[b]Nation's full name:[/b] United States of America

[b]Population:[/b] 150,697,361 per the 1950 Census

[b]Current leadership:[/b] 

Harry S Truman - President
Alben Barkley - Vice President
Dean Acheson - Secretary of State
George C. Marshall - Secretary of Defense 
General Omar Bradley - Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Douglas MacArthur - Supreme Commander Allied Powers, Japan
Walter Bedell Smith - Director of Central Intelligence 

[b]Government Type:[/b] Federal, presidential constitutional republic 

[b]Military Strength:[/b]

As of 1950

[u]Army[/u]
593,167
[u] Navy[/u]
380,739
[u]Air Force[/u]
411,277
[u]Marines[/u]
74,279

[u]Total[/u]
1,459,462

[u]Occupation Forces[/u]

West Berlin/West Germany: 80,000
Austria: 9,500
Trieste: 4,800
Japan and Japanese Islands: 50,000
 

[b]State of the Union Summary:[/b]

Five years removed from the end of World War II, The United States now stands as the dominant superpower in the western world. The culture, economic philosophy, and of course the Truman Doctrine and its vow to stop Communist expansion around the globe has placed the US as the main foe to the Soviet Union. American military and economic might in the form of the occupation of western Germany and the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe have been two of the biggest foreign policy efforts of the Truman administration. George Kennan's policy of communist containment has spurred Truman and his administration to be tough on Communist aggression abroad. On the domestic front, a growing movement by Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy has placed the fear of Communist infiltration in the government in the minds of many US citizens. Another growing movement is the Civil Rights movement throughout the southern states. Black voters in the south seek to break free of the Jim Crow laws that have led to their disenfranchisement while the Democratic Party fights with its image as the part of liberal america while many Southern Democrats fight tooth and nail to prevent blacks from getting the vote.