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There was no Third World War, but the effects of the United States, the world's indisputed (if steeply declining) hegemon, collapsing into civil war might aswell have been a worldwide conflict. The collapse of internet infrastructure for several years, over 100 million deaths in North America alone, an entire continent plunged into war and the rest of the world plunged into chaos.

But hey, at least we got to the moon and Mars, so that's cool.

North America

The entire continent collapsed with the United States, and it really hasn't recovered since. Even though team red won the civil war, it was a phyrric victory that left two successor states hanging about, and a new developing situation in the Rocky Mountains that might lead to another full-scale war in the continent if not handled well. The existance of a veritable corpo-narco-state in Northern Mexico financing militias in both southern Mexico and the southern US does not help matters either.

South America

The so-called backyard of America suddenly found itself wrenched from the claws of the northern giant. Much rejoicing was had until they realized, much like everyone else everywhere else in the world, that most of their economy relied on said giant, and now they were in free-fall. Coups, civil wars, explosions in violence, the 2030s, 40s, 50s and 60s were an interesting time to be a South American. The continent has began restabilizing, though some countries still remain under right (like Peru) and left (like Colombia) wing military dictatorships, plus a few oddballs here and there by the very transparently ORO-controlled Venezuela, or the American puppet-state of Cuba (the Communist Party was ousted after the 2ACW through a very quick but extremely violent American operation), and of course there's Brazil, which never recovered from the mess of the 60s, and is now entering its 20th year of civil war, and Chile, which seemed to be doing well until it wasn't. But aside from all that, things aren't that bad in South American, especially in Argentina, where the economy has seen a steep growth in spite of a crypto-Fascistic, ORO-aligned government currently "intervening" in Chile.

Africa

Here's another place where almost everything went to shit when America collapsed. Some power blocs, such as the French-led Western Defense Compact, the Commonwealth of Nations, the CSTO and the Turkish-led Anti-Imperialist Defense Organization stepped in to fill in the vacuum, but still much of the continent fell into chaos. But from that chaos, things somewhat stabilized. The South African and Nigerian splits went down much more peacefully than one might have suspected, Angola rose from its civil war much more stable, and the East African Federation, to everyone's suprise, not only formed, not only didn't immediatly collapse into civil war, but actually expanded as many provinces from the collapsing (and still collapsing) DRC were incorporated into the Federation, which became a world power in and of itself. It was from Arusha that came George Azan's engineering firm, which would go on to become one of the main power brokers in the asteroid-mining buissness. Other federal projects were carried out, such as the Zambezi Confederacy and the Central African Federation, centered around Equatorial Guinea, with varying degrees of success. Still, not all is well (in relation to the 2020s) in Africa. Without American aid, Al-Shabbab has taken more and more ground in Somalia, and even the joint Ethiopian-EAF effort to root them out has proved unfruitful after all these decades. Civil wars in Mali, the Central African Republic, the Central African Federation and the DRC threaten the stability of the continent, and the further north you go, the worse things get. Desertification was somewhat slower than anticipated, but still worrying enough that, when Ethiopia completed its Millenium Dam project in 2043, the Egyptian reaction was a carpet bombing of it and of Addis Adeba. The East African War (also sometimes called the Nile Jihad by some) saw Egypt and Sudan fighting a protracted and ultimately losing war against Ethiopia and the East African Federation. By 2083, Sudan has barely began to recover from the conflict, while Egypt never did. With all that, a new self-proclaimed Emirate arose in the Saharan region, under a Tebbou warlord declaring himself the Mahdi, once again driving millions out of their homes, and pledging to soon rule from Casablanca to Jerusalem. Yet, beyond the Mahdi, let's take a step back and look at poor, battered Egypt. The war left the country in ruins, starving, thirsty and in the verge of civil war. A series of draughts combined with the reduced water flow of the Nile eventually led to said civil war kicking off and, between that and the loss of food security for untold millions, a positively biblical flood of refugees, some fleeing towards Israel (and most getting mowed down), or taking to the sea and crossing the Mediterranean.

