Malcolm’s Blackhawk starfighter shuddered as decoys and jammers shot out to confuse the enemy missiles. His laser cannons pulsed as the fighter squadrons around him laid down their own line in space and countermissiles shot out to kill the missiles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Old Mexican States, the Central American States, and the Caribbean States collectively have more land and water mass under their control than any other part of the United States. They nearly doubled the population of America when they joined,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Old American Midwest is the uncontested breadbasket of America in Jack’s time. They run from the Great Lakes States in the east to the Western States of the Rocky Mountains, and from the Minnesota Northlands to the wheat fields[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pacifica was born of Silicon Valley’s profound wish to have nothing at all to do with the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and whatever other additional phobics they could think of, foulminded deplorables surrounding them. As the rest of America fell[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Large States like Old California and Old Texas became the cores of new Republics during the Second Great Depression. The much smaller Eastern States came together to form alliances that roughly matched many of the geopolitical lines of the era.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Malcolm’s Blackhawk starfighter shuddered as decoys and jammers shot out to confuse the enemy missiles. His laser cannons pulsed as the fighter squadrons around him laid down their own line in space and countermissiles shot out to kill the missiles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jefferson shares much more in common with other Northern States like Minnesota and New York than with the various Old Californian States south of her. They are classically liberal but with a largely rural infrastructure. Most of their closest neighbors[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Jeffersonian Federation is not some kind of utopian dream come true. They have their problems. Coastal and inland citizens still don’t much like each other. But they keep their problems in house. They don’t air their laundry in public.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Jeffersonian Federation’s secession from California was about as quiet as it could be. And their joining the Republic of California was equally quiet, sealed with the ink of a pen and a few shrugs of interest from her people.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Jeffersonian Federation did not join the Republic of California on day one. They had left the rest of California on purpose, and did not want to be entangled in their problems. But as the Second Great Depression moved on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…