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If there's still an "official" U.S. government, but its control over the country is massively weakened, this can overlap with [[Vestigial Empire]] and is usually [[Fallen States of America]]. See also [[Invaded States of America]]. The polar opposite of this is [[Expanded States of America]], in which America instead grows ''larger''. A subtrope of [[Balkanize Me]]. This can be combined with some form of [[Punk Punk]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* The ''[[Fallout]]'' games have the US split into thirteen commonwealths before the Great (nuclear) War. The United States also annexes Canada shortly before the [[World War III|Third World War]]. Roughly a century after the nukes fly, the US is broken into independent city-states -- such as Shi Town, Necropolis, and New Reno (formerly San Francisco, Bakersfield, and... [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|well, Reno]]) -- and small nations such as the New California Republic, with the wilderness in between dominated by raider clans and native-styled tribes. Other major players include the Brotherhood of Steel, descendants of an army unit that rejected their illegal orders and holed up during the war, and the Enclave, the fascist remnants of the federal government, which still regards itself as a legitimate authority despite being in hiding almost the entire time.

* ''[[Fallout]] 3'' also introduces the Commonwealth (Massachusetts) which makes [[Ridiculously Human Robots]], The Pitt (Pittsburgh) which is the local industrial powerhouse and Ronto (Rumoured to be Toronto) which seems to be significant military power.

* Most [[Paradox Interactive]] games include ahistorical "revolter nations" in case you badly mismanage your empire or get conquered. In ''[[Europa Universalis (Video Game)|Europa Universalis]]'' these include Quebec and Louisiana, and [[Hearts of Iron]] includes California, Texas and a reinstated Confederacy. Their ideology is technically dependent on what ideology an eventual occupier who wishes to partition the USA has, but the Confederacy ministers are all fascist, the Texas ministers are all paternal autocrat, and the California ministers are all social democrat. Other nations can be similarly divided (like Russia, China and large sections of the British Empire)

* [[Victoria an Empire Under The Sun]] not only includes the Confederacy but also the nations of Texas and California, as well as nations for the Cherokee, the Sioux, Mormon Deseret, a possible New England secession and the Manhattan Commune (of course, given the period covered, several of these nations are historical). Canada gets in on it to, as it has both a Quebec and a Metis Confederation.

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