Europe

With the collapse of America, NATO died too, and the Russians spent no time in taking advantage of it. No European country beyond Poland and company truly felt compelled to fight to protect the continued existance of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and so the Baltic triplets fell after 5 years of staunch resistance. The European Union disintegrated as the Eastern members, disillusioned with the inaction of their western counterparts, formed the Kiev Pact. Germany, increasingly falling to instability and irrelevance, became increasingly neutral to world politics, while France took the corpse of NATO and created the Western Defense Compact, which was pretty much an extension of French imperial ambitions in Africa, and now Europe, as with Germany's loss of power, France now became the de-facto holder of not just the West African Franc, but the Euro too. Much like the Kiev Pact, the WDC leaned right on many political issues, which would come into full gear when the Egyptian refugee crisis began approaching Europe. The bare minimum amount of asylum seekers were given refuge, mainly in Italy and Spain, and the overwhelming majority were sent away, violently. While most Egyptians managed to find asylum in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey, the remaining desperate millions still at sea kept heading north, until they hit the coasts of Greece.

Without NATO or the European Union to back them, the Greeks asked to the WDC for help to contain the onslaught of desperate souls, but the French, not wanting to have anything to do with the ongoing disaster, merely fortified their side of the Mediterranean. As more and more refugees poured into Greece and into the wider Balkans, whose populations had been declining for several decades now, the Turksih-led AIDO stepped in... and armed the Egyptians. Overwhelmed, the governments of Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Albania (though by then there were more Albanians living in Germany and England than in Albania itself) fell to violence, and from the chaos emerged new nations, populated majoritarily by Arabic-speaking Muslims, and aside from Greece, where remnants of the old government (now led by Golden-Dawn aligned elements) still wage a guerrilla war against the newcomers, the situation in the Balkans has more-or-less stabilized, thanks in no small part to Turkey quickly swooping in to stabilize the region (and Kosovo, which by now speaks more Albanian than Albania itself) and, of course, ensuring the new governments remained loyal to Ankara.

Asia

A brief nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan led to a coup in Islamabad and the loss of Kashimr, while the Chinese brutally annexed Taiwan and the DMZ between the Koreas became a meat-grinder. With American forces being recalled across the board, East Asia fell into conflict. The Japanese self-defense forces aided the Koreans until Russian and Chinese forces came to push the capitalist pigdogs to the sea, the Spratly Islands were fully secured under the red flag after a brief yet disastrous naval battle against Filipino and remnant American forces, and in the midst of it all ORO got to sink its teeth into Laos, drugs now flowing up and down the Mekong River, despite all the CCP's attempts at stemming the flow. Australia and New Zealand tried to help in the Second Korean War, until Beijing assured them nuclear weapons were aimed at Darwin and Christchurch, after which their tunes quickly changed. They still regret their decision to this day, as they seem to increasingly be nearing the point of no return when it comes to being part of China's sphere. Not that China is doing as well as they pretend to be. Much like the Russians, they're spread too thin, and the populance is not too content with their governments' authoritarian policies anymore. February 2083 marks the fourth month of violent riots in Beijing, Lhasa, Moscow and Vladivostok. In the Middle East, things aren't much better. Israel's annexation of the West Bank and Gaza has not stopped the intifadas and bombings, if anything, it made them more common, and Al-Qaeda has a very firmly established Emirate in Yemen. There is a silver lining to the chaos, if you hate the petro-monarchies as much as I do. The House of Saud is long gone, radicated in Paris as violent revolution following a disastrous war on the Houthis brought about the Arabian Republic. In the Gulf, Kuwait is the last remaining Gulf Monarchy, as during the crisis of the 40s and 50s, the migrant workers from Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE revolted against the loss of rights and lowering of wages, a strike that eventually led to a Socialist revolution and the establishment of the primarily Bengali-speaking Worker's Republic of the Gulf.

Antarctica

Argentina had begun rearming since before the 2ACW, and with the end of the Antarctic Treaty in 2053, the independence of Scotland, Europe in chaos due to the Egyptian refugee crisis, Chile's political instability making it unable to respond and the eyes of the northern giant elsewhere, the southern nation went forth of a much-prepared operation.

The Antarctic War lasted for 6 months, and even with modern equipment, more Britons, Chileans and Argentines perished to the cold Antarctic night than to gunfire. When the dust (and snow) settled, the disputed area of the Antarctic peninsula and its surroundings laid under the sky-blue and white flag of Argentina, but attempts to recapture the Falklands/Malvinas and the South Georgia and South Sandwich Archipelago met with faliure, and a ceasefire was signed. Almost 30 years later, talks of a British-Argentine codominium of the disputed islands are well underway, but Argentina's current intervention in Chile's civil war has put the matter on hold for now.

