Pacific States

The United Pacific States of America
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Motto: Liberty, Peace and Prosperity
Anthem: 'America the Beautiful'
Capital and largest city	San Francisco
Official languages	English
Recognized languages	Japanese, Spanish
Demonym(s)	Pacific American
Government	Constitutional Federal Republic
• President	Douglas McKay
• Vice President	Vail M. Pittman
Legislature	Congress
• Upper house	The Senate
• Lower house	House of Representatives
History
• Pacific Declaration of Independence	June 27th, 1937
• Official Declaration of Neutrality	July 3rd, 1937
• Entry to Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere	December 18th, 1937
• Pacific Civil War begins	February 27th, 1943
• The Japanese Intervention	April 23rd, 1944
• Victory in the Pacific Civil War	July 9th, 1944
• The Seattle Agreement is Signed	August 6th, 1945
Population
• 1950 estimate	15,298,594
Currency	Pacific Dollar (PD)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+1

The United Pacific States of America, UPSA, or 太平洋合衆国, Taiheiyō gasshūkoku or even simply 太平洋アメリカ, Taiheiyō Amerika in Japanese. The Pacific States is a sovereign nation located in North America, bordered by the Dominion of Canada to her north The Democratic People's Federation of America (PFA) to her West, and the Mexican Federative Union to her south. The population of the country is concentrated in its large metropolitan areas. The most populous areas are the San Francisco metropolitan area followed by the Los Angeles metropolitan area and Seattle metropolitan area. Away from the coast, the Pacific States has large agricultural areas, large mountain chains such as the Cascades and Rockies, and forested regions with national parks. The Pacific States is a constitutional federal republic with its capital located in San Francisco, which is also the largest city in the Pacific States and serves as the nation's economic hub. The Pacific States has a legal separation of powers between its Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches. However, transposed over the Pacific States is an immense Japanese influence which is present in the form of massive economic corporate interests and a physical military presence throughout the Pacific States. This relationship is seen by most Pacific Americans as being one of subservience to the Japanese, and resentment exists, but with the threat of Syndicalism on their eastern border and the might of an ascendant Japanese Empire looming over them, the Pacific States has little recourse.

History

Secession from the United States of America

With war brewing in the United States between Syndicalists, southern rebels supporting Huey Long and those loyal to the MacArthur military junta, the Governors of California, Oregon and Washington held an emergency meeting in San Francisco in which they agreed that the United States government had become illegitimate and that they therefore were compelled to cease following unconstitutional Federal directives and take immediate action to preserve the American system. The national guards of each state were mobilized and seized federal facilities, and soon the states of Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona followed suit. Initially these states declared themselves to be in a state of Non-Compliance with the Washington junta, but as the war began to accelerate in both its scale and its brutality, soon it became clear a quick resolution to the interstate conflict was not going to be resolved. Therefore, on June 27th of 1937, the Governors of each state, with the support of their state legislatures' signed the Pacific Declaration of Independence and formed a provisional government in which each of the governors served as joint heads of state. Shortly after this declaration, the administrations of the territories of Alaska and Hawaii requested to join the Pacific States which was swiftly granted.

Birth of the Pacific States

With the Pacific States formed, national guard units from across the new nation were sent to the border where they enacted a national defense scheme called Operation Shield to establish the Rocky Mountains as a natural border. Facing a combination of Longist, Syndicalist and Federalist forces, the Pacific American forces made their to the Rocky mountains and pushed into enemy strongholds. However, the cost of this action in lives was simply unacceptable in the eyes of the Pacific government and soon the Pacific States Army was relegated to defensive actions only. On July 23rd, the Pacific government announced an Official Declaration of Neutrality in the Second American Civil War.

As the months went by, the Federalist position faltered and seeing the Canadians as opportunistic for having sent forces along the Eastern Seaboard to advance the cause of the Commonwealth of New England, the Pacific Governors felt trapped. Within their own country there were Syndicalist tensions which only rose with each Syndicalist victory in the news. Furthermore, under the immense pressure of the Japanese whom had begun conducting drills off the Pacific Coast, the Pacific States did not want to be drawn into foreign wars. Surprising the Pacific Governors, a Japanese delegation was sent in early August assuring the Pacific States governors that the Japanese would not allow the tyrannical forces east of the Rockies to overrun the Pacific.

After a snap election in late August, Governor Frank Merriam of California was made President of the United Pacific States of America.