United States of America (The Great Calamity)

Banking & Currency
The currency of the United States of America is the US Dollar. Issuance of the currency is controlled by the Bank of America - America's central bank. The BoA is governed by a board of 15 directors. Each director is the governor of one of the 15 regional branches of the Bank of America. The directors choose one from among their number to hold the position of Governor of the Bank of America for a 5-year term.

A US Dollar is divided into 100 Cents. Coin denomination include 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents and 50 cents.

Structure
The US Armed Forces is organised into 4 distinct branches: The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
 * Army: The US Army is America's primary land warfare branch, and consists of 110,000 professional soldiers. It operates a wide array of armoured vehicles and a small number of aircraft.
 * Navy: The US Navy is America's primary blue-water navy, and consists of 90,300 professional sailors. It operates a growing fleet of 12 destroyers, 41 frigates, 19 corvettes, 1 aircraft carrier, and numerous other smaller vessels. Of these, a substantial number are modern replicas of warships from the 21st century, based on blueprints rediscovered by military engineers. Modern designs are under development with all new ships made-to-order. The Navy's large fleet of frigates and corvettes are of particular importance in protecting shipping lanes in the Pacific and across the Atlantic, and regularly guard merchant convoys from Pacific, West African, and Central American pirates. An aircraft carrier is in development with the aim of returning America to its former ability to project power across the globe and expand its influence beyond the region.
 * Marine Corps: The USMC is America's naval infantry and engage in amphibious warfare and expeditionary warfare, and consists of 50,000 professional marines. Marines train and live in their own military bases on land, but serve primarily aboard Navy ships as boarding parties and also engage in amphibious warfare. US Marines have served in portions of Central America in restoring order to pockets of the war-torn region. The Marines operate a small assortment of combat and transport aircraft, as well as a number of amphibious assault craft.
 * Air Force: The US Air Force is America's primary aerial warfare branch, and consists of 83,000 airmen. It operates a fleet of 779 aircraft including fighters, bombers, surveillance, and transport craft.
 * Coast Guard: The US Coast Guard is America's green-water navy, tasked primarily with defending America's coastline and littoral waters from pirates. The 23,000 personnel of the Coast Guard operate hundreds of small patrol boats and 29 corvettes. The Coast Guard also participates in coastal search and rescue operations.

Government
The United States of America is composed of 50 states and 1 federal district (District of Columbia). The 50 states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Baja California, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, East Montana, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, United Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The District of Columbia contains the American capital: Cincinnati.

Each of the 50 states are governed by a republican form of government, and share power with the federal government. All reserve powers rest with the states; the federal government only possesses limited enumerated powers.

Federal Government

 * President: The President is the head of state and government of the USA, and as such is in charge of the government's executive functions including appointing various leaders of executive agencies and the Secretaries that lead the federal executive departments. The President is elected nation-wide via an Electoral College.
 * Congress: The Congress is the legislature of the USA, and is composed of 2 houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. It is charged with federal law-making for the USA, but does not enjoy any form of parliamentary sovereignty. Legislation must be passed by both houses of Congress and must be signed by the President in order to become law.
 * Senate: The Senate consists of 202 members, 4 from each state and 2 from the District of Columbia. Each Senator is elected for a 6-year term. Elections are staggered every 3 years such that only half of the Senate is vacated at once. Aside from money bills, the Senate holds equal legislative power with the House of Representatives. Moreover, the Senate holds the sole right to impeach judicial officers, and the sole right to try impeachments. Senators are elected to represent their state via single-transferrable-vote.
 * House of Representatives: The House of Representatives currently consist of 525 assembly-members, elected from roughly equally-populated single-member districts nation-wide via an instant-runoff voting system. In addition to holding legislative power, the House of Representatives holds the sole right of impeachment.
 * Supreme Court: The Supreme Court is the highest court of the land and possesses the power of judicial review. It consist of 15 Justices appointed by the President with the confirmation of the Senate to serve until age 75.

