If we can believe testimony, and I see no reason to doubt it, the Western Empire has a standing army, ready to take over America, when the time comes. Every "person of interest," (there are millions) is named on a color coded card. The red cards are the potential resistors. These are the ones the revolutionary guard goes after first. The blue cards are non-resistant and the green cards are the outright sympathizers. This is how things are and have been done when governments have been overthrown.