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Pre-Collapse

United States of America

Official Name: United States of America

Ruling Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Progressivism^note Social Liberalism

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Tulsi Gabbard

Role: Head of State

Party: Democratic Party

Ideology: Progressivism^note Social Liberalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

The second female president of the United States, Tulsi Gabbard has been forced to watch as a storm grows on the horizon, bound to inaction by a deadlocked Congress. From humble beginnings as a representative in Hawaii, Tulsi was catapulted to the national stage following her nomination as vice-president by president-elect Bernie Sanders. The American Left and Liberal center hailed the duo as champions of a new age of progressivism, while the Right bitterly accepted their inevitable victory with the Republican ticket split beyond repair by the formation of the New Republican Party. As the elections came and went, and as the transition teams worked around the clock, many people were looking forward to the "New Deal for America" that the duo had promised on the campaign trail... Progress appeared slow and steady, but everything changed on May 16th 2022, when President Sanders, in the middle of a quiet conversation with healthcare wonks, suddenly clutched his chest and fell to the floor, never to rise again.

Although many had expected that Bernie's death was on the horizon, few thought it would be so soon, not in the least Gabbard herself. In a time of grief, Americans turned to their new president for leadership for hope, hope that the "Most Progressive Candidates Since FDR" would make good on their word. They hoped that money would find its way into their pockets, that food would find its way into their stomachs, and that a roof would find its way over their heads. Instead, they watched as the 2022 midterm election campaign saw Gabbard’s Democratic Party trip and stumble over the electoral finish line, losing control of the Senate to Republicans, Old and New. While the House was nominally under Democratic control, growing dissatisfaction with President Gabbard’s incoherent direction for the party left both insurgent progressives like AOC and senior conservative Democrats like Henry Cuellar threatening defection to rival parties, and these threats eventually came to pass. With Congress effectively paralyzed, days of disappointment turned to weeks of frustration, and then to months of betrayal.

As the Gabbard Administration dragged on, the deadlock in Washington only worsened. The flow of Executive Orders to compensate for Congress’ frozen state has been staunched by a conservative Supreme Court, which numbers 8 instead of its usual 9 due to Gabbard’s inability to nominate a successor for Justice Breyer, and by unsympathetic federal circuit courts and state legislatures. Some conservative legislatures have even outright refused to enforce gun control EOs with little legislative repercussions following an unprecedented hike in the rate of mass shootings in early 2023. For nearly one and a half years by this point, the only papers on the Resolute desk from Congress were furious letters from Representatives and Senators. Desperate for a bill to pass, Gabbard has begun turning to more and more provocative measures. With simply riding out the storm no longer a viable option, Gabbard has considered invoking unprecedented executive authority to restore some semblance of power to her office...

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• 0% Approval Rating: Absolutely no one in the Pre-Collapse United States likes her as she is seen as an incompetent and weak president. It is quite telling that her getting reelected is the reason for the Collapse.

American Collapse

The Lion Rebellion

Official Name: The Lion Rebellion, The Free Territory (People Unification), The Insurrectionary Amry (Total Military Dominice)

Ideology: Anarcho-Communism^note Anarchism

After many skirmishes against the Federal Government, Haddock's Guards and The Black Legion. Anarchists in Norfolk Virgina, rise up after Federal Police retreat from the city and proclaim an Anarchist Uprising seeking to liberate all of America of statism. Whether they will follow their Anarchist ideals or succumb to a Militaristic Pseudo-Anarchist regime should they survive in the dire times of the 2nd American Civil-War is to come.

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The "Lion of Socialism"

^{Bandit Lion}

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Anarcho-Communism^note Anarchism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

NO GODS. NO MASTERS.

HE IS THE TERROR OF THE STATISTS, THE SCOURGE OF THE CONFORMISTS, THE BUTCHER OF PIGS. HE IS THE LION OF SOCIALISM. THE BEAST OF OUR LIBERATION WHO FEARS NO DANGER, WHO KNOWS NO PAIN, WHO IS FUELED BY HIS INSATIABLE DESIRE TO FREE THE PEOPLE OF THEIR CHAINS! THE ONE-MAN ARMY WHO PERSONALLY HUNTS DOWN THE BUREAUCRATS AND POLITICIANS WITH HIS RIGHTEOUS AXE!

