History Main / DifferentStatesOfAmerica

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* EvilStatesOfAmerica: United States becomes TheEmpire.

* EvilStatesOfAmerica: When United States is portrayed as TheEmpire.

* EvilStatesOfAmerica: When villains of the story are from the United States.

* AmericaIsStillAColony: The United States is still a colony of Great Britain.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Steven and company live in the state of Delmarva, which is a version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula]] that's its own state as a result of Gem involvement on Earth's creating an AlternateHistory. Other alternate names include Keystone (Pennsylvania), Empire State (New York), and Jersey (New Jersey) all after [[AllohistoricalAllusion real life nicknames for said places]].
** Jamie mentions the movie industry being focused in Kansas, and one of the show's staff specified he meant what we call Kansas ''City'', implying there is no state called "Kansas" ([[ShownTheirWork because the city came first and then appended "city" to its name after the state was formed]]). Conversely, according to a WordOfGod podcast California in this universe could be better described as [[FlyoverCountry "Califarmland"]].
** Florida south of the Panhandle has also partially geologically separated from North America and has become a small archipelago.

** Steven and company live in the state of Delmarva, which is a version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula]] that's its own state as a result of Gem involvement on Earth's creating an AlternateHistory. Other alternate names include Keystone (Pennsylvania), Empire State (New York), and Jersey (New Jersey) all after [[AllohistoricalAllusion real life nicknames for said places]]. Jamie mentions the movie industry being focus in Kansas, and one of the show's staff specified he meant what we call Kansas ''City'', implying there is no state called "Kansas" ([[ShownTheirWork because the city came first and then appended "city" to its name after the state was formed]]). Florida south of the Panhandle has also partially geologically separated from North America and has become a small archipelago.
** The $1 bill has a diamond and the snake from UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin's famous "Join or Die" political cartoon instead of Washington's face, and there are also $3 dollar bills.

** The Kingdom of America is the result of the failures of the Constitutional Convention leading to George Washington needing to seize total control with the Continental Congress, setting up a constitutional monarchy with himself as the founder of a new dynasty.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven and company live in the state of Delmarva, which is a version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula]] that's its own state as a result of Gem involvement on Earth's creating an AlternateHistory. Other alternate names include Keystone (Pennsylvania), Empire State (New York), and Jersey (New Jersey) all after [[AllohistoricalAllusion real life nicknames for said places]]. Jamie mentions the movie industry being focus in Kansas, and one of the show's staff specified he meant what we call Kansas ''City'', implying there is no state called "Kansas" ([[ShownTheirWork because the city came first and then appended "city" to its name after the state was formed]]).

** 9/11 didn't happen because of Scion's influence.

* The United States in ''Videogame/GrandTheftAuto'', while real world locations are often mentioned, only fictional locations are visited, and in many cases both the real location and it's fictional counterpart are mentioned. It's implies there's still 50 states, despite the addition of fictional states such as Liberty State, Alderny, North Yankton, and San Andreas. Cities get the same treatment, with Liberty City, Alderny City, Vice City, and Los Santos featuring prominently in the series, among others.

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* The United States in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has had many changes both with and even without adding superheroes to the mix:
** Ellisberg, NY was turned into the personal fiefdom of the supervillain Nilbog following his trigger event, with his creations attacking any and all outsiders.
** Madison, WI was one of the cities that was walled off and quarantined following a Simurgh attack in 2009.
** Dollar coins are used as the primary legal tender instead of dollar bills.
** 9/11 didn't happen because of Scion's influence.
* ''Literature/AnExaminationOfExtraUniversalSystemsOfGovernment'' has a couple of examples:
** The Republic of New Sparta is the result of the American Revolution being salvaged by the more militant southern colonies after the north was crushed by the British.
** The Kingdom of America is the result of the failures of the Constitutional Convention leading to George Washington needing to seize total control with the Continental Congress, setting up a constitutional monarchy with himself as the founder of a new dynasty.
* In ''Literature/TheRuinsOfAnAmericanPartySystem'', Alaska is deemed too sparsely populated to become a state. Puerto Rico, on the other hand, ''does'' achieve statehood.

