America the Beautiful can almost be considered officially gone. The government has more data on Americans than the Stasi had on the East Germans, has violated almost all of our Bill of Rights, and is growing faster than a water balloon being filled with a fire hose:

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2012/10/16/the-former-nation-of-america-is-gone-wel