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>>3959953
The Soviet union disintegrated practically overnight into independent countries. Empires always fall apart into smaller regions. The Balkans split up into smaller functioning nations. The UK lost southern Ireland and will probably lose Scotland in the next few decades.

A financial crisis on a large scale could easily result in the country disintegrating. Most important stuff is handled on a state level, in state anyway. The transition between slave state and independent nation really wouldn't be that difficult, and it's not impossible because it happens all over the world all the time.