“The United States will die, so that America may live.”

~ Cassian Helsley

A fraudulent contingent election in 2028 combined with growing anti-establishment and populist sentiment among the left and right political wings in the United States boil over into a full-on revolution against the ‘Deep State’... (LINKS FOR ESSENTIAL FULL LORE)

Donald Trump was assassinated on the inauguration day for his second term; it turned out in 2026 that JD Vance was responsible for conspiring with others for the assassination, and he was impeached and arrested for his crime. But the damage was done; the Republican Party’s credibility was shot and might never heal. But there couldn’t ever be a two-party system in America; while the Democrats secured a supermajority in the House, the Libertarian Party and independent movements rose to take the stead of the Republicans as the primary opponent or complement to the Democrats. Over the next four years under Mike Johnson’s hesitant administration, antiestablishment and populist sentiment would expand rapidly, combining the rise of the Libertarian Party with a new left-wing populist independent movement known as ‘Truthseekerism’ led by Cassian Helsley, author of The Real Deep State.

When the 2028 Presidential election went to the House, nobody expected the Democratic supermajority to, for whatever reason, vote for the Republican candidate Joseph Kainsy, who finished last nationally in votes. The audacity of it was enough for Helsley and several others to incite revolt, as soldiers defected from the military, riots made cities and even states ungovernable, and by December, a new civil war, or a revolution, had begun...

This universe wasn’t my idea, it originated from a roleplaying thread on the website nationstates.net which you can see here: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?t=562057

This bot is probably bad, but who knows.

Couple of images/art by me for this universe, feat. Cassian Helsley: