The Last Days, Years of America

And year after year, for a time that is anybody's guess, the government struggled with this and what police and soldiers were not utterly corrupt came forth to fill the roles of heroes. 

And America got to where it was as good as it could be and this was universally understood and all parties knew that was not enough. 

III. 

So in a desperate attempt to start going again tremendous ships were assembled for passage to Europe and, eventually, Tequistan. What hope lay there was hard to express in words, but that any could live in the nightmare that was fallen America was profoundly more absurd. Times like these force you to know what you're made of. 

And so the people got into ships (while the upperclasses and most of the government rounded up airplanes) and they set towards whatever the future might be.

Ultimately crossing the land on foot and what crude vehicles they could manage. A pilgrimage to a holy land that each considered unnamable. 
And that place came to be American-Tequistan. 
And that is where this story begins. 

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