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1901, September 6.

President McKinley and Vice President Roosevelt are attacked shot and killed by Socialist revolutionary and political activist Leo Czolgozs. They were touring the Country, stumping for McKinley’s platform and proposed reforms.

In the months that follow, the U.S. Descends into virtual anarchy as red revolutionary groups strike at every state and city capitol in the nation. It is effectively a second American Civil war, won that the undermanned, and under prepared U.S. Armed forces cannot wage or win.

Former labor activist and current rebel leader Marcus Wabash marches his army of rebels on Washington and seizes power. His army consists of criminals and vagrants collected by him and given a quasi legitimacy by their use of Civil war Era Uniforms dyed Brown with crude patches on their sleeves and collars.

Many other leftist and communist rebel groups launch attacks against U.S. Military bases and camps killing anyone in a uniform and seizing military assets such as ships horses, vehicles and arms stores. Wabash takes action to unite them all under his banner.

1901, October 31st

The U.S. Naval academy is handed over en masse by the Admiral in charge on the promise that the students will be spared, the same bargain is made at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point New York.


When the North American People’s Liberation Army (NAPLA) takes custody of both academies, every student and instructor is killed outright execution style.

Congress is now populated by Red rebels from all forty six states and the territories. They swear allegiance to President Wabash and Wabash declares his army of criminals and barbarians to be the official United States People’s Liberation Army Navy and “Naval Infantry”.

The U.S.P.L.A. marches on every major city and attacks and seizes every major factory and site of American Industry, the owners and boards of directors of all major companies are arrested and killed for “Crimes against the Proletariat of North America.

The British Empire reacts with horror and withdraws their Embassy from Washington. All other European Nations do the same. The Americans seem to have gone crazy, and Europe wants no part in it.

The British Army turns the U.S. Canadian Border into an Armed barbed wire curtain even as floods of refugees hit the border.

President Wabash declares his “War on the Bosses” A systematic targeting and rounding up and execution of anyone in America who bought or sold stock on the New York Stock exchange. Hundreds of thousands of people are rounded up and either killed or interred in camps for “Re Education by the People.”

Tzar Nicolas the Second sees the Goings on in America and institutes across the board reforms in the Russian Empire. Nicolas confers almost ALL of his imperial Authority onto the Russian Parliament and leaves the Throne of the Tsars as almost a figurehead post He even creates the post of “Prime Minister” and declares that Prime Minister Alexi Kerensky will be the Chief executive of the Russian Empire. The Prime Minister will be elected every ten years.

Tsar Nicolas divides Parliament into the “Noble house” and the “people’s house” He also mandates the “Imperial Court.”

Even as The United States forgets it’s liberties, Russia seems bent on adopting them.

Back in the U.S.S.A. due to the revolution and the widespread corralling and imprisonment of millions, the U.S.S.A. suffers it’s first widespread famine. The food is there, but it either cannot be delivered or is being deliberately kept from the people who need it.

The Famine is blamed on “Hooligans” and “Counter Revolutionary forces.”

1910. The U.S.S.A. is mired in Starvation, poverty, crime and corruption at the highest levels. Marcus Wabash and his confederates do not have the slightest idea how to run a big country and at this point that has become literally PAINFULLY obvious.

The People’s Minister for Children and families, Abigail Jones gathers a cabal around her consisting of Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Carrie Nation and moves against Wabash in New York and Washington. Their coup catches him and his gang by surprise and is complete. Abigail Jones is now the President of the U.S.S.A.

Abigail Jones will remain in this office until her death in 1940 at witch time her appointed successor, Elenore Roosevelt, will taker Office, The Office of the President is now a lifetime appointed position.

She throws open the gates to all of the Re Education camps and declares them to be closed, she then opens the closed factories and declares them to be the People’s Property, American Industry will now be nationalized and will be under the Department of Production. Farms are now run by the Department of Nutrition.

Food and goods and medicine begin to be produced and moved to where it is needed. The famine ends.

