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Pre-Collapse
United States of America
Official Name: United States of America
Ruling Party: Democratic Party
Ideology: Progressivismnote
Tulsi Gabbard
Role: Head of State
Party: Democratic Party
Ideology: Progressivismnote
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- 0% Approval Rating: Absolutely no one in the Pre-Collapse United States likes her as she is seen as an incompetent and weak president. It is quite telling that her getting reelected is the reason for the Collapse.
American Collapse
The Lion Rebellion
Official Name: The Lion Rebellion, The Free Territory (People Unification), The Insurrectionary Amry (Total Military Dominice)
Ideology: Anarcho-Communismnote
After many skirmishes against the Federal Government, Haddock's Guards and The Black Legion. Anarchists in Norfolk Virgina, rise up after Federal Police retreat from the city and proclaim an Anarchist Uprising seeking to liberate all of America of statism. Whether they will follow their Anarchist ideals or succumb to a Militaristic Pseudo-Anarchist regime should they survive in the dire times of the 2nd American Civil-War is to come.The "Lion of Socialism"
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Anarcho-Communismnote
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- The Faceless: The Lion hides their face behind a vintage soviet PBF gasmask.
- Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: His rise against the United States government involves the beheading of a member of the National Guard. Further events (available from Haddock's perspective) also show his supporters making use of violent resistance even before his rise to power
Fred Hirschfeld
Role: General
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
David Lark
Role: General
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- Metal Scream: Lark was the lead singer for the Grindcore punk band Brick Aerodynamics Institute, a role that involved a fair amount of throat-blistering metal screams.
Julian Baker
Role: General
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
Andre Tyndall
Role: General
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- Defector from Decadence: Tydall left the Reconstructed Black Panthers due to its overly-centralized organization and adopted Anarchism.
"Mousey"
Role: General
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- The Faceless: "Mousey" keeps both his face and identity hidden from even his closest associates.
Anne Cartier
Role: General
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
Republican Union of America
Official Name: Republican Union of America, American Legionary State (American Successor), The Hesperian Republic (New Vision), The Republic (Transcending History)
Ruling Party: Eagle's Spirit Party
Ideology: Haddockismnote
For its tropes, see the dedicated subpage.
Confederation of America
Confederation of America
Official Name: Confederation of America, United States of Southern America (Liberal Yankee), United States of Dixie (Liberal Dixie), Confederate States of Dixie (Wilson), Federal Republic of Southern America (Autocratic Yankee), Second Confedercy of America (Autocratic Dixie), Dead Zone (Annihilationist)
Ruling Party: Confederate Congress
Ideology: Nationalismnote
1st Confederate Congress
Role: Head of State
Party: Confederate Congress
Ideology: Nationalismnote
Stacey Abrams
Role: Presidentnote (2024 Election - Abrams elected), (2028 Election, Abrams elected)
Party: Southern People's Party
Ideology: Progressivismnote
Ron DeSantis
Role: Presidentnote (2024 Election - DeSantis elected), (2028 Election, DeSantis elected)
Party: Democratic-Republican Party
Ideology: Christian Democracynote
- Good Old Ways: DeSantis is a proponent of American Conservatism in the Deep South while also simultaneously not breaking away from American identity.
Jo Jorgensen
Role: Presidentnote (2024 Election - Jorgensen elected), (2028 Election, Jorgensen elected)
Party: States' Rights Party - Statist Wing
Ideology: Constitutional Confederalismnote
Tom Cotton
Role: Presidentnote (2024 Election - Cotton elected), (2028 Election, Cotton elected)
Party: Dixie National Caucus
Ideology: National Conservatismnote
Matthew Hoh
Role: Presidentnote (2028 Election - Hoh elected)
Party: Dixie Greens/Southern People's Party Coalition
Ideology: Socialist Greenismnote
- Internal Reformist: Hoh is a Socialist in the very anti-left Confederacy. If wins the election (by a thin margin by the way), he'll support reperations for slavery and move past the Confederacy's ideas of White Nationalism.
