Liberty Prospers: USMCA 2026 Alignment, National Security Clarity, and the Economics of Trust Book VII of the SIGMA Directive Liberty SeriesProsperity is not a miracle.It is what happens when delay ends.In the wake of a turbulent decade, North America reaches a narrowing point of choice. The 2026 USMCA review does not arrive as a crisis, but as a test of discipline: whether institutions can act before drift becomes irreversible, and whether alignment can be treated as infrastructure rather than ideology.In Liberty Prospers, that choice is made early enough to matter.Canada, the United States, and Mexico move past posture and into execution. Trade rules harden. Definitions become law. Authority reasserts itself not through rhetoric, but through delivery. Markets respond first - then supply chains, capital, labor, and finally households. The result is not utopia, but something rarer: systems that hold.Joel McCay, a Toronto-based analyst, shifts from observer to participant as alignment reshapes the incentives he once only modeled. Maya Khan, operating across borders, helps institutions recalibrate before crisis demands it. SIGMA, an embodied AI system embedded across governance and infrastructure, no longer issues warnings. She verifies stability.This is not a story of rescue or triumph. It is a story of responsibility restored.Growth returns unevenly at first, then steadily. Political language simplifies as execution replaces narrative. Courts quiet down because rules finally work. Talent stops leaving - then begins returning. Prosperity arrives not as abundance, but as capability: lower friction, higher trust, and freedom that feels practical again.Liberty Prospers is a near-future geopolitical thriller grounded in trade policy, national security, and economic realism. It explores how alignment, when chosen deliberately, expands agency rather than erodes it - and how dignity emerges when institutions stop performing reassurance and start delivering outcomes.This book presents one complete reality.There are no alternate paths here. No speculation about what might have been. Only the consequences of a decision made while choice still existed.The future does not become perfect.It becomes livable.