United Nations Political Factbook
Notable Earth states with militaries
The European Empire
- Political System: Oligarchy
- Theme: Neo-Classical Aristocracy
- After the collapse of the European Union in the wake of the UN ultimatum, most of western and central Europe found common cause with a new form of pan-european nationalism which took root in the fertile ground of a humiliated political class. Glorifying the past, the rhetoric of the Empire proclaims that Europeans must unite and fight for the dawn of the Neo-Renaissance that will lead to a resurgence of Europe culture and achievement.
The United States of America
- Political System: Democratic Republic
- Theme: Classic America
- The loss of Kennedy created a massive crisis which lead to the disintegration of the United Americas, with much of the leadership killed on Kennedy in a disputed incident during the fighting. Once the premier power of the United Americas, the USA now finds itself a rump state, stretching from Maine to Virginia and from Virginia to Wisconsin. Still powerful due to the concentration of wealth, industry and technology in the BosWash area, it is nevertheless nowhere near the power it once was.
Allied States of America
- Political System: Corporate Republic
- Theme; Blade Runner America
- The disputed succession of the United Americas lead to the western states of the USA forming their own nation, though heavily influenced by dominant MegaCorps still operating from Greater Los Angeles.
Republic of Greater Texas
- Political System: Democratic Republic
- Decades of disagreements with the Federal government over land, water rights and other local issues finally came to a head during the disconnect, when Texans took the opportunity to secede from the United States as the United Americas collapsed around them. Several other nearby states joined them, including the majority of Mexican states.
The United Republic's of Europe
- Great Britain, Iceland, Denmark and the Nordic countries made up the United Republic, swelled by dissents from the Empire.
Kingdom of Canada
- Political System: Constitutional Republic
- After fleeing the British revolution the Windsor family found refuge and purpose in the Canada as it struggled under the aftermath of the United Americas collapse.
- Union of Bolivarian Republics
- Reformed Arab League
- Democratic People's Kenyan Republic
- Alliance of Free African States
- Federation of India
- Shanghai Economic Free Zone
- Korean Union
- Tatenokai Shogunate
- League of Free Russian Cities
Other Earth States
Latter-Day Republic
- Based in the Utah area, the Latter-Day Republic is a theocratic nation of Mormons sandwiched between the three major powers of North America. It maintains ties with it's larger sister state in the Verge.
The Verge
Heaven's Reach Exhuman Enclave
- Political System: Libertarian Corporate Republic
- Heaven's Reach is a 'Militant Exhuman-progressive' society, modelled on a Hierarchy which places emphasis on individual achievement and ability. Particular emphasis has been placed on the role of the 'Warrior' in human existence, though respect is also given to the role of science, as such in the formalised class division system of Heaven's Reach, the class of Soldier and Scribe are given prominence above all others. Heaven's Reach is a haven to various human augmentative sciences, including variant cognition and a multiple of military orientated augmentation disciplines.
Dai Fuso Teikoku
- Political System: Shogunate/Military Junta
- Fuso is a radical militant state, a reactionary Japanese colony ruled by a transhuman Samurai elite, it bears many similarities to feudal Japan and its architecture combines much of the traditional and modern. Gaining it’s own independence during the fraught years of the disconnect , Fuso is independent world in the Verge and is considered a wildcard due to its strict ideology and militancy. Many regard Fuso as petty in matters of state, others worry at it’s growing power and interventionist policies. It’s pro-japanese historical revisionism as earned it the disgust of many Asian colonies, due to it’s wholesale denial of Japanese war crimes.