Name (Official): The New England Alliance
Name (Short): NEA
Motto: "Give us liberty or give us death"
Capital: Boston, Massachusetts
Development rating: First World
Economy and Industry: Heavily industrialized. Most people are white collar businessman, industry workers, or fishers. Only in Ohio and the most rural areas will you see farms.
Political setup: The Constitution
Social policy: Mixed. New York is (sadly) probably the second most liberal place in the
world the old union (Trailing California), and left wing politics do dominate most of the rest. However, New Hampshire, distipe in the "real" New England, is predominantly Conservative, and Massachusetts is having a right-wing movement, as well. The current president, President Omega, is a right wing himself, and no one knows how he won the election.
Foreign policy: Peace through superior firepower, and to stay neutral ALAP
Army: There are two main branches of the army; the regulars and the militia. The regulars are the "professional" branch of the two, an enlist-only (drafting was declared unconstitutional in the NEA) army, where most people serve between 6 months and 2 years. Every regular fights in a battalion only with other members of the state (E.X. 64th New York Regulars, 8th Ohio Rangers, 2nd Rhode Island Armoured Regulars, etc, etc). Regulars serve state, not union, which makes them like the state militias of old, but only that they /are/ the army this time, there's no federal regulars to speak of. However, it is indeed the federal level that usually orders the regulars around, only being commanded at the state level when there's a crisis that needs immediate fixing. The second half is the militia, which, as logically expected, are well trained partisans that only fight when the battle reaches their town (State militias were outdated once the regulars system was made). They are mandated to spend 6 hours on one day (The 19th of April, to honor Lexington) drilling, though most units drill
way more than that. When the war doesn't reach their town (I.E. Most of the time), they double as the police officers, keeping law and order.
Air force: Unlike The Army, the Air Force is nationalized. It's moderately sized, but due to where it got from (the USAF), it extremely high-tech. No one is sure if they can keep it that way.
Navy: See Air Force.