United States (Argosyverse)

The United States of America is a transcontinental country in North America, Westerly, El Kadsre, and Asia. Of its 75 states, 52 are contiguous between Canada, Mexico, and Guatemala; Sintopia is a large artificial island located off the coast of New England about halfway between St. Lawrence and the El Kadsreian overseas territory of Seahaus; Altamasstachia and Mallettbarr are two large islands located in the El Kadsreian continent; 8 states making up the former country of Japan are located on an archipelago southeast of Russia and east of Korea and China; Zeconnemeleth is located approximately halfway between North Carolina and the British overseas territory of Bermuda; Alaska is located west of the Canadian Yukon Territory and east of Russia; Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are located in the Caribbean; Trishel is a small island located in the El Kadsreian landmass; Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are located in Micronesia; Michoacan is located west of Mexico; the New States are located on Earth’s only habitable moon, Selene; and Destiny is a space station/artificial moon orbiting Earth.

The United States has 2 autonomous commonwealths (Sintopia and Japan), contains two “autonomies” (Nauvoo and the Xai Ascendancy), and is itself part of the Greater Union of America, a federation of independent states under one President.

Hillary Clinton administration (2017-2021)
Hillary Clinton (D) and her running mate, Tim Kaine, defeated a Republican ticket of Jeb Bush/Mike Pence in the 2016 presidential election. The campaign season was rocked by drama, as Donald Trump ran as an independent candidate, unsatisfied with both major parties having “gone mad”, with singer Kanye West as his VP pick, before getting killed by Vlokist SPASDOTC terrorists in a car bomb attack a week before Election Day. SPASDOTC also targeted Clinton and Bush, but were unsuccessful. Despite this, West kept on going with the campaign, picking Trump’s daughter Ivanka as his new VP pick. West only managed to win the state of Washington, but did surprisingly well in polls. Clinton continued most of Obama’s policies, but was also surprisingly willing to “work together” with Republicans. This caused several senators and representatives, both Democrats and Republicans, to leave their parties and become independent, seeing this as “two parties becoming one single party”.

Billy Mays administration (2021-present)

 * See also: Collapse of the 2-party system

Clinton decided not to run again in the 2020 election, due to worsening personal health issues. Both the Democratic ticket, Tulsi Gabbard/Michelle Obama, and the Republican ticket, Ted Cruz/Sarah Palin, were largely unpopular. Billy Mays, a former infomercial spokesperson turned talk show host, started a 2020 presidential campaign in 2018, initially as a joke; but this slowly became more and more serious, as dissatisfaction with the 2-party system increased. Mays won the support of the Centralist Party, a third party which had made gains in state and local elections during the 2018 midterms, and in 2019, ended his talk show to go into politics full-time, picking Kaitlyn Rachel Spencer as his running mate. Despite having no prior political experience, Mays became popular with the American people, who were “sick and tired” of having only 2 parties to choose from. In the shockwaves sent by Mays’ electoral victory, the Democratic Party and Republican Party officially disbanded, with new parties: the Justice Democrats, the ”new” Democrats, the ”new” Republicans, and the Patriots: quickly being formed. Some independents, led by Andrew Yang, formed a “big-tent” party known as the Forward Party.

Some of Mays’ first acts in office were granting statehood to the District of Columbia (renamed as Douglass Commonwealth) and the US territories of American Samoa, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Trishel, as well as the Selenian colony of New States and the massive inhabited space station Destiny. The Minor Outlying/Guano Islands were gifted to the Federated States of Micronesia. Mays presided over the Mexican Drug Civil Wars, which led to the Republic of Maya Coast, Second Republic of Yucatan, and Republic of Michoacan being formed and lobbying for admission to the United States. Mays’ Vice President, Kaitlyn Rachel Spencer, convinced Mays to let the new states in.