Pre-Imperial

With the death of major United Nations personnel, the Terran Council appointed itself de facto world government.

In the wake of the Election of 2036 CE.

Incumbent Kaitlyn Taft and challenger Chrystal Gilliat-Moore deadlocked in the Electoral College, throwing the election into the House of Representatives. After eight months of public hearings, partisan infighting, sexual scandal, and the highest TV ratings ever recorded, the House awarded the Presidency to Jeff Boardmann, Ohio's junior Senator. Both Taft and Gilliatt-Moore vanished from public life; it was rumored in the Washington Post that they were married in Vermont and moved to Alaska to set up a lesbian commune for disenchanted former-politicos.