History Main / DividedStatesOfAmerica

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' of ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' has Mega-Cities One (includes eastern Ontario) and Two (later nuked) on the east and west coasts, Mega-City Three (Texas City), Uranium City (in Alaska), Las Vegas (also eventually nuked) and the ungoverned and desolated Cursed Earth in between. After Chaos Day, The leadership of Texas City tried to overthrow their counterparts in Mega City One to reunite the United States; it backfired on them.

** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' essentially expands on the Institute and the Brotherhood, with the potential to recreate the early United States with the help of the Commonwealth Minutemen (centered around Boston). Other than that, the largest settlements are Diamond City, Goodneighbor, and Bunker Hill.

* ''VideGame/{{Piratez}}'' takes place several hundred years in the future, and the former USA are divided into several large countries. [[Main/CrapsackWorld None of them a nice place to live.]]

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'': The central premise is the dissolution of the United States owing to a combination of hyperinflation, pestilence, and disobedience in the face of growing lawlessness. The heroes occupy the Northern Confederacy/Victoria, a deeply conservative version of New England, and in the South a New Confederacy forms, torn between its cosmopolitan and rural elements. Past that, Wisconsin is taken over by Nazis, the 'Party of the Will'. Insane parodies of 'Deep Greener' environmentalists take over the Pacific Northwest, forming Cascadia. California is renamed Azania, moving the capital to the Berkley campus and outlawing men. The rest is overrun by 'orcs' as minority gangs and rioters are called in-story.

* In ''Literature/FireOnTheMountain'', John Brown enlists Harriet Tubman's aid in his raid on Harper's Ferry and, thanks to her support, is successful. This sparks off a series of slave revolts that coalesce into "Nova Africa", a socialist republic run by former slaves made up of the states that would have become the Confederacy.[[note]]The idea was based on the real-life separatist/social movement "The Republic of New Afrika", which sought to secede states in the Deep South from the United States by a referendum of African Americans and form a new country[[/note]] Additionally, Mexico has taken advantage of the situation by reclaiming California and Texas. A Civil War does still take place, with Abraham Lincoln attempting to reclaim the former states, but the Union ultimately is defeated.

* ''Website/AtlasOfMedievalAmerica'' imagines a world where human civilization is blasted back to TheMiddleAges overnight, and what the USA (which had no medieval period to revert to) would become by the 26th Century. The site remains unfinished to this day, but some of the resulting countries are named. The [[VestigialEmpire rump United States of America]] is an oligarchic maritime republic centered in Baltimore that controls isolated enclaves and the major shipping lanes along the East Coast extending into Canada; the Great Plains are inhabited by a loose confederation of nomadic tribes; the Confederate States (including an independent Georgia and the "Red River Territory") have reverted to plantation slavery but not along racial lines as [[InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace everyone in the South is biracial]] by that point; California splits into the northern "Republic" and the Scientologist-controlled southern "Free Zone"; the "Territory of Iowa" is a military dictatorship controlling all land between the Missouri and Wabash rivers; the "State of Deseret" is a Mormon theocracy controlling Wyoming and parts of Utah and Ohio; Washington DC became a city-state under the control of the American Non-Denominational Church similar to the Holy See, with the Supreme Court and Chief Justice filling the roles of the College of Cardinals and Pope; it also mentions several warlords in the East and hydraulic empires clustered around rivers in the Western desert.

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* ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', which largely takes place in the American south long AfterTheEnd, has a few different independent nations. At one point the country known as Inglessa, whose geography is not terribly well defined, was at war with Lousana (Louisiana). The nations are more clearly defined in the [[AllThereInTheManual artbook]] ''Turn A Gundam Art Works''. Inglessia is roughly everything north and east of Ohio, while Luziana is everything from its Western border to the Western border of "MIMAL"[[note]]Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana[[/note]]. There are also regions named Tejas, Floria, and Cuppa; the region consisting of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas goes unnamed.

* ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', which largely takes place in the American south, has a few different independent nations. At one point the country known as Inglessa, whose geography is not terribly well defined, was at war with Louisiana. The nations are more clearly defined in the [[AllThereInTheManual artbook]] ''Turn A Gundam Art Works''. Inglessia is roughly everything north and east of Ohio, while Luziana is everything from its Western border to the Western border of "MIMAL"[[note]]Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana[[/note]]. There are also regions named Tejas, Floria, and Cuppa; the region consisting of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas goes unnamed.

* The [[HollywoodNewEngland New England]] states are also off on their own, something that both New Englanders and non-New Englanders find very appealing. Sometimes, New England is combined with the Mid-Atlantic to form a Northeast country or it joins {{Canada|Eh}}.

* Creator/{{A24}} and Creator/AlexGarland's ''Film/CivilWar2024'' is "Divided States of America/Main/SecondAmericanCivilWar: the feature film," with 19 states seceeded along with California and Texas, who made their alliance together, and Florida just suceeded themselves from the rest. It tells a point of view of journalists trying to reach the Capitol all while trying to navigate their family through the violence while attempting to report the truth — despite violent threats to journalists from the army.