50 Crowns for 50 Kings

In 1776, thirteen colonies in the Americas joined together rebelled from their king and gained their independence. They could find common cause in the fight against England, but could not reach a compromise to join together in a common union. In 1788, George Washington I was crowned the first king of Virginia. The other colonies soon crowned their own kings. Today, these lands host 50 staunchly independent nation states in an unstable state of short term alliances and border conflicts. That was ...