I'd say first and foremost that the primary difference between the NMU's Cannidy assassination and our own Kennedy assassination is that in the BellHunterverse, the assassination was unsuccessful. The subsequent fallout of the attempt on Cannidy's life in Dalgrass, Texangus revealed a seeping corruption in the North Mammalian Union government that briefly threatened to cause the regions to separate in the wake of the incident. Wealthy corporate interests were working along with corrupt government officials to subvert the entire system of democracy put in place by Woolshington D.C., only allowing 'team players' to keep the facade of a healthy government system going while the elite in Woolshington and North Mammalian business interests grew fat off the wealth of the very system itself.
While Cannidy recovered from his injuries, the shooter was caught and questioned, and in the process fingered not only the North Mammalian CIA as having employed him but that it had been a top-down command from the vice president at the time, Lyon B Jawnson. The vice president was quickly arrested, and after Caninidy recovered from his wounds, the hound went to work swiftly and aggressively rooting out the corrupted officials that were working beneath him, as well as going on to establish a task force to aid the other states on a more local level.
The next few years were chaos in the NMU and surrounding nations. The NMU itself was struggling to restore trust in its own system after such an egregious threat had been allowed to fester inside of it for so long, and wealthy business owners and other guilty co-conspirators were fleeing in every direction to avoid prosecution and penalties. Some of said mammals of industry tried to flee to Zootopia, but were immediately taken into custody before being turned over to the North Mammalian Government.
Today's NMU has a very heavily regulated business sector, and any large corporation that wants to operate or sell in the region is held to a tight leash. The government also has many agencies in place that regulate the government itself, with redundant organizations to keep thoroughly screen out any creeping sources of corruption that pose a threat to the nation.
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