Talk:Pandemic: Plague Z (Map Game)/@comment-26058138-20170218034839

United States of America (Day: June 31, 2020) 123 million zombie/infected people) 221 million Survivors/Refuges)


 * Government: It is revealed that President Sanders has fled the country and made it to Japan, and abdicated. An emergency meeting has General Joseph Dunford sworn in as president. Dunford takes emergency powers, abolishing Congress and the Supreme Court, and federalizing the entire country, until the Zombie crisis is over. He starts passing laws from his base of operations in Seattle, and these include curfew, military lockdown, and killing of all fundamentalists.
 * Research: Researchers at Silicon Valley extract 3 infected into a highly secure lab, and they begin testing on the zombies to learn about their biology. They learn that zombies are attracted to sound, and begin broadcasting this on radio across the country to tell survivors how to distract zombies. They also confirm that headshots kill zombies, contrary to some public belief. They also test and confirm that covering yourself in zombie guts will not work as their senses are so strong at sensing humans they can "hear your breath" as one scientist put it. These revelations could possibly save countless lives around the world.
 * Military: The American military is massively built up to fight the zombie menace. The US Army also begins using the undead to help their interests outside the state, notably infecting other nations that have recently hampered the United States.
 * US Army: While not much equipment is produced, stockpiles have been pretty high due to quick buildup over the last few months. The US army has:
 * 4,210,000 Soldiers (all are active because of the crisis)
 * 9,492 MBT-2018 Main Battle Tanks
 * 43,382 AFV-2017 Armored Fighting Vehicles
 * 4,593 Artillery Systems
 * 3,493 Rocket Systems
 * US Air Force: While plans are being made to mothball parts of the Air Force, most of it is still in the air. The United States has:
 * 15,202 FJ-2019 Fighter Jets
 * 7,593 HC-2016 Helicopters
 * US Navy: The American navy is completely unorganized. It is currently docked and guarded at numerous bases in secret locations. The navy consists of:
 * 19 Imperial-Class Aircraft Carriers (1 built, 1 stolen)
 * 8 Frigates
 * 66 Destroyers
 * 85 Submarines
 * Pro-Zombie Rioters: American special force teams begin to storm houses in the major cities and kill all of these fundamentalists. Casualty rates are about 4,000 dead extremists for the first few months, causing an estimated 50,000 to lay down their weapons. Rural areas are ignored as zombies begin popping up across the country.
 * The Crisis: As the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico coastline are pretty much gone, American forces start withdrawing to areas easier to defend from the hordes, such as the Appalachian mountains and the Mississippi River in some places. It is estimated that there are 500,000 survivors in the area, with a safe zone made at a ski resort in Vermont that houses 400 people. Zombies begin to harass both the Canadian border and the American Appalachia Defense Line. The defense is not made to be forever, but hold off the Zombie advance until major cities like Detroit and Chicago can be evacuated. By late May, the line has been broken in several places, and American soldiers start to withdraw. The barriers made keep zombies back in many places, but they push through along the Erie Canal, and advances towards Buffalo, New York, where the Canadian border is still open. Thus, the United States, along with auxiliary forces from Canada, form a frontline west of Syracuse in an attempt to defeat the zombie hordes moving west from New England. The battle pits an estimated 230,000 zombies against 14,000 American and Canadian soldiers. The battle initially works out, as hundreds of zombies are destroyed by rockets and other explosives. Eventually, ammo runs out and zombies break through the line. Realizing that nothing can protect the rest of the state, President Dunford orders the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Syracuse. This kills almost the entire horde, but mass infection in the rest of New York means this does nothing except kill a few thousand zombies. Infections begin sweeping the entire country. While small in number, these will eventually grow. On the West Coast, government officials manage to control these small outbreaks, but east of the Rocky Mountains anarchy begins. The goal of American soldiers left behind (numbering about 700,000), is to get civilians to newly established safe zones in Chicago, Omaha, and El Paso, as well as assist more into reaching the Western Safe Region past Denver. Construction of barriers in the Rocky Mountains begins.
 * Diplomacy: The United States is becoming aware of various nations still attempting to undermine it now that the assets of American intelligence and military are being stolen by other nations. President Dunford announces he really only cares about the well-being of Canada and Mexico, and that all other nations who anger the United States will be punished.
 * Caribbean Union: President Dunford is enraged at the Union for annexing American territories in the region and for stealing one of the country's most prized aircraft carriers. Thus, in secret, American special forces sneak 60 infected onto numerous islands controlled by the Union, beginning an outbreak. (NOTE: ONLY PRESIDENT DUNFORD KNOWS THIS. NO ACTIONS CAN BE TAKEN AGAINST).
 * Canada: Requests to secure the border are made and massive fortifications are constructed to help zombies cross either side of the border.
 * Mexico: An alliance is requested and the plan is to help Mexico contain the infections beginning to occur within the nation.
 * Israel: A request for cure research aid is asked for. The reasoning is that the United States, with its labs in Silicon Valley, can help the world produce a cure under 2 years.