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States (28) and Territories (31)
of the United States of North Aegea
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GEA
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NMX
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NCA
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NDK
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OHI
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SCA
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SDK
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TEN
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TEX
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UTA
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TEN
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WYO
Federal districts
 
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Territories
 
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COL
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MAS
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MIC
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MIN
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NHA
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NJY
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NYK
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ORE
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PVA
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RHI
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VMT
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VGA
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WAS
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WIS
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ASM
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GUA
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NMI
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PRI
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UVI
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PHI
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DCL
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NYC
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CHG
 
Overview
 

The United States of North Aegea comprise a decentralized Federal republican Union of twenty-eight semi-sovereign, self-governing States.

In addition to the twenty-eight States, there are thirty Territories that are essentially dependencies of the Federal Government; all of which are afforded limited, albeit supervised, home rule. However, all thirty Territories are at all times subject to the ultimate dictates of the United States Congress in the Fœderal Capital Territory. Congress can, and are at full liberty to, revise or repeal Territorial legislation and policy (or even legislate or enact policy in place of those of the Territories), at their pleasure.

The General Government of the United States is not, technically, sovereign. Rather its authority and existence are the result of the several States pooling their sovereignty on certain, specific and enumerated Matters, delegating competence on those Matters to a common, federal head, which exercises those competences as an agent of the member States on their behalf; and this Federal government of the several States, also the General Government of the Confederacy and Union, carries out the Fœderal purpose of the Confederacy and Union, with the Powers of the Federal head being separated into three, distinct departments: Delegated Powers of a legislative nature are vested in a bicameral Congress of the United States, composed of a State-appointed upper house styled Senate, and a popularly-elected lower house called House of Representatives; delegated Powers of an executive nature are vested in a Governor-General of the United States; and those delegated Powers, being judicial in nature, are vested in a Supreme Court of the United States, in Federal Courts in each State and Territory, and in the Courts of each State. All Powers not expressly delegated to the General Government remain exclusively with the States, respectively, to be exercised by them only. The existence and authority of the United States is dependent on the Will of the several States that comprise the Confederacy and Union.

However, within the remit of power of each level of government, State and Federal, each is supreme; and neither of them may reduce the other to itself: the existence of the Federal government is dependent on the existence of the States, and to an extent, the reverse is true, that the existence of the States is in a way dependent on the existence of the Federal Union;—And that neither may survive without the existence of the other.