MAY THE PEOPLE FINALLY KNOW TRUE LIBERTY IN THE CLEANSING FLOW OF STATIST BLOOD! LONG LIVE OUR FREEDOM! AND DEATH TO ALL THOSE WHO WOULD TAKE IT FROM US!

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• The Faceless: The Lion hides their face behind a vintage soviet PBF gasmask.
• Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: His rise against the United States government involves the beheading of a member of the National Guard. Further events (available from Haddock's perspective) also show his supporters making use of violent resistance even before his rise to power

Fred Hirschfeld

Role: General

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

Fred Hirschfeld became renowned among anarchists around the world for his well-publicized exploits in the defense of Rojava during the Syrian Civil War. After spending a few years with anarchist groups in Central America, he returned in 2023 to the United States (illegally, as his passport had been revoked) to participate in the next great struggle.

He enjoys almost-legendary status among the militant parts of our movement, and that stature has only grown since the start of the Riots, to which he arrived just in time for things to turn hot.

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David Lark

Role: General

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

David Lark, bass player and lead singer (or perhaps more accurately, screamer) for Brick Aerodynamics Institute, and veteran of the Virginian anarchist punk scene going back decades, is quite an imposing figure, and an even more imposing personality. His penchant for street battles has landed him in jail several times, and each time, he put out a new album shortly after being freed, dedicated by name to particular prison guards who he says inspired the extremely violent grindcore lyrics on each album.

He was in jail from 2007-2012 on a charge of felony malicious wounding, but upon being released, he quickly made up the ground in notoriety that he'd lost to others who had been present during the '08 riots. During the Norfolk Riots, he led from the front lines, and his gang was one of the first to start looting and using firearms from the breached Police Armory, which escalated the situation from a particularly violent street war between police and protestors to an all-out insurrection, with Federal and Commonwealth military units getting involved.

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• Metal Scream: Lark was the lead singer for the Grindcore punk band Brick Aerodynamics Institute, a role that involved a fair amount of throat-blistering metal screams.

Julian Baker

Role: General

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

Julian Baker is a well-respected ideologist of the current anarchist movement, who came to Norfolk from New York early in the course of the Riots and galvanized disjointed affinity groups into action. He is best known for his tireless organizing activities during the Occupy movement in 2011, and was referred to in the media at the time as "The Duke of Zuccotti Park," a title that was much-lambasted at the time, not in the least by Baker himself.

He is in part responsible for the Lion's prominence, as he was responsible for the filming of the well-known video in which the Lion delivers a speech and then kills a National Guardsman with his axe. He has hung around the Lion ever since, trying to guide him into what he believes are the most sound decisions, and on account of his often being correct, he is now on the Army Committee. Still, it seems like the Lion mistrusts him to some degree, though there is no apparent personal animosity.

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Andre Tyndall

Role: General

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

Andre Tyndall is something of an oddity within the Lion Rebellion, and especially within the Army Committee. His personal history is well-known, as he was a prominent member of the Committee to Restore the Black Panther Party after the '08 collapse. However, he left the Reconstructed Black Panther Party in 2011, shortly after its official formation, and published a widely-read polemic entitled "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Towards a New Panther Politics," in which he strongly criticized the RBPP's methods, theory, and what he characterized as its fatally over-centralized organization, which he claimed was ripe for subversion by clandestine forces, just as the original Black Panther Party had been. As a result, he became something of a celebrated figure in the nascent Mao-Spontex movement throughout the middle of the 2010s, but he receded from the public eye starting around 2018.

He appears to have changed much over the intervening years, and now claims to be an Anarchist, rather than a Libertarian Maoist or Mao-Spontex, which were both labels that he opposed during his period of popularity, but which came to describe the movement that took its cues in part from him. Many suggest his professed conversion is less than genuine, but the Lion, who is usually quick to oppose (often with extreme personal violence) anyone he sees as statist, seems to, if not exactly trust him, then at least respect him, and has taken him into his inner circle willingly.

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• Defector from Decadence: Tydall left the Reconstructed Black Panthers due to its overly-centralized organization and adopted Anarchism.

"Mousey"

Role: General

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

"Mousey" is the only entirely anonymous member of the Army Committee. Even his face is not known: when Anne Cartier once tried to take off his balaclava, the Lion forcibly removed her from the meeting. He is a largely unknown quantity, but the Lion trusts him implicitly, and his affinity for Andre Tyndall is clear. He arrived on the scene in Norfolk along with Tyndall after the situation in Seattle fell apart, and the Lion has welcomed him with open arms.

