United Systems of America

The United Systems of America, commonly referred to as the US or the USA, is the successor state to the United States of America. Along with the Sternreich and the Solar Commonwealth, it is one of the most influential colonial powers.

Post Great War
The United States had barely gotten its feet wet in European trenches before the armistice was signed. The American public, which had been put under significant pressure to intervene in the Great War by both President Woodrow Wilson, as well as British and French representatives, felt lied to, and Wilson’s poor diplomatic performance during the treaty proceeding solidified public dissatisfaction with the ruling Democratic Party. Having only narrowly defeated Republican challenger Charles Hughes in the 1916 election, Wilson’s cabinet realized that he stood little chance at reelection. Hughes reemerged on the political scene in 1918 as a vocal critic of the incumbent president, building upon his platform of retaining a strong defensive military but remaining isolationist unless provoked, and became a strong contender for the Republican nomination as he campaigned through the summer of 1919. He was soon challenged himself, however, by his former running mate Charles W. Fairbanks, who had previously served as Vice President to the late Teddy Roosevelt. Fairbanks had a more radical and involved plan for American geopolitics, one more reminiscent of Roosevelt’s Rough Rider colonialism, and while he competed for the same demographic as Hughes, he shunned the label of Republican and ran under the ticket of a revitalized Bull Moose Party. The Wilson administration’s damage control was poor, and he dropped out of the race after Quentin Roosevelt, Teddy’s son, returned from France with the 95th Aero Squadron and threw his full support behind Fairbanks.