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The American Empire was a belligerent pre-Sixty Minute War nation located in North America.

According to Professor Nimrod Beauregard Pennyroyal, The American Empire was the most dominant nation which was said to rule the world.

History[]

The American Empire engaged Greater China in the Sixty Minute War by 2116. The surface was utterly destroyed by nukes, orbital strikes, virus-bombs and asteroids, and the entire land mass was then known as the Dead Continent. (Anchorage was the only surviving population 'center', despite the infrastructure being vaporized; but the population remained nomadic until the first traction boom hit, and the current traction city was built. In other parts of the world, the English language survived, the dialects merging to form Anglish.)

Cities in the American Empire[]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • In the original version of Mortal Engines, America was full of traction cities.[1]
  • Philip Reeve does believe that the Dead Continent is full of traction cities. However, he made America "dead" to avoid having to build traction Chicago, Milwaukee, and New York; which would've made the books "too big".[2]
  • All such cities were eventually mentioned in Predator's Gold.
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