Western Reconstruction

"With secured power comes secured assistance."

- Michael Dayne in announcing Western Reconstruction The Western Reconstruction was a political focus of The American Empire from 2023 to 2033 which had the purpose of fixing long-time issues in the western hemisphere through the harnessing of manpower and recourse focus on a level obtainable only through absolute Imperial power.

USA and Canada
Western Reconstruction began in the northern part of the Americas through a roots-to-leaves approach. This meant several months of government reform before anything else. With the technical abolition of the United States of America, every non-Imperial conflicting law is revisited and evaluated from the federal level down to the local level. This process, the rewriting of all laws, began nearly immediately after the Empire is formed, and is completed in late 2025. With this rewriting comes in the consideration of new federal laws under Dayne's Constitution.

The roots-to-leaves approach at a national level comes in the form of a capitalization of importance on proper education for all Americans. The national education system is universally reformed to the most effective modern techniques, and its budget is controlled at a federal level and tripled.

Gangs are suffocated with the decriminalization of nearly every drug. With the influx in community spending due to the rewritten laws in low-income neighborhoods, combined with the reformed education system, gang membership decreased 75% from 2025 to 2028.

Central and South America
With the majority of Central and South America being controlled exclusively at local levels by warring cartels, the entire region reflects a similar situation to the old wars in the Middle East, on a continent-level scale. Because the Inquisition was started and loosely controlled by Michael Dayne during his presidency of the United States, the situation was more manageable than its Middle East comparison. The CIA puppetted most of the cartels through a supply line of weapons and intel from 2020. From late 2023, Emperor Dayne began carefully constructing a mass purge of all cartels with assistance of several military, political, and agency leaders. On June 1st, 2025, The Cartel Holocaust began. Seven months later, over 1.1 million cartel members or associates had been slaughtered, American forces rushing in to ensure no power vacuums happened in the region and Central and South America began to be rebuilt from almost the ground up in 2026.