Up until the early 1800, Earth's history and Compliance's alternate Earth's are the same in every aspect.

1803

After a long battle against a ravaging plague that left few survivors disfigured and body paralyzed and twisted, the remaining citizens of the United States were rounded up by Jefferson into the Northern States. A fence with barbed wire was erected to protect the border of the seven sectors: Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The fence was meant to keep the sick outside, so that no one comes in without proper quarantine. It was put up no less than ten miles from the shore, so that no one might enter the protected zone, but that also meant that no one would come out.

The seat of power was moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1825

The government was toppled by a coup. The woman that spearheaded the replacement of a government that she felt was failing the people was no other than Hannah Tompkins, the vice-president's wife. She had strong family values, and strong religious values. The first draft of the Mandatory Birth Quota was submitted.

President Tompkins believed that it would ensure proper growth if sustained for a few generations. With the bill refused by the congress, she went back to the drawing board.

Backed up by her Bishop, since she was promoting marriage and family, and guided by the man who would never know – at least in an official manner – the joys of paternity, a second draft was put in.

The government responsibilities of giving people money and house to raise these children remained the same.

The population tried to rise against it, but President Tompkins was prepared and quelled the rebellious voices in a most definitive manner. Rather than to make them martyrs to rally to, it made them example. In the same swing, President Tompkins made herself sole decision-maker for the seven states, officially becoming a dictator and thought off as benevolent dictator in her good days, a tyrant in her bad ones. There was no more congress, no more elections, she remained president until the day she died at which point her vice-president took over. From then on, the leading figure of the United States of America were rarely men.

The government propaganda begins to instill the belief that the plague that has killed so many has turned the infected survivors into blood thirsty monsters kept at bay by the fence. It's a lie, but with the recent display of force, no one is willing to challenge it and go see for themselves. What if it was true?

1903

The propaganda worked, and is still being pushed by the government so that the level of fear at being banished remains.

For the 100th anniversary of the end of the plague, a new and more solid wall was built. A trade was opened with the Protected Canadian Territories, the only other country to still exist, as far as the United States citizens are concerned. Immigration and travel between the two dictatorships was opened. Ground travel only, plane technology did not reach this part of the American continent.

The Mandatory Birth Quota was lifted. The society had grown into a matriarchal one, where a woman’s ability to give birth makes her the decision maker. The fact that the President was almost always female also enforces this position.

The Mandatory Births Quota is abolished and the Marriage act replaces it.

Divorce, of course, still was not an option. The M.A.P.D. was meant to be a temporary measure to enforce the new law and alleviate its weight on the local police departments. After the first few years, however, the Marriage Act Police became a federal task force.

1910, April

The allowance given for each children is boosted, and is based off the number of children living in the household, rather than the current couple's children.

1972, January

Trade with the outside world comes in through the Canadian Territories, stripped of all mention of where they were made (no Made In China can be found anywhere). The influx of new products such as different fabrics and clothing styles, TV screens, and better appliances appears to come from Canada... The content available on TV is limited, heavily censored by the government.

After a study reported that some couple were plagued with issues that involved extra marital affairs with same-sex partners, a law was passed.

That law lasted for two decades, where everyone who did not fit in the mold of what the bible thumpers dictators considered normal were hunted, and stacked in sanitarium to undergo treatment.

Men begin fighting for equal rights. By law, they are stated as equal to their wife, but in practice, the woman is very often favored over men, but the movement quickly loses momentum, as the situation gets rectified enough to be satisfying.

1990, October

The Vice-president, who kept her agenda – and her orientation – secret ascended to Presidency after the assassination of the 9th president of the United States. Her very first signature was at the bottom of a document that protected those of non-binary gender, and of non-traditional sexual orientation. Homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender and others were no longer hunted and forced to conform, but more than that, they were protected from prosecution for being who they are. They may now openly state preferred gender and orientation without fear.

It took a few years before people started to come forward, in fear that it was only a trap for the non-traditional citizens to come out of the woodwork, and be taken out of the perfect society. There was a lot of animosity and prejudice on both sides, until the president married for the second time, but this time it was to another woman. President Suzan Shaw became the face of the Sexual Expression Freedom.

1992, February

An updated wall, the final version of it, was built hand in hand with the Canadian authorities. 20 feet high, made of reinforced concrete, covered with an electrified mesh and topped with a barbed wire, it is meant to keep the infected people outside, and those banished too.

Nano technology developed. A massive vaccine campaign was launched. Citizens were told that the chip would warn the government, should the infection come back. It feeds the government far more information, allowing the citizens even less privacy than before. Government now know when a woman is fertile, when she is pregnant, where every citizen is, if they are running a temperature or if their heart is racing. Basically, all the bio data. It is now impossible to escape the M.A.P.D. officers.

2001, June

Laws about divorce amended.