Rockefeller-4

(Also referred to as “Petro-Americana”)

Current Year: 1985

“The oil can is mightier than the sword.” 

-Everett Dirksen

Parallels where the United States of America experiences greater financial wealth and prosperity than it did in our universe are always interesting to Parachronic Historians from a sociological perspective. Thinking in the simplest terms, one might assume that greatly increased wealth and economic influence for America would be a recipe for the supposed American Utopia that various literary figures have mused about for more than two centuries. However, with different levels of wealth and resources come different challenges, as parallels like Prospera Americana and Rockefeller-4 demonstrate.

Rockefeller-4 is a universe where significant geological alterations have occurred in the Earth’s prehistoric composition compared to our own. As a result, Rockefeller-4 is a version of Earth where the massive oil deposits that are located in the Middle East in our universe are instead located beneath the North American continent, primarily in America.

Middle-America features the most dense and prosperous oil-industry in the entire world and has since the mid 1930’s when the discovery of the rich, expansive deposits of oil pulled America out of the Great Depression. Petroleum drilling, refinement and related businesses are the second largest employer in the United States, right after the staple of manufacturing.

The North American oil veins extend into the territories both northern Mexico and southern Canada and both nations have financially prospered heavily from their presence, but neither to even remotely the extent of the United States, which is the dominant economic power on the planet.