[quote=@Sigma]
The political climate of the Former US should be interesting :)
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"You see, after the Northeast started pushing for imperialist reforms, California declared itself an empire under some dude who named himself after a crazy guy from the 1800s who called himself Emperor of the US. Following the bandwagon of doing weird shit, former confederate states and also a bunch of those other ones decided it would be fun to do a massive historical reenactment and seceded from the USA. This was all possible because Snoop Dogg won the election because everyone thought it would be funny to vote for him, and he promptly disbanded the Federal Government and told everyone to do whatever the hell they wanted to. The Americas were completely uninvolved in world politics, so we had to wait like 20 years for WWIII."