immediate purges begun in the Government and Military; the ladder suffering very little, but the former suffering greatly. In the coming days the Commonwealth would transform into a essential Militartistic Fascistic state, with the President in full control.