His expertise at asymmetrical urban warfare was proven during the Riots, when he coordinated an ad-hoc affinity group of militants to set up fortifications at the Chesapeake Bridge and lead the Federal and police forces into a shredding crossfire, which arguably broke the back of Federal power in the eastern part of the city.

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• The Faceless: "Mousey" keeps both his face and identity hidden from even his closest associates.

Anne Cartier

Role: General

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

Anne Cartier, scion of a long line of Virginian radicals going back to the American Revolution, was a well-known figure in the Norfolk radical scene long before the Riots began. She appeared often at anarchist and anti-war demonstrations from at least 2005, and her actions during the riots associated with the 2008 collapse pushed her to some degree of prominence in radical circles.

She managed to avoid the ruthless legal reprisals enacted by City, Commonwealth and Federal authorities in the early 2010s, largely because of her much-touted "sixth sense" for police kettles and other mass-arrest tactics, but partially because she was somehow always able to prove that she had not been present whenever she was investigated in connection with riots, and any connections claimed by those who snitched in police custody were found to be entirely unsubstantiated.

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Republican Union of America

Official Name: Republican Union of America, American Legionary State (American Successor), The Hesperian Republic (New Vision), The Republic (Transcending History)

Ruling Party: Eagle's Spirit Party

Ideology: Haddockism^note National Totalitarianism

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For its tropes, see the dedicated subpage.

Confederation of America

Confederation of America

Official Name: Confederation of America, United States of Southern America (Liberal Yankee), United States of Dixie (Liberal Dixie), Confederate States of Dixie (Wilson), Federal Republic of Southern America (Autocratic Yankee), Second Confedercy of America (Autocratic Dixie), Dead Zone (Annihilationist)

Ruling Party: Confederate Congress

Ideology: Nationalism^note Populism

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1st Confederate Congress

Role: Head of State

Party: Confederate Congress

Ideology: Nationalism^note Populism

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Stacey Abrams

Role: President^note Head of State (2024 Election - Abrams elected), (2028 Election, Abrams elected)

Party: Southern People's Party

Ideology: Progressivism^note Social Liberalism

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Ron DeSantis

Role: President^note Head of State (2024 Election - DeSantis elected), (2028 Election, DeSantis elected)

Party: Democratic-Republican Party

Ideology: Christian Democracy^note Social Conservatism

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• Good Old Ways: DeSantis is a proponent of American Conservatism in the Deep South while also simultaneously not breaking away from American identity.

Jo Jorgensen

Role: President^note Head of State (2024 Election - Jorgensen elected), (2028 Election, Jorgensen elected)

Party: States' Rights Party - Statist Wing

Ideology: Constitutional Confederalism^note 

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Tom Cotton

Role: President^note Head of State (2024 Election - Cotton elected), (2028 Election, Cotton elected)

Party: Dixie National Caucus

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Democratic Populism

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Matthew Hoh

Role: President^note Head of State (2028 Election - Hoh elected)

Party: Dixie Greens/Southern People's Party Coalition

Ideology: Socialist Greenism^note Democratic Socialism

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• Internal Reformist: Hoh is a Socialist in the very anti-left Confederacy. If wins the election (by a thin margin by the way), he'll support reperations for slavery and move past the Confederacy's ideas of White Nationalism.

Ron Wilson

Role: President^note Head of State (2028 Election - Wilson elected)

Party: Sons of the Confederacy

Ideology: Neo-Confederatism^note Ethnic Nationalism

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• Evil Old Folks: Wilson is an old White Nationalist who is a member of the Sons of the Confederacy, a White Supremacist organization who if elected re-introduces segregation laws and enforces plantation economics to be re-introduced to the Confederacy a.

Donald Livingstone

Role: Head of State (Released by a Stratocratic country)

Party: Dixie National Caucus - Military Wing

Ideology: Figurehead Government^note Stratocracy

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The Klan

Official Name: The Knights of the Klu Klux Klan

Ideology: Neo-Confederatism^note Ethnic Nationalism

The Klan promised with prosperity and independence with the new Confederation become disillusioned and angered at the liberal-styled government, rises up in tandem with the Nazi-Accelerationist Atomwaffen Division to make their Confederation an all-white one.

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• The Klan: Literally.

