Given the religious fervor throughout its history, how about naming it after an ancient biblical region?
Transjordan?
Wait. Shit, that won't work, even Jordan's gone woke. Maybe something else in the region?
OH! How about Gilead!?
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Except Transjordan isn't biblical. It's the region of Palestine that became The Kingdom of Jordan. As opposed to Cisjordan, which is the region that became Israel and the present Palestine.
But I don't think we're allowed to say cis anymore. /s
Except Transjordan isn’t biblical
I know, but when I Googled to confirm the name of the country in Handmaid's Tale, I noticed the real Gilead was in Transjordan, saw a joke opportunity sitting there, and that was the smoothest I could work it in. I'm open to workshopping it.
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Clown Country
United States of Lee (after General Robert Lee)
New motto
All For Me and None For Thee
Hey now - why go with Lee when you could go with Forrest and celebrate the first leader of the KKK.
Also, much better statutes.
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Dumbfuckistan
Brawndoland
President Camacho would be a marked improvement.
united states of fuck you, i got mine.
Donald Trump’s Best, Biggest Country in the World, the Biggest, Juiciest Country there is, you know it, folks, No Illegals Allowed, No Fentanyl, All the Guns! And Covfefe!
American States of Maga
And yes, it is infinitely recursive.
Whatever the natives decide on tbh. Turtle island is popular but applies to the continent not the country
The only correct answer.
Annual bidding by major corporations for the opportunity to rename the country each year, stadium style.
Let's go United States of Waste Management
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Divided States of Affairs
Bonerland
El Gabacho
The birth place of Jesus
That's so Utah.
Vespucciland
Just revert to using the old name: Vinland.
Annex of Denmark
We have dibs. But I think we'd welcome another Whisky War ;-)
Denmark 2: American Boogaloo
Pants of Canada
Well, we’ve got Floridick ready and waiting, so that works, but I’m sorry about the itchiness and rash you’re gonna probably want to treat. We’re more like Canada’s Dirty Diaper these days.
Well pants is British for underwear, so it still works!
George Soros' United Commune of Mexifornia
Shitstain
After Hispaniola they made a brief slave raid in the Bahamas, capturing 232 Lucayans, and then returned to Spain.[34] src
i think the cult would call him 'one of the good ones'
Returned to Spain? Traitor!
Hmm, idiocracy fits I guess. Seems to describe our country well enough.
“Yucatán”
Which means “the end of your finger” because the Spanish asked some folks what they were pointing at and they didn’t understand the question
Trumpland. Trumptopia. United states of Trump. Trumplvania. The new republic of Trump.
Just testing the "no wrong answers"
You missed Trumpistan
United States of America (temporary). America as a country isn't making it much longer anyway so no need to think about it too much.
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Hell.