The American Government is recovering from a civil war. Now in the future, there is one government. The Federal government unites the states into one state, called the United State, "One Nation under God." It is a country with almost zero unemployment. A country where everyone has a place. Drugs and prostitution are legal. There are high taxes to be paid, and anyone not paying their debts is arrested by the nation's secret task force: the collectors.
The world is engulfed in war, plague, and famine.
Seasons of the Apocalypse shows the journey
its occupants take living in this new world.