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The trope has four distinct [[Internal Subtrope|flavors]]:
* The '''standard [['''Expanded States of America]]'''''' has the USA be more ''aggressive'', and use its military might (or subtle politics/diplomacy, whichever works) to annex at least parts of one or more neighbour countries on the North American continent - meaning Canada, Mexico, Central America, and/or a Caribbean island nation <ref>The last two often included in "North America".</ref> - as additional states, if not take over said countries outright; more extreme examples of this kind have the US evolve into what is essentially [[United States of North America]] ([[wikipedia:Americas (terminology)|depending on one's definition of "North America"]]).
* The more "subdued" brother, '''[[Fifty Plus States USA]]''', has one or more of the handful of [[Real Life]] non-state subdivisions of the USA (e.g. Puerto Rico) be turned into a full-fledged state.
 
The other two [[Internal Subtrope|flavors]] are common results of dialing standard-flavor [['''Expanded States of America]]''' [[Up to Eleven]], and can be seen as realizations of [[wikipedia:Manifest Destiny|Manifest Destiny]]:
* '''[[United Americas]]''', where the USA has united North America and South America (or at least all of the major states and most of the smaller ones) under its banner. The resulting superstate may or may not suffer from recurrent rebellions due to social and economic inequality being imposed by "the rich North/'Anglos'" on "the poor South/'Latinos'".
* '''[[Transcontinental American Empire]]''', where the USA annexes countries '''beyond''' the American geographic region. An [[Irony]] factor can be added by having the British Isles as one subject of annexation, in a sort of role-reversal of the War of American Independence. '''[[America Takes Over the World]]''' is the [[Logical Extreme]] of this and has its very own trope page.
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Usually, but not always, the resultant superstate would go under a name that is a variation on "United States of America".
 
See also [[Space-Filling Empire]]. Compare with [[United Europe]] and [[Middle-Eastern Coalition]]. Contrast with [[Divided States of America]] and [[Invaded States of America]], and sometimes with [[Fallen States of America]] -- although—although in the latter case, the US can join Canada or Mexico because it needs to out of weakness (e.g. it became a [[Vestigial Empire]]), and thus the two tropes can actually overlap.
 
'''Notes:''' This trope does ''not'' cover alternate versions of the British Empire that do ''not'' lose the American colonies in a War of American Revolution, and which eventually expand to the rest of the American continent(s). '''That means cases like the Holy Britannian Empire of ''[[Code Geass]]'' do ''not'' count as examples.'''
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** The Global United States later colonizes the entire Solar System, thus taking this trope to interplanetary levels and arguably evolving into a [[United Space of America]].
 
== [[Film|Films]]s -- Live-Action ==
* In ''[[Escape From L.A.]]'', Bangkok, Thailand (where Snake has been at some point between 1997 and 2013) is mentioned as being United States territory.
* In ''Americathon'', Great Britain is mentioned as yet another of the (bankrupt) U.S. states.
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