COLAPSE OF USA

During the second half of the 2020s, the United States entered a prolonged structural crisis. Political polarization, the weakening of federal institutions, racial and economic tensions, and the loss of legitimacy of the electoral system slowly eroded national cohesion. No single event caused the collapse; it was an accumulation of fractures that the state could no longer contain.

The breaking point came with the presidential election of 2032. The Electoral College became deadlocked, Congress was paralyzed, and several states refused to recognize the result. In 2033, governors, military commands, and political movements began to act autonomously. Federal authority fragmented, and the country slid into a non-linear civil war, not with two clear sides, but with multiple rival visions of the nation.

Between 2033 and 2036, successor states, ideological communes, military juntas, and international protectorates emerged. On the West Coast, socialist communes and eco-nationalist states appeared; in the central regions, military governments and restorationist republics took shape; in the South, conservative confederations, armed theocracies, and extremist movements rose to power; meanwhile, Texas consolidated itself as an independent power. The United Nations and foreign powers intervened only in limited ways, and Russia occupied Alaska under the banner of a “strategic pacification.”

By 2036, the United States no longer existed as a functional country. Its territory had become a mosaic of factions, each claiming to be the legitimate heir of the nation or advocating a complete break with the past. The war continued, not to restore what once was, but to define what America should become after the collapse.

An empire did not fall in a single day. It unraveled from within, election after election, until the map itself no longer recognized what it had once been.