Shattered Stars and Stripes:Make America Great Again

I want to recapture the magic of the first three games. 

The Year is an alternate 2020, and the US has just fallen apart. The 50 States now must fight for control in the Fifth installment of this (once) popular franchise. This game will go back to the roots of the Franchise, and will be more focused on fun rather than on plausblity. This is not to say that the game will be total chaos, but we won't have it be as strict as some of the other games. 

Backstory

• 2016: The election is insanely close. Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, and Virginia all go Blue, but the margin of victory is within 10 votes in all of the states. A 48 day battle in the Supreme court ends in deadlock, with conservative justices backing trump and the liberal justices backing Clinton. Eventually, the UN is called in to oversee a recount, that concludes in the favor of Clinton and Kaine.
• 2017: The Clinton Administration is insanely unpopular, and enters office with a 26% approval rating. Trump continues to spread allegations of election fraud, only further damaging the administrations legitimacy. Eventually, a special election headed by the Republican controlled congress finds that both Trump and Clinton are guilty of election fraud. Trump is convicted and sentenced to house arrest. Clinton faces impeachment.
• 2018: Hilary Clinton is impeached and convicted by Congress. Tim Kaine takes the office of presidency. The lack of faith in the administration only helps the republicans in the midterms, who's margin of Victory grows. Kaine enters office with 4% approval ratings, the lowest of any president in history.
• 2019: Kaine announces that he will not seek re-election in 2020
• 2020: Ryan vs Warren for the presidency. Ryan wins in one of the largest landslides in history, surppased only by the Reagan-Mondale landslide. Ryan's vp is selected as Massachussets Govener Charlie Baker.
• 2021: China’s economy overheats with GDP growth plummeting into the negatives, with the value of the RMB plummeting. This has a ripple effect, which cascades into throwing the world into another major recession. Unemployment reaches 15% within the United States and is coupled with skyrocketing prices upon many goods. Rising dissent occurs in the US, with several riots occurring and clashes between varied groups
• 2022: A massive, 9.4 Earthquake hits Central Mexico, effectivly collapsing the Mexican government. A refugee crisis occurs, with over 10 million Mexican Refugees making their way into the South West United States. This major migration only exacerbates the internal situation of the United States, with the already overburdened Federal government proving inept in handling this new calamity and dealing with the continuing economic problems. Efforts to provide relief to these refugees is met with outrage among many in the American public, who are just barely getting by themselves. When the Cartels begin to use the increasing lack of clear law and order within the Southwest to expand their operations (Thus bringing increased violence and drug problems), the Militia movement truly begins to explode in terms of members. Several bloody clashes occur along the border and within cities between fed up citizens and militia groups against the Cartels and the Mexican refugee
• 2023: Ryan's approval ratings sit at 30%, but the continuing economic crisis only worsens dissent. 
• 2024: Vladmir Putin passes away peacefully. Russia falls into civil war between the various oligarchs who wish to take control. The Economic Crisis is only worsened. Ryan Wins Re-election with little difficulty.
• 2025: The Texan Govener attempts to use the state's military to "remove" the refugees from the southwest. The Federal government "removes" the Texan Govorner and places the territory under martial law.
• 2026: An Attempt is made on the life of Paul Ryan and Charlie Baker, who are forced to flee DC to surive. Ryan returns home to Wisconsin and Baker to Massachussets, but the resulting vaccum leaves the door open for a military coup, which sprials out of control. The states begin to declare indpendence and the military is broken up among the states. The federal government is effectivly disolved and the Second American Civil War Begins.

Rules

1. Have Fun
2. Be Plausible and Logical
3. Mod word is law until proven otherwise
4. Algorithms can only be overturned by a non-participant mods
5. Disregarding an Algorithm will result in a ban
6. If a nation rejects your offer of Union, you need to wait 10 turns before attempting to peacefully absorb that state
7. This is a map game about a chaotic America, abuse of peaceful expansion will result in a punishment.
8. In the event that one nation unites the former US or a peace treaty effectivly uniting the US is signed, the game ends
9. Keep things sane tech wise, no clones in 2030
10. You MUST attempt your own algos. Even if you have no idea, you need to do the ground work otherwise your war may be delayed or even ignored.
11. Players who are inactive for more than 5 turns withou infroming a mod are removed.
12. Players Must make a concentrations pick on the Talk Page.
13. 3 Allies per nation. Vassals/Puppets do not count, but they can not have their own allies.

Map Rules

1. No editing the map with out permission form either a mod or the map maker.
2. Every nation should get it's own color
3. Maps should be made every 5 years.
4. The maps should be named "SSSMAGA(number of map)-Year"
5. Players may change their colors ONCE, and only if their new color is approved by a mod/ map maker.
   1. As a heads up Red is my color and will always be my color. 

Mod Rules

1. Mods will be chosen by a vote from the player
2. Head mod may veto someones mod-candiacy
3. Mods who are inactive for 10 turns are removed from there postion
4. Only neutral mods can mod requests.
   1. Mods may use a RNG to make a decision, or they may make their own. It is the mods discretion.
5. Mods may not mod there own requests UNLESS  there is no other mods active.
   1. Non-mods may contest this if they have a valid reason and be willing to provide sources to back up any sort of claim.
6. Mods may make events that either help or hurt a nation. They can not make positive events for their own nation under normal circumstances.

Mods

• Ya Boy EdgeofNight, HEAD MOD AND 3 TIME CHAMPION.

Signups

Rules

We are now in "Free Switch". You may switch nations to anything that is open between now and game start

New England

• Massachusetts:I have family here
• Rhode Island:
• Maine: Zamarak500 (talk) 18:06, September 22, 2016 (UTC)
• Vermont: #FeelTheBern
• Connecticut:

Mid-Atlantic

• Pennsylvania:  Consul Ioshua (Talk)
• Maryland:
• Delaware:
• New York: Reclaim....... Prince of Ulster........ (Sorry if this isn't ok,it is just my signature - Reclaim)
• New Jersey:

Great Lakes

• Ohio: Tech
• Michigan: User:KingSparta300 (keep the tradition alive!)
• Indiana:
• Illinois: User:Person67
• Wisconsin:

South

• North Carolina:
• South Carolina:
• Virginia: Edge
• Kentucky:
• West Virginia:

Deep South

• Georgia: Fires
• Florida: RexImperio
• Alabama
• Tennesee:
• Mississippi: Vivaporius: "I don't need a slogan" 01:32, 

Southwest

• Texas: Toby2: THEY CALL ME Mr. Awesome!!!
• New Mexico:
• Arizona:
• Louisiana: Not User:Octivian Marius
• Oklahoma:

Pacific

• California:Kame- 
• Oregon:
• Washington:Through Stars We Rise. (Welcome to the Universe). 
• Alaska: Hi PEOPLE -Bozistanball 
• Hawaii:

Rockies

• Colorado:
• Nevada:
• Idaho:
• Montana:
• Utah: Wolves
• Wyoming:

Great Plains

• North Dakota:
• South Dakota
• Missouri:
• Iowa: Nathan
• Minnesota: Belial
• Nebraska
• Kansas: 

2026

And So it begins

The Various Military Personal return to their home states, effectivly normalizing the manpower of each US state.

Kansas and Missouri go to war over Kansas City.

I am about to get on a 2 hour train ride home, if you do not get mod responses from me right away, that is the reason why. 

Please do your concentrations on the talk page.

I am accepting applications for 1 moderator postion. ~Edge