hi im probably not going to be very active I just want to make some diplo posts and make asia great again and maybe become good friends with china

Lore: Daler Mehndi's daughter Rabab Mehndi, child super soldier, is now fully of age, and in accordance with Indian dynastic political tradition, is now PM/President of the USA in a Tumbi Party-dominated government (the federal states are too busy fighting each other as per usual for people to really care about federal elections). Somehow the union is still together, or at least it's on the map anyways.

Claim Post:

The Union of South Asia had entered a state of energetic slumber, and is only now awakening. Following the escalation of inter-state drama, the federal government had been paralyzed by in-action. Daler Mehndi's Tumbi Party claimed that Mehndi was hard at work in secret negotiations with all states to bring this paralysis to an end, which was hard to do as Mehndi had been MIA for months, having been knocked out by bad hallucinogens in his private party boat/nuclear ballistic submarine. While the federal government ceded effective authority to the states, the states made play after play to gain economic influence in each other's territories and beef up their own private armies after the Holy Chalukyan example.

With the collapse of Chalukya's main benefactor and trade partner, France, Chalukya and its King Mittal were weakened, at least in the eyes of Chalukya's rivals, which have only gotten more diverse and opposite of Chalukya. While previously, the immensely divergent interests of each state had led to a cold stalemate that ultimately wasn't terrible for the USA, most states now had a common goal in feasting off of Chalukya's remains, and made open preparations towards a joint offensive.

This was the final straw for the emanciated federal government. Rabab Mehndi, child super soldier and daughter of Daler Mehndi, officially assumed power of the party and was voted in as PM/President in a self-vote of no confidence. While the South Asian army was substantially weaker (relative to state militias) relative to a couple years ago, it was still a formidable force combined with a largely loyal airforce and navy, and was capable of defending Chalukya if properly motivated. Aware of the need to balance the preservation of Chalukya as an entity (to prevent state politics from becoming unbalanced) and the need to placate both the states and soldiers from the states, Rabab went to make a compromise, allowing the federal government (and by extension the other states) the privilege of all assets formerly owned by the French government in Chalukya (this hasn't materialized yet), and preferential trading agreements in Chalukyan territory.

Now, Rabab Mehndi stands at the helm of a USA that appears relatively strong on paper, but is more fractured than any other point in its history when it comes to agreeing to something besides common defense and trade. The dominant Tumbi party is starting to be challenged again on a national level as many saw the compromise as overstepping the authority of the federal government, though the "anti-federalist" side is hampered by how they all come from different states that sort of hate each other.