By 1911, the disaster seems to be over, and the Promise of Socialism SEEMS to be fulfilling itself.

1911, The Purge of the Army.

The United States People’s Liberation Army, U.S. People’s Navy, and U.S. People’s Naval Infantry are purged and slashed as President Jones repudiates violence and declares that

“We have no business mucking about with guns and bombs and killing when little American babies are hungry.”

The three armed forces still exist in technical terms and on paper and there are still some officers and men in the ranks, but for practical purposes, the U.S.S.A. no longer has an official standing Military.

1912, July, Mexican Revolutionary Pancho Villa raised across the Texas new Mexico and Arizona border for food goods and money, he also makes a habit of raping and killing American Women and men and children forcing American Teenaged boys to join his ranks or be shot.

President Jones sends an envoy to meet with him and ask him to stop.

The Envoy Ambassador Clara Barton is raped to death by Villa’s men and the body sent back across the border. Villa declares that he does not swear deals with “Senioritas”.

President Jones asks the People’s Congress to declare war, but she has filled that body with her friends and associates from the various states and they resist. It takes the invasion and occupation of Texas and New Mexico by the Victorious Pancho Villa and Emilliano Zapata to convince them other wise. Even so another three months passes before the U.S.P.L.A. is large enough and equipped enough to march against villa.

The United Socialist States of America have no general staff, they have no real officer corps, they have no blooded or trained troops after the great purge.

The U.S.S.A. is losing the war against Mexico

1913, January. The People’s Congress approves military conscription for all branches of service. The extent to witch the U.S.S.A. is losing causes them to expand that to include women as well. By weight of sheer numbers, the tide begins to turn and Villa is pushed out of the U.S.S. Territory. The P.L.A. then takes the offensive and marches into Mexico President Jones has decided to liberate the oppressed people’s of Mexico from “The brutal Masculine Tyranny and oppression of Pancho Villa.”

During the war, all of the old books and files and writings and notes of the Generals and Officers of the old Republic are dusted off, brought out, and put into practice. West Point Re Opens, Annapolis re Opens many of the closed and boarded up State Military Academies are re opened restaffed and brought back to prominence. The President and Congress declare that,

“In order to defend the People’s Republic from brutality, regretfully, we must become skilled in dealing it out, lest our weakness tempt a greedy and counter revolutionary enemy.”

The American Socialist People’s Congress spends millions creating a state of the art Army, Navy and Naval Infantry force.

1914 June.

Pancho Villa Surrenders to General Annabel Andrews of the American People’s Liberation Army in Mexico City, she then summarily executes Villa and Zapata and their entire cabal for the “Crimes against the American Proletariat.”

The U.S.S.A. grants independence to Cuba, the Philippines and the Hawaiian islands and forsakes all of their territories not within the North American Continent. The People’s Congress then begins “Redeeming” Mexico.

During the war, the U.S.P.L.A. and P.N took on a unique character.

Many if not most of the officers of these forces are now female. Many of the female General Staff are working on technological reforms to warfare that will remove the emphasis on “Brute Strength and Muscles”

The War Department begins work on theories of Mechanized Warfare. Trucks, military style cars and better more efficient and lighter semi automatic and Machine guns as well as small and light infantry weapons that can be carried my people with only moderate upper body strength but still pack a punch.

The U.S.S.A. is swiftly becoming a Matriarchy.

In 1898 Sergio Grimaldi of Italy developed the heavier than air airplane, in 1914 General Roberta Collins of the People’s War Department apes his invention for military purposes and proposes an Air Corps of weaponized air planes be added to the Army.

August, 1914, Serbian Rebel and guerilla leader Gavrillo Princip shoots and kills the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. This causes a chain reaction that leads to the beginning of the European war, The European war soon becomes the Great War.

The U.S.S.A. declares their intent to stay neutral and not be a party to “Yet more European blood letting and warmongering.”

