The United States (US or USA) is a constitutional federal republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C. (the capital district), lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The two remaining states consist of Alaska (in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait) and Hawaii (an island in the mid-Pacific).
The United States is a location used frequently in the Mission: Impossible franchise, especially an ultra-secret independent espionage agency commonly works for the US government called the Impossible Mission Force.