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It started after the Second "Cold War". The USA got into it with North Korea, and it only got worse when China and Russia intervened to help North Korea. Canada and Mexico, sensing risk to themselves, backed the States. All Hell finally broke loose in 2019, where biological and chemical warfare were deployed. Thousands died, yet still they insisted that it was a "Cold War". Genetic and "robotic" warfare came next, and it built up to the point where nuclear weapons were used, of course, the societies of most of the involved parties was already almost ruined, and the societies of the countries depending upon the "Big Six" as they were called, had pretty much collapsed. The amount of damage to the environment that was caused was irreparable. Parts of China, Russia and the Eastern Seaboard are now hellish wastelands, and several volcanoes along the "ring of fire" erupted (thankfully, no supervolcanoes erupted), a new tsunami struck Japan, and the San Andreas fault was triggered.
A generation later, society as it was known, has collapsed. Small pockets of new civilisation have sprung up. Some of the genetic monstrosities that escaped their from fates roam the landscape, the smart, privileged and strong prey on the inferior, and the environment is inhospitable.
RULES AND TEMPLATE COMNIG RIGHT UP!