The violence and destruction of the Insurrection has been squelched and now the task of rebuilding America must begin. The first order of business is a Constitutional Convention, which replaces the United States of America with the American Republic. Across the country tens of millions of people are mobilized and begin the long and hard task of rebuilding America's cities. The residential sections of every city in America, great and small has been reduced to rubble. Within five years new cities rise up out of the rubble. The task is made simpler for Burton and the N.A.P.A. when it is made know to them of advance technology that had been hidden from the American people since the end of World War Two. Armed with this new technology the country is transform and a new and improved infrastructure is created. The result is an economic boom and soon the American people are enjoying prosperity unlike anything they have known since the 1950s. At the same time tens of millions of non-white people flee the country. Millions flee across the southern border into Mexico while millions more try to sail to the islands in the Caribbean Sea. While America is busy rebuilding itself, the world takes advantage of America's weakness. China exerts its new found economic and military power in Asia, and world witnesses the rise of Militant Expansionist Islam.