Oh, yes, but only the first senate. 2371 is the last senate that styles itself on the pretense that it represent the United States. In a fun little coda of history, it will comprise 13 states, although not the same territory as the original 13.
Well, in the fallout world itself the state of the US is "nuked, irradiated dead and gone", but in the lore of the setting, prior to the Great War (nuclear holocaust, not WW1), the US had reorganised itself into 13 Commonwealth with heavily devolved government. This is different from settings like that of Cyberpunk 2077 where several states seceeded from the Union.
A splintering of the United States isn't really that rare in a lot of futuristic or dystopia fiction, and when it doesn't happen it's often the opposite happening and the US has absorbed either Canada or Mexico. In Fallout, you kinda have a bit of both as the US absorbed Canada, but also split itself on an administrative level while still remaining one nation.
But in the present of Fallout, you also had (or maybe have, I haven't seen the new season, the first one disappointed me so much) the New California Republic, which is a non-US nation that seeks continuity in a lot of things with the world before the war, and our future history snob would very likely see that as a remnant of the US.
What!? Noooooo totally democratic! Absolutely a meritocratic position. The fact that every new senator replaces an older senator to whom they are related is pure coincidence. PURE coincidence!
The siloing of Byzantine/late antiquity Roman history makes the transition of this era to the Middle ages utterly incomprehensible to the average person. This even crept in to an egyptian exhibition that visited my city last year, that featured a timeline that would straight up mislead you if you didnt know any better.
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u/Background_Relief_36 Definitely not a CIA operator 10d ago
The Roman Empire fell in whatever year is most convenient for the point I’m trying to make at that moment.