Imperial-Ascendance

Religion:
While old Judeo-Abrahamic religions were once prevalent in the first few centuries of the Imperium’s existence, the desire for unity led to the formation of the Constitutional Temple, a religious assembly composed of representatives from multiple independent churches that adhere to a religion known as Esoteric Liberty. Combining aspects of multiple religions with the deification of American historical figures and symbols, adherents of the faith believe that true human liberty can be achieved through the destruction of imperfections in the human collective consciousness; these imperfections often manifest themselves in the form of the so-called Great Deviances: Anarchy (a lack of order is a lack of a fulfilling life), Sexual Degeneracy (the nuclear family is the lifeblood of the nation as opposed to the perversion of the sexual deviant), Citizen Taxation (taxation is theft, and theft is sin), and Disrespect for Country (the state is the arm of the Lord, and the Lord judg

The Third American Imperium, while ostensibly a continuation of the United States of America, applies governmental practices similar in many aspects to the Roman Empire of early human antiquity. The position of First Citizen in particular was based off of both the Presidents of the United/Interstellar States of America and the historical Emperor of Rome: the First Citizen, being the head of state of the Imperium, is elected by an official council of the most important governmental factions of the Imperium: the Senate, the Department of Defense, and the Constitutional Temple (a convention of quasi-religious bodies sanctioned and given special privilege by the Imperial government). Many First Citizens in particular are appointed from positions in the Senate and the Department of Defense. Once elected by representatives of these three bodies, the First Citizen reigns for life, unconstrained by term limits as in the old United/Interstellar States presidency, in full control of what are reg

The Third American Imperium, given its vast size and the distances between traveling its controlled systems, inherited numerous cultures and human ethnicities that had populated the regions of the galaxy beyond the Orion Arm and the Sol system. Understanding the nature of galactic American culture also means understanding the context in which it arose, despite debates as to how it exactly formed, beyond the propaganda.
The original United States of America espoused a “melting pot” format of cultural assimilation; immigrant cultures were expected to abide by American values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness while retaining some traces of ethnic identity within the greater American macrocosm. This was, however, an unequal order, as minority races were often at the receiving end of unequal practices related to racism both institutional and non-institutional in varying cases. In the middle of the 20th century AD, rising ethnic and economic tensions in the United St