The Patriot Party was one of the several factions created after the collapse of the GOP in the 2020s. The group is most popular in the Plains States of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and the Dakotas. In their early years, Patriots proposed additional government surveillance and national security measures, as well as building-up the US military, with some suggesting a tripling of the military budget. In the 2050s, the Party worked closely with lobbyists from Bruce Industries to advocate an armed intervention in the rise to power of the Guinean Earth Front, but their advances were halted by President Annie McPherson. In 2060, ex-CEO of Bruce Industries Donald King was nominated by the party, and subsequently became president, presiding over what some describe as a "Reig