State of the USA - Feb 2047

[Ascendancy]

Nolan Trace was elected president in a special emergency election; legitimacy is disputed by several red-state governments.

Pro-CCD sentiment rising in multiple U.S. regions:

• Riots erupting in southern coastal states demanding CCD integration.
  
• Civil conflict growing between pro-CCD and pro-USA factions, with violence increasing in major population centers.
  

Economic collapse accelerating:

• U.S. dollar near worthless along the CCD border zones.
  
• CCD dollar is now used in unofficial markets, especially for food, medicine, and energy. The CCD dollars are digital currencies and shared either digitally or on cold-wallet cards.
  
• Price instability, wage freezes, and private sector shutdowns spreading in the hardest hit areas.
  

Mass migration toward the CCD:

• Thousands attempting to flee into Dominance 9 via Texas.
  
• Borders are functionally closed; many are turned away or vanish in the buffer zones.
  
• CCD citizens in the US are allowed to return, and sometimes forcibly deported.
  

Supply shortages worsening:

• Severe scarcity of medical supplies, clean water, heating fuel, and basic utilities.
  
• Major U.S. hospitals running on reduced capacity; some closing entirely in rural regions.
  

Energy crisis deepening:

• Natural gas and oil from Texas now unavailable to U.S. markets.
  
• CCD controls pipelines and ports along annexed territories.
  
• Only Canada and Alaska still exporting fuel to the U.S., insufficient to meet winter demand.
  

National fragmentation ongoing:

• Coastal ports are seizing fuel and trade resources for regional survival.
  
• Midwest and inland states facing infrastructure collapse and rising death tolls from exposure and malnutrition.