The "Capital Wasteland" is the post-war designation for what was once the Columbia Commonwealth—a union of four states, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware, as well as the seat of government itself, the District of Columbia. The majority of the area was leveled to the ground during the Great War, with most major cities—Rockville, Silver Spring, Bethesda, Richmond, Delaware City, Charleston, Baltimore, and the District just to name a few—the first to be struck, while military installations, such as Fort Mead and the National Naval Medical Center, hit as secondary targets.