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==United States==
You have the strongest starting economy and are basically immune to direct assault apart from your holdings in China and the Pacific. The two massive oceans on either side are a mixed blessing. On one hand, any serious effort by the Axis to attack you is going to be a futile waste of resources. On the other hand, it's going to be a couple of turns before you can even seriously participate in the game. Don't think you're going to do something clever with those troops in China or those ships in Hawaii because chances are Japan will wipe them out before you've even have a chance to move. Sounds unfair, but so is being a president with polio in the middle of a world-spanning war.

US can bring some serious firepower to the table, but only after they've built some transports and shipped them to where the action actually is. (Read: Africa and Europe) Continuing the MMO analogy, if Japan is tanking the boss (Russia + UK) for Germany then America is the boss's enrage timer; if the Axis haven't crushed Russia and/or crippled UK before America thinks it's had enough time to build up, then it's pretty much game over for the Axis, barring some mad dice luck. There's no taking you on directly until the game's pretty much decided, so America is the perfect army for people who like long-term planning, or for [[Elves|girly-men who don't like being attacked]].