United States of America

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>United States of America</default></title>

<image source="image"><default>File:Placeholder location.png</default></image> <header>Basic Information</header> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> The United States of America, also known as the United States is the country in which much of Worm takes place.

Residents

• Protectorate
• The Elite

Points of Interest

• Brockton Bay
• Anchorage
• New York
• Los Vegas
• Chicago
• Seattle

History

Background

Vikare, the first superhero, was an American, and set the tone for a brief-lived Golden Age of Parahumans.^{[citation needed]}

The Protectorate and PRT were US organizations, although they later expanded to Canada.^{[citation needed]}

Dragon was forbidden from using viruses to infect the computers of Americans that didn’t have a warrant out for their arrests. She later found a way around this, making use of computers she allowed an Indonesian cartel to infect.<ref>Interlude 26.x</ref>

Teacher killed the Vice President of America before fleeing to the United Kingdom.<ref>[Cockroaches 28.2]</ref>

When a portal to Earth Aleph was created in the US by Professor Haywire, treaties were made to prevent them finding a way to invade the alternate Earth with the help of parahumans and acquiring their resources, becoming the world's greatest superpower. All attempts to transmit people or objects between the worlds were banned.<ref name="17.6"/>

Story Start

Bakuda created a bomb that would have wiped out electronics across a full fifth of America, but she was defeated.<ref name="6.x">Interlude 6.x </ref>

The Undersiders took over Brockton Bay, an event which made them famous across America.<ref name="21.1">Imago 21.1</ref> The PRT later argued that this constituted effectively declaring warr on the government.<ref>Cell 22.2</ref>

Post-Echidna

Faultline’s Crew agreed to create portals to alternate Earths across America at a discount to help prepare for the End of the World.<ref>Scarab 25.5</ref>

The Timeskip

America and the CUI had a brief conflict in 2012 after the Protectorate accidentally killed the incognito CUI heir during a Simurgh attack.<ref>Scarab 25.6</ref>

Trivia

• The America of Earth Bet has dollar coins instead of notes.<ref name="17.6"> Migration 17.6</ref>
• Parahumans Online has a sub-board dedicated to discussing events taking place in America.<ref name="19.y"> Interlude 19.y</ref>

References

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