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''Never? [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] was destroyed, [[Ancient Greece|Greece]] was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you think your own country will last? Forever?''|'''''[[Catch 22|Catch-22]]'''''}}
A common way to create a [[Crapsack World]] setting is to have the United States fall so much that it becomes much like a third world nation, with a collapsed economy, decaying infrastructure, fallen or incredibly corrupt government, and so on. Perhaps a [[Divided States of America|new civil war]] has left the nation battered and weak; only a shell of its former self, or possibly economic collapse due to poor management, lack of an important resource, such as [[Post
In a worst case scenario, it is even possible for the nation to cease to exist as we know it, either being swept into anarchy, broken up into new nation states, the area as a whole being replaced by a new power. If the term "The Former United States" is said, this most likely happened.
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== Live-Action Television ==
* Happened in a few episodes of ''[[Sliders]]'', the pilot in particular showed that this happened after the US lost the Cold War.
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* The [[Bad Future]] seen in the "Epilogue" episodes of ''[[Dollhouse]]'' shows a United States that, like much of the world, has fallen into chaos due to {{spoiler|Rossum -- or someone else -- weaponizing the [[Mind Wipe]] technology from the Dollhouses.}}
* ''[[Dark Angel]]'': After the denotation of an EMP device by terrorist groups in 2009, the United States is barely more than a third world nation.
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