Talk:Fractured (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20171221232655

United States of America
 * Government and Politics
 * Statehood: Puerto Rico effectively becomes the 51st state in the Union by February 2024.
 * 2024_selections_disorder.png2024 Presidential Elections: As Trump is ineligible for a third term due to the 22nd Amendment, this meant that the Republicans would likely have to pick another potential presideintial candidate, which eventually ended up having Jeb Bush as their own presidential candidate in their own primaries (sorry Mike Pence, you can't be president this time). Similarily the Democrats held a similar one and had soon declared Elizabeth Warren their own presidential candidate once again. Warren's policies and promises include "repealing almost every Trump-era policies and decisions made", which many Democrats and some Republicans voted again. The GOP during the election was then defeated by those who want to see some of these "unthinkable policies" out of the law, with the results included 301 electoral votes for the Democrats (that includes Puerto Rico) in comparison to 239 votes for the Repbulicans. There were no recount calls this time from Jeb Bush nor anyone else, which made president-elect Elizabeth Warren secure her own place as the president of the United States by next year. (If you want to talk about Kanye West in this year's US elections, he wasn't really serious to some people and Kanye wasn't even mentioned in the Electoral College yet he received only few thousand votes from his "fans")
 * "Rocket Man is here to blame": Trump once again made rhetorical fights against a regime that nuked Shanghai and blamed North Korea for "crashing our growing economy in the late 2010s" and comparing the mid-2020s economic depression to the Great Depression in the 1930s.
 * Anti-Trump Rallies (May 2024): These anti-Trump rallies took place on 7th-13th May 2024 over multiple cities and towns was quite more prominent than other ones in the past, which many stood up for Elizabeth Warren to be "elected president and down with the 'fascist Republicans'", while also causing trouble over some cities, which some of the police divisions have arrested thousands of people. The antifa are mostly responsible for some of these rallies that caused trouble and violence while in turn also made Trump's approval drop again.
 * Military:
 * Nuclear Debate: This became a big topic whether should America should start developing nuclear arms but this never came to play since Trump's presidency would eventually come to an end and many are against nuking North Korea or any nation at will.
 * United States Army
 * 2,300,000 active personnel
 * 500,000 reserve personnel
 * 6,200 tanks
 * 48,000 armoured fighting vehicles
 * 2,100 towed artillery
 * 1,500 rocket projectors
 * United States Navy
 * 400,000 active personnel
 * 125,000 reserve personnel
 * 21 aircraft carriers (this includes the USS Gerald R. Ford and soon more of them at least seven)
 * 75 destroyers
 * 27 cruisers
 * 11 mine countermeasure ships
 * 10 frigates (also includes one classic frigate, USS Constitution)
 * 82 submarines
 * United States Air Force
 * 340,000 active personnel
 * 100,000 reserve personnel
 * 2,380 fighter aircraft
 * 2,800 attack aircraft
 * 5,900 transport aircraft
 * 3,000 trainer aircraft
 * 6,200 helicopters
 * Korean War (1950-1953; February 2023-present): As the war didn't go out well, the US military began sending even more troopsinto the front, which there were around 64,000 (the rest were kiled by force) by the start of January and deployed 120,000 more into the front to "liberate the eastern part of North Korea" and approach closer to Pyongyang not only to liberate North Koreans from the tyrannical regime but to seize all of the nuclear arsenal that North Korea has before launching them (and destroying it). Another dark side to the conflict that the US is involved is Operation Failsafe. Operation Failsafe is to get Kim Jong-un secretly assassinated (because Trump is quite unpredictable in many standards) by hiring some of the remaining "loyal North Korean members" that had doubts of North Korea (DPRK) winning the Korean War and secretly put toxins into his own food which in turn poisons him and dies effectively, eventually getting rid of a strong North Korean regime if successful, which Trump claimed it was "brought together as one" because of a cult of personality that is "outdated and redundant".
