New Dawn 2048 - A Near Future Set of Scenarios

In 1998, before I was an established member of Apolyton and about a year before ToT came, I envisioned a set of near-future scenarios that would take place in an alternate future timeline set 50 years in the future from when I conceived it (2048). It was divided between several separate maps and initially started in a world that had gone into political, economic, military, and social fracturing and a quite different world order, but theoretically could lead, at the end, to a 'New Dawn' for humanity. My original work had generic units and suffered from the limits of the MGE engine and the much more limited choice of graphics and many undiscovered tricks that were even possible for MGE. With many more tools available now, and some tweaks and updates to the timeline to take into account early-21st Century events, I thought I may try my hand and recreating this idea. There are nine (possibly ten) separate scenarios by the necessity of the layout, each which covers a different geopolitical region:
-Europe (including the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, but not the Arctic Regions)
-North America (geographical continent, so including Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda, but again, not the Arctic Regions)
-Asia/Pacific (East, Southeast, and South Asia, Oceania, Australia, and Southern Siberia, but not the Arctic Regions)
-South America (the straight geographical continent)
-Subsaharan Africa
-The Arctic Circle
-Antarctica
-Lunar Settlements
-Martian Colonies
A possible tenth scenario, if at all, still needs details worked out.

I will provide more information in a little while.

In the first scenario, which is Europe and environs, things really get hairy (they do in all the terrestrial scenarios' timelines at this same point, in fact) with the Crash of 2027, when the global economy experiences an unprecedented economic crash within the Modern Era when three events come to a head at about the same time - the political, economic, social, and military fracturing, break-up, and strife in the United States due to long-standing issues building up, the failure of the euro and EU as viable economic and (for the latter) political institutions, and the complete falling out of the petroleum and other fossil fuels markets. By 2048, there are seven (conveniently!) factions and a few minor nations and insurgencies on the Europe and environs for this scenario. After the Crash, the charismatic and opportunistic leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Yuri Marcenko, drumming up highly embellished, nostalgic, almost "fairly-tale" recollections of the paradigm economy, economic stability, national pride, and international pre-eminence of the old USSR, sweeps to power in a populist revolution. Despite rivalries with, and mistrust for, Russian agendas, various Eastern European nations who were once part of the Warsaw Pact, Yugoslavia, and Albania, with the notable exceptions of the Baltic States, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, having been hit much harder than most other parts of Europe, are convinced to join Marcenko's neo-Communist ideology after he achieves initial successes at economic recovery, and thus the European Socialist States Union (ESSU, commonly known externally as the New East Bloc), is formed in what should initially alarm and rest of the world (if they didn't initially have their own big problems). Things, however, take a darker turn in France. Amidst spiralling unemployment, skyrocketing crime and poverty, and a massive immigration crisis, a far-right movement touting itself with Napoleonic and Gaullist rhetoric, but with far nastier motives and methods, manage to gain power and their leader, a previously unknown provencal bureaucrat named Simone Dubois) proclaims herself Directeur (a "temporary emergency dictator" with no stated limit on her mandate), and centralizes and solidifies the power of herself and her supporters. The sad degree to which the EU, and the broader NATO and UN, have unravelled, though few admit it previously, becomes apparent when the emboldened French armies invade their former allies in the Low Countries and, in an airbourne and amphibious attack, the Republic of Ireland, obstensably for their "own betterment" in the early 2030's. Being no longer of huge interest as a global oilfield region, and with initially few countries interested in continuing costly campaigns against, the Islamic Sate has achieved huge success, with povety, international isolation, and foreign PR only enhancing it's control over it's people and lands, much to the reverse of many other areas. Almost all of the Middle East and North Africa, except Israel, Turkey, much of Iran, and a few Kurdish, secular Afghan, and Ba'athist holdout areas have fallen under the self-proclaimed Caliph's power. German Chancellor Karl Schweitzer has begun to create a "paternalistic German umbrella," bringing the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, and hold-out forces of the Baltic States, Low Countries, and anti-Communist as "protected client states," though many outsiders (and even those within) see a stifling and smothering paternalist union demanding much of those being protected, but without overt social or political engineering. In response to these rising threats (and perceived threats), two alliances have formed (with a looser alliance between them) - the Nordic Alliance between Finland and the Scandinavian Nations, and the oft-times difference-riven Mediterranean Alliance between Portugal, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Malta, Greece, Turkey, and Israel. These two alliances maintain more or less the democratic and humanist traditions vaunted by the European Union. And finally, in an awkward position, the United Kingdom, torn between those who believe this broken world needs the British hand to held bring peace and order, and those favouring a return to splendid isolation, buffering the Royal Navy such a thing.

That's the current set-up as of the first scenario at this point in development.