The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic currently consisting of eleven states and a capital district, located in western North America. It also was a federal constitutional republic consisting of 50 states and a capital district in North America and the Hawaiian Islands, pre-Doomsday. After Doomsday, surviving government officials relocated to the nation of Australia, forming a sort of government-in-exile officially known as the American Provisional Administration which disbanded in 1995.