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Dispatch reading Version: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1152651
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein
World War 3 was 300 years ago. The date is now 2350.
Humans have evolved to adapt to the new surroundings. The combatants in WW3, the Molotov Pact v.s NATO, spanned all the continents, cost about 6 billion lives, saw the usage of scores of unconventional weapons, and wiped thousands of cities off the map. The usage of nuclear weapons created nuclear fallout that caused disease and death. The once beautiful Earth became a wasteland.
Now, jungles, forests, wastelands, and blue ocean once more cover the Earth. But the human mind never gives up its twisted ways. The production of guns has begun, but the advancement of the 21st century and beyond has been lost. Guns like the Thompson SMG, bolt-action rifles, and simple machine guns are making a comeback, but advanced weapons like chemical gas, planes, tanks, or heavy artillery has not been re-invented. And the time of world-spanning empires has returned.
-The Nordic Empire covers Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, the northwestern part of Poland, Austria, Belgium, part of northeastern France, and some other territories.
-Mamlaka, the Islamic Empire, stretches from the five “stans” and north Afghanistan in the east, to Morocco in the west.
-Israel is the only nation that stands in Mamlaka’s way, protected by its non-aggression pact with Mamlaka.
-Hindustan has expanded from India, conquering Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and southern Afghanistan. Hindustan has taken extreme action against muslims and christians in the country, deporting them to Mamlakan territories in exchange for either Hindus or money.
-The Japanese Empire has exerted its dominance over the Pacific, the Philippines, Korea, and Indochina.
-The Japanese are in direct competition with the Yan Empire, which covers China, Mongolia, and parts of Indochina.
-Ruthenia covers Russia, and exerts power over Eastern Europe.
-Iberian Empire, which covers Spain, Portugal, southern France, Italy, southern Britain.
The once great superpower of America has become colonized by several powers. The coast of California has been conquered by Japan, the south mainly conquered by Mexico.
The rest of the world either exists as smaller free empire or kingdoms, or as colonies of the above powers.
Map:
https://imgur.com/a/WnhXtFk