Post by The Arbiter on Mar 14, 2012 17:33:45 GMT -6
For everyone that just wants an overall, cut-and-dry explanation of everything going on in the RP, past and present, here you go.
Political- The European Union has consolidated into a large, single commonwealth known as the European Federation. Over the past two years, the Federation has been at ends with America, focusing on a rapidly changing foreign policy, a failed attempt to convert to socialism in two-thousand-eleven, and aggressive deployment of military forces abroad around an equally aggressive China.
In Asia, Russia controls much of the world's remaining Oil supply; about forty-seven percent. This put the country in a position of economic power in two-thousand-twelve, allowing it to put most of the second and third world in its grip; much of the first world has converted to natural gas and an emerging hydrogen-cell industry. On a slightly more enlightening note, Russia and America signed a mutual protection pact following the two-thousand-fifteen earthquake that devastated most of central Asia, in which the United States provided over two-hundred-billion dollars in financial assistance as well as emergency national-guard support.
China, on the other hand, began a series of brutal territorial annexes in two-thousand-eleven, taking over most of Southern-Asia, including North Korea and India. As though to accentuate their aggression, a massive draft followed their territory-grab, bringing the total Chinese military's strength to a level three-hundred-forty-two percent that of the United States. In two-thousand-eighteen, they have increased naval strength in the Pacific Ocean, with the United States respectively increasing their own, along with its allies Russia, Japan, and South Korea, as well as a reluctantly assigned, but eager, British naval detachment from the European Union.
In North America, as aforementioned, there was an attempt at converting to Socialism in two-thousand-eleven, until two-thousand-thirteen, when the move ultimately failed due to repugnant and fading cold-war ideologies. Along with this, the economic recession has long disappeared, and the standard of living risen. In comparison to two-thousand-nine, due to a congress approved draft, the United States military has nearly quadrupled in size, still dwarfed by the Chinese military however.
Significant Natural Disasters- 2012, Hurricane Jessica ravages Florida, causing over twenty-five billion dollars in damages. 2015, The largest Earthquake ever on record occurs in Asia, registering eleven-point-two on the Richter scale, killing two-hundred-thousand continent-wide, and causing a whopping total of five-point-seven trillion US dollars in damages. 2017, an Irish Freedom Fighter Cell (Ireland was invaded to force the nation into the Federation) named Green Spirit assaults a nuclear reactor in France, causing it to go critical and meltdown. Emergency services were able to evacuate most people from the affected area, and prevented a would-be death toll of about two million. The Freedom Fighters were supposedly hunted down and executed by European Black Ops. operatives in the following month.
Notable Conditions in New York City- It has been snowing the past seven days, and emergency personnel have been on the clock for the last twenty-one hours straight. Traffic is jammed for blocks in several places, making walking, biking, or the subway, much more logical choices of travel. The new World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, was completed five years ago, and is currently open for business.
Political- The European Union has consolidated into a large, single commonwealth known as the European Federation. Over the past two years, the Federation has been at ends with America, focusing on a rapidly changing foreign policy, a failed attempt to convert to socialism in two-thousand-eleven, and aggressive deployment of military forces abroad around an equally aggressive China.
In Asia, Russia controls much of the world's remaining Oil supply; about forty-seven percent. This put the country in a position of economic power in two-thousand-twelve, allowing it to put most of the second and third world in its grip; much of the first world has converted to natural gas and an emerging hydrogen-cell industry. On a slightly more enlightening note, Russia and America signed a mutual protection pact following the two-thousand-fifteen earthquake that devastated most of central Asia, in which the United States provided over two-hundred-billion dollars in financial assistance as well as emergency national-guard support.
China, on the other hand, began a series of brutal territorial annexes in two-thousand-eleven, taking over most of Southern-Asia, including North Korea and India. As though to accentuate their aggression, a massive draft followed their territory-grab, bringing the total Chinese military's strength to a level three-hundred-forty-two percent that of the United States. In two-thousand-eighteen, they have increased naval strength in the Pacific Ocean, with the United States respectively increasing their own, along with its allies Russia, Japan, and South Korea, as well as a reluctantly assigned, but eager, British naval detachment from the European Union.
In North America, as aforementioned, there was an attempt at converting to Socialism in two-thousand-eleven, until two-thousand-thirteen, when the move ultimately failed due to repugnant and fading cold-war ideologies. Along with this, the economic recession has long disappeared, and the standard of living risen. In comparison to two-thousand-nine, due to a congress approved draft, the United States military has nearly quadrupled in size, still dwarfed by the Chinese military however.
Significant Natural Disasters- 2012, Hurricane Jessica ravages Florida, causing over twenty-five billion dollars in damages. 2015, The largest Earthquake ever on record occurs in Asia, registering eleven-point-two on the Richter scale, killing two-hundred-thousand continent-wide, and causing a whopping total of five-point-seven trillion US dollars in damages. 2017, an Irish Freedom Fighter Cell (Ireland was invaded to force the nation into the Federation) named Green Spirit assaults a nuclear reactor in France, causing it to go critical and meltdown. Emergency services were able to evacuate most people from the affected area, and prevented a would-be death toll of about two million. The Freedom Fighters were supposedly hunted down and executed by European Black Ops. operatives in the following month.
Notable Conditions in New York City- It has been snowing the past seven days, and emergency personnel have been on the clock for the last twenty-one hours straight. Traffic is jammed for blocks in several places, making walking, biking, or the subway, much more logical choices of travel. The new World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, was completed five years ago, and is currently open for business.