People's Collective

In 1931, Samuel Morrow—a devout Christian—formed the People's Collective in the American Midwest. Realizing that the fledgling Collective was in danger of economic collapse (90% of the population was in some form of debt), he voided all loans and mortgages of the People, and declared Socialism the truest form of Christianity.

Federalist troops from Washington, D.C. (under Presidential orders) attempted to regain control of the Collective. (Ironically, these troops were largely supplied by business interests in Chicago and New York, one of the few times that these bitter rivals would agree on anything). Morrow’s people fought off Federal troops and the Collective found itself isolated and surrounded by enemies.

The one potential ally among the disunited states was Utah, also a Christian nation, but any hope of an alliance was crushed by Jonathan "Ghengis" Kahn, a Chicago-based pirate who struck inside Utah, stealing a military airship—the Moroni—before entering the People's Collective. Once inside the Collective, Khan initiated a series of raids that he claimed were under a Utah-issued Letter of Marque. A Utah-Collective war was very nearly the result; in the chaos that followed the "Moroni Incident," Khan managed to slip back into the ISA. Although these facts quickly came out, the rift between the People's Collective and Utah remains.

Republic of Texas

No North American nation claims allegiance with Republic of Texas. Oklahoma is considered a protectorate state, which indicates that Texas takes anything it needs from within Oklahoman borders. The Texas Rangers provide protection whenever they feel that another nation is seriously infringing on their state's "turf." Most North American nations treat Texas like nitroglycerine: with great caution, lest it explode violently.

Texas, for its part, has little good to say about anyone. Texans currently reserve their greatest animosity for French Louisiana, particularly the air wing of the French Foreign Legion that recently arrived from the Spanish Civil War front and now patrols the Texas border. Next in line is the Confederation of Dixie, if only because of England's meddling in North American affairs by assisting that nation. Texas reviles Dixie even more than it does Free Colorado , the base of a recent heavy pirate raid that smashed the city of Amarillo.

Republique de Quebec

This French-speaking former Canadian province split away from greater Canada in late 1930, as the United States split up. The long-standing assertion that an independent Quebec could never thrive isolated between Canada and the U.S. no longer applied in an America composed of several competing nation-states. The Francophone nation-state today survives on a free-trade agreement with the Atlantic Coalition and Columbia, held together by endangered shipping lanes stretching out over the Atlantic and weaving down through the Champlain region. The Empire State and the Maritime Provinces could close down the latter routes at a moment's notice, assuming the pirates don't do it first.

Utah

One of the flashpoints of the disintegration of the U.S.A., Utah is today a resolved, homogenous, Christian nation, isolated from its detractors and determined to survive these tumultuous times. Utah's Smith Law made the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints the official state religion, sparking a firestorm of religious reaction across the nation, and forcing a new exodus of LDS members to Utah. The Republic of Texas cited the Federal government's inability to enforce the Constitutional separation of Church and State in its Declaration of Secession on January 1, 1930, as did California and New York. The departure of these states triggered the general collapse of the U.S. in the following six months.