United States of America

Armed Forces

American Presidents

Battle March of Liberty

Holidays

United States of America

Women's suffrage


Area

Parts of the United States of America


Demography


Interior


State of Anacostia

State of Cheyenne

State of Minasota

State of Missouri

State of Tahosa

State of West Florida


National Preserve Territory of Yellow Rock


Cities in the United States

Websteropolis


Liberty and Union War

Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

Declaration of Resistance (1868)

Constitutional Government

Richmond Government


Constitution

Amendments to the Constitution of the United States (1789)

Constitution of the United States (1885)

Impeachment


Economy

Mackintosh Analyzer Company

Country folders/United States/Economy/Mineral rushes

Recessions

Tariffs


Fraternal orders

Order of the Comunero

Youth Legion


Institutions

American Infrastructure

Land Grant Acts

National University of the United States of America


Justice Party


Personalities

American Personalities

Curran Emmet

Daniel Webster

Henry Clay

Zebulon Pike


Public corporations

Bank of the United States

Railroad Corporation of the United States


Data

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Statistics

Name - United States of America (English)

Continent - Americas

Capital - Washington, Anacostia

Administration

Head of state and government - President --------

Legislature - Congress - Senate (upper), House of Representatives (lower)

Speaker of the House of Representatives - Diane Mueller

President of the Senate - ---------

Judiciary - Supreme Court

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - William Roberts

Form of government - Federal republic under a democratic presidential triramic constitution

Form of law - Brougham Code (national, most states); Cambacérès Code (Orleans (civil), East Florida (civil))

Demonym - American

Geography

Area - 4,292,558 km^2

Largest cities

-New York City, New York - 18,590,000 (city), 22,385,000 (metro)

-St. Louis, Missouri - 11,121,000 (city), 15,038,000 (metro)

-Cincinnati, Ohio - 8,547,000 (city), 10,415,000 (metro)

Time zone - TMP-05:00, -06:00

Currency - American eagle

Demography

Language - None; English (unofficial)

Other languages

-Maine, Vermont - French (co-official)

-East Florida - Spanish (co-official)

-Orleans - French, Spanish (co-official)

-Missouri - French, German (co-official)

-Illinois, Nibrasca, Ohio, Pembina, Wisconsan - German (co-official)

-Minasota - Sioux, Ojibwe, French (co-official)

-Cheyenne - Sioux (co-official)

Population - 316,711,000

Density - 73.78 /km^2

Symbols

National festivals

-Independence Day (July 4) - commemorating the Declaration of Independence (1776)

-Illumination Day (August 14) - commemorating the Fall of Appalachicola (1876)

Anthem - Battle March of Liberty

Motto - E pluribus unum

Flag

Ordinary Flag


Grand Luminary


Anthem

Battle March of Liberty

National Holidays

-see Holidays


State flags

-emblem on purple flag

-Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Ontonagon, Wisconsan, Alleghania, Franklin, Maryland, Delaware, Juniper, Nibrasca, Kances, Tahosa, East Florida, Anacostia

-legacy of Liberty and Union War (1868-76) which saw such flags used by Constitutional Government > Constitutional Army and then principle extended to states which never fought


-special case

-Washingtonia - uses flag based on coat of arms of George Washington

-West Florida -

-Minasota - based on Ojibwe wampum similar to this

Congress

-held in Capitol:


House of Representatives

-702 seats

-allocated by population


-the Speaker is explicitly a party official as with British Isles before revolution

-but only holds votes in case of tie (which is almost never)

Senate

-103 seats

-86 seats, 2 per state

-12 senators elected by large, by proportional representation

-5 senators for life, of six ex-presidents


-last former ex-president (of right party) serves as President of the Senate

-unless none unavailable

Joint Sessions

-President's Annual Message to Congress held in joint session

-also, if both houses disagree, vote held in joint session

-which practically means that the House can override the Senate with sufficient support as it has almost 7x number of members

Cabinet

President

-without Jackson, a weaker presidency

-veto virtually unused, and when it is it's a major crisis

-can now officially only be used for unconstitutional legislation

-and now overriden by 3/5 veto

-no VP, got abolished

Secretary of State

-runs foreign affairs

-in general, with US being less prominent abroad, Secretary of State has less stature

-but is still primus inter pares among cabinet

-also will become president if president dies

Secretary of the Treasury

-manages the collection of revenue, federal finances, and regulates the minting of currency

Secretary of Domestic Affairs

-formed during American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican) presidency

-manages

-internal improvements

-Indian affairs

-public affairs

-patents

-seals

-pensions

-general police

-National Preserve Territories

-with the general police, specifically management of the Civil Guard, being the one the public associates with it the most

Secretary of War

-manages the three branches of the military - the Army, the Navy, and the Aeronautic Corps

Secretary of Peace

-successor to the Secretary of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands, runs extensions of some of its purposes