 * Economy
 * Mid-2020s Economic Depression (2024-present): The economy crashes to the point here even more people were putting themselves into unemployment or even homelessness thanks to the destruction of one of the islands of Hawaii (which lowers tourism in long-term)
 * Rebuilding Our Infrastructure Program (ROIP; May 2024-present): In order to counteract the economic depression and war in the Korean front, this program was launched into effect and was signed by President Trump to push for self-reliance rather than relying on other nations in an attempt to bring back jobs that were lost in 2022 and 2023. This policy may not be repealed by the Democrats but it'll be likely have more regulations into it to secure workers' safety.
 * Universal Basic Income Proposal: Delayed again indefinitely but there are still hopes for it to happen if the United States are lifted out of depression.
 * Research and Technology
 * Space: The first manned mission since 1972 directed to Moon happens on 8th January 2024. But budget cuts are now being directed towards NASA due to the ongoing economic depression and the rest is needed for social welfare (such as education), infrastructure and military, which made the United States' government hindered in further manned space exploration. However assuming if SpaceX still continues their goals, they would likely start launching their own mission to land the first man on Mars before the year 2025 (I don't want to talk about SpaceX a lot, but Elon Musk is indeed very ambitious about his goals with Tesla and SpaceX)
 * Enhanced Surveillance Program: Huge investments of encrypting confidental material and military technology is being made in the year 2024 (especially towards China's rapidly expanding military in technology) as the Trump administration had called for protection of such technology should any nation desires to copy and replicate any part of their invested equipment. It also in turn began reducing their military export of certain equipment that were produced and made by the US domestically after 2014 and beyond, despite that'll also decrease profit from any nation that desires one part of the US arsenal.
 * CRISPR: CRISPR-Cas9 is a protein which allows the modification of a set of genes, but by further enhancing this gene editing DNA, then it could potentially study human genes and save many lives through modifying someone's genes and getting rid of hereditary traits that are considered negative. But this is a far-fetched science fiction job, who knows if this becomes mass commercialised or kept towards scientists only, but genetic modification is closer than we expect.
 * Diplomacy
 * Kurdistan (even though the Middle East hates me except Israel): Despite the Kurdish population being heavily Muslim (but I shouldn't also forget the Yazidi population and probably other stuff) and the US does not recognise their sovereignty publicly, the Kurdish rebellion/government is a notable thing to weaken the Turkish military over their aggressive expansion towards the occupied island of Cyprus thanks Erdogan for extending your term to 2029, thus they began to fund these Kurdish militia groups with millions of dollars to continuously weaken this Turkish dictatorship, only in a condition that they use this money towards Turkish soil and not Syria/Iraq. (Also Israel does seem to support a Kurdish nation for a possible strategic reason in OTL so in my opinion they might not mind it, we'll just wait and see)
 * Israel: Unlike suspected negotiations with the Palestinian government, most Israeli settlements are still being heavily funded heavily in the West Bank by the United States (The Trump Organization is also taking 10% of their revenue as a donation annually; that means ~300 to 500 million) in billions, now topping up to $10 billion (and an additional $1 billion from "pro-Israeli companies", notably the Trump Organization) this year as "aid and welfare" this year. The Democrats intend to reverse Trump's decision on Jerusalem next year to appease the Muslim-majority Middle East which could make a hit towards Israel in the near future, but this is not yet effective yet.
 * Turkey: No changes under the Trump administration nor any plans to withdraw any sanctions in the next administration and it is likely they'll hold onto these sanctions until they withdraw from Cyprus and knowing that nationalism and patriotism is a huge thing here, they also won't take further action.
 * North Korea: Insert more Trump tweets about Kim Jong-un "the Rocket Man" on nuking Shanghai.
 * China: Aid relief is being sent to China in a package of $10 billion to fund a decontamination program on the city of Shanghai (I don't think "New Shanghai" would be the new name for Shanghai if it were in the same place before the nuking takes place, it's like saying Hiroshima should be "New Hiroshima" after 1945).