Ron Wilson
Role: Presidentnote (2028 Election - Wilson elected)
Party: Sons of the Confederacy
Ideology: Neo-Confederatismnote
- Evil Old Folks: Wilson is an old White Nationalist who is a member of the Sons of the Confederacy, a White Supremacist organization who if elected re-introduces segregation laws and enforces plantation economics to be re-introduced to the Confederacy a.
Donald Livingstone
Role: Head of State (Released by a Stratocratic country)
Party: Dixie National Caucus - Military Wing
Ideology: Figurehead Governmentnote
The Klan
Official Name: The Knights of the Klu Klux Klan
Ideology: Neo-Confederatismnote
The Klan promised with prosperity and independence with the new Confederation become disillusioned and angered at the liberal-styled government, rises up in tandem with the Nazi-Accelerationist Atomwaffen Division to make their Confederation an all-white one.- The Klan: Literally.
Jeremy Parker
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Neo-Confederatismnote
Atomwaffen Division
Official Name: Atomwaffen Divison, National Socialist State (Mason Unification), Unholy Kingdom (Faust Unification), Free Aryan Territory (National Anarchist Unification), Purified Land of Mikinoc Waajew (Ecofascist Unification)
Ruling Party: Atomwaffen Division
Ideology: Nazismnote
Atomwaffen Division in tandem with the Klan rises up against the Confederation of America to set up a Nazi America.- Those Wacky Nazis: Atomwaffen Division believes in a bizarre mix of Nazi, Esoteric, and Accelerationist thought.
James Mason
Role: Head of State
Party: Atomwaffen Division
Ideology: Nazismnote
- Evil Old Folks: Mason is a 72-year-old Neo-Nazi with a history of pedophilia.
Faust
Role: Head of State (Faust seizes power)
Party: Atomwaffen Division - o9A Branch
Ideology: Neo-Darwinismnote
- Hollywood Satanism: Faust is an unhinged Satanist Neo-Nazi.
- Piss-Take Rap: Faust is a rapper, a terrible, terrible rapper.
- Scary Teeth: Faust's teeth are horribly rotted due to his sweet tooth and terrible impulse control note
- Villainous Breakdown: Faust is prone to suffering particularly disturbing breakdowns do his inability to cry, instead making disturbing goat-bleating-esq noises.
Pazuzu Algarad
Role: Gerneral
Party: Atomwaffen Division - o9A Branch
Ideology: Neo-Darwinismnote
- Tattooed Crook: Pazuzu is a convicted murderer with several facial tattoos.
Christoper Asher Wray
Role: Head of State (FBI coups Atomwaffen)
Party: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ideology: Interim Governmentnote
Guerrero's Militia
Official Name: Guerrero's Militia
Ruling Party: Committee for American Restoration
Ideology: Martial Republicanismnote
Only Sane Man: Dowwnplayed. While El Guerrero and his militia believe themselves to be this, it remains to be seen whether they too will fall into their own flavor of extremism.
El Guerrero
Role: Head of State
Party: Committee for American Restoration
Ideology: Martial Republicanismnote
Acadianan Empire
Official Name: Acadianan Empire
Ideology: Aristocracynote
Colonel Touissant
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Aristocracynote
American Iron Front
John Brown Brigade
Official Name: John Brown Brigade
Ruling Party: Union for Liberation and Freedom
Ideology: Anarcho-Communismnote
165 years after the Raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown to free slaves, Military deserters and Anarchists inspired by the Lion Revolt led by Pat Tillman a soldier sent to Afghanistan who was rumored to be dead and claims that the Federal Government had a hand in his attempted assassination. Declaring the territory the Iron Front, he joins forces with the Lion Revolt to spread liberty throughout the former United States and to get his revenge on the Federal Government.Pat Tillman
Role: Head of State
Party: Union for Liberation and Freedom
Ideology: Anarcho-Communismnote
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- Alternate Self: IRL Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan in 2004 in a friendly fire incident which some have speculated was a cleverly concealed murder. EU Tillman survived his assassination and will return to America to lead an anarchist militia.
