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19North95 — Welcome to Earth in the year 2100
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...in the past, the 20th century was referred as the “American Century“ but over the 21th century the power of the USA declined and the USA became more and more isolated after the „New Washington incident“ (where the US throw a nuclear bomb on its reblling moon colony). The 22nd century gave rise to new superpowers, and the difficult relationship between a American and Eurasian Bloc. The world changed (like always), today our planet became more and more ruined by environmental catastrophes, the sea level rose up to 2 or 3 meters, and the world is now 2 to 4 degrees warmer compared to the year 2000.The global economy changed rapidly, and entered a period of intense disruption, with traditional free market capitalism beset with problems it was structurally incapable of addressing. Corporations which have operated for many decades disappeared overnight, unable to adapt. So too governments had to change, most of them started in the 2060s reforms to stop the further pollution and destruction of the environment caused by the failing capitalistic industries, capitalistic industries were simply nationalised, so it is not abnormal that a state owns today his large and important industries. With heavy state interventions, most countries deploy today either a semi state-capitalistic or non-capitalistic system, and are desperately trying to reduce the lesser but still ongoing pollution and hope to cure earth one day...
But earth is no longer the main priority of the human race (11,2 billion people), the Moon, the Lagrange points, free floating space, Mars and his moons, Ceres and the asteroid belt and even some moons of Jupiter became new homes for humanity, besides Earth, and all of them have different tasks which need to be fulfilled.
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Wouldn't India, Middle east, many south east Asian countries, and Africa have suffered very badly due to climate change?
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Pollution of the cities through the old industries and the massive use of car, global warming, the sea level rises, more storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and so on
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Interesting scenario.
How could is this European Federation be described, I mean its social and political system? More autocratic than today? Big brother state? Corporate capitalist nation? Or actually a nice place to live in? ^.=.^
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yeah it might be interesting but it's not to realistic when I'm honest xD because I doubt that we will have all this unions united, but I will make another one in the future where China rises up
The EF evolved from an Berlin lead European Union. So I would say that it's political system is like today but with a centralised government and that the member states gave a huge chunk of their power up. Besides that not much changed to be honest the federation is only more pro-Moscow and pro-Beijing compared to the old Union.
Socially they enjoy one of the highest standarts of living in the world, the economy is based on a market system and mixed all important and huge companies are owned by the state, small and middle buisnesses are independent but are strongly regulated in regard to the climate and the environment. So you could say the economy is semi state-capitalistic
It's actually a nice country to live in (but that depends on what you personally prefer) but you could that there are some worrying things going on, the federation is shocked that other major players on world scale are secretly trying to produce clone soldiers and genetically improved super soldiers and new weapon systems like anti-matter weapons. So what does the federation against such threats? Building their own new weapon systems and producing clone and super soldiers... And btw the federation eagerly wants to expand its territory which is quite hard when you're surrounded by allies
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Im assuming the grey in Southern Mexico is Zapatistas?
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Whenever I imagine the future, I always imagine that Canada is part of the USA for some reason. Maybe this is because of the game Fallout, "Ancient Pre-War Newspapers; USA To Annex Canada!"
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Believe me, it's a common fear. Nice map, mind, even though Quebec went separate.
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It's a common fear among Canadians that we'll soddenly invade you?
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Well, sort of. No offence, but you did already do it once...
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That was over 200 years ago. The world is very different. For one, Canada is part of the Commonwealth, which the US would not ever fuck with, mainly because it consists of a bunch of our buddies, and it's actually quite strong, and both Canada and the United States are a member of NATO. That would be a pretty big cluster fuck as NATO is a defensive pact, and if we invaded Canada, the rest of NATO would come to Canada's rescue, along with a bunch of UN nations, as acts of aggression are actually illegal.
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(Grin) You can't really tell when you're being teased, can you...I'm really sorry, should have made that a bit clearer. Anyway, I never said that the inbuilt fear of invasion made any sense at all.
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Well first I would call this a possible future when the USA loses its status as world power and a Berlin-Moscow-Beijing axis rises. I would wish another future for earth, but sadly not everything is going to be nice nor perfect in the next decades, so...
someday I gonna to continue this series with the year 2150
And I can talk a bit about the future of the US in this timeline, the USA is collapsing around 2110/2111 and two new unions form a new CSA in the South and the FSA (Federated States of America) in the North both of them fight against the remaining USA until its complete end in 2113. In the chaos of the civil war the FSA and CSA also collapse into independent states which fight against the remaing areas hold by FSA and CSA, also against each other and going to expand into the border regions to Canada and Mexico. One of this new states is a christian/mormon version of the IS based in Utah which contunied fighting with endless zeal and managed to unite the former USA, Canada and Mexico under its rule by 2120 as a christian theocratic military dictatorship...
the Eurasian Bloc did not really care for the civil war in the USA on earth so they just annexed the american colonies in space, In 2122 the European Federation and the Union of Sovereign States unite and form the Eurasian Federation. The military leadership in North America was afraid ad feared that the religious heads were uncable of dealing with such a new power on earth and so the initiated a coup and build up a fascist totalitarian military and police state. It is ruled by a demarchic council where from each member state a men and a women from the "best" is drawn by lot. Over time tensions grew on earth...
