![]() Though by 2052, the dwindling resources of the world was beginning to make its presence felt, with American households noting the steadily rising prices and the inflating market for fossil fuels and brief Nuclear exchanges in January of 2054 raising fears in the United States, setting Project Safehouse in motion, the US also began noting the rising desperation of its old communist foe, China. ![]() The United States was the hotbed of commercial and industrial development, with big business from abroad such as Aero-Concordia Aviation designing and manufacturing aircraft for both commercial and military usage, and with prestigious education environments such as the Commonwealth Institute of Technology and many other prestigious education centers fueling America's march into the 21st century. Chryslus Highwayman, Bering Aviation aircraft soaring through the clouds, and Corvega automobiles traveling at speed down sprawling highways, and Medical advancements that helped the sick or kick drug addiction habits, even boosting mental capacity, such as Mentats. The American public welcomed advancements from RobCo, Chryslus, Bering Aviation and Med-Tek, with RobCo producing new and advanced robot technology, and personal information processors, which were a resounding success with both the public sector and military sector. Thinly concealed tensions became clearer during the 21st Century, the US economy was experiencing a boom, with the glut of American stores and manufacturers selling or producing newer and more advanced technology for the public of the United States. The US also went through a cold war against the USSR and the People's Republic of China, something which left deep impressions on the US people and spread paranoia and mistrust on both peoples of all involved nations, though the USSR and the US later shared strong diplomatic relations, something that did not occur with China. The US achieved many great feats, among the most impressive sending the first man Captain Carl Bell, into space in the Defiance 7 capsule, though he was killed upon his return to earth, and landing the first men on the moon during the successful Virgo II lunar lander mission for the USSA. The US congress had become more extreme in values, with many, more extreme candidates achieving status as representatives in the US congress, such as Senator Ronald Cooper. The United States would go on to be a powerhouse of industrial output and economic progress throughout much of the 19th and 20th century, becoming a paragon of progress and achievement to the envy lesser nations. Remaining historical references included the Point Lookout national park and the numerous museums and memorials throughout the US, including the mysterious and elusive former Frumentarius Ulysses, who named himself after one of the generals who lead the North during the civil war, Ulysses S. Little remains of the United States earliest historical events, though it was generally known to some in the Wasteland that a Civil War had been fought from 1861 to 1865, the South against the North. Although mostly destroyed in the Great War, it would be preserved in spirit by many communities throughout the wastelands, most notably the New California Republic, which holds many of the same values as the pre-war US, and literally succeeded by the Enclave, the remnants of the pre-war government. ![]() The United States of America was a pre-War federal republic and one of the last surviving economies in the wake of the mid-21st-century global energy crisis.
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