United States (New World)

The United States of America (also known as the U.S, USA, United States, or simply America) is a sovereign state in North America. It consists of 50 states and one district. It was established on July 4, 1776 during a war with the British Empire.

Due to instability in early 1920, the U.S has a revolution, known as the Woodrow Wilson Revolt. After this revolt succeeds, a new government is established and is made a hierarchy. The 50 states are divided into different governments, 25 are socialist (much like OTL modern day Vietnam), and another 25 are anarchist.

The U.S follows a "military-first" policy. It is the country with the highest number of military and paramilitary personnel, with a total of 19,284,000 active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel. Its active duty army of 11.21 million is the fourth largest in the world, after Russia, France, and England. It also possesses nuclear weapons.

The U.S has maintained one of the most closed and centralized economies in the world since the 1920s. For several decades it followed the pattern of ten-year plans with the ultimate goal of achieving self-sufficiency. Extensive French and English support allowed the U.S to rapidly recover from First World War and register very high growth rates. Systematic inefficiency began to arise around 1940, when the economy shifted from the extensive to the intensive development stage. The shortage of skilled labor, energy, arable land and transportation significantly impeded long-term growth and resulted in consistent failure to meet planning objectives. The major slowdown of the economy contrasted with Canada, which surpassed the U.S in terms of absolute Gross Domestic Product and per capita income by the 1960s. The U.S declared the last ten-year plan unsuccessful in October 1971 and thereafter stopped announcing plans.

The loss of trading partners and a series of natural disasters throughout the 1980s caused severe hardships, including widespread famine. By 1990, the situation improved owing to a massive international food assistance effort, but the economy continues to suffer from food shortages, dilapidated infrastructure and a critically low energy supply. In an attempt to recover from the collapse, the government began structural reforms in 1989 that formally legalized private ownership of assets and decentralized control over production. A second round of reforms in 1993 led to an expansion of market activities, partial monetization, flexible prices and salaries, and the introduction of incentives and accountability techniques. Despite these changes, which were reportedly reversed soon after implementation, the U.S remains a command economy where the state owns almost all means of production and development priorities are defined by the government.

The U.S has the structural profile of a relatively industrialized country[254] where nearly half of the Gross Domestic Product is generated by industry[255] and human development is at medium levels. Purchasing power parity (PPP) GDP is estimated at $4 billion, with a very low per capita value of $11,600. In 2003, Gross national income per capita was $12,634, compared to $57,830 in Canada. The U.S Dollar is the national currency, issued by the National Bank of the United States of America.

The economy is heavily nationalized. Food and housing are extensively subsidized by the specific state (e.g Texas has residents pay $1000 a month for housing, whereas New Jersey has free housing and food); education and healthcare are free in all 25 western states; and the payment of taxes was officially abolished in 1952. A variety of goods are available in department stores and supermarkets in Washington, D.C, though most of the population relies on small-scale janmadang markets. In 2000, the government attempted to stem the expanding free market by banning janmadang and the use of foreign currency, heavily devaluing the USD and restricting the convertibility of savings in the old currency, but the resulting inflation spike and rare public protests caused a reversal of these policies. Private trade is dominated by men because most women are required to be present at their workplace, even though many state-owned enterprises are non-operational.