Winter 2016-2017
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Global Events
-The world is rapidly declining into a second ice age due to lack of sunlight. The global temperature has dropped radically low, and weather patters have slowed and, in some cases, grinded to a halt. This has stagnated farming efficiency worldwide. The lack of melting ice has destroyed many people's access to water.
-Death by radiation poisoning, being last year's top killer, has now been surpassed by hunger. The new world has no place for farms or animals where they used to be, as entire ecosystems have ceased to exist or altered beyond recognition. Mass extinction of various species has occurred, severely limiting the animal kingdom and humanity's access to food.
-Earth's human population has decended to 900 million.
North Africa – Green – Doc
Military: Average Professional
GDPpc: Lowest
Techs: Solar Power, HIV Cure, Lunar Colony, International Space Refuge (constructing)
Trade: USA, Norway, Singapore, Israel, La Plata, Spain
-North Africa, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, SLAVE, and Vietnam have coroborated efforts to build an international space station free of radiation and earthly troubles. Being closer to earth than the moon, this station will be far easier to construct, maintain, and send people to. However, it is very likely that due to the lack of gravity most people won't be able to spend more than a year or two at a time there before icnreasing their risk of bodily malfunctions and death.
-The Sahara desert, no longer the scalding hot windy wasteland it once was, is being colonized by refugees from the Mediteranean coastline. Rivers from odd desert snowfall are begining to flow through the desert, and alongside them silt is piling up for form fertile muddy riverbanks.
Switzerland – Orange – Christopher the Pimp Abra
Military: Miniscule Invincible
GDPpc: Highest
Techs: Anti-Balistics, National Redoubt, Hydroponics, Space Elevator, Moon Colony, Oxygen Drives (developing)
-Broadcasts on Swiss television tout Swiss space power and space travel as being an investment for the future of humanity.
-Swiss citizenry is rapidly joining engineer corps and science teams to aid in the development of space technologies and ships.
-The Swiss space elevator's orbital station boasts a fluxuating temporary population of a thousand, being the first nation to put such a number of people simultaneously into space. Additions are continously made to the station to make it more self sufficient, and it is planned to begin rotating the thing to generate false gravity in power comparible to Earth's.
Iberian Empire – Black – EP73
Military: Average Specialist Nuclear
GDPpc: Imploded
Techs: Laser Shields, Anti-Radiation Engineering
-Attempts to build personal sattelite homes fails entirely due to the massive cost of individual orbital living spaces. Nobody can afford that, and it is best to stick with a communal effort.
-Iberia begins to lose control over her colonies, and one by one her governors cease communication with the motherland.
New Alkatraz – Pink – DrPepperfan
Military: Big Specialist
GDPpc: Imploded
Techs: Super Lazor, Nanotechnology, Lunar Colony
-Almost the entirety of Britain is consumed by the advancing icecap. The english channel is choked with icebergs, and shipping to and fro what remainds of the British islands is impossible.
-Britain can no longer afford the rockets to send people and supplies to their lunar colony. Fortunately, they are self sufficient in almost every mean, and can support themselves for generations to come.
-Control over the Sudan is lost due to poor access to the nation.
USA – Yellow – Dane
Military: Big Professional
GDPpc: Imploded
Techs: Space Laser, Moon Colony, Combat Robots
Trade: China
-American citizens are encouraged to emigrate to the small African nation of Malawi. The government is only able to fund a small number of this emigration.
-Several states seceed from the union, beleiving either that the national government cannot care for them anymore or that they would fare better on their own.