2126-2128 third world war, global nuclear war with 100-500 warheads (a decade long "mini" nuclear winder) and first space war.
The politicial system in North America is around 2150 actually the same as pre-war because there was no true winner...
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Great United Free Socialist People's Republic of Arabia
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ah...
well it's a brilliant name isn't it?^^^
I based it on the name of the ideology of the baath party "Unity-Freedom-Socialism" and on the name of Lybia under Gadaffi "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya"
Jamahiriya means something like "state of the masses"
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Shit that's a mouthful isn't it, the name I mean.
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well it's nothing compared to this: NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT (russian)
(Meaning) Laboratory for Shuttering, Reinforcement, Concrete and Ferroconcrete Operations for Composite-monolithic and Monolithic Constructions of the Department of Technology of Building Assembly Operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for Building Mechanization and Technical Aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR.
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The mexican civil war. Do you know the councils of good government and the libertarian socialist movement down there? Well the grey area are their descendants with direct consensus democracy etc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Councils…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Za…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatist…
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Yeah, the EZLN. I'm writing a book set in Spain fifty years in the future during an Ice Age, and I was thinking about what happenned in those years. For example, I decided that there was a war in Mexico called the Drug War, which would split the country creating for example a "Zapatist Nation".
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You're writing a book? A real one or one on deviantart?
And why do we experience aice Age in 50 years, I would rather live with a warmer world than a new ice age :/
Has Zapista actually some meaning? Is it a designation for a people or is there some different meaning?
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I'm writing a book on Word XD. The reason of the Ice Age is a Yellowstone eruption nowadays. The action takes place after all the changes in the world. For example, in those fifty years, the USA falls because of the eruption, the EU falls because of wars between european countries to control new merged areas and expansion to the south in order to survive. There is a new fascist era in Europe... Countries such as Sweden or Canada dissapear due to the ice. The new powerful countries are countries with oil (for example the countries of the Persian Gulf). However, after some years, they run out of oil, and the countries that had oil and coal take the power (Kazahstan in the book is as important as the nowadays USA).
Zapatista is someone who is Zapatist, someone who believes in the ideas of Emiliano Zapata (a Mexican Revolution leader). Those zones are Zapatist.
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nah I mean do you want to publish it, in reality or on deviantart, or is it just for you? :3
so you're writing a dystopie, well ok but how can Kazahstan became as important as the US after they used all oil and coal, do they have nuclear Fusion or something else like antimatter plants?
ok but I actually wanted to know if the word "Zapatist" or the surname "Zapata" has any meaning (not the political, but the linguistic one) , from what is it derived from a occupation or a city for example?
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It would be interesting publishing it, the book talks about a revolution 50 years after the eruption, when everything is more calmed. And it is supposed that Kazahstan still uses coal.
No, Zapata comes from the surname of Emiliano Zapata, there's no other reason.
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Hahahaha Russia really got Transnistria? Well why not XD But the poor people
are sorrounded by surely enemies?
How did the islamic-arabian culture area become socialist?
It sounds so awesome that people start colonizing other planets^^ I read, if they can stay on the moon,
getting Helium3 and ice from craters for their stations and building a kind of "catapult" it could be much
cheaper to travel from there to other planets.
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Europe and the Union of Sovereign States are actually the the best buddies on the whole planet... so just because they share the same alliance doesn't make them enemies at all.. xD
"The Baathist Syria won the civil against its rebels and the IS and marched through the rest of the Iraq too empower the Baath Party there. Syria and Iraq formed then one arab state with the goal to unite all Arabs, they supported the Baath Party in other arabian states, made coups and invaded the rest (that was really easy because of the alliance with Russia, and the isolation of the US after the 2080s)"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27ath…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_soc…
Yes helium3 can actually solve all energy problems^^
and the moon has only a little bit of atmosphere so they less energy is needed to leave the orbit
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Ah that explains a bit, I seriously prefer that more in the middle east than IS
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only a bit 
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Federated(?) Europe, independent Quebec, a New Soviet Union (hopefully they'll learn from their past mistakes) and a unified Korea - interesting but I must ask: which regime reigns in Korea?
