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** Why wouldn't California still have a flag? The Federation is just that: a ''federation'' that various planets' governments sign on with, not an empire that supplants them. National and state governments can still exist on Earth, they just quit fighting each other and have entrusted planetary diplomacy and defense to a broader authority. As for global warming, in Picard's day they'll be ''raising continents from the sea'', so it's possible the sea levels rose as predicted, but people in Kirk's era have since lowered them back to their historical levels.
*** Or the extra seawater all flowed into that gigantic trench in Florida that the Xindi probe's attack had created, bringing global sea levels back to normal...
**** If they needed a trench that badly, there wouldn't have been a Florida. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103223832/http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/florida.shtml this map] for what sea level rise will do to the Sunshine State.
**** Obviously the trench was formed first, ''then'' the flooding from global warming happened. Perhaps environmentalists ''let'' it happen to make up for falling sea levels.
**** Alan Dean Foster's novelization makes reference to government officials from Washington, Beijing and Moscow junketing to Iowa to inspect the ''Enterprise'' under construction. That's an indication, though not a conclusive one, that the United States, Russia and China all still exist as national entities in the new Trek universe.
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