America: The Obliged, America: The Obliged

In 2044, United States President Aiden Connor has bought out faithless electors in the 2044 US presidential election with the backing of wanton oligarchs who are dead-set on pushing their latest artificial intelligence-aided war machines for use in a slogging war across Europe and Asia. It's the latest development in the atrophy of the United States government, one that has been underway for over two decades. The judiciary has been deposed for years. The military was cashiered for artificial intelligence commandeered by the oligarchs.Congress hangs on by a thread.With the presidency secured, President Connor needs only from his personal security detail, the deadly and reputable Blue Mountain Boys militia, a small favor to consolidate his power as the singular head of state.A purge of Washington.As the new congress scrambles to address the president's latest power grab, Chase Lewis and his best friend, the newly elected Illinois Representative Alyssa Cambridge, arrive in Washington with a different agenda. Dead set with delivering on twenty years of promise to save the derelict middle class, the two are tossed into a tempest of turmoil as the ambitions of the president and the meek power of congress steamroll into the finality of the years-long constitutional crisis.When Chase and Alyssa, alongside a litany of other congressional members, are captured by the young Blue Mountain Boys militant leader, Derrick Reddon, their ambitions change from saving the middle class to saving themselves. As the president moves to consolidate his power, the militia itself now scrambles to survive the latest manifestation of the president.Together, the militants and members of congress forge an unlikely alliance to save the republic from the empirical ambitions of the president. An alliance that will test friendship, love, and loyalty to the bone. Facing down rival militant groups, anarchists, horrific state-of-the-art weaponry, and an authoritarian president that will stop at nothing to eradicate the remaining members of congress, the team forges a path forward for both them and the collapsed nation. They must balance the limitations of politics, love, and friendship while finding a solution to resurrect the nation from ruin. Only then will these young patriots learn what it means to be among America's Obliged.