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* The ''Divergences'' mod for ''VideoGame/Victoria II'' features a very different world, but its 1836 still has an Eastern Seaboard-centred union of republics descended from European colonisation. It is called the Belgian Confederacy (as a result of the colonists mostly coming from the Low Countries area of Burgundy), and in an earlier version was called the Seven Republics. The Arcadian Union will also be this if it is formed, being a democratic republican union covering much of North America and having the name of the country be that of the continent[[note]]in ''Divergences'', what we know as North America is called Arcadia, while South America is Ameriga -- Arcadia is also used as the default name for a union that can be formed by several of the Arcadian countries, with Arcadian Union being the name used if it is a republican democracy (although given one of possible founders is a parliamentary monarchy, Arcadian ''Empire'' is equally likely...).[[/note]].

* The ''Divergences'' mod for ''VideoGame/Victoria II'' features a very different world, but its 1836 still has an Eastern Seaboard-centred union of republics descended from European colonisation. It is called the Belgian Confederacy (as a result of the colonists mostly coming from the Low Countries area of Burgundy), and in an earlier version was called the Seven Republics. The Arcadian Union will also be this if it is formed, being a democratic republican union covering much of North America and having the name of the country be that of the continent[[note]]in ''Divergences'', what we know as North America is called Arcadia, while South America is Ameriga[[/note]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven and company live in the state of Delmarva, which is a version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula]] that's its own state as a result of Gem involvement on Earth's creating an AlternateHistory. Other alternate names include Keystone (Pennsylvania), Empire State (New York), and Jersey (New Jersey) all after [[AllohistoricalAllusion real life nicknames for said places]]. There's a mention of the movie industry being focus in Kansas and one crewmember specified he meant what we call Kansas ''City'', implying there is no state called "Kansas" ([[ShownTheirWork because the city came first and then appended "city" to its name after the state was formed]]).

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' universe, prior to the Great War, the United States reincorporated the 50 states into 13 Commonwealths in 1969, in emulation of the original 13 colonies, and to help the country present a more united front against Communism. They had a secondary purpose of creating an intermediate body between the state and federal governments, creating legislation that would positively affect individual blocs without interfering with others, but it ultimately ended up causing more infighting as the commonwealths fought to gain national primacy at the expense of all the others.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven and company live in the state of Delmarva, which is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula]] turned into its own state as a result of Gem involvement in Earth's history creating an AlternateTimeline. Other alternate names include Keystone (Pennsylvania), Empire State (New York), and Jersey (New Jersey) all after [[AllohistoricalAllusion real life nicknames for said places]].
** According to one episode, Kansas has replaced Hollywood as the place where most movies are made. Or maybe Hollywood is called "Kansas" for some reason? Also, maps/views from space show that Florida is detached from the mainland.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven and company live in the state of Delmarva, which is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula]] turned into its own state as a result of Gem involvement in Earth's history creating an AlternateTimeline. Other alternate names include Keystone (Pennsylvania) and Empire State (New York), both after [[AllohistoricalAllusion real life nicknames for said places]].

* You have to look carefully but it's in the background of ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS''. Walker, elected in 2012 replaced a Republican and is the 45th President of the United States. Also Frank starts the series as Majority Whip of the House of Representatives which, since he's a Democrat indicates that they didn't lose control in 2010.
* ''Series/TheWestWing'', like ''House of Cards'', has this in the background; the last real-life President who is identified is Richard Nixon, and the US election rotation is two years off from what it is in the actual world (i.e. President Bartlet was first elected in 1998 and ran for re-election in 2002, instead of 1996 and 2000 respectively).

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven and company live in the state of Delmarva, which is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula]] turned into its own state as a result of Gem involvement in Earth's history creating an AlternateTimeline.

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!!Indices: IndexedStatesOfAmerica, SpeculativeFictionTropes, AlternateHistoryTropes

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