Oddly enough the American variety of Socialism differs markedly from that proposed by Eastern European Revolutionaries, Vladimir Ulanov and Josef Dhughashvili. These two men continue to agitate for a Communist revolution in the Russian Empire. Citing the American Socialist experiment as their inspiration.

The Russian people are not having it, however as the Tsar’s republican and Parliamentary reforms have led to a considerable improvement in the quality of life in that Nation.

By 1915 the Great War has spread to include Germany, Belgium, France the Netherlands, Great Britain, Poland, Italy, and now, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia the Commonwealth of the Russias. The matchup is as follows, the allies are,

Great Britain, France Spain, Belgium the Netherlands and the Commonwealth of the Russias.

They are pitted against the aggressor nations of the central powers.

Germany, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania

The Union of Socialist States of America, decline to participate in the Great war, instead, President Jones declares her intent to Liberate the oppressed peoples of central America. Nevertheless, she does watch the progress of the Great War intently.

She is not disappointed when she sees a host of new military innovations, deep distance artillery, armored land cruisers, Biplane machine gun armed fighter aircraft and finally gas warfare.

President Jones and the People’s War Department have spies on both sides of the conflict in Europe, learning all they can about the technologies being used to fight and win the war for the allies.

By the end of the European war, in 1920, the U.S.S.A. has a state of the art Military across the board WITHOUT having had to pay the cost in lives to get it.

In America, President Jones is practicing walking a middle line between control of the Nation on an over riding basis and total free market capitalism. The Socialist federal Authorities still have far more over riding control than they ever had before the revolution in 1901, but She and the people’s Congress are now allowing a limited amount of private market business, subject to the over sight of the Socialist federal directives.

Abigail Jones, Susan B, Anthony, and the other members of her lifetime cabinet realize that in order to stave off “Reactionary masculine counter revolutionaries” they must have a long-term workable sustainable economy and they must be able to minister aid to the ENTIRE U.S.S.A.

So, She allows the re instatement and re opening of the New York Stock exchange under strict federal Socialist oversight. She creates the following agencies to monitor the new move toward a limited free market.

The People’s Exchange Commission (PEC)

The People’s Labor Union Commission (PLUC)

The Socialist Commission Regulating American Commercial Handling (SCRACH)

And Finally the Housing, Education and Nutrition Policy Enforcement Commission (HENPEC.)

1920, The People’s War Department creates the People’s Army Air Corps and gather all of the Nation’s still living experts on manned powered aviation to develop state of the art aircraft as fighters and bombers. The rest of the People’s War Department begins crafting the Army, Navy and Naval Infantry into a heavily armed state of the art well prepared and well trained war fighting force. When some of her cabinet voice concern President Jones tells them that the Children and mothers of the world are the prisoners of Imperialistic patriarchal tyranny and that the U.S.A. CANNOT ignore their plight any longer. When asked how the U.S.S.A. can in good conscience start a war, the President tells them.

“We won’t have to. In not more than two decades one of these aggressive militaristic Empire craving Patriarchies will attack US. We will defend ourselves and that will give us the license we need to expand. In the meantime we shall continue to remake our nation into the People’s paradise that is the only hope for the Proletariat of the world.”

Over the next ten years, the “Jones” doctrine takes effect. All private weapons are confiscated, all radio, television and newspapers and magazines and books are now subject to censorship by the People’s Entertainment Regulation Media Service (PERMS)

Any and all media deemed “Sexual or pornographic” is banned as is any media deemed “Needlessly glorifying violence”

Books must be either instructive or technical or to in other ways to “Serve a constructive purpose for the People.

Religion is deemed to be a “Tool of Patriarchal dominance and a counter revolutionary fiction.” And is also banned, All Priest and reverends and holy men are ejected from the Nation and if they will not leave they are shot.

All Bibles and other orthodox religious texts are burned in round the clock incinerators.

The PERMS prints new state approved Bibles that have been sanitized of all male or masculine dominant traces. In the new Bible Eve was Created First, by a Female Deity. The Daughter of Goddess is called Judith Christ.

