hard ScoxitThe more usual term is independence , but what ' s not to like about coming up with new and fun terms that no one else uses ? pensionsHe talks about that in the article , section 5 . oilgas decomisioning costsNo idea , I ' m not sure who currently owns those liability costs . But by the same logic used in section 4 , it may well be part of the continuing state . Either way , add it to the pile of assets and liabilities , everythings negotiable . <| sep |> There would be immediate international intervention from the international community in terms of shutting down key industries . There are a large number of americans living abroad and those would now ' inherit ' the United States . Those people would become a new royalty in the US , now having vast claims in land and properties . The UN would then suddenly become extremely important in organizing the orderly recolonization of the US , but large numbers of middle americans would flood in ignoring any attempts to enforce control . The vacuum left by the US disappearing would allow the EU to more or less grab the eastern half of the US in a matter of months . The western half of the US would in turn by colonized mostly by Chinese and EastAsians . The middle and south would quickly join mexico . Canada in turn would create a treaty with the EU , now a sort of North Atlantic Union . The EU would be a superpower on par with the current US in about ten years , simply appropriating most military resources of the US world wide and integrating these in to their own military apparatuses . The middle east would immediately descend in convulsive wars , dictators would be deposed the US props up most dictators , Israel would start firing nuclear weapons , a few ten million would die and then Israel would be completely overrun . Most Israeli would then flee to the US and would comprize a lot of new americans . The world would be chaotic for a few years , but would become a lot more peaceful thereafter .