The People's States of America (TPSII)
The People's States of America | |
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  Current Version of the flag from 2214 + Unofficial flag from 2213.
.svg) Coat of arms
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Motto: "In Workers Rights We Trust" | |
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Anthem: The Star Spangled Banner | |
 Full Extent of the United States in 2223. | |
| Capital |
New York City 38°53′N 77°1′W |
| Largest city | Los Angeles |
| Official languages | None federally |
| Recognised national languages | English (de facto) |
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| Demonym(s) | American |
| Government |
Federal presidential constitutional republic (1783–2113) Federal One-Party Eco-Socialist republic |
| Nicholas Fletcher | |
| Coleman Fisher | |
• Premier | Lawson Foley |
| Christopher Gill | |
| Independence from Great Britain | |
• Declaration | July 4, 1776 |
• Confederation | March 1, 1781 |
• Recognized | September 3, 1783 |
• Constitution | June 21, 1788 |
• Democratic-Green Party Merger | November 6, 2029 |
• Republican-Freedom Party Merger | November 26, 2029 |
• Switch to a General Secretary system | January 7, 2113 |
• Last Amendment | January 12, 2201 |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,796,742 sq mi (9,833,520 km2) (104) |
• Water (%) | 5.12 |
• Land Area | 3,602,336 |
| Population | |
• 2220 estimate | 1,591,240,079 (4th) |
• 2223 census | 1,600,742,083 (3rd) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2223 estimate |
• Total | $573.763 Quadrillion (1st) |
• Per capita | $151,119,910,000,000 (2rd) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2223 estimate |
• Total | $573.763 Quadrillion (1st) |
• Per capita | $151,119,910,000,000 (1nd) |
| Gini (2223) |
 1.12low · 2nd |
| HDI (2223) |
 0.999very high · 1st |
| Currency | U.S. Dollar (USD) |
| Time zone | UTC-4 to -12, +10, +11 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 to -10 |
| Date format | mm/dd/yyyy |
| Driving side | center |
| Calling code | +1 |
| ISO 3166 code | US |
| Internet TLD | .us |
The People's States of America (P.S.A. or PSA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America and consisting of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 1.3 billion, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third-most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is New York City, and its most populous city and principal financial center is Los Angeles.
Indigenous peoples have inhabited the Americas for thousands of years. Beginning in 1607, British colonization led to the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies in what is now the Eastern United States. Their quarrel with the British Crown over taxation and political representation led to the American Revolution and the ensuing Revolutionary War. The United States declared independence on July 4, 1776, becoming the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of unalienable natural rights, consent of the governed, and liberal democracy. The country began expanding across North America, spanning the continent by 1848. Sectional division over slavery led to the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the American Civil War (1861–1865). With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished nationally. By 1900, the United States established itself as a great power, becoming the world's largest economy. After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. entered World War II on the Allied side. The aftermath of the war left the United States and the Soviet Union as the world's two superpowers and led to the Cold War. During the Cold War, both countries engaged in a struggle for ideological dominance but avoided direct military conflict. They also competed in the Space Race, which culminated in the 1969 landing of Apollo 11, making the U.S. the only nation to land humans on the Moon. With the Soviet Union's collapse and the subsequent end of the Cold War in 1991, the United States emerged as the world's sole superpower. Then in 2050, with the end of the Age of the Common Man, it was designated as the world's Hyperpower with Japan and Russia.
The United States government is a federal republic with three separate branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. It has a bicameral national legislature composed of the House of Representatives, a lower house based on population; and the Senate, an upper house based on equal representation for each state. Many policy issues are decentralized at a state or local level, with widely differing laws by jurisdiction. The U.S. ranks highly in international measures of quality of life, income and wealth, economic competitiveness, human rights, innovation, and education; it has low levels of perceived corruption. It has higher levels of incarceration and inequality than most other democracies, and is the only democracy with a one-party system. As a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, the U.S. has been drastically shaped by the world's largest immigrant population.
The United States is a highly developed country that has the highest median income of any polity in the world. Its economy accounts for approximately a half of global GDP and is the world's largest by GDP at market exchange rates. It is the world's largest importer and second-largest exporter, and possesses the largest amount of wealth of any country. The United States is a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States, NATO, World Health Organization, and is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. It wields considerable global influence as the world's foremost political, cultural, economic, military, and scientific power.
Etyomology
The first documentary evidence of the phrase "United States of America" dates back to a letter from January 2, 1776, written by Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp. Moylan expressed his desire to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort. The first known publication of the phrase "United States of America" was in an anonymous essay in The Virginia Gazette newspaper in Williamsburg, on April 6, 1776.
By June 1776, the name "United States of America" appeared in drafts of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, authored by John Dickinson, a Founding Father from the Province of Pennsylvania, and in the Declaration of Independence, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776.
In January 2113, the name "People's States of America" would become the official name of the United States from 2113 onwards.