(After a) Reverse Cold War

So, if this is a one-to-one transposition, here's how I think the state of democracy in post-America would go. Going by what you've identified in the comments below, the Washington, Cumberland, Carolina, Cajun, and California PR's and Louisiana should be fully or almost-fully communist(though maybe Louisana's got some serious pro-democracy unrest going on to parallel Georgia's hard turn towards Russia), with the United Pacific States recently having a communist coup oust their democratic government(a reverse Euromaidan), Arkansas-Missisippi should be superficially communist but really a mostly-democratic state(paralleling Azerbaijan being a "democracy" on the model of Cambodia, with it maybe being that favorite alt-hist state type that never existed irl of the democracy where all the parties are different, but all on the same side of the left-right spectrum), and everyone else should be fully democratic with only the most pathetically superficial attempts to look communistic(representing the Central Asian republics, Belarus and Russia being completely autocratic and not trying to hide it), maybe with the PR of the Tennessee Valley putting a modicum of effort into acting communistic to parallel Kazakhstan's mild effort of appearing democratic. The Democratic Republic of American States would've been on shaky ground for awhile, and only recently have fallen fully into democracy in the past decade or so, with democratic reforms and increases in individual liberties having intensified in the past two to three years(I can't see a date anywhere so I'm assuming it's just set in 2024).

Overall, 11/10, absolutely amazing, and I haven't even read most of it yet because it's 6:30 am and I've only got enough energy left to finish this comment! I usually don't enjoy bad-future timelines, but for whatever reason you've whipped up one heck of an exception. Btw, what's "These Stars Are Not Yours"? Because if it's anything like this I need to give it a read yesterday.