The second American civil war in Lossless splits along infrastructure: data centers, grids, reactors, rights-of-way. This map shows the two sides, the swing powers and the first ten days of the war, day by day. It stops at Day 10, where the book’s opening stops. Later events are blacked out.
Tap a pointSquares are the Compact's islands of compute. Circles are the Refusal. The hatched state is Texas, which keeps its grid to itself.
The first ten days
Days count from the burning at Kermit. The book fixes no calendar year for Day 0.
Who holds what at D+10
The Compact
Motto: Five nines. Instrument: the compact clause, Art. I §10. Theaters named for cloud regions. Treasury: the model weights. About 37 million people.
The Refusal
Motto: Not for training. Instruments: Vermont's 1777 article and Butler's contraband ruling. Committees of Safety, union locals, congregations, treaty councils. About 8 million.
The swing powers
Texas, through the ERCOT control room. Utah, through the Church. Québec, through Hydro-Québec. About 35 million.
The hinterland
About 250 million people, unaligned. The war is fought by a minority and watched by everyone else.
The deep clock
The war in Lossless opens along lines laid down long before it. Real entries are documented history. Coinage entries belong to the book.