United States

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The United States of America is a major global superpower on the planet Earth, occupying roughly 1/3 of the northern half of the American Super-continent. It is governed by a Federal Republic, and consists of fifty provincial states which are subservient to the central government, but are afforded considerable day-to-day autonomy.

It possesses the largest and most powerful economy on the planet, and has an extremely well developed military, which emphasizes advanced technology and skill in battle. The country is the third most populous, with around 315 million inhabitants, and is the fifth largest in terms of overall territory. It is also the most ethnically diverse country in existence, with an extremely heterogeneous population derived from almost every ethnicity of Human.

States which have been featured in the core Lifsonverse stories are:

1. Earth-27

In the Lifsonverse, the United States exists on Earth-27, and plays host to a very large number of superheroes and supervillains. While actual ratios are unknown, the vast majority of super-powered characters in the many stories which make up the universe are of American nationality. This may, however, be due to the stories being predominantly set in fictional American cities, such as Delta Bay, Riverdan and New Athens.

The nation is a central member of HALO, and supplies them with many facilities to store, train and deploy their numerous Agents and Operatives across the globe. It was also the first nation to have ever experienced a confirmed alien invasion, which occurred when a Doud spacecraft attacked Riverdan, Ohio in an effort to recover some cargo it had lost within the city limits.

During the Uplifting, the nation, like all the others on the planet, fell largely under the sway of the Uplifted, but was also the epicenter of much of the initial resistance to the takeover. As the invasion wore on, much of the non-Uplifted population was evacuated to the Bermuda Triangle, and the Uplifted moved all functional nuclear weapons in the world to the Midwest to better secure them. This became a serious problem following the defeat of the Uplifted by the Super Society and the Guardians, as it left an extreme global power imbalance which Blue Shift Prime rapidly moved to exploit, leaving the US as the sole nuclear power on the planet.

Currently, the government has undergone a hostile takeover by Blue Shift Prime, which the Landshark Legion are attempting to defeat in order to restore the Federal Republic and it's elected officials to power.