The United States of America has collapsed and the continent is breaking into individual sovereignties based on geography, culture, political persuasion, and economics. The story is told through the eyes of Sam Buckwalter, one of the founders of Appalachian America, a new nation forming in the true Appalachian Mountains of the continent.He visits many of the other new nations to learn what they did and how they were created. Then he helps Appalachian America through a Constitutional Convention where they write a constitution for their new nation based on the original U. S. Constitution.