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Well the Union of Sovereign States ("new Soviet Union") is as oppressive as modern Russia, it's a aristocratic Timocracy, with a council of the 5000 to 6000 "best" of the country who choose the leader for the whole country. It got a corpocratic economy with heavy state interventionism. So it's not really a new Soviet Union. The living standart is like today but it gets better thanks to the friendship with the European Federation and China.
Korea is ruled by the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo. It's a union of the now more liberal North (it's like modern China) and the South which nationalised large and important industries (that's not abnormal for the year 2100, Capitalism mostly failed, because of the ongoing exploitation of the workers and the destruction of the environment, like rising sea levels, which are not shown in this map... so most states in the year 2100 are non-capitalist)
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How in all probability did North Africa and Arabia unite? and what of the USA, what is it like in this scenario?
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Well the north african states are also arabian states... Do you know the Arab League? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Lea…
The Baathist Syria won the civil against its rebels and the IS and marched through the rest of the Iraq too empower the Baath Party there. Syria and Iraq formed then one arab state with the goal to unite all Arabs, they supported the Baath Party in other arabian states, made coups and invaded the rest (that was really easy because of the alliance with Russia, and the isolation of the US after the 2080s)
The USA has in the year 2100 a population of over 500 million people, has 52 states (50+Washington D.C.+Puerto Virgo, formed from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands), overcrowded cities, the coast are flooded and it's slightly warmer, btw abortions and gay marriage are allowed, it has ABC weapons and is currenty testing and constructing new weapon Systems like antimatter weapons. The most common language is still english, but in Puerto Virgo, California, Rizona, New Mexico and Texas the majority of the population speaks spanish. The gap between the poor and rich wided even more, and it's a clear two class society (the middle class vanished a long time ago), the major part of the economy is controlled by a few wealthy families, who are not really interested in chaniging anything (the US is in 2100 known as the most capitalist country in the world). The political system is still the same as today, but only 30% to 50% of the population are actually going to vote, because it's mostly clear that the politicans are just bought by the rich. The currently most important political question is "how restricted the market economy should be?" (a question most countries answered in the 2060s). But the living standart even for the poor is still better than the on for the normal african or the latin american (that also exlains the high population). But the clear divide in the population leaded more and more to a class conflict in the 2080s with "wildcat strikes" and riots in the streets (against Police/Military forces), the peak of the riots was the takeover of a US moon colony by local rebels (the rebels declared independence and wanted an alliance with Europe/Russia/China). The rebbellion endend fast after the US dropped a atomic bomb on the rebelling moon colony.
After this Event the situation in the USA became quit, and the US isolated themselves and follow in the 2100s the doctrine "America for the Americans" so they are allies with mostly all north/south american states exept the United Bolivarian Socialist Republics (Red), Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Councils of Good Government (Grey in Southern Mexico, they are Libertarian Socialists)
The US fought in the last years only a few wars like in Columbia the war against the bolivarian rebels, and currently the war against the Libertarian Socialists in Southern Mexico. The US weapons are highly advanced and the US even uses genetically engenieered super soldiers, clone soldiers, Cyborgs and robots as infantry in the battle field.
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Does the Antarctic Treaty still in effect?
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officially yes, but in reality nobody cares about it...
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yep on the moon, mars (+moons), Ceres (+asteroids in the Asteroid Belt) and some outposts on Jupiter's moons
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Who's the Superpower? or is it a Cold War situation?
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The current superpowers are the USA, Brazil, Europe, Russia, China, India and Arabia.
The situation becomes colder, but till now there is no new Cold War.
The two "blocks" USA/Brazil and Europe/Russia/China and more or less Arabia and India do not really like each other, but they trade with each other and are not interested in a confrontation (it's kinda like the relationship between the USA and China today)
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I imagine Petroleum is obsolete so how did Arabia become a superpower?
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solar energy, wind energy, nuclear fusion, and they're currently researching (with Europe's help) for using antimatter and ions as even better energy resources
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Wow; are there independent states off planet?
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Depends on which country you ask on earth, not everyone accepts them: The Lunar Corporation (it's a matriarchy on the Moon/Luna), two states on mars (also formed from former corporations) and the Federation of the Asteroid Belt (which is an Anarchist Federation of 100 to 1000 small self governing communes)
The 3 states who were formed from former corporations, still look like a today's corporation so this states are mostly ruled like a dictatorships
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You should consider composing this into a book or screenplay.
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