The New Millennium: 2000 AD RP (IC)
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 6:00 am
The New Millennium: 2000 AD RP
The date is January 1st, 2000 AD, and despite all of the fears surrounding Y2K, despite two world wars and a nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, despite innumerable plagues and natural catastrophes, the world remains standing. But the world remains fraught with tension. In the Middle East, decades of proxy wars and covert operations have led to political and economic situations that leave the region tenuously unstable: a single spark could reignite tensions between the various factions within the region, even as the specter of the Gulf War remains in the memories of its survivors and belligerents. In Europe, the fall of the Iron Curtain has given the Europeans a chance to expand their European Union, though economic and political difficulties remain, especially in Eastern Europe, where the yoke of the Soviet Union was most strongly felt. In the former Soviet Bloc, the new republics are all struggling with how to deal with the changes thrust upon them, and even the once mighty Russian Republic is struggling with its new reality, now that Boris Yeltsin has resigned in favor of political upstart Vladimir Putin. In Asia, emboldened by the collapse of the Soviet Union, new powers will begin to emerge in India, China, Japan, and perhaps elsewhere, though even these powers have their fair share of troubles facing them. In North America, the United States of America will decide whether to embrace the mantle of leader of the free world, to act as the sole hegemonic authority in light of the end of the Cold War...or whether it will try a different path to influence the world. And throughout Latin America, the dictators that had been formerly propped up during the Cold War are either deposed or forced to come face to face with their decisions, now that they lack the protection of the United States. And under the surface of it all, the rise of nonstate actors, namely terrorist groups throughout the world with varying ideologies, believe that it is their time to leave their mark on the world, and their actions have the potential to destabilize the world. Only time will tell how the world will proceed, how governments around the world will react and stand the test of time and adversity, or whether the world as we know it will even exist when the new millennia comes around...
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