UCSA

The UCSA, or the United Communist States of America, is a country in North America, Polynesia (Hawaii), and East Asia (Guam and the North Mariana Islands). In this alternate universe, America is the first communist nation, not Russia.

History
In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published “The Manifesto of the Communist Party”. A few years later, future president Frederick Haufner read it and loved the idea. And many other people also seemed to like it, too. So in the 1870 US presidential elections, they did a third party system, and the third party was the Communist Party of the United States. Haufner ran for president and unexpectedly the majority turned out to be the socialists. So Haufner became president, and subtly started turning the country into a one-party Marxist authoritarian dictatorship.

In 1880, the Americans bought most (but not all) of British Columbia and the Yukon from the Canadians to connect Alaska with mainland America. The communists also redrew some state borders to remove panhandles and other border gore because who likes panhandles? They also made new states like Lincoln and Delmarva and Baja California (in real life the Mexican peninsula of Baja California is split into 2 states, Baja California and Baja California Sur.

Anyways, when World War One broke out, the Americans tried to be neutral, but Zimmermann telegram, blah blah blah, and they joined. But, the difference is that Mexico actually accepted the offer when they heard about it, but the Central Powers still lost, and America gained some states from Mexico.

In World War Two, the Americans again are neutral, but Japan, in this alternate universe, attack the Soviet Union instead of America, but they do it at the same time as Germany, so the Soviets are fighting on two sides. But, alas, the Soviets are too strong. Invading Russia in winter is simply impossible. So the Japanese and Germans start getting pushed back. Post WW2 Europe is essentially the same as in real life, but the Japanese become a communist puppet of the Soviets. But, after Stalin, the next communist leader is not Khrushchev, but another person like Mikhail Gorbachev, and starts making the Soviet Union less bad and everything, although miraculously without making the whole thing collapse. The next leader got Russia to not be very communist anymore. After Russia became not communist, other countries who used to be communist also either collapsed or converted to not communism. America, however, managed to stay communist a little longer than other countries, but finally collapsed in 1971. Like the Soviet Union of our universe, it all got split into different countries.

Countries formed in the collapse of the UCSA

 * Alaska - blue-green/turquoise
 * Cascadia - dark green
 * Pacific States of America - gold
 * Texas-Rio Grande - orange
 * Central Mountain Federation (a.k.a. Montana) - gray
 * Atlantic States of America - blue
 * Yucatan-Guatemala - yellow

Countries which didn't form in the collapse but gained former American territory

 * Canada - pink
 * Mexico - green
 * Caribbean Federation (formerly Lesser Antillean Federation) - purple