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Had this sitting in my hard drive for a long time and decided to finish it and post it now at 4:57am local time

Apologies for the inactivity and for the lack of a part 3 on my Tierra del Fuego CYOH, please don't kill me, part 3 is coming soon(tm)

Description

There was no Third World War, but the effects of the United States, the world's indisputed (if steeply declining) hegemon, collapsing into civil war might aswell have been a worldwide conflict. The collapse of internet infrastructure for several years, over 100 million deaths in North America alone, an entire continent plunged into war and the rest of the world plunged into chaos.

But hey, at least we got to the moon and Mars, so that's cool.

North America

The entire continent collapsed with the United States, and it really hasn't recovered since. Even though team red won the civil war, it was a phyrric victory that left two successor states hanging about, and a new developing situation in the Rocky Mountains that might lead to another full-scale war in the continent if not handled well. The existance of a veritable corpo-narco-state in Northern Mexico financing militias in both southern Mexico and the southern US does not help matters either.

South America

The so-called backyard of America suddenly found itself wrenched from the claws of the northern giant. Much rejoicing was had until they realized, much like everyone else everywhere else in the world, that most of their economy relied on said giant, and now they were in free-fall. Coups, civil wars, explosions in violence, the 2030s, 40s, 50s and 60s were an interesting time to be a South American. The continent has began restabilizing, though some countries still remain under right (like Peru) and left (like Colombia) wing military dictatorships, plus a few oddballs here and there by the very transparently ORO-controlled Venezuela, or the American puppet-state of Cuba (the Communist Party was ousted after the 2ACW through a very quick but extremely violent American operation), and of course there's Brazil, which never recovered from the mess of the 60s, and is now entering its 20th year of civil war, and Chile, which seemed to be doing well until it wasn't. But aside from all that, things aren't that bad in South American, especially in Argentina, where the economy has seen a steep growth in spite of a crypto-Fascistic, ORO-aligned government currently "intervening" in Chile.

Africa

Here's another place where almost everything went to shit when America collapsed. Some power blocs, such as the French-led Western Defense Compact, the Commonwealth of Nations, the CSTO and the Turkish-led Anti-Imperialist Defense Organization stepped in to fill in the vacuum, but still much of the continent fell into chaos. But from that chaos, things somewhat stabilized. The South African and Nigerian splits went down much more peacefully than one might have suspected, Angola rose from its civil war much more stable, and the East African Federation, to everyone's suprise, not only formed, not only didn't immediatly collapse into civil war, but actually expanded as many provinces from the collapsing (and still collapsing) DRC were incorporated into the Federation, which became a world power in and of itself. It was from Arusha that came George Azan's engineering firm, which would go on to become one of the main power brokers in the asteroid-mining buissness. Other federal projects were carried out, such as the Zambezi Confederacy and the Central African Federation, centered around Equatorial Guinea, with varying degrees of success. Still, not all is well (in relation to the 2020s) in Africa. Without American aid, Al-Shabbab has taken more and more ground in Somalia, and even the joint Ethiopian-EAF effort to root them out has proved unfruitful after all these decades. Civil wars in Mali, the Central African Republic, the Central African Federation and the DRC threaten the stability of the continent, and the further north you go, the worse things get. Desertification was somewhat slower than anticipated, but still worrying enough that, when Ethiopia completed its Millenium Dam project in 2043, the Egyptian reaction was a carpet bombing of it and of Addis Adeba. The East African War (also sometimes called the Nile Jihad by some) saw Egypt and Sudan fighting a protracted and ultimately losing war against Ethiopia and the East African Federation. By 2083, Sudan has barely began to recover from the conflict, while Egypt never did. With all that, a new self-proclaimed Emirate arose in the Saharan region, under a Tebbou warlord declaring himself the Mahdi, once again driving millions out of their homes, and pledging to soon rule from Casablanca to Jerusalem. Yet, beyond the Mahdi, let's take a step back and look at poor, battered Egypt. The war left the country in ruins, starving, thirsty and in the verge of civil war. A series of draughts combined with the reduced water flow of the Nile eventually led to said civil war kicking off and, between that and the loss of food security for untold millions, a positively biblical flood of refugees, some fleeing towards Israel (and most getting mowed down), or taking to the sea and crossing the Mediterranean.