- Defector from Decadence: As in OTL, the patriotic Tillman joined the US Army Rangers following 9/11. After surviving an assassination attempt by his fellow rangers, he became disillusioned with the American government and adopted anarchism
US Federal Forces
For its tropes, see the dedicated subpage.Free Union of America
Free Union of America
Official Name: Free Union of America
Ideology: Marxist-Leninism
- Commieland: The Free Union of America consists of the areas of the west coast dominate by the Peoples' Communist Party of America (PCPA) prior to the American Collapse.
Gloria La Riva
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Marxist-Leninism
- Puppet Queen: though nominally in power, La Riva and her followers are the unwilling puppets of the Old Guard faction of the PCPA.
Edward Belmarsh
Role: Head of State
Party: TBA
Ideology: TBA
Leader of the lose coalition of independent rightist militias in the wider Californian resistance
Free Seattle Territories
Official Name: Free Seattle Territories
Ruling Party: The People
Ideology: Insurrectionist Anarchismnote
- The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The insurrectionary nature of the FST's vain of anarchist thought has result in horrific violence perpetrated by overzealous revolutionaries. This will get even worse if the unify the United States, conducting a campaign of mass execution of former leaders.
Mother Anarchy
Role: Head of State
Party: The People
Ideology: Insurrectionist Anarchismnote
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- Only Known by Their Nickname: "Mother Anarchy" acquired her nickname during her career as an anarchist protest leader.
- Mama Bear: She is also known as the "Protest Mom".
The Thirteen Arrows Brigade
Official Name: The Thirteen Arrows Brigade
Ideology: Populist Nationalismnote
- Hired Guns: The Thirteen Arrows Brigade are an army of mercenaries funded and coordinated by the ACC (Anti-communist Coalition)
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: War against the limp-wristed, cock-suckin', dirt-eaten', soft brained havin', soy-faced lookin', girls-clothes wearin', devil-worshippin', rainbow lovin', dog-funkin', shit-eatin', christ-killin', mouth breathin', toe-suckin', hummus eatin', child-beatin', hippie-lovin', corn-in-the-ass shovin', American Hatin', Cliton-lovin, COMMIE BASTARDS!
Richard Johnson
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Populist Nationalismnote
- Heel–Face Turn: Under the right circumstances, the rabidly anti-communist Johnson can become an Anti-revisionist Totalitarian Marxistnote .
Manson Cult
Official Name: Manson Cult
Ideology: Autocratic Theocracynote
Afton Burton
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Autocratic Theocracynote
Unaffiliated Warlords
Holy Republic of Deseret
Official Name: Holy Republic of Deseret
Ideology: Authoritarian Theocracynote
- The Theocracy: Deseret is a Mormon TheoDemocracy propped up over a few centuries of Mormon settlers in Utah attempting to wrangle their influence in the state finally gets a chance to rule their own holy republic with a holy fist.
Russell Nelson
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Authoritarian Theocracynote
Las Vegas
Official Name: Las Vegas
Ruling Party: The Strip
Ideology: Anarcho-Capitalismnote
After the Mormons take Utah and eastern Nevada, see very little use in keeping a city as sinful as Las Vegas in their hands. So instead they release it to let go of the innate deadly sin of Las Vegas that is Greed.The Strip
Role: Head of State
Party: The Strip
Ideology: Anarcho-Capitalismnote
Jeremy Harrington
Role: Head of State
Party: People's Movement-Progressivist, People's Movement-Syndicalist
Ideology: Progressivismnote , Syndicalismnote
Tucker Carlson
Role: Head of State
Party: People Movement-Carlsonism, Vegas Anti-Liberal Coalition
Ideology: Democratic Nationalismnote , National Bolshevismnote
Navajo Nation
Official Name: Navajo Nation
Ideology: Corrupted Democracynote
Jonathan Nez
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Corrupted Democracynote
Buffalo Revolutionary Council
Official Name: Buffalo Revolutionary Council, Great Lakes Revolutionary Council (Revolutionary Council takes Great Lakes)
Ruling Party: United Revolutionary Cause Party - UMP Subsidiary
Ideology: National Autonomismnote
Revolutionary Council
Role: Head of State
Party: United Revolutionary Cause Party - UMP Subsidiary
Ideology: National Autonomismnote
