Military coup followed by massive civil war as various factions within the military arise and start fighting each other. Balkanization starts once national military is no longer able to prevent governors from appointing themselves petty warlords with the support of national guard/deserter militias. Internal civil wars start between breakaway counties and the state governments in Oregon, Washington, California, New York, and Pennsylvania. Texas becomes one of those whirling cartoon fight clouds. Everything abruptly reaches a detente once the national high fructose corn syrup reserves are irreparably damaged, leading to a critical disruption in the coca-cola supply.