History Main / EvilStatesOfAmerica

* ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' features the United Earth Federation, made from the remnants of the Earth Empire. The UEF shares a lot of aesthetics with the United States that includes bulky vehicles, real-life aircraft such as the Blackbird, and a government akin to a parliamentary democracy and President. The nation has a history of xenophobia, slavery, forced unity through military force, and full-blood human supremacy, in contrast to the freedom-fighting Cybrans and alien-worshipping Aeon Illuminate. Plus, similar to the nuclear bomb and World War II, their goal of winning the war is a planet killer that puts [[Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens Starkiller Base]] to shame.

* The satirical horror film series ''Film/ThePurge'' is set in a [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture near-future]] America where, after an economic collapse, a far-right party called the New Founding Fathers took power on a promise to restore America's prosperity. They accomplished this by creating the titular Purge, an annual holiday in which, for twelve hours, all crime is legal -- ostensibly to allow Americans to unleash their repressed primal urges, in truth a plot to KillThePoor and enrich the corporate elite. What's more, the Purge has genuine support from broad swaths of the American people, its opponents mostly concentrated in marginalized communities, indicating that America as a whole is rotten to the core in these films while serving as a reflection of all of the most violent trends in American society, from [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racism]] to [[TheSocialDarwinist social Darwinism]] to [[GunNut gun fetishism]]. When the third film, ''[[Film/ThePurgeElectionYear Election Year]]'', ends with [[spoiler:Charlie Roan being elected President on a platform of ending the Purge, the election result is met with rioting by supporters of the Purge and the New Founding Fathers. The fifth film, ''Film/TheForeverPurge'', ends with them overthrowing the government and setting off a SecondAmericanCivilWar.]]

* The United States in ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' seemed to be a friendly, patriotic utopia full of wholesome families and cheerful optimism. However, it gradually transformed into a corrupt, jingoistic, Orwellian police state that saw nothing wrong with imprisoning its own citizens and experimenting on them. {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s were in power everywhere, safety regulations were pretty much nonexistent, radioactive food was approved for stores, and the nation gladly invaded Mexico and later annexed Canada just to seize their resources. As the situation dragged on, riots from angry Americans led to the government even opening fire on their own people with ''military-grade weapons.'' With a nuclear war as a real threat, they approved the construction of 122 Vaults to shield the civilian population. However, this was just a cover story, since the vaults were actually designed to subject their residents to cruel and sadistic experiments to see how people in enclosed environments react. And even after the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Great War]], the scattered remnants of the government survived, seeking to regain their power by killing off all the wastelanders so they can repopulate. Put another way: a lot of players argue that the ''post''-apocalyptic United States, filled with badly mutated animals, malfunctioning war robots, warring tribals and every kind of human evil you could imagine, is an ''improvement'' over living in the pre-war United States.

* The United States in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' seemed to be a friendly, patriotic utopia full of wholesome families and cheerful optimism. However, it gradually transformed into a corrupt, jingoistic, Orwellian police state that saw nothing wrong with imprisoning its own citizens and experimenting on them. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt corporate executives]] were in power everywhere, safety regulations were pretty much nonexistent, radioactive food was approved for stores, and the nation gladly invaded Mexico and later annexed Canada just to seize their resources. As the situation dragged on, riots from angry Americans led to the government even opening fire on their own people with ''military-grade weapons.'' With a nuclear war as a real threat, they approved the construction of 122 Vaults to shield the civilian population. However, this was just a cover story, since the vaults were actually designed to subject their residents to cruel and sadistic experiments to see how people in enclosed environments react. And even after the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Great War]], the scattered remnants of the government survived, seeking to regain their power by killing off all the wastelanders so they can repopulate. Put another way: a lot of players argue that the ''post''-apocalyptic United States, filled with badly mutated animals, malfunctioning war robots, warring tribals and every kind of human evil you could imagine, is an ''improvement'' over living in the pre-war United States.

May involve ExpandedStatesOfAmerica, AmericaTakesOverTheWorld and especially OppressiveStatesOfAmerica. On a smaller, but more governmental level, see CIAEvilFBIGood. See also {{Eagleland}}, EvilColonialist and WesternTerrorists.

