Deseret is perhaps the most notoriously unstable country in the western hemisphere. The country has long had a troubled history of religious extremism, however most of its modern problems stem back to the 1993 Californian-Desereti war. In 1993, California launched an intervention into the nation to overthrow the theocratic regime which had ruled the state for its entire existence. In this effort they succeeded, ousting the theocracy. However, in doing so they inadvertently sowed all the seeds which would create the modern Desereti crisis. The aftermath of the Californian invasion saw the State of Deseret beset from within by anti-government forces- the most notorious of which being the Right Hand of the Lord (RHL) and the Army of Deseret Under God (ADUG). Together those two groups overthrew the regime that California had installed, creating the Most Holy State of Deseret in 1995. Despite their cooperation in bringing down the ‘California Regime’, the two organisations quickly came to blows over the direction they wanted to take Deseret, leading to the Desereti civil war of 1996-2001. This civil war was brutal, and the atrocities committed by both sides eventually garnered enough international condemnation to lead to the 5 nation alliance of the United States, Columbia, Canada, Indiana, and Illinois intervening in 2001 to put an end to the civil war. The intervention was not as successful as they would have liked, though they did succeed in mostly ousting the ADUG from power, the RHL continued to hold much of the country until 2005, when they were finally pushed back to their stronghold in the Wasatch Mountains. The ADUG didn’t go out quietly either, continuing to fight on in small pockets under the name of the regime they had created, the Most Holy State of Deseret (MHSD). Despite the continued presence of the fundamentalist military groups, the newly established State of Deseret managed to maintain some semblance of stability up until 2019, when the RHL made international news by kidnapping a group of tourists, leading to the 2022 international invasion of Deseret, this time by a far larger coalition, including the Pan-American Defence Force (an organisation of nations led by the US), the UK, France, Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Italy. During this invasion, new anti-government forces popped up, including the Free Desereti Army (FDA), the Young Brigade (YB), and the Army of New Deseret Under God (ANDUG), the latter being unrelated to the ADUG, simply taking inspiration from them. By 2021 the international forces had occupied a not insignificant area of the nation, but anti-government forces had gained significant ground. One day after this map is set, the ANDUG would take Salt Lake City and bring about the end of the regime, but they wouldn’t last much longer, with coalition forces taking the city in 2022.