United States of America

The United States of America is a country in North America. It was a belligerent of the Confederate War for Independence, after which it recognised the independence of the Confederate States of America. Since then, the United States has undergone a political downfall and a long period of isolationism.

The United States is a federal presidential constitutional republic, with an upcoming election in 1920. The current President is Thomas R. Marshall, with William Gibbs McAdoo as Vice President.

The Debilitated Chicken
The United States came out of the American Civil War the loser, granting the Confederate States their independence. With the United Kingdom mitigating the Appomattox Court House Agreement in 1863, the United States had made a mockery of itself. President Abraham Lincoln did not run for another term; with the Republican Party disgraced, they greatly dissolved from American politics.

The country entered a time of economic and political despair. Not only had they been made a mockery of, but they had lost vital resources in the South and knew they could not rely on the European powers. With 'Cotton Diplomacy' taking hold, the United States realised its position was fragile, and in turn, new economic strategies would be needed to save the country from destruction. The United States' reputation was only tarnished further in its inability to intervene in the Confederate invasion of Mexico. It seemed the United States might be down and out for good.

The Rise of the Left
American conservative and traditionalist elites largely migrated down to the South to take up Confederate government positions, sparking a constitutional crisis. Where the Republican Party had left a void, and the American conservative elite largely migrating, the Democratic Party was left as a bastion of moderate progressivism and liberalism, and for nearly 30 years, it had remained largely uncontested in elections, aside from the occasional small-party election.

Real opposition began to arise in the 1876 election. Culminating of a coalition of leftist parties, the Democrats were soon seeing themselves as the only moderate solution for a democratic Union. Soon after, in 1888, the leftist coalitions began to coalesce into the American Labor Party. This did not dampen Democratic success for nearly thirty years, however, but it did find itself battling a new two-party system. The Democrats, made up of political moderates and what was left of the Union conservative elite battled bravely against the new Labor Party which encompassed socialist ideas and economic reinvigoration.

This eventually came crashing down in the 1892 election. It was a tight election between the incumbent Grover Cleveland and the socialist prodigy James B. Weaver. Weaver, however, snatched the victory; a historic moment for American socialism. Weaver went on to serve another term in the 1896 election, but the Labor Party's streak came to an end in the 1900 Presidential election, when it was beaten by the Democrats, led by Adlai Stevenson.

The Union Rebounds
President Stevenson went on to win his second term in 1904, but in 1905, oversaw America's position in the second Confederate-Mexican War. Although neither side was declared a winner, the Union capture of Kentucky was a political success for the Stevenson administration. When Stevenson died in 1914, he was given a state funeral for his efforts in beating back the Confederates.

The Great War, however, saw political backlash to the newfound Democratic pride. When the Great War kicked off, many in America opposed joining the war. The Democrats and Laborites refused to join the war, believing that if they took a side, the Confederates would take the other. President William J. Bryan, a Democrat President and then a Labor President, focused on keeping a close eye on the Confederates, believing that they might join a side.

In 1916, Thomas R. Marshall and William Gibbs McAdoo were elected. Now, Marshall may be looking for a second term; but if the Labor Party have their way, the new Democrat streak could be coming to an end quite quickly.