"For Humanity!"
""We are human! We are the people of Earth! This is our world! Ours alone!"
"The Coalition States forever!"
Even weeks after the nuclear devastation, cries such as these ring out from the shadows of the irradiated cities, usually accompanied by moans or the sounds of gunfire.
Once they were shouts of defiance, now they are the ironic epitaphs of a fallen empire.
All the great States of the Coalition have been destroyed: Missouri, Lone Star, Iron Heart and most of all: Chi-Town. Even Fort El Dorado, the site of the Juicer Uprising did not escape the bombardment. The former metropolis now looks more like Madhaven than anything from the Golden Age. Their nose was not simply broken - their skull was completely caved in. There was has some counter statements from Free Quebec, but it has been increasingly drowned out.
Broadcasts from across the North American are constant - speeches and proclamations given by the Dead and Yet Living King as he calls himself. He has claimed the entirety of Illinois as the center of a new 'Tolkeen Empire.'