History Main / ExpandedStatesOfAmerica

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': The United States infamously annexed Canada shortly before the Great War in 2077, after years of running roughshod all over it due to the war with China on the Alaskan front, exploiting Canadian resources for the war effort, and ignoring any sort of complaints. When Canadian rebel groups tried to fight back, the U.S used it as a PretextForWar, taking anything they wanted by force, and murdering freedom fighters on sight. While never officially annexed, Mexico fared little better, being destabilized and occupied in 2051 to secure U.S oil interests.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, it's mentioned that the US annexed Canada shortly before the Great War, and had a military presence in Mexico, ostensibly to protect its oil interests in the region.

* Taiwan had been a potential target of American annexation for a small period of time during the Qing Dynasty era. Two American diplomats recommended that the U.S. annex Taiwan (then commonly known as Formosa) from Qing Dynasty China, mostly because it was believed that the British were also interested in the island, but the idea was rejected rather firmly by the American government. Commodore Matthew C. Perry, during his second voyage to open Japan in 1854, landed in Keelung, a major port on Taiwan. In his reports back to the government, Perry encouraged the annexation of Taiwan in order to use it as a coaling port, and because of its usefulness in countering European monopolization of the trade routes. The U.S. failed to respond to his proposal to claim sovereignty over Formosa. Ironically enough, there is a small contingent of people on Taiwan today, represented mostly by the [[https://www.civil-taiwan.org/ Taiwan Civil Society]], who claim that Taiwan is legally a U.S. territory, as it was never (technically) turned over to official Chinese control by the Treaty of San Francisco (the final peace treaty that marked the end of the war against Japan), nor was it turned over subsequently by any American government in any legal agreement, thus, they contend, Taiwan is still legally under military occupation by the U.S. (as the principal occupying power, with the Republic of China as a subordinate occupying power), with the Republic of China (which fled to the Island in 1949) essentially a government in exile. The PRC rejects this argument, as they weren't a party to the Treaty of San Francisco, and thus said treaty is non-binding to them.

* In ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'', if the [[TheTheocracy Holy]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Russian]] [[TheEmpire Empire]] reunifies Russia and [[YouCantFightFate inevitably collapses]], one of the successor states, the United Siberian Salvation Committee, aims to join the US as a territory.

* Taiwan had been a potential target of American annexation for a small period of time during the Qing dynasty era. Two American diplomats recommended that the U.S. annex Taiwan (then commonly known as Formosa) from Qing Dynasty China, mostly because it was believed that the British were also interested in the island, but the idea was rejected rather firmly by the American government. Commodore Matthew C. Perry, during his second voyage to open Japan in 1854, landed in Keelung, a major port on Taiwan. In his reports back to the government, Perry encouraged the annexation of Taiwan in order to use it as a coaling port, and because of its usefulness in countering European monopolization of the trade routes. The U.S. failed to respond to his proposal to claim sovereignty over Formosa. Ironically enough, there is a small contingent of people on Taiwan today, represented mostly by the [[https://www.civil-taiwan.org/ Taiwan Civil Society]], who claim that Taiwan is legally a U.S. territory, as it was never (technically) turned over to official Chinese control by the Treaty of San Francisco (the final peace treaty that marked the end of the war against Japan), nor was it turned over subsequently by any American government in any legal agreement, thus, they contend, Taiwan is still legally under military occupation by the U.S. (as the principal occupying power, with the Republic of China as a subordinate occupying power), with the Republic of China (which fled to the Island in 1949) essentially a government in exile. The PRC rejects this argument, as they weren't a party to the Treaty of San Francisco, and thus said treaty is non-binding to them.

* Taiwan had been a potential target of American annexation for a small period of time during the Qing dynasty era. Two American diplomats recommended that the U.S. annex Taiwan (then commonly known as Formosa) from Qing Dynasty China, mostly because it was believed that the British were also interested in the island, but the idea was rejected rather firmly by the American government. Commodore Matthew C. Perry, during his second voyage to open Japan in 1854, landed in Keelung, a major port on Taiwan. In his reports back to the government, Perry encouraged the annexation of Taiwan in order to use it as a coaling port, and because of its usefulness in countering European monopolization of the trade routes. The U.S. failed to respond to his proposal to claim sovereignty over Formosa. Ironically enough, there is a small contingent of people on Taiwan today, represented mostly by the [[https://www.civil-taiwan.org/ Taiwan Civil Society]], who claim that Taiwan is legally a U.S. territory, as it was never (technically) turned over to official Chinese control by the Treaty of San Francisco (the final peace treaty that marked the end of the war against Japan), nor was it turned over subsequently by any American government in any legal agreement, thus, they contend, Taiwan is still legally under military occupation by the U.S. (as the principal occupying power, with the Republic of China as a subordinate occupying power), with the Republic of China (which fled to the Island in 1949) essentially a government in exile. The PRC rejects this argument as they weren't a party to the Treaty of San Francisco and thus said treaty is non-binding to them.

