New United States

The New United States of America (NUSA), or United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or simply America, is a country consisting of 51 states and various other territorial possessions across the globe. In 2020, the US had one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world, with 90% of the wealth controlled by 10% of the population. Over 65% of the population lived in squalid misery, and another 25-50,000,000 were disenfranchised, homeless "nomads" or boosters wandering the ghost towns of central America.

Total economic, social, and political breakdown began with the Crash of '94 and resulted in the disintegration of American society and its standing as a world superpower. The subsequent years would come to be known as The Collapse, and would see the deaths of roughly 100,000,000 people as a result of plagues, mutated viruses, terrorist nuclear attacks and complete ecological collapse. The disintegration of NATO and the hardline foreign policy pursued by the "Gang of Four" isolated the United States politically and economically; with trade wars increasing the suffering of the American people. The complete destruction of the American economic, political, and social fabric was irreversible. Overburdened by debt, homelessness, and corruption, many bankrupted city governments turned to corporations to take control of governmental functions and public services.

Militech, one of the worlds largest Megacorporations, is headquartered in Washington, D.C., the megacorp dominates much of the country's politics, with the last few US Presidents being ex-Militech affiliates. The country focuses much of it's budget into Militech, a decision not kept secret from the population. However a power struggle has been present for decades with the Arasaka Corporation controlling much of the economy and protection of the Free States.

The rebranding of the country as the New United States of America was completed sometime between 2030 and 2069, when the president who followed Kress, Rosalind Myers, instigated the Unification War to reclaim the Free States. In 2077, the NUSA is the 24th largest economy in the world, and holds only a sliver of its former influence in international affairs.