The United States of America

The United States of America
The United States of America is a major country within the world of Pugna Terrea, it is a presidential federal republic and is composed of 52 states. The USA has an huge sphere of influence within Western Europe and some countries in the continent of Asia, major examples are the countries of France, England and Japan. The USA were one of the first countries to be attacked following the alien invasion, most notably the Ruination of NYC (2052) and the Ravaging of the Salt Lake (2052). The death toll in this nation was extremely high and by the end of the world half of its population was dead due the alien invasion. The USA is also one of the most technologically advanced human civilisation and it developed numerous effective weapons against the alien invasion before uniting with the other remaining nations in the world in the Federal Republic of Earth in the year 2053.

Early History
After the American Revolution the USA gained its independence in the year 1776. While initially the nation was not very strong over the years it gained territory and regional aswell as continental power due the Louisiana purchase in 1803 and the Monroe Doctrine which swore to protect other American nations from European Imperialism. The USA later on attacked the Empire of Mexico inthe year 1846 and capturing its western coastal territory in a span of two years. In 1861 the American Civil War started and divided the nation in half, this civil war started for various political differences and opinions within the North and the South of the nation, most importantly the legal status of slavery that the North wanted to abolish, suceeding in the year 1865.

The Golden Era
After the civil war the USA bought the territory of Alaska from the Russian Empire in the year 1867 and established a dominion within the Pacific Ocean after annexing the islands of Hawaii in the year 1898, taking control of its sugar trade aswell. In the year 1898 the Spanish-American war occurred ending the Spanish colonial dominion in the Americas and Asia once and for all, this followed the American annexation of various pacific islands and most importantly the annexation of the Philippines. In the 1900s the USA had achieved a modern technological advance and a global influence which only increased after their intervention in WW1 in 1917 leading to the creation of the League of Nations led by the USA which was one of the first global organisation in human history. The American intervention in WW2 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 was essential for American popularity worldwide as after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan the nation saw immense political support by Western Europe and other Asian countries. However as the Cold War started in 1947 the USA was heavily opposed by the only other superpower on planet Earth, the USSR, this rivalry created NATO and almost caused a WW3 with the USSR threatening to nuke the USA from Socialist Cuba after the USA aimed nukes at Moscow from the country of Turkey. The Cold War ended without a major war occuring and the USSR collapsing in 1991, this led to two decades of USA being the only superpower in the world and controling most of world's politics worldwide.

The Downfall
In the year 2001 the USA was a victim of a terrorist attack that was directed by an organisation known as Al-Qaeda which destroyed the Twin Towers, this was the very first terroristical attack on American soil and resulted in the Afghanistan War (2001-2021) beetwen a Pro-USA goverment and the Talibans. Later on the USA declared war on Iraq with the excuse of the country having "mass destruction weapons", but the true reason for the war was influence over the Middle East and to control the Oil in region which was soon discovered by the people around the world including the USA. The war in Iraq created an image of an imperialistic USA which would be stuck in popular culture for the following decades. The USA started to lose influence and support within Western Europe and Asia and started to be contested by the People's Republic of China which became the new rival of the USA and officially the only other superpower on Earth by the end of the 2010s. China wasn't the only one contesting American influence and power, in fact in Eastern Europe the Russian Federation started gaining influence and power once again under the leadership of Vladimir Putin. A very contested area of influence was in Ukraine which the USA tried to convince into its own sphere but was unable to due the Ukranian political split following 2014, however the Ukranians were attacked by the Russians in the year 2022 in the Russo-Ukranian War (2022-2023) which ended in a phyrric Russian Victory. While the Russo-Ukranian war and the annexation of Belarus that followed in 2026 scared Europe and made it closer to the USA this did not last long as the Europeans started to create their own sphere of influence and creating their own military organisation, the ECDO in 2027 making NATO only a secondary alliance. Meanwhile on the Asian front the Chinese attacked the island of Taiwan (2023-2025) which ended in a phyrric Chinese victory and thus China controlling the microchip and the pacific trade. After losing the pacific and Eastern Europe the USA became more isolationist following a second Trump mandate due the Biden's administration failure to mantein the American sphere of influence. The USA was also heavily divided in the period beetwen 2016 and 2037 due the feeling of conservativism and liberalism within the country contrasting each others with numerous hate crimes aimed at organisations such as the LGBTQ+ and cancel culture against "politically incorrect" content on both medias and real life both creating more political tension within the nation itself and dividing it politically. This continued for a long while and following the 2022 ban on abortion and ban on same-sex marriage the American conservativism kept being an obstacle for national political unity. The USA also had to free territories such as Guam and American Samoa, however it managed to keep Puerto Rico that gained statehood in 2042 due the immense progress in the modernisation of the country troughout the previous decades. Another state was proclaimed in 2043, that being Washington D.C finally working as an individual statal entity. With the growing tension in the 2040s the USA finally ended its period of isolationism and came back into world's politics. China's invasion of India was not tollerated and the members of NATO and QUAD declared war on China in the year 2047, this conflict lasted until the year 2051 in which QUAD and NATO were victorious against China and its allies.

Pugna Terrae
The Americans' west coast was partly destroyed by the Chinese missiles after WW3 and on their way to be reconstructed, the USA was however on high allert fearing a Russian attack in Georgia due some news of Russian mobilisation onto the Georgian border. All of this tension was brutally stopped by the alien invasion in 2052 which was initially confused as a Russian attack but then soon confirmed to be an alien invasion after the Russians, the Europeans, the Africans and the Chinese clarified they all were being attacked by an unknown military force. Before the USA could even prepare for such an invasion the city of New York and the city of Salt Lake were immediately destroyed and turned into ashes with the Aliens taking big chunks of land out of the USA territory. The aliens then aimed at the main reachable USA nuclear arsenal and partly destroyed it and then aimed at cities with high urban population and water resources. The attacks were initially unpredictable but soon enough general William Stephen Brown noticed that the aliens attack were aimed at strategic areas with a ton of resources. The USA was pratically falling apart and could barely resist alone, refusing to collaborate with China and Russia as a single entity, this was soon changed by William Stephen Brown's speech which changed the council's stance and allowed the Union to join the remaining superpowers against the Aliens, with European, Africans, Asians and other American countries following soon after (2053).