Speculative Fiction- The Dissolution of the United States of America

    In 2025 following the Re-election of Joe Biden as president of the United States of America, the United States was dissolved. This started on the 4-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, when the Supreme Court began an injunction regarding the legality of the election and the United States. As widespread violence from right-wing militias occurred, the fuel to the fire added by the trial from the supreme court increased divisions immeasurably. State governments leaned into their partisan biases, enshrining legislation that would protect their state from wherever the federal government swung next. On July 4th, 2025 the court officially ruled against the legality of the Federal Government of the United States and the election of Joe Biden as president. Republican states immediately began succeeding and seeing conflict beginning to break out, Joe Biden, by executive order dissolved the United States of America on July 6th.

    The Dissolution of the United States was an enormous decision, with logistics that took several years. The main provisions were that each state was given immediate sovereignty, but the United States would take a year to peacefully dissolve. This included the disbanding of military branches and logistical reorganization of the states. While the process wasn't smooth, the rump government of the United States ensured that the dissolution didn't devolve into war.

    The international community was hit extremely hard by this dissolution, with the global economy crashing and not recovering for years. The Dissolution Depression reached the whole world, but none more than the Former United States and China, which would quickly devolve into Civil War. The State of New York was given the seat of the United States on the P5. Canada, while also hit by the Depression, was instrumental in aiding the rump Government of the United States in maintaining peace during the dissolution.

    Upon complete dissolution of the United States on July 6th, 2026 the states were left on their own officially. During the Dissolution, however, the states didn't lie still. There were three arrangments that kicked into effect immediately after the complete dissolution.

    The first of these was the As-sin-wati or (Rocky Mountain) Republic. With the capital in Trinidad colorado, a union between the state of Colorado and New Mexico, whose state governments quickly negotiated a Presidential Democracy, elected with proportional representation with a single proportional legislative body. The negotiations began with Arizona to be included as well, but they backed out early on in the process.

    The second of these was the Carolinan Union, which was quickly negotiated to be a FPTP Presidential republic with two legislative bodies and capital in Charlotte. A Carolinian identity quickly formed, and the state was the best approximation of the former United States government.

    The third arrangement was not an immediate union, but rather a negotiation. The Second Continental Congress was an effort by veritably Right-Wing states to establish a successor state to the United States, with enshrined Christian and conservative values. Invited to this congress was the States Pictured below.

Formed from this was the Ill-Fated Great American Republic, practically a Presidential republic. Its capital was in St. Louis and attempted to mimic the former United States with some modifications. Enshrining the republican party, and enabling cronyism, the state was markedly undemocratic.

    Thus the new United States began, alas, this state did not last long. New York, began initiating a Political and Economic union with like-minded states in the northeast. The Stamford accords were finished in 2027, enjoining New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Massachusetts. This created the New American Republic, with a more European Style Union, that was slightly more politically enjoined. The New American Republic was the New P5 member, after some waffling by the international community after the Great American Republic was formed. This state with its capital in Stamford Connecticut, and quickly set its eyes on political expansion.

    The Great American republic quickly ran into trouble. White nationalism began to take a quick hold in the deep south, and this created a schism within the republic. Emboldened by the Dissolution of the United States, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama, declared the Dixie Republic centered in Mobile Alabama. This left Florida and Louisiana separated from the Republic, which then consequentially declared independence themselves.

    After arduous negotiations, California, Washington, and Oregon joined in the Pacific Republic. The Eureka Doctrine established the Pacific Republic in Eureka California, with an extremely similar structure to the As-sin-wati Republic. At the same time, this republic signed the Separation Clause with Hawaii which established Hawaii as a full member, yet as an "Independent State". Nevada was slated to join, but the legal ramifications were not entirely worked out. Arizona also declined to join this republic.

    At the same time the States of Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan, seeing the advantage of unification, created the Great Lake Confederation centered in Chicago. This Confederation was modeled after the Canadian government, in an effort to align itself more closely with its northern neighbor.

    The Great American republic was set for another disruption. The now struggling, the nigh landlocked state was divided in economic interests. And the fractious nature of the Republic so far lead to its final division. Split east and west along the Mississippi the east went to form Appalachia, centered in Cleveland and The Midwestern confederation, as Utah bid for independence. The midwestern Confederation centered in Saint Louis.

    Appalachia liberalized, while the Midwestern Confederation did not, leaving it a husk of what it once was. alongside this, the Pacific Republic and New American republic gradually expanded. Today America is still divided and will remain a fractured land, yet the spirit of American democracy lives on despite the troubles.