Israel

Israel is a US state located in the Westlands. Israel is bordered to the north by Westerly, to the south by California, to the east by the Victoria and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Israel maintains a population of 11 million, 70% of it in several coastal cities, including the capital New Jerusalem and the largest city, Coolidge. Beyond that, the rest of the state is mostly forests and mountains.

The state was originally the Newman Territory, however, after WWI and the gradual rise of anti-semitism in Sweden, coupled with the growing popularity of the Verho Party, many millions of Jews fled the country and moved to the United States, where they settled in the sparsely-populated Newman Territory. They founded New Jerusalem, naming it after the holy city of Jerusalem. Between 1921 and 1925, the Newman Territory's population rose from 300,000 to 1 million as more Jews moved there. By 1926, the mostly-Jewish population was asking for statehood.

President Calvin Coolidge was supportive of statehood, and this got him the honor of having Newman's old capital renamed Coolidge. He was surprised by the move. In 1926, Congress voted on statehood for Newman. It passed. The Jewish people of Israel voted to name the new state Israel, based off the biblical "Kingdom of Israel."

Today, the state still has a solid Jewish majority, and is the only state in the country to have a Jewish majority.