* The United States in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' seemed to be a friendly, patriotic utopia full of wholesome families and cheerful optimism. However, it gradually transformed into a corrupt, jingoistic, Orwellian police state that saw nothing wrong with imprisoning its own citizens and experimenting on them. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt corporate executives]] were in power everywhere, safety regulations were pretty much nonexistent, radioactive food was approved for stores, and the nation gladly invaded Mexico and later annexed Canada just to seize their resources. As the situation dragged on, riots from angry Americans led to the government even opening fire on their own people with ''military-grade weapons.'' With a nuclear war as a real threat, they approved the construction of 122 Vaults to shield the civilian population. However, this was just a cover story, since the vaults were actually designed to subject their residents to cruel and sadistic experiments to see how people in enclosed environments react. And even after the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Great War]], the scattered remnants of the government survived, seeking to regain their power by killing off all the wastelanders so they can repopulate.
** Put another way: a lot of players argue that the ''post''-apocalyptic United States, filled with badly mutated animals, malfunctioning war robots, warring tribals and every kind of human evil you could imagine, is an ''improvement'' on living in the Pre-War United States.

* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' subverts the trope with the UnitedSpaceOfAmerica that is the Free Planets Alliance. Initially a republican democracy made in response to the tyrannical Galactic Empire, more than a century of war caused it to decay the same way its predecessor, the Galactic Republic did. The FPA at the start is run by opportunist politicians who are willing to sacrifice their own citizens to win the next election and subjugate political opponents with BlackShirt groups,. [[spoiler:And that is not getting into those collaborating with its AncientConspiracy]]. Many elements of the military are GloryHound officers and unlawful soldiers who are willing to pillage Imperial territory as means of spreading their ideals of democracy were impractical and unwanted. The subversion comes after [[spoiler:the fall of the Goldenbaum Dynasty and Alliance ]], where the more moral and idealist members survive and retain the colors and emblems of the FPA. From there on, they are simply pushing for reformations of [[spoiler:the Goldenlowe Dynasty]] avoid the mistakes of its predecessors.

* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' subverts the trope with the UnitedSpaceOfAmberica that is the Free Planets Alliance. Initially a republican democracy made in response to the tyrannical Galactic Empire, more than a century of war caused it to decay the same way its predecessor, the Galactic Republic did. The FPA at the start is run by opportunist politicians who are willing to sacrifice their own citizens to win the next election and subjugate political opponents with BlackShirt groups,. [[spoiler:And that is not getting into those collaborating with its AncientConspiracy]]. Many elements of the military are GloryHound officers and unlawful soldiers who are willing to pillage Imperial territory as means of spreading their ideals of democracy were impractical and unwanted. The subversion comes after [[spoiler:the fall of the Goldenbaum Dynasty and Alliance ]], where the more moral and idealist members survive and retain the colors and emblems of the FPA. From there on, they are simply pushing for reformations of [[spoiler:the Goldenlowe Dynasty]] avoid the mistakes of its predecessors.

* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' subverts the trope with the UnitedSpaceOfAmerica that is the Free Planets Alliance. Initially a republican democracy made in response to the tyrannical Galactic Empire, more than a century of war caused it to decay the same way its predecessor, the Galactic Republic did. The FPA at the start is run by opportunist politicians who are willing to sacrifice their own citizens to win the next election and subjugate political opponents with BlackShirt groups,. [[spoiler:And that is not getting into those collaborating with its AncientConspiracy]]. Many elements of the military are GloryHound officers and unlawful soldiers who are willing to pillage Imperial territory as means of spreading their ideals of democracy were impractical and unwanted. The subversion comes after [[spoiler:the fall of the Goldenbaum Dynasty and Alliance ]], where the more moral and idealist members survive and retain the colors and emblems of the FPA. From there on, they are simply pushing for reformations of [[spoiler:the Goldenlowe Dynasty]] avoid the mistakes of its predecessors.

