Usonia

> Where Tyrants Come To Die
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> Unkown, Mars' planetary motto

Flag of Usonia

## Introduction

The Nation State of Usonia, simply known as Usonia, is a nation on Mars. Its the largest region in the Commonwealth of Mars with its borders reaching from up north at Protonilus Mesa, stretching to Isidis Bay at its east; to the south at Tinto River Valley, and to the west at the Cydonian Sea. They border several more countries and the Libertine Settlement on Ares Island.

Being the direct descendants of Americans from Earth, their ideology has shifted over the course of 300 years. Still following the main foundations of liberty, freedoms of speech, press, and the like, except with an emphasized notion that the individual lives in accordance of their family, community and beyond. Alongside an emphasis against materialism and vice.

The paramilitary groups that fought and influenced factions in "The Continental Collapse", and later the American Partition and Radical War would go on to be the foundation of Mars' nations. They're the one of Four American descended planets in the Milky Way, the other two being Selene that once was the Earth's moon, and the other being Mars' biggest rival, the Teegarden's Star planets.

While its considered the strongest military in the milky way, it has been criticized by other planets and even their own citizens for banning opposition parties.

## The Triumph

As the former United States was beginning to return to the world stage, and many new provisional governments formed during the partition began to come together into loose federations, the more nationalistic portions uniting under the moniker of The Free American Union. Remnants of the Socialistic factions from The Continental Collapse would form The American Revolutionary Board. old tensions would flare back up, heightened by one side eventually using nuclear weapons, and yet another conflict would ensue, the Restoration Authority would win out, at least reclaiming the country.

With much of the continent and the rest of the world scarred from decades of war, advancements in space travel and AI technology would be prioritized but monitored much more closely compared to the corporations of old, and the moon and Mars would be colonized by The Free Union in particular, both being used to reflect the new reality they found themselves in.

## Post War Planetary Colonization

With war finally beginning to lessen in the world and reconstruction ending, Europe, The Free Union, and several other prominent countries would come together for The Second Berlin Conference. A meeting to discuss and partition the solar system and galaxy for colonization.

Many discussions, negotiations and arguments would go on between them all but agreements and compromises would be met at last. One of the most notable examples being that The Free Union would be able to colonize the Moon and Mars, and Europe may have the over 90+ moons Jupiter has. One of Saturn's many moons, Titan, being of vital resource for Methane gas, would be an intergalactic zone, with it being used by everyone respectively. The rest of Saturn's moons would be left uninhabited or also used for resource extraction, but didn't have as much zealotry as Titan.

With the use of the latest generation of Cyberamic androids and Space Stations, the terraforming of the Moon and Mars would begin as well as the first permanent human settlements on both. The Moon's terraforming would be complete much quicker, later being renamed to Selene. With terraforming of Mars still ongoing, it has become a popular tourist spot with its environment being a mixture of Tropical like one would expect in Hawaii or the Pacific, to a climate more reminiscent of Western Texas or the Outback of Australia. Which would also influence its film industry, with Spy and Western movies being the most popular genre on the planet.

With excavations and terraforming, and early Martian colony from a former company before the Collapse would be discovered, excavated and turned into the very first "Galactic Wonder." The ancient colony being named Elan.

The descendants of The Free Union's rivals, still just as extreme as their forefathers would be given the option of "voluntary exile" and given their own planet to terraform and colonize, so long as they left the Earth, as well as Mars and Selene for good. To which they agreed.

### The Old Guard

Whilst the Restauration Authority would restore and form The Free American Union. What remained of the moderate old guard would still heavily criticize the Free Union's radicalism, reinstating old obscenity laws and disregard for the former constitution.

To compromise, the Old Guard descendants would be given their own settlements in rural areas of the newly colonizing Moon and Mars, in exchange that they don't interfere with government and social policy. Despite this, much of the old guard with the means fled to the Bad Lands of the Keiper belt, where the general rule of "As Long As No one Is Hurt" is stretched to its extremes.