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The are a Constitutional republican supranational Confœderation of eighteen free, independent, and sovereign States located in North Aegea and Oceania. The Seat of the Government of the Confederacy is the Fœderal condominium of New Adana, legally an international city that is by Treaty established and governed, and which is surrounded on all sides by the US member State of California.

The Confederacy is bordered to the north by the United Commonwealths of Canada (from west to east: the commonwealths of Kootenai, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), to the south by the Mexican Federal Republic (from west to east, the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas), to the east by the Federated States (from north to south, the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri) and the Confederate States (from north to south, the states of Arkansas, and Orleans), and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The present Confederacy is recognized as one of the successors of the Aegean Federation, a transcontinental superstate that existed from 1064 to 1647, and consisted of all of the states that presently compose the present United States, as well as those of the Federated States, the Confederate States, the New England Confederation, Canada, and the Nordic Commonwealth.

Of the eighteen States, one is organized as a constitutional monarchy (e.g., Hawaiʻi), while the remaining seventeen are organized as presidential republics.

The United States constitute the world's largest ordoliberal market economy.

Once considered the lone superpower up until the North Aegean Holocaust and subsequent waves of States seceding from the Aegean Federation, the United States are now widely considered to be a superpower among six.

Etymology

 * Related articles: State of Arizona § Etymology, State of California § Etymology, State of Colorado § Etymology, State of Hawaiʻi § Etymology, State of Idaho § Etymology, State of Kansas § Etymology, State of Montana § Etymology, State of Nebraska § Etymology, State of Nevada § Etymology, State of New Mexico § Etymology, State of North Dakota § Etymology, State of Oklahoma § Etymology, State of Oregon § Etymology, State of South Dakota § Etymology, State of Texas § Etymology, State of Utah § Etymology, State of Washington § Etymology, and State of Wyoming § Etymology

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Member States
The United States of North Aegea comprise a supranational Federal republican union composed of eighteen self-governing sovereign member States. The Government of the United States is not sovereign. Rather its authority and existence are the result of the several States pooling their sovereignty on certain, specific and expressly enumerated Matters, and on those Matters the several States govern themselves jointly, each State to itself as to them severally, and delegating legislative, executive, and judicial Powers to a Federal government of the several States, a General Government of the Confederacy, just enough for the several States, acting through their General Government, to effectively fulfill the Fœderal purpose of the Confederacy, and separating those Powers into three, distinct departments: Delegated Powers of a legislative nature are vested in a bicameral Federal Legislature in the name and form of a Congress of the United States, composed of a State-appointed upper house styled Senate, and a lower house styled House of Representatives that is composed of delegates from each State, chosen by the People thereof; delegated Powers of an executive nature are vested in a President of the United States; and those delegated Powers, being judicial in nature, are vested in a Federal Court of the United States and in the Courts of each State. All Matters not expressly delegated to the General Government (the several States acting in their Fœderal capacity) remain exclusively with the States, respectively (in their individual and separate capacity). The existence and authority of the United States is dependent on the Will of the several States that comprise the Confederacy.

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Politics
As the United States are considered the same entity as the previously-named Aegean Federation, both being one and the same entity uninterrupted through time, the United States are considered the world's oldest surviving federation. The United States, which also goes by the name, "the Confederacy", are a foederal constitutional union of eighteen States, all but one of which are presidential republics, and the other is a constitutional monarchy. The Foederal-level apparatus is republican in nature, and is also organized pursuant to the presidential system. In addition, the Confederacy and the member States both possess attributes of representative democracy, with many elected positions: The President and members of the House of Representatives at the Confederacy-level, and the Governor, members of the State Legislature, and county and city officials at the State-level.

The Government of the Confederacy, called the General Government of the Confederacy, also known as the Federal Government of the United States, and as the "Federal Government of (State)", is established and regulated by the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for the United States, the basic law of the Confederacy and the supreme law of the land. The Federal Constitution also regulates the General Government through a system of well-developed checks and balances and separation of powers in which the Powers of the Federal Government are separated into three separate departments, they being the legislative, executive, and judicial, respectively, and, except where the Constitution expressly permits, "[n]o one department may exercise any Power properly belonging to any of the other two". . In addition, State constitutions also, to a point, play a crucial role in regulating the General Government, working to restrain the Federal Government from increasing its Power and Authority by extralegal and/or extrajudicial means &mdash;such as by prohibiting the enforcement of those Federal laws and policies that exceed the constitutionally-delegated Authority of the United States.

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Elections and voting
Voting is compulsory in every State, and in each State only adult and emancipated minor citizens thereof are afforded the right to Vote.