Susan B. Anthony, the Director of PERMS declares, “Religion, properly and humanly directed CAN be a force for good, as long as it’s watchwords are Love, Family, and goodness.”

Over the course of the next ten years, the Nation becomes an iron tyranny in witch adults are treated as if they are children and EVERYONE man, woman and child is told by the Federal Government what is best for them weather they like it or not. Everything is regulated and ordered by the People’s federal Government. The Military, the Stock Exchange, the Entertainment industry, the Farming and production industry, everything.

And, to compensate for any labor shortfalls in this program, slave labor under the guard of the National People’s Constables, is Employed.

The People Investigative Service becomes the Nation’s Secret Police.

From 1920 to 1930 the United Socialist States of America is literally pistol whipped forward to keep pace with the rest of the world’s technology.

Millions of women are force educated, indoctrinated, and placed in professional positions in all industries. The Jones Administration is determined to give all of the reins of power to women and sympathetic men.

The Military Officers in all branches are now women. Most of the People’s Senators and Congresspersons are now female and are the beneficiaries of rampant cronyism.

Russia is not doing much better, though it is a Free Market Republic, the Russian Mafia seems to own the Nation in all but name and Tsar Nicolas presides over a Sham parliament even as the Russian Crime bosses run the country as THEY see fit. The British Empire is the only world class Nation that seems untouched by the madness and is in the midst of a peacetime boom. Germany is suffering and starving and growing ever poorer and more humiliated under the Versailles accords. By 1930 they are RIPE for revolution and rife with left and right wing demagogues.

Back in America, President Jones elects to solve TWO problems with one solution.

The Nation needs a nationwide overland means of moving troops, goods and people around the country as quickly and expeditiously as possible, and the Nation needs a way to do more with it’s prisoners than just leaving them to sit in cells.

To solve both problems, President Jones orders the construction by slave labor of the National Super Highway system. She is told by the Engineers in charge of the project that it can be done, but a third of the workforce will be killed by the effort, at minimum.
President Jones’ response is,

“Well, it isn’t as if we’ll miss them, now is it?”

Over the next five years, the national network of four lane superhighways, overpasses, land cuts and bridge spans is built.

15 million men die doing the work, many by literally being worked to death. Road as well as rail transport arteries now connect all fifty-seven States of the Union. Historians will note that the road was paved with asphalt and blood.

The Prisons and work camps are not empty for long Jones and Anthony arrest and imprison everyone who spoke out against the road project and it’s construction by holocaust. Newspaper publishers, Radio commentators, entertainment personalities, even serving senators and Congresswomen go into the camps when they castigate Jones for the Roadway holocaust.

From 1935 to 1940 Abigail Jones’ health grows worse and worse. Stress, alcoholism and lung cancer render her nearly bedridden, Vice President Elenore Roosevelt is the de facto leader of the Nation from 1938 to 1940.

In May of 1940 President Abigail Jones dies of complications from lung cancer and pneumonia.

The Nation is officially in mourning for one month.

From 1930 to 1940, the Japanese Empire has been spreading west almost unchecked, their only real adversary has been the British Empire, but they have a great deal to worry about guarding their empire from Japanese aggression and they are doing their best. Despite that, The Japanese now own half of the Pacific Ocean and the Republic of Hawaii is pleading for American help and swearing allegiance to the Socialist cause.

Just as President Jones knew, they would once they were left by themselves and then threatened. The U.S. People’s Navy has more than enough state of the art Carriers and battleships to face the Imperial threat, but Roosevelt deliberately holds back Specifically to allow the Japanese to land on the Hawaiian islands.

She wants Newsreel footage of,

“The brave women and men of the Socialist People’s vanguard rescuing the Proletariat of the Islands from Patriarchal Imperialism.”

1941, August

The third and fifth Silver banner Pacific fleets put to sea on verified intelligence and steam west for the Hawaiian Islands. When they are in retaliatory range of the islands, they lay offshore and make ready to “Liberate” the islands AFTER the Japanese invasion.

