Ghettos
States
States noun - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776.
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It describes the life of Martha Washington, an impoverished black girl born into one of the worst ghettos of Chicago in a dystopian near-future, with the United States on the verge of civil war.
Source: Comicbook / Give Me Liberty -
Games Workshop's now-defunct Dark Future had an America of the mid-90s wracked by environmental damage, essentially owned by Japanese megacorp GenTech in which the cities were divided into Policed Zones and No-Go Ghettos and most of the Southern States were effectively independent of Washington.
Source: Fallen States of America - Featured prominently in Give Me Liberty, with inner-city ghettos turned into virtual prisons, fast-food restaurants waging war for farmland, and the Divided States of America on the verge of a fifteen-way civil war.
Source: Crapsack World / Comic Books
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