Greetings and salutations: another little map project I have been fiddling with for a while. Continuing with my current "redo other people's maps" theme, I found this old map by m2thet5678:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/di...p=1574011&highlight=cyberpunk+map#post1574011
and decided to do my fancied-up version...
WWIII ended as a bit of a damp firecracker, with only a few tens of millions dead (mostly in the Soviet Union and central Europe: a surprising number of Soviet missiles either landed other than where they were supposed to go or failed to detonante properly). While this led to radical efforts towards reform on the parts of the Soviets, it led to the broadening of certain fissures in US society, leading, when compounded by the Oil Crunch, climate change, and the Global Market Crash, to the Second US Civil War of 2033-2044 and the fragmentation of the nation. The 21st century has been a messy one, what with the rise of the Catholic Church Militant and the Corporate and Technocratic trans-national states carving out territorial bases for themselves, the Chinese Civil War, the Central Asian Conflict and the Indo-Pakistani war, and various other problematic events.
Now, in the early 22nd century, things have stablized somewhat, and a fairly stable peace exists between the democratic Quintuple Alliance (the United States, Greater South Africa, The North Atlantic Block, Transpacific Sphere, South American Community), the "managed democracy"-capitalist Indo-Chinese alliance (South India and Shanghai Cooperative), the Soviet Complex, and several of the corporatist states. Relationships are shakier with the Technocrats and their transhumanist agenda, the nasty dictatorships of Egypt and Catholic Europe, and downright bad with the Anarchist Association, which considers none of their governments legitimate. And nobody really knows exactly what goes on behind the sealed borders of the People's Combine, while the peculiar new religion seemingly followed by most of the employees of the Gaea Syndicate worries psychodynamicists.
Technology marches on. The world is powered by nuclear fusion, most food is produced synthetically, the planets are being colonized by several powers, and people worry about nanotech: although the Danube Disaster was successfully contained (at the cost of several million Romanians), will something much worse happen one of these days? All nanotech research is confined to off-planet (and easily destroyed) space stations by international convention, but can such powers as the PCGNY or the Egyptians or the Christian States (well, probably not: they're technologically backwards) be trusted to stick to the rules?
Bruce
https://www.alternatehistory.com/di...p=1574011&highlight=cyberpunk+map#post1574011
and decided to do my fancied-up version...
WWIII ended as a bit of a damp firecracker, with only a few tens of millions dead (mostly in the Soviet Union and central Europe: a surprising number of Soviet missiles either landed other than where they were supposed to go or failed to detonante properly). While this led to radical efforts towards reform on the parts of the Soviets, it led to the broadening of certain fissures in US society, leading, when compounded by the Oil Crunch, climate change, and the Global Market Crash, to the Second US Civil War of 2033-2044 and the fragmentation of the nation. The 21st century has been a messy one, what with the rise of the Catholic Church Militant and the Corporate and Technocratic trans-national states carving out territorial bases for themselves, the Chinese Civil War, the Central Asian Conflict and the Indo-Pakistani war, and various other problematic events.
Now, in the early 22nd century, things have stablized somewhat, and a fairly stable peace exists between the democratic Quintuple Alliance (the United States, Greater South Africa, The North Atlantic Block, Transpacific Sphere, South American Community), the "managed democracy"-capitalist Indo-Chinese alliance (South India and Shanghai Cooperative), the Soviet Complex, and several of the corporatist states. Relationships are shakier with the Technocrats and their transhumanist agenda, the nasty dictatorships of Egypt and Catholic Europe, and downright bad with the Anarchist Association, which considers none of their governments legitimate. And nobody really knows exactly what goes on behind the sealed borders of the People's Combine, while the peculiar new religion seemingly followed by most of the employees of the Gaea Syndicate worries psychodynamicists.
Technology marches on. The world is powered by nuclear fusion, most food is produced synthetically, the planets are being colonized by several powers, and people worry about nanotech: although the Danube Disaster was successfully contained (at the cost of several million Romanians), will something much worse happen one of these days? All nanotech research is confined to off-planet (and easily destroyed) space stations by international convention, but can such powers as the PCGNY or the Egyptians or the Christian States (well, probably not: they're technologically backwards) be trusted to stick to the rules?
Bruce
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