Talk:Fractured (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20171214224947

United States of America
 * Government and Politics
 * Midterms: The Democrats lost the Senate finally on 2022 midterms and the Republicans took a hold of 52 Senators in contrast to 48 Democratic Senators after the midterms. This allowed Trump to have the Senate do whatever he desired to reform laws such as tax reforms and the end of Obamacare once and for all before his second and final term ends.
 * Puerto Rico: A referendum was passed for the commonwealth based in Puerto Rico to become "the 51st state" and results will be announced in January 2023 while the rest of the people living in the commonwealth vote whether they should either be independent by their own choice, become a state or remain as a commonwealth (will contain bias next turn)
 * ”We don't recognize North Korea's status”: The United States issued that their travel ban on North Korea will remain the same since September 2017 for ordinary Americans and that they will not withdraw their blockade in the Sea of Japan. All missile defences are still in place should a North Korean missile be launched and yet the United States were the only state to be highly sceptical about the North Korean government "laying off their boots on nuclear testing".
 * Paris Agreement: The United States will begin setting its own goals (mainly set up by Democrats before midterms turn backwards with a Republican majority) as the United Nations wouldn't likely care about a climate denier. But at least Trump is partially satisfied of having his own way, but negotiating with Democrats of course, which hindered some Republicans' approval of him.
 * Israel (See Diplomacy)
 * Military: Military budget is cut back to $550 billion due to "excess surplus" and there was enough budget to keep military research going.
 * Economy:
 * 2022 Economic Bubble: As the economic bubble blew up since Trump's inauguration as President of the United States in 2017, finally at midterms, the economic bubble exploded with many economists fared it'll happen like the late 2000s. Stock market has dipped back to 26,000, one of the worst since that time and yet the unemployment level had grown once again as a result of this stock crash. Now the Untied States is setting their own goals to make sure they "prevent something like this again for the next twenty years".
 * Technology
 * Space: They finally prepared everything to go back to the Moon once again. The United States, after about five decades since they stopped landing a man on the Moon multiple times has decided to return three people and bring back multiple samples but due to multiple delays which disappointed NASA and residents a lot, the launch date is now around sometime in late 2023 with extra precautions being taken care of.
 * Diplomacy: Trump’s diplomatic policy in the Middle East further isolates them from international affairs however they become even more sensitive to Turkish aggression in Cyprus.
 * Turkey: The United States issues economic sanctions over the aggression against the internationally recognised state of Cyprus and demand withdrawal from the buffer zone and further south. This also means they have to withdraw all of their holdings on Cyprus, including their full occupation in the Republic of Cyprus or they will begin military operations within the Middle East once again. Trump suddenly cuts ties with Turkey by withdrawing their embassy on 8th November and calls for the aggression against the nation of Cyprus to be taken seriously for Greece and extended the refugee ban signed by Trump in 2017 to Turkey as well. (They won’t get 5.4% of imports from us, but I doubt China will follow in)
 * Greece: The United States diplomatically pressures Greece not to let them take over the Aegean Islands as it'll not solve their financial crisis and will only lead to overpowering of Erdogan's dictatorship. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson however demanded the United States from refraining a full invasion of Cyprus but Trump decided to ignore that and wants Greece to take the occupation of Cyprus seriously. Any chance of giving them the Aegean Islands will result in "economic disparity".
 * Israel: $7.5 billion package is sent to Israel to further fund military and settlements to get rid of the Palestinian administration in the West Bank by pushing more aggressive settlement expansion (and maybe also the Gaza Strip).
 * North Korea: (See Government and Politics)
 * India: “We’ll be fine,” Trump said indirectly to India. However the United States is keeping an eye on Sino-Indian borders as border conflicts arise, however sanctioning China means a huge economic turndown so they won’t directly influence the area at that point.