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New Year’s Day, 1880
Less than two years have passed since the Fall. Civilization as humanity knows it has regressed to small pockets along the coasts and major waterways, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population in the clutches of cannibals, warlords, famine, and death. Even now, new and old governments struggle with radical problems, such as food and industrial shortages. Few of the new states can hope to increase the number of men they have under arms within the next few years.
That is not to say there isn’t hope. Half the surviving states are able to send forces into the wild lands and take back territory for civilization. However, the death lands remain an impossible dream, and will remain so for a generation.
In North America, the Kwakwaka'wakw Confederation, United States of Central America, Republic of Brazil, and Empire of Brazil have emerged and survived the immediate trouble. The Kwakiutl rule the Confederation based out of Vancouver Island, but their rule is weak. The confederation dominated by natives in government is already under increasing pressure from the flood of westward white refugees, and the majority white population. Food shortages are common, and raids from the death lands frequent.
The United States of Central America was born from the need of several Central American governments to coordinate forces and policy to combat the effects of the Fall. The economy and production of food is based on large-scale use of slavery, which has put pressure on the dwindling Mayan population and is already forcing landowners on the frontiers to turn to other sources. The USCA, with its democratic institutions, along with the Kwakiutl, are some of the few democratic states left in the world.
In South America, the Empire of Brazil, ruled by Emperor Vargas I, has seized Rio de Janeiro. The Empire of Brazil controls the coast, while the Republic of Brazil, led by the dictatorial President Fonseca, rules part of the interior. Vast swathes of Brazil have fallen out of control of either government completely, and both countries foresee a day where the two Brazils must fight for supremacy.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Gold Empire has emerged in West Africa. The country is ruled by a local landholding class of whites, with the administration made up of a combination of Christian blacks and refugee whites from France. Ethiopia has emerged in East Africa, and the country has brought stability to a part of the world that Europeans thought surely couldn’t exist. At the southernmost tip of Africa is the Cape Republic, populated by a ruling class of mixed European ancestry that fled to South Africa following the Fall. Being so distant from other states, the Cape Republic has taken up an isolationist stance.
The Chinese Confederacy emerged in Asia, although very little is known about it. In India, the charismatic leader Madhusudan Das has united the Oriya people and established control over much of India, combatting both Raj Loyalists and warlords. Democratic rule is the rule of the Republic of Odisha.
In Southeast Asia, the Singapore and the rump British Raj share a short, but friendly border. The rump Raj, based in George Town, acts as a bulwark against refugees flooding in from the north, while Singapore polices the seas.
In the Middle East and Anatolia, a cluster of states have survived or emerged. The Ottoman Empire has become a “constitutional” monarchy, but only because the ruling family was wiped out during the Fall of Istanbul in 1879. The nobles of the empire squabble for control of the throne while trying to present a united front and maintain stability, knowing that a civil war would only invite ruin. To the east of the Ottoman Empire stands the Free State of Greater Sakart'velo based in Tbilisi.
Further east is the Sublime State of Persia. Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar rests on his deathbed, and until he dies, his son Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar must wrangle with the demands of a minority of people who want a more decentralized state versus the largely reactionary nobility, which demands a strong government, even an absolute one, in Persia’s darkest hour in centuries.
In North Africa, the Republic of Alexandria has restored order to many parts of Egypt. Further west is the Third French Empire based in Algiers. The Fall has pushed the French government out of France entirely, leaving the surviving French government control of only Algeria and parts of Morocco. Napoleon V, in the name of security, and using the legacy of his name, crowned himself First Citizen in order to protect France. The rest of the world knows First Citizen Napoleon as Emperor Napoleon V.
In the Balkans, the Holy Kingdom of Serbia has brought order to much of the region, but not without much bloodshed and violence on a level atypical for even the post-Fall world. King Milan Obrenović rules with an iron fist, and unopposed legally within his realm.
Italy is a mixed bag. The Italian state collapsed, but governance continued in various regions. Tensions are high, and all of the Italian states are suspicious of one another, with the People’s Republic of Naples drawing the highest level of suspicion among the Italian states. Government in Italy is diverse, ranging from socialist dictatorships to corporate republics, from absolute monarchy to military juntas.
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