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It is the year 2174. While the borders on the map of the world have stood firm for centuries with minor alterations, this is a world fundamentally different from our own. Tens of millions live in massive space stations circling the Earth and beyond; even the world's poorest live for more than a century, new races forged of both carbon and silicon have sprung into existence, and the population of the world booms in harmony with the environment as humanity and its progeny now seek to spread themselves across the universe and live in a world of hope and progress.
For now.

The spirit of social progress has been great. The 19th century saw people from across the world reject the concept of slavery. Racism had been dealt a severe blow in the 20th. Those triumphs were followed by victories for gay rights, indigenous rights, gender non-conforming rights, immigrant rights, unconventional family rights, animal rights, the fight against dictatorships, the struggle against the changing climate, the struggle against the population slump, and know, as the last pundits ranting about the increasing predominance of sentient AI citing Terminator and The Matrix along with those beating the dead horse of transhumanism and the reduction of animal uplifts are now declining in viewership in even the strongest bastions of social conservatism. Now, people take sides in what some deem the new front of social progress. The abolition of national ideals and old tribalism and the desire to unite as one people. A united world, or perhaps a united solar system.

It is important to note that geopolitics has shifted greatly in the past century. In a world of open borders with a human population of 29 billion, the nation has transformed into an identity, perhaps a brand. They each seek to acquire more and more people to increase their prominence on the international stage and acquire new talent and ideology hailing from the times when the world's aging populations were grinding nations to a halt. International organizations began allocating power to countries based on their active populations, further leading to them attempting to attract more and more people to their nations.

Now, countries fight with each other to boost their images. When in the past, countries such as Hungary and Germany would blame one another for the flow of refugees, now they appeal to their history, advertising their cultures and history on billboards to compete to have the best national brand. Of course, the more powerful countries, titans such as the United States, China, Russia, India, and Western Europe, built the strongest brands, leading to a backlash in large countries with weaker brands. Several African countries, most notably the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola, major sources of human manpower, had issues with immigration and, as such, formed a block of countries across the world shutting their borders (typically democratically) to emigrants and focused on building traditionalist views of their nation, known as the Isostates. This ideology has been collapsing, though, with the Congo shifting hard in the opposite direction and joining the Central African Federation.

Hundreds of millions of people have taken to the seas. Laws liberalizing the construction of settlements within the ocean, given they follow maritime laws, led to a massive wave of seastead building and even the construction of massive city-sized cruise ships touring around the world, full of wealthy retirees. In addition, thanks to the development of tensegrity spheres pioneered in the skies of Venus, massive floating cities now tour the world, acting as hubs of travel and culture and major tourist destinations in their own right.

With the vast majority of the world online, people have begun to connect with others from all over, building communities spanning across the hill sphere of the Earth. This showcased that humans, in the end, are more alike than not, and the overview effect furthered it as larger and larger segments of the human population traveled up the space elevators to see the earth from above for the first time, showcasing the fragility of the human condition with no borders chaining them down. As of the latter half of the 22nd century, people are growing disillusioned with the nations being represented as brands, with some nations having turned to bizarre methods to attract more immigrants. With the power of intergovernmental organizations and corporations at an all-time high, more and more suggest ripping up the lines on the map that force people into boxes and have them choose an identity or perhaps be born into it.

This is when the Spark of Camaraderie flickered.

Across the Middle East, militias began forming. While the region had been fairly peaceful for the past few decades, resentment continued to bubble. The three hotspots were in Kurdistan, the Caucasus, and Afghanistan, two neglected regions with a history of conflict. Citizens across the Middle East coalesced in secrecy, adapting the old ideology of democratic confederalism into a form worthy of the new age, which would unify the Middle East under one banner and then bring the world together as one. Turkish Kurdistan declared independence and committed to the ideology, with many more states from across the region pledging support. Soon, the newly declared Democratic Federation of the Middle East, dubbed the ‘Demfedme’ by Turkish forces fighting against it, became adopted by the Democratic Federation.

Iran was the primary target of the Demfedme, with the federation seizing much of the North at the beginning of the war. Upon capturing Tehran, the liberal Iranian government would capitulate. However, a clique of military generals fighting on other fronts would reject this and declare their authority null and void, forming the Iranian National Directory (IRNAD). The Democratic Federation continued its march, invading much of Central Asia and sending its troops down Mesopotamia and the Levant. Turkey struggled to hold off the Demfedme, while IRNAD was locked in brutal trench warfare commanded from its capital in Shiraz.