1941, September first.

Admiral Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy leads a massed fleet consisting of three carrier battle groups, The Akagi, the Kikagu, and the Soiryu, to attack and invade the republic of Hawaii.

His carrier Air wings decimate the Republic’s air forces and shore forces, sinking what was laughably referred to as the Hawaiian Navy. He then orders his Naval Infantry forces to take the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Kauai. Honolulu holds out and tries it’s best to fight off the Jap. It is a losing battle and they know it. President Komo again pleads with President Roosevelt to send help to come to their aid in the name of humanity.

Elenore Roosevelt’s price for Socialist aid is the following.

Unconditional acceptance of the Socialist people’s Doctrine.

Removal and dismissal and in some cases prosecution of all male figures of state.

Total disbanding of the Hawaiian military.

Hawaiian obedience in perpetuity to the will and doctrine of the United Socialist States of America.

While the R.O.H. Senate is debating this, the Imperial Japanese Army makes landfall on Honolulu and begins looting their way inland.

The Hawaiian senate accepts Roosevelt’s ultimatum in Toto.

The Third and fifth Silver Banner Fleets attack and destroy the three Japanese Carrier groups. Then they “Liberate” the Hawaiian Islands. When this has been done, the Socialist hammer falls.

All non-approved books are gathered up and burned, all movies and valuta are catalogued and seized, and all persons of a middle class or wealthy standing are either placed on watch lists or arrested outright.

All men not involved in needed production are inducted into the People’s North American Liberation Army, Navy, and Naval Infantry.

Elsewhere in the world the Eurasian war as it is now called is getting worse.

Germany in 1933 went from rule by the Weimar Republic to rule by the National Socialist German Worker’s Party. From 1933 to 1936 Nazi Germany was ruled by Adolph Hitler, a failed painter and former German Imperial Soldier. In 1936, however General Feyder Von Bach led the German General Staff in a coup against the Nazi ringleaders. When Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Goering, Heydrich, and the rest were either killed or imprisoned, Von Bach and the newly elected Fuehrer, Erwin Rommel, led a series of reforms that ended many of the persecutions of the old regime and eliminated many of the defects that could have led to Nazi Germany’s downfall.

Russia, at this same time slid from Kerensky style capitalist democracy into Russian mafia sponsored corruption and greed. By 1939 Russia was ripe for the plucking and Nazi Germany was all set to take the prize. Rommel knew that the Poles would fight like a cornered rat if attacked outright, but he needed to cross through them to get to Russia.

The answer was simple and led to an epiphany that would be the linchpin of the new Third Reich.

Reich’s fuehrer of State Oskar Schindler went to Warsaw and opened negotiations for the entrance of Poland into the proposed “Pan European Union”. They were promised complete sovereignty and autonomy within their own borders as long as they contribute forces and influence to the “Pan European Union”.

Grand Duke Casimir the fourth agrees and Poland is lent as a staging area for the deployment of the Whermacht and Waffen SS to invade Russia.

The Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain are kicking themselves for giving Germany the Sudetenland and this leads to the political downfall of Neville Chamberlain and the Labour Party.

Almost six other countries fall to Nazi Germany, not to bombs or bullets but to the sweet sounds and promises of Rommel’s and Schindler’s diplomacy.

Denmark

Italy

The Netherlands

Scandinavia

Poland

Spain joins on the promise that Rommel will help the Nationalists fight the Basque separatists in the Spanish Civil war.

The Spanish Civil war actually serves as a dress rehearsal and readiness battle for the Whermacht. One British General refers to it as the Whermacht’s “Tune up match”.

Britain knows that Nazi Germany is going to invade Russia, but lacking an Alliance with Russia, there is precious little they can do about it. Britain is more immediately concerned with the U.S.S.A. and the Japanese Empire.

