New Berliné, 2137. It has been nearly a century since the Great Misery: a series of wars which predicated the near apocalypse of mankind. The international body count amounted to some number just beyond 2.5 billion men and women: civilians, soldiers, children, and politicians alike. Nuclear technology never meant to be unsheathed, were dusted off and augmented, dropped haplessly from the sky above 76 separate countries. The ravaging of these countries--most of them having been cornerstones for their respective theaters-- resulted in the political and economical upheaval of their subsidiary bodies. Eventually, conventional warfare won the day, but the cost was far graver than any one country could imagine; NATO, the EU, and the UN rendered to mere figments of the past; over half of America transformed into a nuclear wasteland; the Middle East thoroughly devastated; unsurprisingly Africa suffered from minor involvement comparatively. Both Europe and China in their larger scopes suffered gravely, though through the decades have taken successful measures at reversing the fragmentation they endured.
As the remnants of mankind lumbered towards death, even here there shone a beacon of light. The old powers are gone, the old authorities obliterated, the old rules now obsolete. From the ashes of those once mighty empires rose a new World Authority, a rejection of ancient hatreds and ignorant peoples, an embrace of technology, belief, personal will, freedom and above all the future. The American Consortium, Syncretic Union, African Alliances, and the Theatre of the East serve as our contemporary powers to be; each an amalgamation of several countries and a combination of their social, political, and economical infrastructures. After the war, each superpower begrudged and embittered by the devastation of the war, an international coalition was forged on the notion that any matter of conflict could be solved only through strict diplomacy and any approach deemed hostile or militant would be met with a collective surge. Upon the construction of this treaty, titled Tranquil's Law, was based the following century of enlightenment and defining technological evolution.
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