Jeremy Parker

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Neo-Confederatism^note Ethnic Nationalism

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Atomwaffen Division

Official Name: Atomwaffen Divison, National Socialist State (Mason Unification), Unholy Kingdom (Faust Unification), Free Aryan Territory (National Anarchist Unification), Purified Land of Mikinoc Waajew (Ecofascist Unification)

Ruling Party: Atomwaffen Division

Ideology: Nazism^note Ethnic Nationalism

Atomwaffen Division in tandem with the Klan rises up against the Confederation of America to set up a Nazi America.

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• Those Wacky Nazis: Atomwaffen Division believes in a bizarre mix of Nazi, Esoteric, and Accelerationist thought.

James Mason

Role: Head of State

Party: Atomwaffen Division

Ideology: Nazism^note Ethnic Nationalism

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• Evil Old Folks: Mason is a 72-year-old Neo-Nazi with a history of pedophilia.

Faust

Role: Head of State (Faust seizes power)

Party: Atomwaffen Division - o9A Branch

Ideology: Neo-Darwinism^note Annihiliationism

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• Hollywood Satanism: Faust is an unhinged Satanist Neo-Nazi.
• Piss-Take Rap: Faust is a rapper, a terrible, terrible rapper.
• Scary Teeth: Faust's teeth are horribly rotted due to his sweet tooth and terrible impulse control ^note A trait taken directly from Richard Remirez
• Villainous Breakdown: Faust is prone to suffering particularly disturbing breakdowns do his inability to cry, instead making disturbing goat-bleating-esq noises.

Pazuzu Algarad

Role: Gerneral

Party: Atomwaffen Division - o9A Branch

Ideology: Neo-Darwinism^note Annihiliationism

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• Tattooed Crook: Pazuzu is a convicted murderer with several facial tattoos.

Christoper Asher Wray

Role: Head of State (FBI coups Atomwaffen)

Party: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Ideology: Interim Government^note Stratocracy

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Guerrero's Militia

Official Name: Guerrero's Militia

Ruling Party: Committee for American Restoration

Ideology: Martial Republicanism^note Stratocracy

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Only Sane Man: Dowwnplayed. While El Guerrero and his militia believe themselves to be this, it remains to be seen whether they too will fall into their own flavor of extremism.

El Guerrero

Role: Head of State

Party: Committee for American Restoration

Ideology: Martial Republicanism^note Stratocracy

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Acadianan Empire

Official Name: Acadianan Empire

Ideology: Aristocracy^note Autocracy

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Colonel Touissant

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Aristocracy^note Autocracy

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American Iron Front

John Brown Brigade

Official Name: John Brown Brigade

Ruling Party: Union for Liberation and Freedom

Ideology: Anarcho-Communism^note Anarchism

165 years after the Raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown to free slaves, Military deserters and Anarchists inspired by the Lion Revolt led by Pat Tillman a soldier sent to Afghanistan who was rumored to be dead and claims that the Federal Government had a hand in his attempted assassination. Declaring the territory the Iron Front, he joins forces with the Lion Revolt to spread liberty throughout the former United States and to get his revenge on the Federal Government.

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Pat Tillman

Role: Head of State

Party: Union for Liberation and Freedom

Ideology: Anarcho-Communism^note Anarchism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

Pat Tillman, a former NFL player turned Army Ranger after 9/11, gave his life for the cause in Afghanistan. A covert assassination attempt by members of his own unit deep in the mountains left him the only survivor after he fought back against his would-be killers. Shaking with adrenaline and sickened by the futile backstabbing of men he thought he could call friends, he dropped his dogtags in the dirt, destroyed his uniform insignia, then turned and walked away for good.

After almost twenty years of life as a ghost in the mountains of Khost Province, a bogeyman the local women would make up tales about to scare their children, he has finally returned to his homeland. God only knows how he slipped in, unheard by the government that once tried to silence him. The same government that turned around and called him a hero, an inspiration, even a Corporal; endless words droned over an empty wooden box.

He's had a long time to think, up there in those hills with nothing but scraggly goats and the local Talib for company, and he thinks he knows what the world needs from him now: a banner to rally the righteous and brave. An example to live by, and to die by. A revival of Justice, in fire and glory — the restless specter of a man who never stopped struggling, even against the worms in his grave.

Pat Tillman may be dead, but his soul goes marching on.