* ''Literature/TheSunEater'' has the United States be mostly forgotten in the far future of that setting. Instead, the term "Americans" has been bastardized into the Mericanii, and it's a reviled word since America initially took over humanity ages ago, and was responsible for most of the human population in the universe being turned into cancer blobs.

* ''Literature/TheSunEater'' has America forgotten in the far future of that setting. Instead, the name of Americans has been bastardized into the Mericanii and it's reviled word since America initially took over humanity ages ago and was responsible for most of the human population in the universe being turned into cancer blobs.

* ZigZagged in the fourth game of ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'', where Americans are both the main protagonists and antagonists.

Well, another good candidate could be the United States, a powerful nation that exceeds or equals (or at least exceeded or equaled) the previous enemies in terms of military might, reach, and influence can also be used in a work as powerful villains. Many times, they could be portrayed as the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]], KnightTemplar with GreyAndGrayMorality varieties, or at worst, NazisByAnyOtherName.

* The AlternateHistory story ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'' has the United States, owing to a disastrous loss in the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 that saw the [[HollywoodNewEngland New England]] states, UsefulNotes/{{New York|State}}, and UsefulNotes/NewJersey secede as the Republic of New England while the British (by way of Canada) took over a large chunk of the Midwest around the Great Lakes, resulting in the US coming under the domination of the planter aristocrats of the DeepSouth. As a result, the US becomes a white supremacist empire that not only maintains slavery well into the 20th century, but extends it to the Latin American peoples it conquers (save for a few [[LesCollaborateurs collaborators]] who can pass for white) and adapts it to the industrial era as its armies push its southern border ever further south.

* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', while the Laundry, the British occult spy agency is definitely morally ambiguous, the American equivalent, the [[NamestoRunAwayFromReallyFast Black Chamber]], is consistently shown as evil in its methods and goals. However, The Commstock Office was pretty reasonable until the Black Chamber got them shutdown.

May involve ExpandedStatesOfAmerica, AmericaTakesOverTheWorld and OppressiveStatesOfAmerica. On a smaller, but more governmental level, see CIAEvilFBIGood. See also {{Eagleland}}, EvilColonialist and WesternTerrorists.

Well, another good candidate could be the United States, a powerful nation that exceeds or equals (or at least exceeded or equaled) the previous enemies in terms of military might, reach, and influence can also be used in a work as powerful villains. Many times, they could be portrayed as the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]], KnightTemplar with GreyAndGrayMorality varieties, or at worst, [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazis by any other name]].

* ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos'' centers around this concept, taking place in a version of the United States where the government is concealing the existence of gods and monsters under North America and sacrificing members of its' population to appease them. Various members of the government and civilian bodies muddy the line a bit on how truly "evil" the US is, with much of it running with and undercurrent of IDidWhatIHadToDo, but it is ultimately responsible for a massive amount of suffering within it's own borders and across the world. Highlights include the Statue of Liberty hiding a slaughterhouse for Ellis Island immigrants, the Washington Monument concealing what is effectively the "Tree of Liberty" described by Thomas Jefferson (and is regularly refreshed with human blood), the Statue of Freedom being a mad killer who slaughters dissidents for the US government and [[FlayedAlive wears their skin]], and an entity called the Horned Serpent turning out to be [[spoiler: George Washington himself.]]

** Season Three takes place in a new universe in which the US ultimately comes across as ''far worse'' than the one from the original timeline. This US doesn't seem to have the same monsters, instead having superheroes in their world.

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* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', the American military uses an advanced AI to hack into the main servers of Oz. [[AIIsACrapshoot Then it breaks free from their control.]]
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* ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' features the United Earth Federation, made from the remnants of the Earth Empire. The UEF shares a lot of aesthetics with the United States that includes bulky vehicles, real-life aircraft such as the Blackbird, and a government akin to a parliamentary democracy and President. The nation has a history of xenophobia and full-blood human supremacy, in contrast to the freedom-fighting Cybrans and alien-worshipping Aeon Illuminate. Plus, similar to the nuclear bomb and World War II, their goal of winning the war is a planet killer that puts [[Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens Starkiller Base]] to shame.