Eventually, the tide began to turn. The lightning war into Europe through the Caucasus failed due to the Russian counteroffensive, while Pakistan launched a full-scale invasion of Demfedme-controlled Afghanistan. Egypt and Arabia pushed into the fertile crescent, while IRNAD forces achieved a major victory by securing Khuzhestan. In the North, the Isostate of Kazakhstan invaded (soon rejoining the international community), while the Central Asian People’s Army was established to retake the city of Samarkand. As the war continued, Afghanistan splintered into infighting as Russian forces stormed across the Caucasus while the Ukrainians retook the long-held stronghold of Crimea. During events dubbed ‘the Kurdish Thermidor’,, Kurdish nationalists seeking to overthrow the Demfedme captured the floating capital city of Ocelan, while the Democratic Federation bunkered down in Mazandaran. Slowly and slowly, the last strongholds of the Demfedme were broken.

The war greatly reshaped the Middle East, and many compromises between factions transformed the geopolitical landscape. Nationalism rocketed to new heights in the region, with Arabia taking over much of Iraq and the Levant. Kurdistan was granted full independence, with the region granted amnesty despite being the core territory of the Demfedme. Afghanistan remained in chaos, with Pakistan at one point annexing large chunks of it, but through international tribunals, the region was carved up with an independent Pashtun and Hazara state. The Central Asian People’s Army proved to be a hard nut to crack, but Iranian forces soon liberated the region from its authoritarian control.

However, the biggest changes of the 2180s were not on the map, nor were they in the Middle East. After strong battles waged in academia and online forum boards over the past century, the ideology of Ankism began to take over, which strived to dismantle the idea of a nation-state in its entirety and take a more holistic approach to viewing humanity and its offspring races. One of the main goals of Ankism was to control the universe under one liberal and just government, and this goal slowly spread across the world.

The United States, the heartland of the ideology and a nation where all the languages of the world could be spoken, had both of its political parties shift in favor of Ankism, as did much of North America, with the region becoming an ideological stronghold. Ankist revolts toppled the Isostate regime in Angola, with a ceasefire eventually confining it to the Southeast of the country. Ankist political parties made headwaves in South America and soon dominated the Indian Parliament. At the same time, the Central African Federation began negotiating with states across the continent to unite all of Africa, just as Nusanatara planned to fold in Southeast Asia. The world map was about to see the greatest transformation in the history of humanity.

Yet, resistance to the idea began to be built. India’s military began to side with the Anti-Ankist coalition holding back the United World, while States in Bolivia conspired to reject the authority of the Ankist government. Proud civilizations such as those of China, the Middle East, and Europe sneered at letting their nations fall to a new world order, and Ankist movements were defeated across Eurasia. 240 years before, the people of Europe staged a revolution. Now, the world will do it again.

Individual slides for each year: drive.google.com/drive/folders…

Description

It is the year 2174. While the borders on the map of the world have stood firm for centuries with minor alterations, this is a world fundamentally different from our own. Tens of millions live in massive space stations circling the Earth and beyond; even the world's poorest live for more than a century, new races forged of both carbon and silicon have sprung into existence, and the population of the world booms in harmony with the environment as humanity and its progeny now seek to spread themselves across the universe and live in a world of hope and progress.
For now.

The spirit of social progress has been great. The 19th century saw people from across the world reject the concept of slavery. Racism had been dealt a severe blow in the 20th. Those triumphs were followed by victories for gay rights, indigenous rights, gender non-conforming rights, immigrant rights, unconventional family rights, animal rights, the fight against dictatorships, the struggle against the changing climate, the struggle against the population slump, and know, as the last pundits ranting about the increasing predominance of sentient AI citing Terminator and The Matrix along with those beating the dead horse of transhumanism and the reduction of animal uplifts are now declining in viewership in even the strongest bastions of social conservatism. Now, people take sides in what some deem the new front of social progress. The abolition of national ideals and old tribalism and the desire to unite as one people. A united world, or perhaps a united solar system.

It is important to note that geopolitics has shifted greatly in the past century. In a world of open borders with a human population of 29 billion, the nation has transformed into an identity, perhaps a brand. They each seek to acquire more and more people to increase their prominence on the international stage and acquire new talent and ideology hailing from the times when the world's aging populations were grinding nations to a halt. International organizations began allocating power to countries based on their active populations, further leading to them attempting to attract more and more people to their nations.

Now, countries fight with each other to boost their images. When in the past, countries such as Hungary and Germany would blame one another for the flow of refugees, now they appeal to their history, advertising their cultures and history on billboards to compete to have the best national brand. Of course, the more powerful countries, titans such as the United States, China, Russia, India, and Western Europe, built the strongest brands, leading to a backlash in large countries with weaker brands. Several African countries, most notably the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola, major sources of human manpower, had issues with immigration and, as such, formed a block of countries across the world shutting their borders (typically democratically) to emigrants and focused on building traditionalist views of their nation, known as the Isostates. This ideology has been collapsing, though, with the Congo shifting hard in the opposite direction and joining the Central African Federation.

