Civil War 2024. After the secession of Texas and California and the balkanization of other States and local regions around the once-United States, the federal government has declared war against American-led rebellion. A group of journalists are traveling to Washington DC taking dangerous risks to document and cover the front lines of a second American civil war. During this crisis communities go their own way, radical militants are abound, the US dollar faces hyperinflation, bartering becomes reality, Americans are killing Americans as the country becomes vulnerable to foreign intervention.