United States of Nebraska and Kansas (The Many Nations of North America)

The United States of Nebraska and Kansas is a nation in North America, occupying the former states of Kansas and Nebraska. It was relatively peaceful during the war, and has since set itself up as a regional power in war-torn North America.

History
After the Final Civil War caused the final collapse of the United States of America in the 1930s, the remaining loyalists to the old regime retreated west, into their strongholds of Kansas and Nebraska. There, they continued the old regime under President Charles Lindbergh, as the official successor state to the old USA. Of the nations of the former United States, the USNK has arguably changed the least from the Final Civil War.

The USNK has been one of the most stable nations in North America; it has never had a coup, never experienced tyranny, and has never declared war against a neighbouring state.

During the North American War, the USNK's main involvement was in fighting the warlords of the Rocky Mountain Confederation. The relatively technologically primitive and insular USNK was inequipped to deal with the Colorado warlords, who torched Garden City, Kansas, before being repelled by a joint USNK-Canadian force in the Battle of Dodge City. However, by the standards of the war, the USNK was relatively undamaged, and has since become a major player in peacekeeping and aid missions.

Culture and politics
The USNK regard their status as the last states loyal to the United States of America with pride, and their culture reflects this. 'Loyalist' families (families who fled to Kansas and Nebraska during the Final Civil War) have filled most of the nation's high political offices, although the current President, Dick Cheney, is a native Nebraskan.

As an agricultural nation, the USNK has been consistently conservative; although two-party elections have been held between the Democratic and Republican parties consistently since the state's formation, both parties are heavily conservative and tied to religious interests. Abortion, homosexuality and drug use are all illegal, although not punished to the same extent to the far more theocratic Deseret. Books, the media and the internet are all monitored by government censors.