United States

The United States is a federal republic comprising 50 states located on the North American continent.

In Prey (2017)
The United States in the alternate history of Prey began active cooperation with the Soviet Union in 1960 as a response to the threat of the Typhon encountered on the Vorona-1 Satellite, resulting in the creation of the Kletka (Cage) project, a space station designed to contain the Typhon in orbit around the moon. However, following a failed assassination attempt on US President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the United States took over the program from the Soviets, incorporating the space station as part of their Axiom Program by building crew quarters and laboratories above the Typhon containment cells. Following the disastrous Pobeg incident, in where several Typhon escaped and killed a research team in 1980, the United States eventually shuttered the project and abandoned the station.

Trivia

 * The United States is mentioned to exercise heavy control on space-based development circa 2035, having funded and constructed the first space elevator, the White Stork Tower. As a result of their near complete control of orbital development and activity, other nations, led by the World Union of Space Industry (WUSI), are implied to be lagging behind in terms of space-based development.
 * John F. Kennedy appears to have completed his term as President of the United States, and has also lived up to the age of 114. This implies a connection between him and TranStar's board of directors, given their rumored use of advanced life-extension technology.