Differences From OTL (PJW)

The world of President John Wayne is a lot worse than OTL.

United States
The United States is a pale shadow of the ideals it once stood for. It is run by a decentralized government dominated by libertarians and anarcho-capitalists, who returned much of the power to the states. Segregation still defines many areas of the nation and liberal politics is generally frowned upon. The economy is in rough shape thanks to inflation and collapse of global trade. Military work has largely been contracted out to massive private military corporations and militias, often competing with one another resulting in bloody conflicts across the Americas. Despite its isolationist nature, the United States is still the only superpower remaining in the world.

United Kingdom
The United Republics of Great Britain and and Northern Ireland was born in 1980, following the United Kingdom Referendum. In response to nationalist and nativist feelings that had been brewing for decades, the government issued a vote to decide on the future of the United Kingdom. Ironically, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales voted to remain in the United Kingdom, while England itself voted to leave. After some awkward years and the abdication of Queen Elizabeth, the four parts separated into the Kingdom of England and the renamed United Republics. The two sides are quite amicable however, united in the face of Irish desire to reunite their island and the machinations of the dictatorships to the south on the mainland, along with the sorrows of losing the vast majority of the once proud British Empire.