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• Alternate Self: IRL Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan in 2004 in a friendly fire incident which some have speculated was a cleverly concealed murder. EU Tillman survived his assassination and will return to America to lead an anarchist militia.
• Defector from Decadence: As in OTL, the patriotic Tillman joined the US Army Rangers following 9/11. After surviving an assassination attempt by his fellow rangers, he became disillusioned with the American government and adopted anarchism

US Federal Forces

For its tropes, see the dedicated subpage.

Free Union of America

Free Union of America

Official Name: Free Union of America

Ideology: Marxist-Leninism

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• Commieland: The Free Union of America consists of the areas of the west coast dominate by the Peoples' Communist Party of America (PCPA) prior to the American Collapse.

Gloria La Riva

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Marxist-Leninism

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• Puppet Queen: though nominally in power, La Riva and her followers are the unwilling puppets of the Old Guard faction of the PCPA.

Edward Belmarsh

Role: Head of State

Party: TBA

Ideology: TBA

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Leader of the lose coalition of independent rightist militias in the wider Californian resistance

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• Rightwing Militia Fanatic:

Free Seattle Territories

Official Name: Free Seattle Territories

Ruling Party: The People

Ideology: Insurrectionist Anarchism^note Anarchism

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• The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The insurrectionary nature of the FST's vain of anarchist thought has result in horrific violence perpetrated by overzealous revolutionaries. This will get even worse if the unify the United States, conducting a campaign of mass execution of former leaders.

Mother Anarchy

Role: Head of State

Party: The People

Ideology: Insurrectionist Anarchism^note Anarchism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

The name started as a joke, obviously. Or at least, a slightly amusing nickname. Mother Anarchy has been deep within the Seattle activist milieu for a couple of decades, and people started calling her variations on "protest mom" way back before '08. "Mother Anarchy" had to wait for internet leftism to mature before it could come into its own as a pseudonym. By the time of the 2016 election, it had stuck, and it became inseparable from her protest organizing.

When Seattle plunged into an ecstatic insurrection in early 2017, defying flawed democracy and the new authoritarian in the White House, Mother Anarchy found herself suddenly within a militant stronghold in Seattle's Capitol Hill district as the barricades went up and a large number of police were trapped within their own precinct. Soon enough, though, the surprised elation of the occupiers turned to panic as Federalized National Guard units swarmed the city and breached Free Cap Hill's barricades with extreme violence, harrying the protestors out into the waiting kettles of the police, and the waiting vans of the Department of Homeland Security. Mother Anarchy was unlucky enough to find herself in one of the latter.

It was weeks before she saw the light of day again. DHS policy was to hold each prisoner on the thinnest thread of habeas corpus they could manage in order to maximize imprisonment time, and while those tactics would later lead to two fruitless impeachments of President Trump, for Mother Anarchy, they punctuated a valuable lesson about the need to defend with more than just barricades - guns, certainly - but preparation and organization above all, because the enemy will always have more guns than you, if you're fighting on the right side.

After the eerily-familiar failure of the 2nd Seattle Uprising, and many long months of resisting the Communists' restrictive rule, Mother Anarchy has stood up once more, ready for the next round in Seattle's protracted war for freedom.

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• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Mother Anarchy" acquired her nickname during her career as an anarchist protest leader.
• Mama Bear: She is also known as the "Protest Mom".

The Thirteen Arrows Brigade

Official Name: The Thirteen Arrows Brigade

Ideology: Populist Nationalism^note Populism

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• Hired Guns: The Thirteen Arrows Brigade are an army of mercenaries funded and coordinated by the ACC (Anti-communist Coalition)
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: War against the limp-wristed, cock-suckin', dirt-eaten', soft brained havin', soy-faced lookin', girls-clothes wearin', devil-worshippin', rainbow lovin', dog-funkin', shit-eatin', christ-killin', mouth breathin', toe-suckin', hummus eatin', child-beatin', hippie-lovin', corn-in-the-ass shovin', American Hatin', Cliton-lovin, COMMIE BASTARDS!

Richard Johnson

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Populist Nationalism^note Populism

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• Heel–Face Turn: Under the right circumstances, the rabidly anti-communist Johnson can become an Anti-revisionist Totalitarian Marxist^note He even changes his name to Richard Steel in honor of Joseph Stalin.

