Alternate History of the Country

Journal VTBassMatt's Journal: Alternate History of the Country 2

Journal by VTBassMatt on Friday April 02, 2004 @08:57AM

Lately I've been thinking about developing a setting for fiction and/or a game in which the United States are no longer... ahem... united.

I haven't come up with a precise time period or reason for their departure from the Union (although I'm thinking early 21st century after 40 years of relative peace, the turmoil of the 60s being not because of anti-establishment sentiment but because of establishment-versus-establishmnt warfare), but I have thought up a few of the nation-states. Each has its own military, economic system, constitution (or other government mandate), and all the things that go into making a modern government.

Republic of California (socialist): California; Oregon; western Nevada
Dixie (democratic republic): Georgia; Mississippi; Alabama; South Carolina
Seven Sovereigns (federation): Kansas; Nebraska; South Dakota; North Dakota; Montana; Wyoming; southern Idaho
United States of New England (democratic republic): Maine; New Hampshire; Vermont; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut
Independent State of Washington (democratic republic): Washington; northern Idaho
Kingdom of Appalachia (constitutional monarchy): eastern Tennessee; southwestern Virginia (to Roanoke); North Carolina
Republic of the Western Atlantic Seaboard (democratic republic): Long Island; New Jersey; Delaware; eastern Maryland; eastern Virginia including Eastern Shore
The Free States of Independent America (federation): central and northern Virginia; western Maryland; Pennsylvania; West Virginia (reunified with Virginia); Washington, DC
The People's Republic of New York (socialist): New York
Commonwealth of the Four Corners and Minor Outlying Areas (federation): New Mexico; Colorado; Arizona; Utah; western Nevada
Republic of Texas (true republic): Texas; Oklahoma
Sutherland (democratic republic): middle and western Tennessee; Kentucky
Louisiarkia (mostly anarchy most of the time): Louisiana; Arkansas
Democratic Nation of Miami (fascist dictatorship): southern Florida
North Florida (democratic republic): central and northern Florida
Iowan Confederacy (federation of counties): Iowa; southern Minnesota
Wisconsin (democratic republic): Wisconsin; southwestern section of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Kingdom of Hawaii (absolute monarchy): Hawaii
as yet unnamed; undecided form of government: Missouri; Illinois; Indiana; Ohio
(seceded and accepted into Canada): Alaska; northern Minnesota; Lower Peninsula of Michigan; eastern and northern Upper Peninsula of Michigan

So that leaves us with two socialist states, seven democratic republics, three state-based federations, one county-based federation, one true republic, one fascist state, a place of anarchy (but not necessarily unrest), and two monarchies. Additionally, some territory is lost to Canada, and one area effectively doesn't exist, as I haven't imagined it yet.

Comments and suggestions?

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