*** NOTE: THIS IS ALL PRELIMINARY IDEAS AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. JUST TRYING TO CONSOLIDATE THEM IN ONE PLACE ***
It came to be known as the, “Great Collapse.” It wasn’t bombs, or disease, or an act of God, like we had been told would cause the world’s downfall. Oh sure, there was plenty of all of that as well, but in the end, it was greed. Not the greed of the elite and powerful, moving their pawns around the world, but the greed of those same pawns demanding more bread and circuses to continue the fiction that there was a limit to their demands.
One by one, starting with the nations that “gave” their people the most, the societies collapsed. As the governments continued taking from those who had at the demand of those who had not, those that had began to leave. And as they left, the governments struggled with keeping their economies functioning. Some tried to take direct control, others collapsed almost immediately. But in the end the stronger the central government tried to be, the worse the inevitable fracturing was.
Countries, as existed since the early 1900s, ceased to be a thing. Major cities managed to establish some level of control, at least in the nearby regions, but that was only the ones that managed to survive the riots and uprisings. And they did not come out unscathed either.
There is one old nation however, and even it was not unchanged. The United States, despite their size, are relatively intact and in some aspects, larger than before the Collapse. But that is because the central government does not have the same level of control as it once did. While the United States still exist, they are more regional and insular, more loyal to their neighbors and friends than they are to a powerful central authority. The United States as a people and an idea still exist, but rarely do citizens refer to themselves as “Americans” instead of “Arizonans” or “Pennsylvanians”.
And yet none of this was an accident. The [WOLF] has been hunting for a long time… But the [HUNTERS] will put it down.
[The WOLF]