Concerning a possible war between the British Empire and the Third Reich, President Roosevelt’s attitude is as follows,

“If two patriarchal Imperialists are preparing to fight each other, you do NOT run to the aid of one or the other, you wait until both have beaten each other to death and then pick up the pieces.”

The U.S.S.A. is punctiliously cordial to Britain reiterating their lack of interest in a war in Europe and swearing that,

“There is no reason on the Good Earth for the Proletariats of our two nations to make war, one against the other.”

Newly elected Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not just fall off the pickle truck yesterday, he KNOWS in his guts that the British Empire WILL tangle with the U.S.S.A. in the future, if not today, then someday.

The largely female ruling class and military officer corps are now reaping the benefits of their imperium.

They can have what they want and within a few limits, they can do as they please.

Many women actually RAPE certain targeted men of slim or short stature, purely to exercise their newfound power over them. It is a simple matter of using their own pheromones to induce arousal and erection of the penis, and then taking the men by force, riding them to orgasm and denying the man. Among the young female criminal class this practice becomes known as “Getting a Boi”.

Men’s jobs in the workplaces of the U.S.S.A are now confined to brute labor, Service sector positions or foodservice and housekeeping. Some men can get work as “Administrative support” if they are physically attractive enough. The only other job they seem fit for by the judgment of the ruling class is that of cannon fodder in the armed forces of the U.S.S.A.

Men are no longer the breadwinners and will never again be allowed to come anywhere close to the reins of power. The entire gender is being blamed for the misdeeds of a few of their number.

1942, June,

Around the world the U.S. People’s Army, Navy and Naval Infantry are pushing their way across the pacific and doing so at a terrible cost in blood. The War Department of the U.S.S.A. is using the war to deliberately thin out the “undesirable” population of the nation. Dissenters would be rebels and political dissidents are being used as literal shrapnel soaks against the Japanese Empire.

Japan is losing the war because they simply cannot match the level of lives that the U.S.S.A. is willing to spend to win the war.

In Europe, National Socialist Germany is winning the war against gangland Russia. They are STILL steadfastly refusing any belligerency with Western Europe or Great Britain.

This frankly disturbs Prime Minister Churchill greatly. He can sense that Rommel and Von Bach and the other leaders of the reformed third Reich are simply biding their time. Waging one war to completion, then planning for another war.

The manner in witch the Nazis are fighting is strategic and planned.

That is what worries him.

In the South Pacific the U.S.S.A. People’s navy is hop scotching it’s way OVER and AROUND Japanese strongholds for the purpose of cutting the enemy supply lines and destroying their sea tonnage rather than attempting to attack their fortified strongholds.

Any and every Japanese P.O.W. taken is shipped back east to the U.S.S.A. as slave labor.

This is in response to the Japanese treatment of American P.O.W.’s taken and is an outgrowth of the overall contempt for all male dominated nations held by the U.S.S.A.
The course of the war is predictable and is rather disheartening for the British Empire and for the Western European nations.

The Russian Federation is losing the war and losing badly. The German Whermacht moves in blocks and traps and pincer movements and excels at luring the Russian army into cul de sacs and traps and then killing them in dribs and drabs, nickel and diming them to death. If this goes unchecked, the Federation will have to surrender in less than two years.

The U.S.S.A. will have conquered most of the pacific in the same amount of time and then both powers will move on to other territories.

The worry concerning Nazi Germany is not that they will move to conquer more after Russia, but that they will stop, declare peace and take time to “Germanize” the conquered lands.

The Americans are showing signs that THEY will do the same in the Pacific war.

Britain as yet does not have a legitimate cause to go to war against either power.

Winston Churchill in a moment of despondency in 1943 declares privately to Lord Disraeli,

“This is the end of human freedom; we are seeing the end of our civilization.”

By 1944, his prophecy seems to be coming true, Russia has been conquered, Spain has joined the Pan European Axis, Italy is close to doing the same, and Germany is riding higher than she ever has and, with the fall of Moscow, declares victory in the war and ends it shifting the focus to occupation rather than conflict.