Manson Cult

Official Name: Manson Cult

Ideology: Autocratic Theocracy^note Autocracy

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Afton Burton

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Autocratic Theocracy^note Autocracy

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Unaffiliated Warlords

Holy Republic of Deseret

Official Name: Holy Republic of Deseret

Ideology: Authoritarian Theocracy^note Authoritarianism

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• The Theocracy: Deseret is a Mormon TheoDemocracy propped up over a few centuries of Mormon settlers in Utah attempting to wrangle their influence in the state finally gets a chance to rule their own holy republic with a holy fist.

Russell Nelson

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Authoritarian Theocracy^note Authoritarianism

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Las Vegas

Official Name: Las Vegas

Ruling Party: The Strip

Ideology: Anarcho-Capitalism^note Anarchism

After the Mormons take Utah and eastern Nevada, see very little use in keeping a city as sinful as Las Vegas in their hands. So instead they release it to let go of the innate deadly sin of Las Vegas that is Greed.

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The Strip

Role: Head of State

Party: The Strip

Ideology: Anarcho-Capitalism^note Anarchism

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Jeremy Harrington

^{Revolutionary Socialist Harrington}

Role: Head of State

Party: People's Movement-Progressivist, People's Movement-Syndicalist

Ideology: Progressivism^note Democratic Socialism, Syndicalism^note Revolutionary Socialism

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Tucker Carlson

Role: Head of State

Party: People Movement-Carlsonism, Vegas Anti-Liberal Coalition

Ideology: Democratic Nationalism^note Democratic Populism, National Bolshevism^note Totalitarianism Marxism

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Navajo Nation

Official Name: Navajo Nation

Ideology: Corrupted Democracy^note Populism

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Jonathan Nez

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Corrupted Democracy^note Populism

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Buffalo Revolutionary Council

Official Name: Buffalo Revolutionary Council, Great Lakes Revolutionary Council (Revolutionary Council takes Great Lakes)

Ruling Party: United Revolutionary Cause Party - UMP Subsidiary

Ideology: National Autonomism^note National Separatism

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Revolutionary Council

Role: Head of State

Party: United Revolutionary Cause Party - UMP Subsidiary

Ideology: National Autonomism^note National Separatism

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Firebrand

Role: Head of State

Party: Free Revolutionaries

Ideology: Insurrectionary Anarchism^note Anarchism

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American Metropolitan League

Official Name: American Metropolitan League

Ruling Party: United Metropolitan Party

Ideology: National Autonomism^note National Separatism

Setting up independence against the Great Lakes, the American Metropolitan styles itself against the originally planned Buffalo revolution as a sort of independent Corporate enterprise and runs a few cities for themselves.

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American Metropolitan Union

Role: Head of State

Party: United Metropolitan Party

Ideology: National Autonomism^note National Separatism

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Worker's Front of Superior

Official Name: Worker's Front of Superior

Ruling Party: Worker's Movement

Ideology: Syndicalism^note  Marxist-Leninism

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Joe Henry

Role: Head of State

Party: Worker's Movement

Ideology: Syndicalism^note Marxist-Leninism

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Southwell

Role: Head of State

Party: Yooper People's Security

Ideology: Military Junta^note  Stratocracy

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K. Ross

Role: Head of State

Party: Yooper Patriots

Ideology: Pinochetism ^note  Populism

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Haniel

Role: Head of State

Party: The Forest

Ideology: Religious Utopianism ^note  National Totalitarianism

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Republic of Texas

Official Name: Republic of Texas

Ideology: American Libertarianism^note Social Conservatism

Texas in its current condition, sees no purpose of being aligned to the collapsing United States. So the government decides to secede and become independent like its past republic dreamed of.

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• Patriotic Fervor: Texas has always been a nationalistic state ever since its creation. With the United States collapsing, American nationalism turns into Texan nationalism.

Ted Cruz

Role: Head of State

Ideology: American Libertarianism^note Social Conservatism

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• Defector from Decadence: Cruz and his cabinet are very against the Confederacy because of their opposition because they would prefer Texas to be independent nation rather than be tied to the Southern Unity.
• Undying Loyalty: Cruz states that Texas was born from as a republic and will die as one not being tied to any external outlier like the Confederacy.

Greater State of Texas

Official Name: Greater State of Texas

Ruling Party: The "Bigger Business in Texas" Party

Ideology: Corporatocracy^note Authoritarianism

As Texas becomes independent, a new force at play under the Corporate power of Rick Perry takes over the Northern Texas and eventually goes to war with the Conservative South.

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• Military Coup: With the assistance of oil companies and christian fundamentalists, Perry is able to take over Northern Texas.
• The Fundamentalist: Christian militia is the reason why Perry is in power.

