Bruno sat in his new office, today was a day like any other day since assuming the mantle of German Chancellor. Well… that wasn't entirely true. Today there was one distinction.
An intelligence report sat on his table. It wasn't regarding anything of critical and immediate interest to the German Reich, but when Bruno read it, he felt as if he was reminiscing about something that happened a lifetime ago, even if it had already been a matter of years.
The report showed that despite the late President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's attempts to secure a rump state, sense renamed as that would keep the flame of the American republic and its post-enlightenment ideals alive. It had finally fallen beneath the weight of its many enemies.
The American republic was no longer a political entity, it was a historical one. The Rump state since renamed as the Union of Columbia fell to a Canadian invasion after initiating a border conflict with their northern neighbor.