Europe

With the collapse of America, NATO died too, and the Russians spent no time in taking advantage of it. No European country beyond Poland and company truly felt compelled to fight to protect the continued existance of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and so the Baltic triplets fell after 5 years of staunch resistance. The European Union disintegrated as the Eastern members, disillusioned with the inaction of their western counterparts, formed the Kiev Pact. Germany, increasingly falling to instability and irrelevance, became increasingly neutral to world politics, while France took the corpse of NATO and created the Western Defense Compact, which was pretty much an extension of French imperial ambitions in Africa, and now Europe, as with Germany's loss of power, France now became the de-facto holder of not just the West African Franc, but the Euro too. Much like the Kiev Pact, the WDC leaned right on many political issues, which would come into full gear when the Egyptian refugee crisis began approaching Europe. The bare minimum amount of asylum seekers were given refuge, mainly in Italy and Spain, and the overwhelming majority were sent away, violently. While most Egyptians managed to find asylum in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey, the remaining desperate millions still at sea kept heading north, until they hit the coasts of Greece.

Without NATO or the European Union to back them, the Greeks asked to the WDC for help to contain the onslaught of desperate souls, but the French, not wanting to have anything to do with the ongoing disaster, merely fortified their side of the Mediterranean. As more and more refugees poured into Greece and into the wider Balkans, whose populations had been declining for several decades now, the Turksih-led AIDO stepped in... and armed the Egyptians. Overwhelmed, the governments of Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Albania (though by then there were more Albanians living in Germany and England than in Albania itself) fell to violence, and from the chaos emerged new nations, populated majoritarily by Arabic-speaking Muslims, and aside from Greece, where remnants of the old government (now led by Golden-Dawn aligned elements) still wage a guerrilla war against the newcomers, the situation in the Balkans has more-or-less stabilized, thanks in no small part to Turkey quickly swooping in to stabilize the region (and Kosovo, which by now speaks more Albanian than Albania itself) and, of course, ensuring the new governments remained loyal to Ankara.

Asia

A brief nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan led to a coup in Islamabad and the loss of Kashimr, while the Chinese brutally annexed Taiwan and the DMZ between the Koreas became a meat-grinder. With American forces being recalled across the board, East Asia fell into conflict. The Japanese self-defense forces aided the Koreans until Russian and Chinese forces came to push the capitalist pigdogs to the sea, the Spratly Islands were fully secured under the red flag after a brief yet disastrous naval battle against Filipino and remnant American forces, and in the midst of it all ORO got to sink its teeth into Laos, drugs now flowing up and down the Mekong River, despite all the CCP's attempts at stemming the flow. Australia and New Zealand tried to help in the Second Korean War, until Beijing assured them nuclear weapons were aimed at Darwin and Christchurch, after which their tunes quickly changed. They still regret their decision to this day, as they seem to increasingly be nearing the point of no return when it comes to being part of China's sphere. Not that China is doing as well as they pretend to be. Much like the Russians, they're spread too thin, and the populance is not too content with their governments' authoritarian policies anymore. February 2083 marks the fourth month of violent riots in Beijing, Lhasa, Moscow and Vladivostok. In the Middle East, things aren't much better. Israel's annexation of the West Bank and Gaza has not stopped the intifadas and bombings, if anything, it made them more common, and Al-Qaeda has a very firmly established Emirate in Yemen. There is a silver lining to the chaos, if you hate the petro-monarchies as much as I do. The House of Saud is long gone, radicated in Paris as violent revolution following a disastrous war on the Houthis brought about the Arabian Republic. In the Gulf, Kuwait is the last remaining Gulf Monarchy, as during the crisis of the 40s and 50s, the migrant workers from Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE revolted against the loss of rights and lowering of wages, a strike that eventually led to a Socialist revolution and the establishment of the primarily Bengali-speaking Worker's Republic of the Gulf.

Antarctica

Argentina had begun rearming since before the 2ACW, and with the end of the Antarctic Treaty in 2053, the independence of Scotland, Europe in chaos due to the Egyptian refugee crisis, Chile's political instability making it unable to respond and the eyes of the northern giant elsewhere, the southern nation went forth of a much-prepared operation.

The Antarctic War lasted for 6 months, and even with modern equipment, more Britons, Chileans and Argentines perished to the cold Antarctic night than to gunfire. When the dust (and snow) settled, the disputed area of the Antarctic peninsula and its surroundings laid under the sky-blue and white flag of Argentina, but attempts to recapture the Falklands/Malvinas and the South Georgia and South Sandwich Archipelago met with faliure, and a ceasefire was signed. Almost 30 years later, talks of a British-Argentine codominium of the disputed islands are well underway, but Argentina's current intervention in Chile's civil war has put the matter on hold for now.

--

Had this sitting in my hard drive for a long time and decided to finish it and post it now at 4:57am local time

Apologies for the inactivity and for the lack of a part 3 on my Tierra del Fuego CYOH, please don't kill me, part 3 is coming soon(tm)