I have a sketch of a story in the works. It is set in the year 1974ish. World War 2 never ended. Uboats bomb the poop out of the US eastern seaboard and FDR evacuates the east-of-the-Mississipi art of the US and hunkers down and basically becomes a fascist state. Some people flee the west and build a thriving society largely based on the ideals of the American Revolution, ie self-government and freedom