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'''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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== Expanded States Of America (standard) ==
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== Literature ==
* [[Martin Smith]]'s (before he started calling himself [[Martin Cru Smith]]) [[The Indians Won]] mixes this with [[The Disunited States Of America]]. The no-long continguous US has an independent Indian Nation separating its two sections, but the Philippines and other Pacific islands, and possibly South Korea, are states.
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty -Four|1984]]'': in-universe, Goldstein's Book states that the superstate of Oceania, one of [[Space Filling Empire|only three world powers]], came about in the late 1940s when the United States turned into a tyrannical empire after a nuclear war with [[Soviet Russia]], after which it "absorbs" the British Empire. Of course, this is presumably before the Revolution. Oceania is not a continuation of the United States, and there is no indication that the Americas are more important than Britain, even though the latter's name has been changed to "[[Airstrip One]]". The Party's official ideology is called IngSoc in [[Newspeak]], or ''English Socialism'' in Oldspeak (English). And while there are references to America on a couple occasions (mainly the bit with the photo of Big Brother from New York), Oceania has no actual capital aside from a number of ''regional'' headquarters, and it's mentioned that it is specifically designed in such a way that no one place is considered the 'center' in order to prevent the perception that any given area is under foreign domination. However, the currency in Airstrip One is dollars and cents, and Oceania's anthem, ''Oceania 'Tis for Thee'' is a parody of an American patriotic song, ''My Country, 'Tis of Thee'' (itself the American lyrics to ''God Save The King''). However, due to the state of information in the story, it is possible that Oceania is the entire world, and that the other superpowers are fictional, Oceania is only the former United Kingdom and it is like a quasi-North Korean state, or some other possibility.
 
 
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== Literature ==
* The superstate of '''Oceania''' from ''[[Nineteen Eighty -Four]]'', encompassing the Americas, Britain (a.k.a. "Airstrip One"), Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa below the River Congo. Well, that what the Party ''claims''. The only parts that we ''know'' are under the Party's control is "Airstrip One" (Britain); it's all too possible that the rest is just a propaganda sham, which [[Crapsack World|is par for the course in this setting]].
* ''In the Year 2889'' by [[Jules Verne]] makes reference to "the hundred-starred flag of the Union", and it's later made clear that the United States has includes all of both Americas as well as Great Britain. (In fact, it's implied that there are only five countries in the world: the United States, France, Russia, China, and Australia.)
* In the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' universe, both Puerto Rico and Cuba are US states.
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