This isn't USUK, buuuuut...everything else is!

The date is left forgotten in the snowy vast land near the intersection of Harlow and Arlek that was once named North Dakota - a small town named Nien. The roads are empty except for one lone Jeep that sits at the end of the ivory blanket, watching as a scarecrow. However, this man is not looking for crows. This man is not in North Dakota. This man sits and waits without a pulse and a welt in his head in the land of the New Russian Federation.

The sea of white that fell for miles in the direction of south held new beginnings for those that have not left to safe havens that the Clockwork does not yet know about. Trees are scattered where the gently plowed road peters out into thinning tunnels through the mountains that border the small town. All around is white - white is everything this land has known.

To the east is one road cutting straight through the snow. A dirt road, one barely wide enough to fit a smaller sedan (not that there were many around anymore). To the left, just past halfway of the visible road, sits a single baby blue house. The picket fence is stained black, and the windows are smashed in. Red-stained curtains are blowing softly in the breeze; the white door lays smashed twenty yards down on the road. To the west, nothing can be seen. There is no road; there are no people.

To the north, however, is a pandemonium. Black stacks pierce the sky in rapid succession, a mass of bodies crowd around one small section of chain link fence that stands twenty, thirty feet in the air. Many men, women, and children gather around in dark clothes and begin to beg for anything to help them survive - food, water, shelter. A single match. A scarf, perhaps.

The expanse of the prison in which divides the New Russian Federation and Canada stretches from the furthest point west on what was once Washington state to the last point of outstretched land that was once Maine. It is a simple black wall that lies slightly south of the Canadian border - only 100 feet to avoid border control issues.