Rick Perry

Role: Head of State

Party: The "Bigger Business in Texas" Party

Ideology: Corporatocracy^note Authoritarianism

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• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Not neccessarily a corporate executive, but more so working for multiple as a the head of a corporate oligarchy.
• Corrupt Politician: Perry previously used to be the Governor of Texas and a politician in Trump's cabinet as Secretary of Energy. Only after America collapses does he become the authoritarian head of Texas with oil barons backing him financially and christian fundamentalists backing him militarilly.

Gulf Cartel

Official Name: Gulf Cartel

Ideology: Aristocracy^note Autocracy

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Osiel Guillen

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Aristocracy^note Autocracy

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The Immortals

Official Name: The Immortals

Ideology: Feudalism^note Autocracy

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• Badass Biker: The Immortals consist of multiple biker gangs under Xerxes' leadership. Their badassery is further increased if Xerxes chooses to remain in America, becoming the Angarium of new Persian Empire

Xerxes

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Feudalism^note Autocracy

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

Hail to you, mighty Xerxes! King, oh mighty king of all the nations, of all the people, of all the things, beneath the high-blazing sun! Hail to you, oh mighty one, who took up the armor and sword to defend his kingdom graced to him by the Great Gods above!

Your subjects feared you, blinded by false worship and the lies of those who'd usurp your throne! But, by bread and sword you have won their loyalty and love, and together we ride over the lands to claim your birthright!

Lead us oh mighty leader! Drive the Legions of Xerxes across the world for your epic odyssey!

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• The Quest: Xerxes' driving motivation is his personal "Odyssey" to escape American and return to his homeland or, if he decides to stay, to conquer America.

• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Xerxes wears a suit of ancient Persian armor.

National Parks Service

Official Name: National Parks Service, Exxon Site Alpha (Exxon), Fire-Bear Cult (Fire-Bear Cult), Yellowstone Exclusion Zone (Janssen)

Ruling Party: Yellowstone National Park Rangers

Ideology: Interim Government^note Stratocracy

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National Parks Service Administration

Role: Head of State

Party: Yellowstone National Park Rangers

Ideology: Interim Government^note  Stratocracy

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Darren Woods

Role: Head of State

Party: Exxon

Ideology: Corporatocracy ^note  Authoritarianism

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• Corrupt Corporate Executive:
• Gaia's Lament: Woods and the Exxon executives are all to happy to destroy Yellowstone's natural beauty for the sake oil drilling.

Smokey The Bear

Role: Head of State

Party: Fire-Bear Cult

Ideology: Religious Utopianism^note  National Totalitarianism

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Montana Free Territory

Official Name: Montana Free Territory

Ideology: Platformism^note Anarchism

Under Military control, the people are forced to work for the Military day in and day out as an endlessly functioning cog in the machine. To Big Pete and his revolutionaries, they will not have any of it. Big Pete and his Libertarians and Anarchists raid local depots and storage spaces and take what they can and give it back to the people. Under Big Pete the people of Montana are free from statism and will continue to be even if odds look stacked against them.

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Big Pete

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Platformism^note Anarchism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

Big Pete never really meant to get this big. Sometimes, though, you do what you have to do, and suddenly you find that you have to do more. It was like that for Pete when this all started, when his friends and neighbors suddenly felt scared and exposed under that big sky, now full of jets screaming out West from over the hills. The people who came through town didn't seem so nice anymore, and the state troopers got downright mean.

When Pete stepped up and took charge of defense, he wasn't really thinking about the implications. He'd never held power over another man in his whole long life, and he liked it that way. But, you take up arms and defend your neighbors, and then what? Wait for someone meaner than you to come around and try to wreck it all? Pete's never been the waiting type.

So, Pete and his group left the ranch, and took to the lonely roads of Eastern Montana, doing what was right. People kept joining in and looking to him, and it kept escalating. One day, they passed some people who'd come down from Helena, saying the state government wasn't going to be around much longer. That the Army was coming up from Denver on their way into Idaho, and they were going to roll over Montana and put it under martial law. So, he had to deal with that.

It's been mostly a blur since then. Lots of people, places, lots of things to shoot at. Hopefully he's doing alright by everyone. Pete used to be a big thinker when he was younger, thought he had it all figured out, that he was ready to take down the system singlehandedly. Now that he's actually doing it, it's a lot less simple than it used to seem. Still, he knows right from wrong. Big Pete'll never let anyone hand him their chains, no matter how easy it might be.

