The US still exists but it's like divided up into little suburban communities called burb claves or other sovereign enclaves run by big businesses. Hyperinflation has happened so like the minimum currency is like a quadrillion dollars and that's- The government barely exists because everything has been corporatized and privatized. There are four things that America now does better than everyone else. Music, duh, movies, double code slash software and high speed pizza delivery.
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