the People's Republic of America has been created, featuring only contiguous red states. Every other former state is now it's own, independent nation.
Yes, that means you now need a passport to travel between New York and New Jersey.
Washington, DC no longer has a reason
to exist. It has been swalloed by Virginia. The rest of the White House was destroyed in order to house a bus station that no one ever uses. The Pentagon was turned into the Impregnable, a now famous nightclub.
The capitol of the PRA is Ellisville, Mississippi.
#WeirdDream but ya know...