Governments
Governments come in two flavors: Regional Governments (that are small and corrupt), and Transnational Governments (that are implacable, distant, and uncaring). The interplay between these creates work for Assets, and the general level of lawlessness that multi-jurisdictional existence entails provides people a place to hide in a suitably cyberpunk fashion.
At the top is the International Monetary Fund. They are the ones who decide whether your money is worth anything, and also issue $piders, the only universally accepted currency. Their agenda is make things better for investors who happen to have accounts with the International Monetary Fund. This means that sometimes they try to improve the economy of your region (because a growing economy raises the value of investments), and sometimes they try to bottom out your region's economy (because a prostrate economy is cheap to buy into on the "ground floor"). It all depends on how much of your region the bankers interested in your region who happen to have voting shares at the IMF already own in your region.
Regionally important for North America is the North American Union. It's a trans-governmental government agency that was agreed upon by Canada, Mexico, and the US back when they were all coherent countries. Today it extends all the way to Panama and includes most of the Caribbean. Their agenda is to bind regions in North America closer together and eventually stage a complete unification where they become a super empire that would be a real country. Thus they sponsor any and all proposed inter-regional trade whether or not it makes any economic sense, and attempt to fight separatism and external threats to the North American states.
Regional Governments include:
Aridoamérica
It is a band across what is now Northern Mexico and including tiny parts of Arizona and New Mexico. It includes Deming, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona is a disputed border city that is largely depopulated because of regional instability. They embrace the magical traditions of traditional Chichimecan Shamanism and Nuevo Anasazi. It is largely a Mad Max wild land where the three main drug gangs (based in Tijuana, Juarez, and Reynosa) wield more real power individually than the government in Chihuahua.
Aztlan
This is Central and parts of Southern Mexico. Ciudad de Mexico has been renamed Tenochtitlan and they lay claim to everything that used to be in Mexico. That includes California. The embrace the magical traditions of Nahuali (Aztec Magic) and Curandera (a more Spanish-Mexican form of sorcery). They are aggressive, and they play court ball.
Maya
The Yucatan gets it right in the wang when sea levels rise 30 centimeters, and when the central government of Mexico does fuck-all about it, the Mayan people secede. Maya united Belize, Guatemala, and the Western half of Honuras. They embrace the magical traditions of
Mosquito Union
The Mosquito Coast is unified, largely under the guidance of Miskito sorcerers, but also with the guiding interest of a group of British biotech firms. The national language in Mosquito is English. Mosquito includes Eastern Honduras and all of Nicuragua. Costa Rica is a Spanish-speaking protectorate. The Miskitians embrace the magical tradition of Miskito and Mosquito, the former being based on traditionalist tribal beliefs and the latter being based heavily in modern theories of biotech and insect-grafts.
Colorado
Denver has the all-important economic infrastructure that allows the people who think they are still in the United States and live in the Mountain Time Zone to continue functioning. They embrace Nuevo Anasazi and Navajo ’áńt’įįzhį.
California
As the Colorado state government is the defacto national government for Albuquerque, Kansas City, and Omaha, the state government in California provides administration and currency for Portland and Las Vegas. Those who submit to Californication embrace the magical traditions of Aquarianism and Western Technomancy, which are rooted in Hippyism and high energy physics, respectively.
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