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Cambion's Forest

Official Name: Cambion's Forest

Ruling Party: The Forest

Ideology: Anarcho-Totalitarianism^note National Totalitarianism

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• Small, Secluded World: A dark, terrifying example. No one gets in or out of The Forest and those who live their already lead hellish lives in constant fear.

Cambion

Role: Head of State

Party: The Forest

Ideology: Anarcho-Totalitarianism^note National Totalitarianism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show} [REDACTED BY DIRECT ORDER OF THE CIA]

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• The Dreaded: A massive understatement, Cambion's entire persona revolves around being as pants-shittingly terrifying as possible.
• Mysterious Past: Initially, all details about Cambion's past have been classified by the CIA.
• Dead Guy on Display: The bodies (or often just the body parts) of Cambion's enemies are hung from trees throughout his forest.
• A God I Am: Cambion believes himself to be the living incarnation of Lucifer.
• Hollywood Satanism: Cambion seeks to build an anarchic Satanist society ruled by fear.

Fairies

Role: Head of State

Party: Children of the Forest

Ideology: Pangean Nationalism ^note National Separatism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show} We are the forgotten. Left to wander the world with no purpose, no direction, and no hope. However, our time in the forests, seeing all the things that hideous Cambion and his terrorist have done made us realize something. /// We can fix this mess. For a Brighter and Happier Future!

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U.S.A.F

Role: Head of State

Party: CIA

Ideology: Military Junta ^note  Stratocracy

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• Evil Former Friend: Inverted. The CIA operatives in the Forest are Cambion's former colleagues.

FEMA

Role: Head of State

Party: USAR

Ideology: Vanguardism ^note  Autocracy

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• Good Is Not Nice:

S.A.R Team 12

Role: Head of State

Party: Search and Rescue

Ideology: Authoritarian Technocracy ^note  Authoritarianism

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• Canine Companion: Team 12 has a Pitbull.

Survivors

Role: Head of State

Party: There aren't much...

Ideology: Pure Anarchy ^note  Anarchism

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• Anarchy Is Chaos: Quite chaotic and orderless in the first place from the lack of survivors.

Gaia's Followers

Role: Head of State

Party: The Hadeans

Ideology: Apocalyptic Society ^note  Annihilationism

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American Salvationist Force

Official Name: American Salvationist Corp

Ruling Party: Gideon's Faction

Ideology: Libertarianism

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Sawyer Gideon

Role: Head of State

Party: Gideon's Faction

Ideology: Libertarianism

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• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Gideon dresses in the garb of a Minuteman.

Earth Liberation Front

Role: Head of State

Party: United Earth Liberation Front - Animal Liberation Front

Ideology: Radical Greenism ^note  Annihilationism

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The Heartland

Official Name: The Heartland

Ruling Party: The Chariot

Ideology: Feudalism^note Autocracy

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• Foreign Culture Fetish: The Heartland models itself after the Mongol Empire

Attila

Role: Head of State

Party: The Chariot

Ideology: Feudalism^note Autocracy

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• Blood Knight: Attila was a Serial Killer before the American collapse and his creation of a new barbarian state is motivated soley by a desire for death and destruction.

Alaska

Official Name: Alaska

Ideology: Social Democracy^note Social Liberalism

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Mary Peltola

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social Democracy^note Social Liberalism

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The Great North

Official Name: The Great North

Ruling Party: Northern Rule

Ideology: Esoteric Nazism^note Ethnic Nationalism

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Polaris

Role: Head of State

Party: Northern Rule

Ideology: Esoteric Nazism^note Ethnic Nationalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}

The North is a sacred land, where the weak die and the strong live, and thereby the balance is kept. The arctic mouse eats the grass and insects, the fox eats the mouse, the wolf eats the fox, and the North devours them all. Because there is no predator more supreme than the land itself - the Great North itself. We, Polaris, are the will of the land made flesh, the judgement of the North.

"Heill Óðinn"

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• The Social Darwinist: Polaris believes that only those strong enough to survive the North should be allowed to live.
• I Am Legion: Invoked. It's unclear whether Polaris' use of the title "we" is in reference to The Great North as a whole or the Royal "We".

Tanana Chiefs Council

Role: Head of State

Party: Athabaskan People

Ideology: National Autonomism^note  National Separatism

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