United States of the Atlantic Ridge

The United States of the Atlantic Ridge are a series of widespread oil and mineral extraction-based communities that have come to dominate the underseas along the mid-Atlantic ridge, stretching from pole to pole. Enigmatic and previously prone to violence against any trespassers into their territory, with the advent of the Mechanism they have mellowed greatly, but still refuse access to their territory to outsiders. Their government believes that it has solved the dilemma of Marxism in the 20th and 21st centuries, and now have reached the ability to progress to a truly Communist society. With the strict controls necessary to maintain life beneath the seas, the United States of the Atlantic Ridge are in possession of near-absolute power within their nation.

The USAR government was one of the first to see the benefits of the Mechanism, because on the personal level it meant that violent rebellion against the government was now impossible. On the level of the community however, the reliance of undersea communities on oxygen electrolysis, the movement of resources and population, and food production, meant that the USAR government was able to control communities through the denial of necessary resources without resorting to violence itself.

Earth-based Atlantic Resources and Technology

Current Settlements
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