Literature
The Cradle of War - Chaper 5
The Default State - USA
The United States of America stared unhappily out at the blurred cityscape through windows opaque with rain. Despondently, his eyes followed leaves being whipped around by the stubborn gale coming in from the sea, putting off his duties for just a few minutes. Two documents lay at his elbow, an original and its translation. He didn’t need the translation, had been able to read Chinese for well over a century by now, but it was nevertheless customary to translate all foreign documents into English before he saw them. It was foolish, really. Just a way of establishing nationality, borders, to distinguish him from