Meet the United People’s Front.

Named after the river running through the country’s two beating hearts, the People’s Democratic Republic of Northern Mississippi was created out of the remnants of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa following the Third American Civil War. As the American monarchy fell apart and the country fractured into pieces, the socialist United People’s Front and monarchists in the region ended war with the Treaty of Minneapolis in 1921. The monarchists surrendered power, allowing the UPF to create the Prism Test as long as the royal “Whites” were exempt from the test, thus creating the fracture.

The UPF has ruled the country for ninety-nine years now, and power has gone to their heads. Their totalitarian rule has oppressed the population through the Prism and command economy, and people are growing restless. Some within the remnants of the monarchy are also watching the UPF, remembering the times of old when they ruled.

Tensions are high and everything is fragile in this glass world. All it would take is the right catalyst for the fracture to expand and threaten the system itself.

Read more about the United People’s Front in The Prism Files, starting with The Fractured Prism.