Federal Executive Departments and Agencies
The following list of federal executive departments is accurate as of February 2380. The following list of agencies is incomplete.
 * Department of Homeland Affairs:
 * Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
 * Intelligence & Counterterrorism Branch (ICB)
 * National Emergency Response Agency (NERA)
 * United States Border Force (USBF)
 * Department of Foreign Affairs:
 * Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS)
 * United States Diplomatic Corps (USDC)
 * United States Treasury:
 * National Revenue & Customs Office (NRCO)
 * Office of Financial Intelligence (OFI)
 * United States Mint (USM)
 * Department of Defence:
 * United States Armed Forces
 * United States Army
 * United States Navy
 * United States Marine Corps
 * United States Air Force
 * United States Coast Guard
 * Defence Intelligence Directorate (DID): Human Intelligence
 * National Reconnaissance Agency (NRA): Geospatial Intelligence
 * Signals Security & Intelligence Service (SSIS): Signals Intelligence & Counterintelligence
 * Department of Justice:
 * United States Marshals Service (USMS)
 * Department of Health:
 * Department of Labour & Social Services:
 * Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS)
 * Department of Energy, Infrastructure & Transportation:
 * Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
 * Federal Highway Administration (FHA)
 * Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
 * Federal Maritime Administration (FMA)
 * National Transportation Safety Administration (NTSA)
 * Office of Intelligence & Counterintelligence (OIC)
 * Department of Education, Skills & Employment:
 * Department of the Interior:
 * National Park Service (NPS)
 * United States Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS)
 * Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
 * Geological Survey Administration (GSA)
 * Department of Trade & Commerce:
 * Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
 * United States Census Bureau (USCB)
 * Department of Housing & Development:
 * Department of Agriculture & Food:
 * National Forest Service (NFS)
 * Federal Grazing Service (FGS)
 * Non-departmental Agencies & Government-owned Corporations:
 * Federal Election Commission(FEC)
 * United States Postal Service (USPS)
 * United States Secret Service (USSS)
 * National Archive Administration (NAA)
 * National Arts & Culture Foundation (NACF)
 * National Broadcasting Service (NBS)
 * United States Aerospace Administration (USAA)
 * United States Peace Corps (USPC)

Politics
Owing to the bottom-up nature of the formation of the USA from the amalgamation of 3 distinct successor states, America has many political parties. However, over the course of the last 100 years, these parties have evolved and changed to meet the needs of modern America. Through the process of affiliation and integration, these parties have largely amalgamated into 3 main parties at the national level, though there is still a sizable proportion of minor parties at the national level. State politics tends to be dominated by regional parties affiliated with their national parent parties.

Major National Parties

 * Country-Republican Coalition: The centre-right Coalition is composed of a permanent coalition between the Country Party and the Republican Party. The Country Party's primary voter base is in rural Middle America and its small-town communities. It is socially conservative but supports economic interventionism in the agricultural industry and rural affairs. The Republican Party finds its support mostly in cities and medium sized-towns across the country and caters to the socially conservative portion of the middle class. The Coalition is usually more supportive of the free market but can at times have protectionist values due to the influence of the Country Party.
 * New Democratic Party: The centre-left NDP finds most of its support in the major cities of America by catering primarily to the socially liberal portions of the working and middle class. The NDP fluctuates between support for more free-market policies and support for more interventionist policies, but is consistently socially liberal.
 * Liberal Party: The Liberal Party is the strongest and most consistent supporter of the free market and also espouses a socially moderate and anti-authoritarian worldview. The Liberals have worked with both the Coalition and the NDP. It finds its roots in the world of Adam Smith, supporting a free but moral society of responsible individuals. It finds its support primarily within the major cities of America and the individualistic portions of all levels of society.

Minor National Parties

 * Centre Party: A centrist and small-town party, the Centre Party has positioned itself as an alternative to the Country Party for small-town Middle America.
 * Nature Party: The Nature Party is a party espousing environmentalist values, and positions itself as the primary defender of the nation's large National Parks. The party also promotes an anti-capitalist worldview and advocates for de-industrialisation and anti-consumerism. Perhaps paradoxically, most of its support comes from a small minority of the educated upper middle class, mostly in New England.
 * Hunters and Fishers Party: Almost equal in support with the Nature Party, the Hunters and Fishers Party was founded as an alternative environmentalist party to the Nature Party. It promotes responsible and sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of America's natural environment from development and pollution. It promotes responsible capitalism, the right to bear arms, and the love of natural beauty. It finds most of its support within rural America.
 * Reform Party: The Reform Party finds almost all of its minor support within the Southern United States. It advocates for the reform of America's national system of government to be more in line with the system of government used by the former Southern Union.
 * Worker's Party: The Worker's Party finds almost all of its support in the American Mid-West. It espouses a social democratic to socialist worldview.