Firebrand
Role: Head of State
Party: Free Revolutionaries
Ideology: Insurrectionary Anarchismnote
American Metropolitan League
Official Name: American Metropolitan League
Ruling Party: United Metropolitan Party
Ideology: National Autonomismnote
Setting up independence against the Great Lakes, the American Metropolitan styles itself against the originally planned Buffalo revolution as a sort of independent Corporate enterprise and runs a few cities for themselves.American Metropolitan Union
Role: Head of State
Party: United Metropolitan Party
Ideology: National Autonomismnote
Worker's Front of Superior
Official Name: Worker's Front of Superior
Ruling Party: Worker's Movement
Ideology: Syndicalismnote
Joe Henry
Role: Head of State
Party: Worker's Movement
Ideology: Syndicalismnote
Southwell
Role: Head of State
Party: Yooper People's Security
Ideology: Military Juntanote
K. Ross
Role: Head of State
Party: Yooper Patriots
Ideology: Pinochetism note
Haniel
Role: Head of State
Party: The Forest
Ideology: Religious Utopianism note
Republic of Texas
Official Name: Republic of Texas
Ideology: American Libertarianismnote
Texas in its current condition, sees no purpose of being aligned to the collapsing United States. So the government decides to secede and become independent like its past republic dreamed of.- Patriotic Fervor: Texas has always been a nationalistic state ever since its creation. With the United States collapsing, American nationalism turns into Texan nationalism.
Ted Cruz
Role: Head of State
Ideology: American Libertarianismnote
- Defector from Decadence: Cruz and his cabinet are very against the Confederacy because of their opposition because they would prefer Texas to be independent nation rather than be tied to the Southern Unity.
- Undying Loyalty: Cruz states that Texas was born from as a republic and will die as one not being tied to any external outlier like the Confederacy.
Greater State of Texas
Official Name: Greater State of Texas
Ruling Party: The "Bigger Business in Texas" Party
Ideology: Corporatocracynote
As Texas becomes independent, a new force at play under the Corporate power of Rick Perry takes over the Northern Texas and eventually goes to war with the Conservative South.- Military Coup: With the assistance of oil companies and christian fundamentalists, Perry is able to take over Northern Texas.
- The Fundamentalist: Christian militia is the reason why Perry is in power.
Rick Perry
Role: Head of State
Party: The "Bigger Business in Texas" Party
Ideology: Corporatocracynote
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Not neccessarily a corporate executive, but more so working for multiple as a the head of a corporate oligarchy.
- Corrupt Politician: Perry previously used to be the Governor of Texas and a politician in Trump's cabinet as Secretary of Energy. Only after America collapses does he become the authoritarian head of Texas with oil barons backing him financially and christian fundamentalists backing him militarilly.
Gulf Cartel
Official Name: Gulf Cartel
Ideology: Aristocracynote
Osiel Guillen
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Aristocracynote
The Immortals
Official Name: The Immortals
Ideology: Feudalismnote
- Badass Biker: The Immortals consist of multiple biker gangs under Xerxes' leadership. Their badassery is further increased if Xerxes chooses to remain in America, becoming the Angarium of new Persian Empire
Xerxes
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Feudalismnote
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- The Quest: Xerxes' driving motivation is his personal "Odyssey" to escape American and return to his homeland or, if he decides to stay, to conquer America.
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Xerxes wears a suit of ancient Persian armor.
National Parks Service
Official Name: National Parks Service, Exxon Site Alpha (Exxon), Fire-Bear Cult (Fire-Bear Cult), Yellowstone Exclusion Zone (Janssen)
Ruling Party: Yellowstone National Park Rangers
Ideology: Interim Governmentnote
National Parks Service Administration
Role: Head of State
Party: Yellowstone National Park Rangers
Ideology: Interim Governmentnote
Darren Woods
Role: Head of State
Party: Exxon
Ideology: Corporatocracy note
- Corrupt Corporate Executive:
- Gaia's Lament: Woods and the Exxon executives are all to happy to destroy Yellowstone's natural beauty for the sake oil drilling.
