Shattered Union

Shattered Union
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Developer(s)	PopTop Software
Publisher(s)	2K Games
Distributor(s)	Take-Two Interactive
Platform(s)	Xbox, Microsoft Windows
Release	October 5, 2005 (Worldwide) October 19, 2005 (GameFly) October 25, 2006 (Steam)
Genre(s)	Turn-based tactics
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Shattered Union is a turn-based tactics video game developed by PopTop Software and published by 2K Games in 2005.

Shattered Union is set in an alternate history version of the United States of America, in which in 2008, presidential candidate David Jefferson Adams has been elected as the 44th President of the United States following a disputed election and a tie vote in the Electoral College (and subsequent tie-breaker by the United States House of Representatives), becoming the most hated and unpopular president in U.S. history. A combination of foreign terrorist attacks and poor economic conditions contributes to civil unrest. As a result, rioting springs up all throughout the United States, resulting in domestic terrorism. In response, President Adams uses the Homeland Security Act and declares martial law on many areas of the country, but it is particularly concentrated in the West Coast.

Four years later, during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, the Supreme Court of the United States disqualifies all the popular presidential candidates from several states, effectively handing Adams his reelection. The public reacts violently when incumbent Adams accepts a second term.

During the Inauguration Ball in Washington, D.C. on the night of January 20, 2013, a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon is detonated in an apparent groundburst, presumably having been concealed there in advance. The yield is sufficient to destroy most of the city, killing Adams, his cabinet, and most of the U.S. Congress, effectively wiping out the presidential line of succession, resulting in the United States being thrust into total chaos.