America

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	America (阿美利卡)
Affiliation	City on the Peak; Freedom Alliance 110 437
Status	Fragmented by internal conflict, extreme weather, Super Monkeypox, industrial collapse, and civil war; it loses nearly one-fifth of its population. 613
First Appearance	Chapter 49

Background / History

America and the City on the Peak are described as two sides of the same entity: America operates openly, while the City on the Peak operates covertly. The Council's confirmed subordinate organizations include the global intelligence network Black Ship, the special-support organization Knights, and the Franklin Foundation, which links major corporate interests. 110

It initially seeks to contain Homo sapiens Company's growth in Luzon and later treats the company's rising military and aerospace capabilities as a strategic threat. Its intelligence and military institutions repeatedly struggle to penetrate the company's closed system or match its technology. 49 251 511

After the Southeast Asian naval confrontation, America is forced into negotiations in Persia. It ultimately agrees to abandon Changi Base and Diego Garcia Island Base and withdraw the Seventh Fleet from the Strait of Malacca rather than risk nuclear escalation. 284

Government and Power Structure

• City on the Peak Council — The covert ruling structure behind America; major families, including the Morgan, Rockefeller, DuPont, Cleveland, and Melon families, compete for wealth and influence within it. 110 366
• Black Ship — A global intelligence organization that includes the CIA. It investigates Homo sapiens Company and suffers major losses attempting to infiltrate it. 110 511
• Pentagon — Directs military planning, strategic intelligence, and deployments against Homo sapiens Company. 288 440
• Federal Reserve, tax companies, accounting companies, banks, and military-industrial complexes — Institutions mobilized by the Council to extract wealth and preserve domestic stability. 493 499

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early containment and covert conflict

America seeks to retain influence in Luzon and treats the expanding Homo sapiens Company as a growing challenge to its regional position. Homo sapiens Company uses the Three-Leaf Oak alias in Latin America partly to divert American attention away from Southeast Asia. 79 164

The Black Ship redeploys global intelligence assets after coordinated attacks reveal an unidentified force capable of operating across the world. Homo sapiens Company later confirms that it has infiltrated the Black Ship's Southeast Asian branch, with roughly 7% of its members serving as Security Department moles. 158 199

War scare and the Persia negotiations

A dirty-bomb attack near the King's Bay submarine base exposes the vulnerability of American territory and prompts an intensive Black Ship investigation. 201

As Homo sapiens Company's nuclear capability becomes apparent, America faces a comprehensive disadvantage in Southeast Asia, the West Pacific, and the East Ceylon Ocean. Its remaining deterrent is nuclear mutually assured destruction. 282

At the Persia talks, America sends Marian, Edward Jackson, and Victor as representatives. The resulting secret agreement averts further conflict but compels major concessions in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. 283 284

Freedom Alliance and the Latin American contest

America forms the Freedom Alliance with Britain, Maple Leaf Country, Kangaroo Country, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and America Canal Country. The alliance is intended to counter Homo sapiens Company and recruit further Latin American partners. 437

Homo sapiens Company answers by openly deploying its Third Pacific Fleet near America Canal Country and establishing a foothold in New Granada. America reinforces the canal zone with troops, a fighter squadron, and a strategic deterrence battalion carrying B93 hydrogen bombs and biochemical weapons. 437 440

America considers arming the Inca Kingdom and Santiago to prevent their alignment with Homo sapiens Company, but its influence in Latin America remains limited by local anti-American factions and Homo sapiens Company's presence. 440 441

Decline and internal crisis

America's economy becomes increasingly burdened by concentrated wealth, competing corporate blocs, high costs, and declining access to foreign resources. Thomas Morgan concludes that North America cannot mobilize its resources as efficiently as Homo sapiens Company. 366

The Council responds to competition by raising taxes on major capital families and wealthy individuals, restricting welfare, increasing living costs, and using trade barriers and propaganda against Homo sapiens Company. 366 399

After the spread of Super Monkeypox, internal conflict escalates into a struggle among regional consortiums. California, Texas, and Chicago retain local control, while the Morgan and Rockefeller consortiums lose assets and lack a stable territorial base. 579

America ultimately suffers a devastating demographic and institutional collapse: starvation, civil war, severe weather, disease, industrial failure, agricultural failure, and population loss exhaust its remaining vitality. 613

Military and Strategic Position

• America maintains a global military posture through fleets, overseas bases, strategic weapons, and the Pentagon's intelligence apparatus. 281 440
• Its military is unable to confidently defeat Homo sapiens Company in conventional war after prior defeats and the emergence of nuclear deterrence. 288 431
• American analysts identify Homo sapiens Company's super-submarine and Longer Gun as especially severe threats; its submarines are assessed as superior in diving depth and noise reduction. 289
• The Pentagon considers laser and microwave weapons among its few feasible responses to Homo sapiens Company's giant airships, while gamma-ray weapon development is judged prohibitively expensive and dangerous. 443
• America erects more than one hundred hardened, insect-resistant secret bases in North America to counter Homo sapiens Company's insect surveillance and intelligence-gathering methods. 488
• In the first quarter of one year, Homo sapiens Company kills 573 Black Ship personnel, forcing American intelligence to rely increasingly on tourism, online collection, and satellite observation rather than direct infiltration. 511

Economy and Domestic Conditions

• America pressures foreign automakers to establish North American factories or leave its market, contributing to a temporary recovery in Detroit's automotive industry. 399
• Ordinary North Americans face higher prices, reduced welfare, higher income taxes, and dependence on low-wage imported “trainees” in factories. 399
• Its domestic power generation reaches 6.6 trillion kilowatt-hours, while Homo sapiens Company's generation exceeds it by more than twenty times. 482
• North American immigration falls by about 96%, and technical immigration nearly ceases as talent increasingly chooses Homo sapiens Company. 488
• During the later crisis, breakdowns in production, transport, logistics, and communications turn resource scarcity into armed conflict and widespread disorder. 578

Relationships

• City on the Peak — America’s covert counterpart; the two are described as one entity with overt and covert faces. 110
• Homo sapiens Company — Principal strategic rival; their conflict spans intelligence, trade, military deterrence, propaganda, and competition for global labor and markets. 284 399 493
• Freedom Alliance — Alliance led by America to counter Homo sapiens Company. 437
• European Combine, China, and Russia — Cooperate with America as the Four Great Powers under pressure from Homo sapiens Company, though their cooperation remains reluctant and divided. 463 493
• America Canal Country — A core Freedom Alliance member whose canal is regarded as vital to American maritime transport. 437 440
• Inca Kingdom and Santiago — Seek American economic and military aid to resist Homo sapiens Company's advance in Latin America. 440
• Japan — Pressures the US Seventh Fleet at Yokosuka during America’s internal collapse, threatening to cut supplies. 578

Trivia

• America blocks discussion of the Eighth Degree Strait naval battle on major internet platforms because public awareness of the defeat could create severe domestic pressure during negotiations. 283
• Its intelligence agencies conceal Homo sapiens Company's destruction of satellites with gamma-ray weapons by attributing the losses to solar storms. 442
• The City on the Peak Council uses Hollywood and internet firewalls to damage Homo sapiens Company's public image and restrict information flow. 399