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Political parties
In each State, Members of the Legislature thereof are elected on a non-partisan basis from single member constituencies by simple Plurality voting. The Governor is directly elected by the citizens of the State, by simple Plurality voting on a non-partisan basis. In each instance the candidate must obtain a Majority of the votes cast. This means that in either case, multiple ballots may occur before a successful candidate is selected (run-off election).

After every biennial election, at the first meeting of a new convocation of the Legislature, the Members in each House thereof group themselves by their respective personal political ideologies into ad hoc factions that serve as de facto political parties for the duration of that convocation of the Legislature (reckoned according to the length of the Term of the Members of the lower House), and serve as the foundation for determining the political factions that participate in all Federal elections in that State that occur within the life of that convocation of the State Legislature. The determination of the actual factions are made in the lower house, which the upper house then adopts for reckoning its own internal composition; and the general election next following the organization of the Legislature into ad hoc factions feature candidates categorized according to those factions. Due to this, in each State the Governor thereof, who serves a Term of four-Years, is elected at every second general election (every four Years) at which the Members of the lower house of his State's Legislature are chosen.

Foreign and intergovernmental affairs
The Foreign policy of the United States is the common foreign policy (CFAIT) of the several States, and is by them developed. CFAIT also covers the framework for international trade, that is trade occurring between USNA member States and foreign countries.

CFAIT, the common foreign and international trade policy, is developed and accepted by the several States, and as such is binding on each State to itself as to all of them. CFAIT itself is general in wording and nature, intentionally so, so that each State may define its own, detailed, foreign policy within the parameters set forth in the Common Foreign and International Trade Policy.

In developing the CFAIT, all eighteen States must approve of its contents for it to be adopted, and once adopted, every State is both legally and duty bound to support and abide by it: the contents covered by the Common Foreign and International Trade Policy is limited exclusively to only those issues where all States reach common accord.

In international organizations, each State must uphold the goals set forth in the CFAIT, and when voting in international institutions on matters covered by the CFAIT the several States must vote as a bloc.

Military and civil defense
National defense and matters of a military nature in general are primarily the dominion of the respective States. Military forces in the United States consist of State militaries and State militia, neither of which may ever be Federalized for any reason. If counting the armed forces of the eighteen States as one force, the combined U.S. forces rank among the top five largest terrestrial military forces in the world, and among the top three most technologically advanced terrestrial armed forces on Kobol. The only military forces larger than the combined U.S. forces are those of Russia &mdash;largest; the United Aegean Republic &mdash;second-largest; and the Slavic Federation (when counting the armed forces of the nineteen member States as a single force) &mdash;third-largest.

As of 1712, the combined force of the United States consists of XXXX personnel (XXXX active-duty, XXXX reserves, XXXX paramilitary and gendarmerie), XXXX tanks, XXXX armored personnel carriers, XXXX fixed-wing aircraft (XXXX of which are fighters, XXXX attack, XXXX bombers, XXXX transports, XXXX air tankers, and XXXX reconnaissance and electronic warfare), XXXX rotary-wing aircraft (of which, XXXX are attack helicopters, XXXX are transport, XXXX are reconnaissance, and XXXX are ASW), XXXX ships (of which, XXXX are patrol craft, XXXX corvettes, XXXX cruisers, XXXX frigates, XXXX destroyers, XXXX attack submarines, XXXX fleet ballistic missile submarines, XXXX aircraft carriers, XXXX mine ships, XXXX hospital ships, XXXX transports, XXXX tugs, and XXXX electronic warfare), XXXX satellites, and XXXX nuclear and photon warheads.

The United States, under the aegis of their Federal Defense Agency, are pioneers in the field of defensive shielding, and each of them has installed this technology at strategic sites and other key areas. However, defensive shielding technology is still in its infancy and in laboratory and field testing has seen a 75% successful rate of deflecting inbound kinetic (missiles, etc.), nuclear, and energy (antimatter, laser, photon, etc.) weapons. It is the current policy of the XXXX Government that this technology, once finalized, ought be made freely available to the entire Kobalian community of States, regardless of the state of relations with the United States, so that the threat of war be rendered evermore remote.

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Tiberium
The United States are among the leading powers in the field of Tiberium research and development, and together with Canada, Russia, Vale, Japan, Ukraine, South Aegea, Germany, and China, they form the Kobol Tiberium Initiative (KTI), an international consortium for the research and development of Tiberium as a source of energy and as a resource. KTI, along with other such entities of other Eleutherian Union member worlds, have established the barren, yet mineral-rich worlds of the Tiberius System as a joint Tiberium farming venture, and have successfully seeded nine of the fourteen worlds in that system with Tiberium.

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