-Freedmen's Department created in 1875

-turned into Department of Peace in 1893 following Washington Convention

-runs health insurance system, other health elements

-and rest of welfare system

-as well as a legal arbitration system spanning the nation

-also runs Service Commission

-which practically speaking gives Department of Peace its own foreign policy

Secretary of Education

-runs the federal education system, regulates lower-level schools

-established in 1878 as part of Reconstruction

Secretary of Natural Resources

-manages water, mining, energy, forestry

-especially in Interior because so much of it is owned directly by the state

-and provides mining licenses for using federal land

Secretary of Agriculture

-provides information to farmers as part of management of farming interests

Secretary of Commerce and Industry

-provides licenses to companies to do interstate commerce

Secretary of Labor

-prints labor statistics

-enforces labor legislation and provides arbitration boards

Attorney General

-advises Congress on the law

-runs a narrow Department of Justice that provides lawyers for prosecution and that's it

Postmaster General

-runs Postal & Telegraph Services

-can send a message variously through mail and Telegraphy

-also calls through Telepalver

-including video call system

-and later terminals with Networking > Teledata ( United States of America )

-political appointee, but w/ underlings in civil service

-often serves as minister without portfolio

Corporations

National Corporations

Bank of the United States

Railroad Corporation of the United States

National Constitutional Photonics Corporation

-originates in the Constitutional Gazette used for Constitutional Government propaganda

-during Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

-then with the rise of Photonics it gets transmitted over the air

-in 1919 the American Presidents > 1917-1923 Paul Drennan Cravath (Free Trade) administration splits photonic section

-as national corporation organized similarly as the others

-this also means a big rush on people buying shares which gives government in er a of Recessions > Panic of 1911 money to balance the books

-quickly becomes big on the phote and later on the Photescope

Private Corporations

-the United States has seen the vertical consolidation of corporations into a number of cliques

-in practice many of these cliques are unstable and the Free Trade Party rather hostile to them

-however, they must follow rules of business re. treatment of workers to continue to have a license

-and they must also disclose their documents and not sell overvalued stock

Mackintosh

US Oil

-essentially a clique in years after Liberty and Union War

-emerges over exploiting huge reserves in Pennsylvania and expands to Cimarron and Kances

-expands into United Provinces of Buenaventura

-extremely controversial in this

-the Heads of Buenaventura > 1916-1925 Henry W. D. Bridges (Association of Workers and Peasants) administration nationalizes US Oil's land in its area which means it's hammered in economy

US Maple

-maple sugar emerges as a huge industry due to sugarcane slowdown after Second French War (1821-32) and British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9)

-see this

-biggest centers in Vermont and New York, other smaller centers in Michigan, Wisconsan, and Ontonagon, and with smaller ones in Ohio, Indiana, Juniper, and Alleghania

-but with some production in Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky

-and even some in Tennessee, Virginia, and Franklin and a tiny bit in North Carolina

-though re-emergence of sugarcane economy postwar damages this emergence, it does still stick around

-US Maple emerges during Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

-the state nationalizes, distributes to friendly industrialists the maple industry

-postwar several maple forests reserved for conservation of this resource

-and in conquered Kentucky, Tennessee, and Franklin this valuable resource is especially conserved

-and maple sugar industry prospers in years that follows

Armed Forces

Service Commission

-often considered "the fifth arm of the military"

-and serves as a branch of foreign and domestic policy in its own right

-formed in 1887 soon after Antillean War (1880-4)

-to continue the concept of national service now that the army has become less important in scope

-and out of Quaker conscientious objectors to war who formed their own service committees like this

-and also out of other ad hoc arrangements to provide conscientious objectors with alternate service

-and to consolidate the United States Sanitary Commission, newly nationalized, into something wider

-mandatory to serve in various professions:

-lawyers

-doctors

-teachers

-a number of high-profile universities make service a prereq for graduation

-also rebates for education for people who serve

-and additional scholarships within it

-serves various tasks

-health

-nonprofits

-conservation

-education

-rapid response

-includes a lot of overseas work

-and historically funded a lot of missionary work in Africa where it worked wholly with colonial powers

-also did a lot for immigration because of the sort of links it created between US and Africa

Universities

-all public universities and a great many private universities wear uniforms

-part of militaristic legacy of the Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

-also, most universities have been remade on New England model

National University

Harvard University

Yale University

University of New Jersey

-OTL Princeton

-Queen's College (which in OTL eventually became Rutgers) fused into it

Columbia University

University of Pennsylvania

Brown University

Dartmouth College

Williamsburg University

-OTL College of William and Mary

-got refounded after Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

-but only as a constituent college of a newly expanded school

-main anchor university of Richmond area

Republican University of New Orleans

-got founded as Royal University of New Orleans in Spanish era in 1812

-with US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8), got refounded as Republican University

-with Liberty and Union War (1868-76), dramatically reconstituted once more

Mackintosh University

-formerly University of Cincinnati

-receives massive endowment from founder of Mackintosh Analyzer Company

-this endowment turns this university into an incredibly influential one

Transylvania University

-reconstituted after end of Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

-with Kentucky seeing land rush due to land cleared from confiscations it gets new base for educational institutions

-quickly turns into most impressive institution in the south in the years that follow civil war

Ogden University

-founded by John Ogden, an abolitionist, for freedmen

-in Memphis and has become a lynchpin of southern school network

-on model of New England schools

Maps


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