Smokey The Bear
Role: Head of State
Party: Fire-Bear Cult
Ideology: Religious Utopianismnote
Montana Free Territory
Official Name: Montana Free Territory
Ideology: Platformismnote
Under Military control, the people are forced to work for the Military day in and day out as an endlessly functioning cog in the machine. To Big Pete and his revolutionaries, they will not have any of it. Big Pete and his Libertarians and Anarchists raid local depots and storage spaces and take what they can and give it back to the people. Under Big Pete the people of Montana are free from statism and will continue to be even if odds look stacked against them.Big Pete
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Platformismnote
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
Cambion's Forest
Official Name: Cambion's Forest
Ruling Party: The Forest
Ideology: Anarcho-Totalitarianismnote
- Small, Secluded World: A dark, terrifying example. No one gets in or out of The Forest and those who live their already lead hellish lives in constant fear.
Cambion
Role: Head of State
Party: The Forest
Ideology: Anarcho-Totalitarianismnote
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- The Dreaded: A massive understatement, Cambion's entire persona revolves around being as pants-shittingly terrifying as possible.
- Mysterious Past: Initially, all details about Cambion's past have been classified by the CIA.
- Dead Guy on Display: The bodies (or often just the body parts) of Cambion's enemies are hung from trees throughout his forest.
- A God I Am: Cambion believes himself to be the living incarnation of Lucifer.
- Hollywood Satanism: Cambion seeks to build an anarchic Satanist society ruled by fear.
Fairies
Role: Head of State
Party: Children of the Forest
Ideology: Pangean Nationalism note
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
U.S.A.F
Role: Head of State
Party: CIA
Ideology: Military Junta note
- Evil Former Friend: Inverted. The CIA operatives in the Forest are Cambion's former colleagues.
FEMA
Role: Head of State
Party: USAR
Ideology: Vanguardism note
S.A.R Team 12
Role: Head of State
Party: Search and Rescue
Ideology: Authoritarian Technocracy note
- Canine Companion: Team 12 has a Pitbull.
Survivors
Role: Head of State
Party: There aren't much...
Ideology: Pure Anarchy note
- Anarchy Is Chaos: Quite chaotic and orderless in the first place from the lack of survivors.
Gaia's Followers
Role: Head of State
Party: The Hadeans
Ideology: Apocalyptic Society note
American Salvationist Force
Official Name: American Salvationist Corp
Ruling Party: Gideon's Faction
Ideology: Libertarianism
Sawyer Gideon
Role: Head of State
Party: Gideon's Faction
Ideology: Libertarianism
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Gideon dresses in the garb of a Minuteman.
Earth Liberation Front
Role: Head of State
Party: United Earth Liberation Front - Animal Liberation Front
Ideology: Radical Greenism note
The Heartland
Official Name: The Heartland
Ruling Party: The Chariot
Ideology: Feudalismnote
- Foreign Culture Fetish: The Heartland models itself after the Mongol Empire
Attila
Role: Head of State
Party: The Chariot
Ideology: Feudalismnote
- Blood Knight: Attila was a Serial Killer before the American collapse and his creation of a new barbarian state is motivated soley by a desire for death and destruction.
Alaska
Official Name: Alaska
Ideology: Social Democracynote
Mary Peltola
Role: Head of State
Ideology: Social Democracynote
The Great North
Official Name: The Great North
Ruling Party: Northern Rule
Ideology: Esoteric Nazismnote
Polaris
Role: Head of State
Party: Northern Rule
Ideology: Esoteric Nazismnote
In-Game Biography: Click to Show
- The Social Darwinist: Polaris believes that only those strong enough to survive the North should be allowed to live.
- I Am Legion: Invoked. It's unclear whether Polaris' use of the title "we" is in reference to The Great North as a whole or the Royal "We".
Tanana Chiefs Council
Role: Head of State
Party: Athabaskan People
Ideology: National Autonomismnote