Talk:Aftermath (Map Game)/@comment-25105676-20160816162412

Backstory, since it doesn't have one even on the post of the original map (http://i.imgur.com/zrKnjXT.png):

Everything started in 2017, one year after the successful Brexit vote (I know that this was created before Brexit, but I adjusted it) in the United Kingdom. Despite the procedures haven't started yet and there was still a possibility the United Kingdom won't leave the European Union's organization, but the successful vote led to the rise of nationalism, leading to a wave of referendums across Europe to leave the European Union, with the most notable ones being in Portugal, France and Poland. Although the European Union was disbanded in 2017 after these referendums, the NATO still remained. However, the effect of European nationalism spread across the world, leading to the true military alliance between Russia, China and Iran, with the conversion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization / Shanghai Pact / Pact of Shanghai to a military alliance similiar to NATO. Nations like Ethiopia and and the Democratic Republic of Congo also joined, leading to their quick rise in power. The fuse was lit on 15 October 2022, when a Taiwanese ship was sunk by the People's Republic of China (despite the controversies, at that time Taiwan was a pro-NATO nation, instead of pro-China) without any reason.

The war officially began between the PCO and the NATO on 14 November 2022, 1 month after the sinking, with the United States of America declaring war on the People's Republic of China. The war raged on for 6 years, finally resulting in a (pro-)NATO victory. In PRC territory, several territories were annexed by Taiwan / the Republic of China, while another part of the coastline was taken over as joint NATO control; while Eastern Turkestan got independence and Mongolia also got some territories. The Russian Federation was disbanded into several new nations, like the Siberian Confederacy or the Don Republic and the Republic of Finland has taken land from them.

However, after the war, NATO has also taken a big hit, resulting in a three way divide in Europe: the United Kingdom and Portugal and their allies on other continents; France, Germany, Turkey, Finland and their allies; and Poland's growing sphere in Eastern Europe. In 2030, the United States of America left the NATO under the rule of Eric Trump, the President of the USA at that time, and began the attack on Mexico, Cuba, Northwestern Africa, the Antilles and Central America to expand the USA, and also signed an alliance with Colombia and Argentina, who were doing their respective attacks on other states at that time (Uruguay and Venezuela), creating the American Assembly. Although they won the war at the same year (at the end of the year), the USA immediately began its attack in 2031 on Canada (who was a NATO member at that time), with rebellions also appearing in the northwestern (Cascadia, supported by UK and allies), two northeastern (UAS, supported by Polish sphere; France and allies) (ASR, supported by the remaining territories of the PRC; plus Congo and Ethiopia, who didn't join WW3), southeastern (URA, supported by AA) and southern (Texas and Louisiana, supported by Taiwan) states. The USA was then kicked out of the American Assembly. This war went on for 2 years, with the USA losing due to the rebellions and the power of NATO states.

But as the peace treaty was stated, problems began to appear. Because of the UK's group in NATO wanted to get territories on top of war reparations and territories granted to the rebellions, which would almost remove the United States from existence, but they still managed to do it in the end. Canada annexed the territories that were once French Louisiana (with exception for the most needed part, the State of Louisiana), Maine and some other states; the western states and northwestern Mexico got independent, but part of the NATO; Cascadia got their independence, getting Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Northern Idaho, and some of western Canada diplomatically; and the URA, ASR, UAS, Texas, Louisiana, Mexico and some of the Central American states getting independence with the same territory as in 2078. In the end, the United States of America was left with southern Mexico, Honduras, Southern Costa Rica (they wished to still be part of the US despite having zero land connection) and Jamaica.

One year after the peace treaty was signed, in 2034, the following nations left the NATO: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia (independence in 2018), Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Albania, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kievan Republic, Macedonia, Kola Republic. These nations and the Northern African states formed the Eurasian Alliance. As for NATO, the nations of Indonesia, Japan, Oceanian Federation (same as their current territory) joined and it was renamed Pacific Treaty Organisation as the balance of the majority of the states shifted there. At the end of that year, the EA and the PTO began massively recruiting nations into their alliances, with the South American states bordering the Pacific Ocean, Southeastern Asia with the exception of the Neo-Siamese Empire, Korea, Russian-Siberian successors bordering the Pacific and some of Western and Eastern Africa all joining the PTO; while Central Asia, East Turkestan, Oman, Mongolia and two of the Russian-Siberian successor states that weren't on the Pacific joining the EA. The successor of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the New Comintern, also called Brave New Comintern, where the American Secular Republic and Louisiana joined directly after the war, slowly began increasing their influence in Africa, with Congolese and Ethiopian influence being the same as in 2078 in 2037. To counter their influence, the New African Union / African Union Against Communism was formed the same year. Brazil also joined the American Assembly in 2037.

In that very same year, these alliances desperately tried to recruit the nations that are currently part of the Stalwart Union, but lead to no avail, so they tried to take them by force. The Indian subcontinent was torn between the neutral and the pro-PTO south, and the nationalist north. Manu Strivastava, the leader of the Aryan Nationalist Party of India (Aryanism as we currently know it was created in 2028, not to be confused by the Nazi version of it), published a book about the state of the world after the war against the USA and the rise of Aryanism. After they tried to declare war to gain more influence, he saw this as a chance to unite the people belonging to the Aryan group, with heavily gaining support in the Indian subcontinent in 2038. After that, it took 2 more years to gain enough support for him to create the Aryan Union, with the official name of Stalwart Union of All Aryans declared on 12 June 2040, with the nations in Northern India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Iran and Kurdistan (ind. in 2020) being part of it.

With the aim to recreate the United States on the entire North American continent, the American Reassembly was formed by the United States of America, the Union of American States and the United American States of Africa (the successor of the Trump-controlled Northwestern Africa lead by Mali) in 2042. Poland and its sphere, as it had bad relations with the other members of PTO despite being part of it, plus the fact that it also had most of its neighbors as EA members, left the PTO and joined the American Reassembly, intending to attach itself to a growing influence.

As a desparate attempt to create another global alliance with the intention to unite the world, the Global Council for Unity was created in 2043 by the following members: Mexico, Republic of China / Taiwan and the Neo-Siamese Empire. The members of the New African Union / African Union Against Communism joined in 2044, and as an attempt to get more influence, the Catholic League and the Catholic Republic of Texas joined in 2045, despite being theocracies which weren't officially welcome in the GCU.

Since then, the world was relatively at peace and not much things had changed, but with the start of the year 2078 a storm is brewing once again...2078 a storm is brewing once again...