New United States (Collapse of the United States)

Backstory

The town of Alton IL was founded in 1818. It didn't really do anything else important.

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In 2005 a community of about 1,000 people in Alton formed the New United States. It has since attracted 6,500 more people. It controls the town of Godfrey, and most of the town of Alton. It's government is based of the US one, but there is no electoral college. Also there is 2 people in both the House and the Senate. The flag is yellow, the color of hope, with a blue canton in the corner. On the canton is one white star for the one state of Illinois.