South American cartel networks formalize the SCA under unified command after the cartel wars of 2048–2052.
The cartel war of 2048–2052 ended not with a winner but with exhaustion. The seven surviving major networks signed the Lima Accords, establishing territorial boundaries and a shared external defense posture.
The SCA is less a nation than a business arrangement. Internal competition continues — sometimes violently — but external threats are met with unified force. They control the last significant tracts of functional Amazon rainforest.