Usonia

Proper noun

Usonia

1. The United States of America; a mononymous name for the country that does not convey the ambiguity of "America".
   • And in Usonia's mighty Lan'— / What almost seems beyond belief— / An offshoot of the Irvine clan / Is honor'd as the nation's chief!
   • We of the United States, in justice to Canadians and Mexicans, have no right to use the title "Americans" when referring to matters pertaining exclusively to ourselves. […] [I] have been inclined to give my vote to the writer that first suggested "Usona", which is formed from the initials of...1903, James D. Law, “The Sack of Auchindore”, in Here and There in Two Hemispheres, Lancaster: Home Publishing Co., pages 111–112
2. A utopian vision of the United States according to Frank Lloyd Wright.
   • [Wright] also refers to 'the great Usonian Life, the universal life of our own true democracy' and 'the road to Freedom in Usonia'. The association of USA and utopia is inescapable […]2005, Colin Porteous, Kerr MacGregor, Solar Architecture in Cool Climates, page 233
3. A community in New York State designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonian style.
   • THEY NAMED THEIR COMMUNITY of forty-seven homes near Pleasantville, New York, "Usonia" in homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, whose ideas on the way Americans should live together guided their plan.2001, Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Timpane, Usonia, New York, page xvii
4. (rare) In geopolitical and international economic modeling, a prototype superpower that, in competing with an antagonistic superpower Russonia (the Soviet Union), allows Thirdonia (a hypothetical neutral Third World country) to extract considerable wealth from both.
   • Suppose two powerful, industrialized countries, called Usonia and Russonia, compete by mean of capital exports and other forms of "aid" for influence in various underdeveloped countries, typified by Thirdonia.1964, Albert O. Hirschmann, “The Stability of Neutralism: A Geometric Note”, in The American economic review, page 94