* Taiwan had been a potential target of American annexation for a small period of time during the Qing dynasty era. Two American diplomats recommended that the U.S. annex Taiwan (then commonly known as Formosa) from Qing Dynasty China, mostly because it was believed that the British were also interested in the island, but the idea was rejected rather firmly by the American government. Commodore Matthew C. Perry, during his second voyage to open Japan in 1854, landed in Keelung, a major port on Taiwan. In his reports back to the government, Perry encouraged the annexation of Taiwan in order to use it as a coaling port, and because of its usefulness in countering European monopolization of the trade routes. The U.S. failed to respond to his proposal to claim sovereignty over Formosa. Ironically enough, there is a small contingent of people on Taiwan today, represented mostly by the [[https://www.civil-taiwan.org/ Taiwan Civil Society]], who claim that Taiwan is, legally U.S. Territory as it was never (technically) turned over to official Chinese control by the Treaty of San Francisco (the final peace treaty that marked the end of the war against Japan), nor was it turned over subsequently by any American government in any legal agreement, thus, they contend, Taiwan is still legally under military occupation by the U.S. (as the principal occupying power, with the Republic of China as a subordinate occupying power), with the Republic of China (which fled to the Island in 1949) essentially a government in exile. The PRC rejects this argument as they weren't a party to the Treaty of San Francisco and thus said treaty is non-binding to them.

* The United Americas from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise, mentioned in ExpandedUniverse supplementary material. It comprises the two Americas plus the UK.

* In ''Paper Empire'', a quasi-official (Creator/AlanMoore approved it, and Marvel later confirmed its version of Captain Empire's real name) ''Comicbook/CaptainBritain'' fancomic, Captain Empire's home reality of Earth-741 has a United American Republics, which seems to include at ''least'' the USA and unspecified chunks of South America (but not Canada, which is still part of the British Empire).

* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxuAgUcZNgQ sketch]] on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'', a man woke up to discover that, while drunk, he had successfully run for president of the United States. During his drunken presidency, he had bullied Cuba, Saskatchewan, and Germany into becoming new states.

* All of North America unites in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', forming the United North American States. It's stated in the backstory that the decision to do this triggered a Second American Civil War in 2096 (which led to the [[MonumentalDamage destruction of the Statue of Liberty]], incidentally). Interestingly, and perhaps due to the relatively recent unification of North America in the franchise's lore, people in the UNAS seem to retain modern regional identities. A Vancouver-born character for instance identifies himself as Canadian on multiple occasions in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', and FlavorText refers "Mexican" and "American" corporations that exist in the game's world.

* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1986 1986]] is an infinite tunnel containing books from many alternate realities. One of them is the second volume of the diary from Woodrow Wilson and his thoughts on various events during his term, one being the battle for Thailand's accession to statehood within the Imperial States of America.

* There's a conspiracy theory that there is a plan to merge the US, Canada, and Mexico into the North American Union, analogous to the EU. It's unclear how much truth there is to this plan in the halls of power, though given the nature of the US Constitution, it would be far easier for Canada and/or Mexico to apply for statehood than it would be to form a superstate.[[note]]Though Canada would have to abandon [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen the monarchy]] to do that since all US states must have a "republican form of government".[[/note]] Additionally, it is arguable how much the EU, or something like it, counts as a "state"[[note]] 'State' meaning "country". Since the conspiracy to bind the formerly-British States together in a political union a la 'The Articles Of Confederation' (out of which the USA got its 'Bill Of Rights') the USA has become a state in itself and not just an alliance/collection of states. Though (like Australia) the USA's states are still called 'states', they're only administrative regions/provinces/sub-states [[/note]][[note]]Well... mostly. Technically "state" means any governing body that owns land, which is usually thought of as a country. Each of the United States owns the territory it's made of by Imminent Domain, with the Federal government retaining ownership at a higher level. It's sort of a sub-let deal.[[/note]]. One of the more bizarre elements of this conspiracy theory was the claim that a new currency called the "Amero" would be established. Even though the US and Canada both call their currency the dollar, and Mexico's currency is the peso (while not ''directly'' translating to English as "dollar", the term "peso" has the same historical origin in the Spanish 8-real silver coin which was known in English as the "Spanish dollar"). Thus if such a merged currency ever happened it would almost certainly just be called "dollar" in English and "peso" in Spanish, rather than a transparent knock-off of the EU's Euro currency.

* The '''standard Expanded States of America''' has the USA be more ''aggressive'', and use its military might (or subtle politics/diplomacy, whichever works) to annex at least parts of one or more bordering countries on the North American continent -- meaning Canada, Mexico, Central America, and/or a Caribbean island nation -- as additional states, if not take over said countries outright; more extreme examples of this kind have the US evolve into what is essentially '''United States of North America''' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas_(terminology) depending on one's definition of "North America"]]).
* The more "subdued" brother, '''50+ States of America''', has one or more of the handful of RealLife non-state subdivisions of the USA (e.g. Puerto Rico) be turned into a full-fledged state, or one or more states being re-partitioned into a different combination[[note]]Which does have precedent in RealLife, as such repartitioning did happen ''four'' times so far in U.S. history, giving us the current States of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States#Secessions_from_a_state Kentucky, Tennessee, Maine, and West Virginia. (Five, if you count Vermont)]].[[/note]].

The other two [[Administrivia/InternalSubtrope flavors]] are common results of dialing standard-flavor Expanded States of America UpToEleven, and can be seen as realizations of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny Manifest Destiny]]:

* In the ''''Literature/WildCards'' universe, both Puerto Rico and Cuba are US states.