Chapter 20 - Expansion

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July, 2056

The Union was expanding!

Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas and El Salvador were joining the union.

The treaty signing took place in the Plaza of the Union, a plaza constructed to lead where the North American Congress would eventually meet, Union Hall. However Union hall was not fully constructed yet, so they met in an old theater nearby.

The singing of the treaties took place, and soon they were ratified. Then the flags of Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas and El Salvador were raised along with the other flags of the current members. The band struck up first the national anthem of The Bahamas:

"Lift up your head to the rising sun, Bahamaland;

March on to glory, your bright banners waving high.

See how the world marks the manner of your bearing!

Pledge to excel through love and unity.

Pressing onward, march together

to a common loftier goal;

Steady sunward, tho' the weather

hide the wide and treacherous shoal.

Lift up your head to the rising sun, Bahamaland,

'Til the road you've trod lead unto your God,

March on, Bahamaland!"

Then El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago anthems.

"Welcome to the Union" Alex says and then the Union anthem plays :

"This Land is Your land, This land is my land. From the Arctic Tundra,

to the southern isthmus,

From the Redwood Forests, to the Northwest Passage.

This land is made for you and me.

As I was gliding over the cloud top ,

I saw below me,

an endless prairie

This land was made for you and me" 

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