Talk:Fractured (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20171218053108

United States of America
 * Government and Politics
 * "I was right": State of emergency declared in Hawaii for 180 days because of a nuclear attack in one of the major cities in Hawaii, Honolulu. Over 192,000 were initially dead at first but this toll eventually raised to 281,000 at the end of the year due to radiation sickness (and potential toxification of half of the archipelago), with US experts agreeing that North Korea has finished their hydrogen bomb development and miniaturisation of their own bombs into multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles. Those who do survive are being relocated temporarily into the West Coast.
 * Approval Rating: Trump's approval rating unexpectedly went up in 2023 following a nuclear strike in Oahu and "the promise to crack down Rocket Man Kim Jong-un" for the first time in his second term from 19% to 34% but only because of the Korean War. Trump also proclaimed himself "as the defender of a united America" in his tweet.
 * Puerto Rico: The 2022 referendum shows that Puerto Rico will effectively become the 51st state, but not immediately yet but this shows that most of the residents inside the commonwealth are more in favour of becoming part of the Union.
 * 2024 US primaries: Because every four years, a presidential election has to be made but actually most of the politicians are awful choices as president except Mike Pence and Kanye West, but if we could get Monsoonjr99 and mappers president I don't mind but they're not of age just yet. And be mindful of possible bias into this election.
 * Democratic candidates (not finalised yet, will reveal it in 2024)
 * Kirsten Gillibrand
 * Cory Booker
 * Elizabeth Warren
 * Dwayne Johnson (Could we make him independent?)
 * Republican nominations (not finalised yet, will reveal it in 2024): "Trump can't run a third term but we can put Mike Pence as president though."
 * Jed Bush (Why not?)
 * Mike Pence (Because of cliches in AFOTW and some map games here)
 * Others: Allegations suggest that Mark Zuckerberg may be running for president but that was quickly denied by the Facebook CEO in December 2023.
 * Kanye West (Independent)
 * Austin Petersen (Libertarian)
 * Military: Despite budget cuts, the US military is still strong and had heavily invested into mainly fighting against the North Koreans in the Korean front as the Korean War began to resume.
 * Military Technology: Military technology that hasn't being tested in the front has being put into an actual battlefield which allows the US military itself to improvise military technology as part of a theoretical project that would actually be useful in a large-scale conflict against a superpower such as China or Russia, but going on a smaller nation with some extent have a militaristic culture is the only way to prepare something worse than testing it on something else.
 * Korean War (1950-1953; February 2023-present): We send in troops, numbering 90,000 soldiers into the Korean Front using the Sea of Japan as a leverage for our ships to blockade any convoys coming from Russia. Most of the troops however land on the eastern shores as the American military believes landing via aircraft would make it easy for North Korea to target and keeping missions low-profile is the only way to "win this war". Trump's approval rate unexpectedly goes higher.
 * Operation Failsafe: You don't need to know this for now.
 * Economy
 * 2020s US Economic Recession (2022-present): There's a big recession following a dip in stock prices, raising levels of unemployment.
 * Universal Basic Income Proposal: There were secret talks and proposals for an UBI system to be put in place but there were no trials as of this time because of the ongoing recession but if the United States can recover from their issues then they can plan their trial.
 * Research and Technology
 * Space: Not going to talk about this but one's thing for sure, it was launched on 28th December and there were now plans to fully begin their plan to extract resources off the Moon and make an industry to boost the US economy.
 * Enhanced Surveillance Program: You don't need to know this.
 * Diplomacy
 * Israel: Heavy support is still given due to the United States still under President Trump and yet many Democrats and some Republicans continously tried to stop him from going but there were now open talks of ignoring the Democrats' responses unless they heed to Trump's satisfication.
 * North Korea: Wage of war.
 * China: The US government formally asks China not to side with North Korea a genocidal act was being pushed by the Kim regime as the US media and government calls North Korea sometimes and instead take action against North Korea seriously.
 * Russia: The same message was given to Russia as they are also somewhat allies towards North Korea due to trade.