Within the heart of Sacramento, the newly declared Pacific Union and its representatives gathered together.
The breakaway state consisted of the former states of Washington, Oregon, California, and parts of Nevada.
Like its rivals, the Pacific Union claimed to be the only legitimate heir to the United States proper, and had claims to every state east of its borders. However, de jure and de facto ownership were two very different concepts.
And while the United States as a whole was claimed to be owned by the Pacific Union by right, and by law. The pragmatic reality was that anything east of California was under occupation by other entities whose claims overlapped with theirs.
Others still were in a state of outright open warfare. The Great Basin Empire was the name given to the lands by the self-proclaimed warlord who tore through northern Nevada and parts of southern Idaho and western Utah with little regard for what polity claimed what territory.
