Locoti (/ləˈkoʊti/ 🔊, Esperanto: Likotio /likoˈti.o/ 🔊), also called the United Leagues among other names, sometimes referred to totum pro parte as Turtle Island, and officially known as the Union of the Leagues of Commons of Turtle Island (Esperanto: la Unio de la Ligoj de Komunejoj de Testuda Insulo), is a socialist state in northern Abya Yala. Styling itself as “the Decolonial State”, Locoti is a federation of 100 leagues of commons (LOCs), the most populous of which are the LOC for Lenapehoking (which includes Locoti’s most populous city, Manaháhtaan-Liberigo), the LOC for the Haudenosaunee Lands, the LOC for Tovaangar, and the CLOC for New Afrika. The capital of Locoti is Nova Profeturbo, a planned city named in reference to Prophetstown, a multi-tribal village founded in 1808 by Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa during their efforts to resist US settler expansion, and destroyed in the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. Locoti’s national anthem, simply titled “Potpourri” (Esperanto: “Kvodlibeto”, lit. “A Quodlibet”), is a medley of folk songs from different constituent nations, beginning with “Shí Naashá”, a song about the return of the Diné from Bosque Redondo in 1868, which became a popular marching song among Indigenous militias during the Locotian Revolution (2057-2059).
With an area of 19.8 million km^2^ spread across seven time zones, Locoti is the world’s second largest country by area, behind only the Soviet Union. Locoti comprises roughly the northern four-fifths of Turtle Island per se, stretching from Unangam Tanangin in the far west to Taqamkuk in the far east; from Umingmak Nuna in the Arctic Archipelago in the far north — which is the northernmost point of Abya Yala when excluding Greenland — to the Florida Keys in the far south. Locoti’s only land border is with Mexico, an open border defined by the course of the Rio Grande and a set of arbitrary straight lines set by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the First US-Mexican War. Locoti’s territorial waters also border those of Cuba, the Bahamas, Greenland, and the Soviet Union.
With a population of 450 million people, Locoti is the world’s seventh largest country by population, behind only India, China, the European Federation, East Africa, the Soviet Union, and Indonesia. With an estimated 430+ languages spoken or signed within its borders, Locoti is also among the world’s most linguistically diverse countries. The most common first languages in Locoti remain English, Spanish, and French, all of these being Western European languages introduced to Abya Yala during the continent’s colonization. The number of native speakers of English has however decreased significantly in recent decades as a result of Locoti’s investment in immersion programs for endangered languages during the Crush Anglo Chauvinism campaign. This campaign also established Hand Talk and Esperanto as the primary and secondary official languages of Locoti’s federal government respectively, making Locoti the only sovereign state in the world with a sign language as its primary official language, and one of only three sovereign states with a constructed language as an official language — the others being the European Federation, which has Esperanto and Interslavic as its official languages; and lutruwita, whose official language is palawa kani.
Locoti is the successor to the United States of America (USA). The USA was a settler-colonial bourgeois dictatorship declared in 1776 by settlers revolting against the British Empire during the colonization of Abya Yala. Many of these settlers, including notable figures among them such as George Washington, owned chattel slaves stolen from West Africa, or descended from such victims of human trafficking. The fundamental unsustainability of this slave system as shown by Nat Turner’s rebellion and the Raid on Harpers Ferry would eventually culminate in the First US Civil War (1861-1865), but not before the USA would send freedmen to colonize Liberia out of the belief that this would prevent them from organizing slave revolts. The First US Civil War concluded with the formal abolition of chattel slavery and led into the First Reconstruction (1865-1877). However, the newly-former chattel slaves and their descendants, who are today known as New Afrikans, would continue to be exploited for forced labor, as well as segregated, lynched, mistreated by police, never compensated for their injuries under chattel slavery, and generally oppressed, until the Locotian Revolution. New Afrikans are today the largest ethnic group in the highly pluralistic society of Locoti, and their cultural output continues to be enjoyed worldwide.
Following the Second World War, the USA, largely unscathed by the war, and engorged on the profits of stolen land and labor, quickly vassalized much of the world as the new head of the imperialist system. The decline of imperialism in the 21st century led to a period known as the Great Farce (c. 2015-2050), characterized by the rise of Donald Trump, the annexation of Greenland and Canada into the USA, the disastrous Second US-Mexican War, and in 2036 the St. Lawrence Crisis triggered the Second US Civil War (2037-2042) — another violent internal conflict between bourgeois factions, this time also triggering the Deluge of Elephants, the greatest refugee crisis in human history, in which approximately 72 million Usonians fled to Europe. The descendants of the refugees from the Second US Civil War are today known as Americans, and this group played a crucial role in the prelude to the Locotian Revolution, and during the revolution itself, which happened at the tail end of the Second Reconstruction (2042-2057).
