United States of America

The United States of America, commonly known as just the United States, is a country in North America. Fractured by civil and corporate wars and global catastrophes in the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries, it has now become a rump state, having lost many of its constituents to civil unrest, wars, and climate-induced destabilisation. Similar to Great Britain at a larger scale, it is a country divided into nearly entirely corporate-controlled states and forgotten backwaters hinging on the verge of collapse. Though Washington DC officially remains its capital, Detroit is by far its most populous city and financial centre. The fact that the country allowed the atrocities in the Appalachians and the seizure of New York by biofascist forces to occur and historically refused to fund the cleanup of the Silent Zone has made the country an international pariah.

Once a world financial leader in the 21st Century, the entire company's GDP is today propped up solely by megacorporations, including CORE Group, BioCorp, and Paradigm. The country is on a much more equal footing against China, India, Africa, and the European Union, and is often itself outpaced. Similarly, its exophysics industry still remains immature compared to that of Europe, and what does exist is concentrated only around the large corporate enclaves. Because the American government maintains no state exophysics authority of its own, corporations there maintain a greater degree of freedom than they would otherwise, and for this reason, Raven considers the management of the US scientific industry to be challenging; it is high on the organisation's expenditure list, and its operations there are stretched thin.