Developer Diary #6 - Colonies and Decolonization

[Captain Gars]

Ehh... come on man, that's pretty biased. US States tried to leave the union once and look how that turned out... both were federations, both wouldn't let themselves be fractured. It may well be great for gameplay and balance, but it's not historically accurate.

I'd say there's a difference between the southern states wanting to withdraw and the Baltic countries being annexed...

 

[Captain Gars]

Definitely, but do you think any US states would have been allowed leave the US during the cold war? No, they wouldn't, just as Ukraine and Belarus wouldn't have been allowed leave the USSR. The difference is that the USSR was dominated by one of its constituent republics, the US wasn't. So, like I said, for gameplay purposes this may well be the best option.

I think the point by the developers is that it would have been very unlikely for one of the states in the US to try and break lose, while it wouldn't be that strange for some of the Soviet states to try and break free?