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The United States (U.S.) is a republic consisting of fifty or so "states," some of which, at various times, wish they weren't.

The U.S. has pretty much run the world since World War 2, but especially so since the fall of the Soviet Union.

If the U.S. doesn't start making things again, it is considered by experts that China will pwn own their ass very soon.

The U.S. (America) is the only nation in the world to have ever used an atomic weapon in anger, and they did it twice. Thus, many other nations are afraid that they will be pwned by America.

In America, it is only eaten Freedom Fries and drunk Kool-Aid.

The U.S. is separated into two parts: "Jesusland" and "The Secular States Of America".

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Settling

North America was settled - much to the bemusement of the people who lived there already - by foreigners following Columbus's successful voyage to India across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. The continent was named for the mapmaker who pointed out that he was not quite right.

The first permanent English settlement was founded in Jamestown, in 1607. Though the inhabitants spoke English and therefore count more than the Spaniards in Florida, no compelling mythology was attached to this colony, and so the Pilgrims' founding of Plymouth in 1620 is the one that Americans have mythologized, and celebrate annually, as being numero uno premiere first. The Pilgrims, who were Puritans, left Europe in order to be free to persecute people for their religious beliefs.

Maryland was founded as a refuge for Catholics. Its enlightened rulers decided to only persecute those lousy non-Christians.

Pennsylvania was more tolerant than most of the other colonies, perhaps a result of being founded by the Quakers, who maintain the record as the single most despised group of Christians in all the British Isles.

The French and Spanish also founded many colonies in what was to become the United States in the 16th and 17th centuries, most of which were later sold (France) or lost in wars (Spain and her successors) to the U.S., which is why the country today is trilingual.

Founding

A century and a half later, a number of influential wealthy British subjects (including John Adams) decided they were sick of paying taxes to a King they did not love, and foisted a revolution on the farmers and merchants of the thirteen British colonies. They somehow won a guerrilla war against the most powerful nation on earth (a fact the good folks at the Pentagon should bear in mind), and took the unorganized territories Britain had claimed to their west, as well. A few years later the U.S. bought "Louisiana" from Napoleon, who was broke, doubling the size of the country. After beating Mexico in a war over the U.S. annexation of the Republic of Texas (a breakaway territory still claimed by Mexico), the U.S. extended its territory through what had been New Spain to the Pacific. A little trimming here and there, and the acquisition of the Pacific northwest established the continental boundaries that today seem so... Manifest.

Alaska was purchased from Russia when it didn't have oil or gold yet. No one can explain Hawaii, except for this fact; we were @$$holes to them. What are the odds?

Civil War

Given the choice between Christian Love for all People, and making money off of the backs, lives, and freedom of dark-skinned people, a large chunk of the US chose the money. For both moral and economic reasons, the tension between these two factions continued to grow worse, until Reed Richards cloned Thor. Oh, wait--wrong Civil War. When a large portion of the Southern states tried to revolt, they discovered that while they had all the good generals, the North had all the factories and railroads. The war was over a century ago, and there are no hard feelings about it at all.

These days, black people theoretically enjoy all the same liberties as whites, but continue to form a social and economic underclass in many areas due to discrimination. State-mandated efforts to ameliorate this are widely despised by some Conservatives and Libertarians, who call such measures "Reverse Discrimination."

Modernization

Having banned slavery, the United States became a color-blind society, much to the joy of all. About forty years later, women were also granted personhood, and the country also became gender-blind. Also around this time, alcoholic beverages were banned, and unbanned, making the country blind drunk for a few years.

In 1941, Japan dragged the xenophobic, anti-semitic, isolationist United States into the war in Europe, which the U.S. won for the countries that couldn't build good cars. These countries, especially France, never forgave the U.S. for interfering in this domestic spat.

With most of the rest of the industrialized world lying in bombed-out ruins, the U.S. rapidly became an unrivaled economic powerhouse.

Present Day

The United States in short order romanticized most of its history, including claiming to be a European Christian nation that deserves to run the world since it means well. The natives probably would have died and gone to Hell anyway.

The currency of the USA, and by default the world, is the almighty dollar.

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