Hundreds of millions of people have taken to the seas. Laws liberalizing the construction of settlements within the ocean, given they follow maritime laws, led to a massive wave of seastead building and even the construction of massive city-sized cruise ships touring around the world, full of wealthy retirees. In addition, thanks to the development of tensegrity spheres pioneered in the skies of Venus, massive floating cities now tour the world, acting as hubs of travel and culture and major tourist destinations in their own right.

With the vast majority of the world online, people have begun to connect with others from all over, building communities spanning across the hill sphere of the Earth. This showcased that humans, in the end, are more alike than not, and the overview effect furthered it as larger and larger segments of the human population traveled up the space elevators to see the earth from above for the first time, showcasing the fragility of the human condition with no borders chaining them down. As of the latter half of the 22nd century, people are growing disillusioned with the nations being represented as brands, with some nations having turned to bizarre methods to attract more immigrants. With the power of intergovernmental organizations and corporations at an all-time high, more and more suggest ripping up the lines on the map that force people into boxes and have them choose an identity or perhaps be born into it.

This is when the Spark of Camaraderie flickered.

Across the Middle East, militias began forming. While the region had been fairly peaceful for the past few decades, resentment continued to bubble. The three hotspots were in Kurdistan, the Caucasus, and Afghanistan, two neglected regions with a history of conflict. Citizens across the Middle East coalesced in secrecy, adapting the old ideology of democratic confederalism into a form worthy of the new age, which would unify the Middle East under one banner and then bring the world together as one. Turkish Kurdistan declared independence and committed to the ideology, with many more states from across the region pledging support. Soon, the newly declared Democratic Federation of the Middle East, dubbed the ‘Demfedme’ by Turkish forces fighting against it, became adopted by the Democratic Federation.

Iran was the primary target of the Demfedme, with the federation seizing much of the North at the beginning of the war. Upon capturing Tehran, the liberal Iranian government would capitulate. However, a clique of military generals fighting on other fronts would reject this and declare their authority null and void, forming the Iranian National Directory (IRNAD). The Democratic Federation continued its march, invading much of Central Asia and sending its troops down Mesopotamia and the Levant. Turkey struggled to hold off the Demfedme, while IRNAD was locked in brutal trench warfare commanded from its capital in Shiraz.

Eventually, the tide began to turn. The lightning war into Europe through the Caucasus failed due to the Russian counteroffensive, while Pakistan launched a full-scale invasion of Demfedme-controlled Afghanistan. Egypt and Arabia pushed into the fertile crescent, while IRNAD forces achieved a major victory by securing Khuzhestan. In the North, the Isostate of Kazakhstan invaded (soon rejoining the international community), while the Central Asian People’s Army was established to retake the city of Samarkand. As the war continued, Afghanistan splintered into infighting as Russian forces stormed across the Caucasus while the Ukrainians retook the long-held stronghold of Crimea. During events dubbed ‘the Kurdish Thermidor’,, Kurdish nationalists seeking to overthrow the Demfedme captured the floating capital city of Ocelan, while the Democratic Federation bunkered down in Mazandaran. Slowly and slowly, the last strongholds of the Demfedme were broken.

The war greatly reshaped the Middle East, and many compromises between factions transformed the geopolitical landscape. Nationalism rocketed to new heights in the region, with Arabia taking over much of Iraq and the Levant. Kurdistan was granted full independence, with the region granted amnesty despite being the core territory of the Demfedme. Afghanistan remained in chaos, with Pakistan at one point annexing large chunks of it, but through international tribunals, the region was carved up with an independent Pashtun and Hazara state. The Central Asian People’s Army proved to be a hard nut to crack, but Iranian forces soon liberated the region from its authoritarian control.

However, the biggest changes of the 2180s were not on the map, nor were they in the Middle East. After strong battles waged in academia and online forum boards over the past century, the ideology of Ankism began to take over, which strived to dismantle the idea of a nation-state in its entirety and take a more holistic approach to viewing humanity and its offspring races. One of the main goals of Ankism was to control the universe under one liberal and just government, and this goal slowly spread across the world.

The United States, the heartland of the ideology and a nation where all the languages of the world could be spoken, had both of its political parties shift in favor of Ankism, as did much of North America, with the region becoming an ideological stronghold. Ankist revolts toppled the Isostate regime in Angola, with a ceasefire eventually confining it to the Southeast of the country. Ankist political parties made headwaves in South America and soon dominated the Indian Parliament. At the same time, the Central African Federation began negotiating with states across the continent to unite all of Africa, just as Nusanatara planned to fold in Southeast Asia. The world map was about to see the greatest transformation in the history of humanity.

Yet, resistance to the idea began to be built. India’s military began to side with the Anti-Ankist coalition holding back the United World, while States in Bolivia conspired to reject the authority of the Ankist government. Proud civilizations such as those of China, the Middle East, and Europe sneered at letting their nations fall to a new world order, and Ankist movements were defeated across Eurasia. 240 years before, the people of Europe staged a revolution. Now, the world will do it again.

Individual slides for each year: drive.google.com/drive/folders…