Aryans in Germany are rated as full German Citizens, all Jews, Gypsies, foreigners and other Non-Aryans are rated as “Residents”, with much less rights than citizens, but under nothing like the brutal tyranny favored by the now dead former party leaders.

It is entirely possible for one of the Resident groups to earn Metic Citizenship by serving in the German Armed Forces.

This provides the manpower the Reich needs to manage the conquest of Russia, now called “The Reichstosland”.

The Eurasian war ends after ten years of blood in 1952. Britain and the remaining western European powers are more isolated than ever. The U.S.S.A. and the Third Reich are now the two most powerful empires on Earth.

The U.S.S.A. enacts a series of Prima Facie reforms designed to foster the illusion of liberty whilst actually weaving a tighter web of actual control.
The Third Reich does the same even as they consolidate power in the Reichstosland and plan, NOT for the conquest of Western Europe but for a campaign in the Middle East.

The U.S.S.A. begins planning for the conquest and annexation of Central and South America.

Ten more years of prima facie peace go by and in that time, Britain grows more and more isolated and impoverished. The Third Reich has been trading with the Western European nations; Erwin Rommel voluntarily gives up the title of Fuehrer and calls himself the Chancellor of Germany, declaring that the Title of Fuehrer is reserved for wartime only.

Rommel now begins diplomatic efforts to woo France and the other nations of Western Europe into “The Pan-European Union”.

President Roosevelt sees what Germany is doing and realizes that an Alliance with Great Britain may be the U.S.S.A.’s ace in the hole; Germany also sees Britain’s strategic position and starts to speak in a friendly manner toward them, desiring to keep them from joining the U.S.S.A.

Domestically, for the U.S.S.A. the policies of “Sustainable socialism” are bearing fruit. Nearly everyone has somewhere to live, a steady supply of food some sort of work or job and a means of going from home to work and back. In addition, ever person in the U.S.S.A. has access to healthcare without cost; the system does its best to keep paperwork to a minimum. Education is mandatory, but some subjects are limited and some are barred outright.

Weapons ownership is not widespread by any means, but female veterans of the People’s armed forces are allowed to own hunting rifles and archery gear as well as bladed weapons.

Personal automobile ownership is frowned upon and so is very rare, but the U.S.S.A. has what may be the finest public transportation system in the world.
In the secret research base in New Mexico, several researchers note the great stone ring’s superficial similarity to a telephone dial and speculate that it is part of some kind of communications device. Both it and the platform continue to be studied.

Americans have work, food, lodging, and a good measure of security, but there is no real sense of having anything to really strive toward for many people.

In August of 1963 it begins to dawn on the researchers at the Mystery project that the great stone ring is not a weapon, but a means of transport, a gateway to some other place. The work to crack its mysteries intensifies.

November, 1963, President Elenore Roosevelt dies of complications from type two diabetes, She is succeeded by Elisabeth Friedan.

President Friedan makes the advancement and improvement of American healthcare her R’aison D’état. She begins pouring absurdly large amounts of money into the effort to improve healthcare and cure diseases.

President Friedan declares that,

“Having faced and defeated our imperialist masculine enemies, we shall NOT allow our great progressive nation to fall due to disease and poor heath care.”

In tandem with this effort, the following items are now contraband.

Tobacco

All forms of alcoholic beverages and spiritus liquors.

Recreational use of Cocaine, Heroine, Angel Dust, Methamphetamines, and absinth.

Further, a comprehensive program of nutrition education is inaugurated discouraging excess intake of sweets, red meat, and other high fat high calorie foods. They are not illegal, but the Federal Government enacts measures to make such things prohibitively expensive.

These prohibitions are, as a matter of course, NOT binding for the party leaders and bigwigs.

The Greater German Reich intensifies their efforts to woo Great Britain into the Pan European Union. Reich Chancellor Von Bach is a master of the soft sell, talking up the mutual benefits of alliance and playing down some of the harsher rules in the Reich.



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