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United States of America
 * Government
 * Zalgogate (April 2029-present): Zalgogate continues to this day after Hughes was impeached (and still in a house arrest due to concerns that he might use all the information and his reputation to convince people of the truth) and an anti-corruption campaign was launched but its main purpose is to distract the drama of the Zalgo case for many civilians. Mass protests over transparency and censorship skyrocketed in the middle of summer 2029 in response to Zalgogate, President Rubio refuses to openly confess to the rest of the people. Christopher was also executed on August in an isolated place after being questioned of any vital information of the President's intentions during the leaking. The Dark Web continues to distribute the leaked files from Wikileaks and now about a handful of ten thousand probably had attempted to upload it to the surface web. On September however, there was another risk that Hughes might try to convince other agents to open up a transparent setting for all Zalgo-related documents after talks were recorded even during house arrest with his family. Security is heavily enhanced so that his own phone and any person that he encounters are being carefully watched.
 * A successful impeachment: On 3rd July, an impeachment vote held by the Congress takes place. They voted unanimously to impeach and take down Robert Hughes as the 47th President of the United States and being the first US President to be impeached in its own history. The public is given in a press after the impeachment that he was accused of corruption and recording multiple tapes and that the now-president Marco Rubio would "try to find links of those involved" in Zalgogate. He remains in a house arrest to this day and a supreme court case will be held next turn if Hughes was guilty while the corruption crackdown was actually trying to detain and arrest those who are involved with Zalgogate and those who actively tried to distribute classified documents that are now leaked.
 * Censorship: It continues to this day. On August 2029, director and producer Ollie Roland (known to have produced a hit drama in 2024-27 named Our Vengence for HBO) obtained the 62 documents by printing another set of copies and announced that he is underway developing a series loosely based on thr Zalgo attacks. He was heavily inspired by the current ongoing events he claimed in an interview, which raised the concern of the United States' attempt to conceal a potential panic crisis that spontaneously backfired when Hughes distributed and allowed a person to get the documents to the public. He is carefully watched and agents are being sent to constantly delay the upcoming series and push him not to convince others not to allow them to know that this is true, while trying to find the same set of documents and burning it. "Soon there may be no way to stop someone from making a huge panic," said [REDACTED]. Rumours also grow that if thr US government is on the verge of collapse, censorship could finally be lifted and perhaps other governments may be able to distribute it, but not to this day, yet.
 * The 29th Amendment: One of the states have finally ratified this amendment to be put into the US Constitution on August 2029 and thus corporations and wealthy people were no longer allowed as a result from September and onwards to fund camapigns and parties, even those who are considered donestic. However a new fear of an alternative way of funding politics began to grow by the end of this decade.
 * Military
 * Intervention:
 * Operation Griffin: In Minnesota, a readied sealed cage that should be able to withstand a Zalgo attempting to escape was prepared. A new reported rumour suggests that there is a Zalgo sighted near the border of the US and Canada and this is one of the most earnt chances that they could get a live Zalgo to be observed. However a soldier and member of the ZCP, Josephine was attacked by one of the Zalgos in the river as she tried to lure it into a cage. Few other subjects were also attacked as a result, but Josephine and Quince were the ones being bitten by the Zalgo upon attempting to lure it into the cage. Both were permanently sent back to the research base, disconnecting their own relations with outside of the world and are fully observed by the research station's newly built quarantine wing. However the Zalgo itself had escaped unscathed and that the mission in Minnesota was a failure but now they have two infected, they can sit this one out and instead observe them when they exhibit Zalgo-like characteristics from a separate isolated room.
 * Operation West Coast: With the mission in Minnesota failed that 3rd September, the 20th September attempt was set in Oregon instead, able to learn from mistakes by equipping ZCP forces with lots of gear, from neck to feet. In the forest however, there were many cases that the Zalgo attacked people in the car and were declared missing. This was raised significantly. However the force of eight were confident enough to get at least one inside the sealed cage that was once again prepared for and with one of them coming out and with the team armed and prepared, they were able to physically force the Zalgo, which constantly tried to bite off one of the team's flesh but was quickly given a muzzle and then pushing it into a cage to be transferred. Although three of them were close to be bitten (including one close to having his nose ripped off, although he has some of the black liquid splattered in his face) and they were sent to quarantine as a result for six months, nothing significant has changed yet.
 * Expansion of the ZCP: As more and more cases began to appear, the ZCP and President Rubio agreed that researchers and veterans will be given a $10 billion package in the 2030 subject, raised from $6 billion in the 2029 budget, while soldiers who have three to five years of experience or in service (doesn't matter if you are in the Navy or in the Air Force) will be allowed in rather than being handpicked only if they swore not to tell their families or any close relatives about the Zalgo unless their own family or relative has similar requirements. They are also given heavy training and tests before being approved by the ZCP that they are willing to do it.
 * Economy:
 * 2029 Recession: As a political crisis, which is Zalgogate in that case unfolds throughout 2029, an economic recession began to take place with the Dow Jones index score reduced from 27,000 to 25,000 in three months. The 2030 budget is instead pushing forward in researching regarding of the Zalgo while unusually the US military budget was slashed from $750 billion to $400 billion as announced (which is one of the signs that the US is on the verge of decline), with the rest being dedicated to education, health/welfare and other areas.
 * Research: There might be no cure at all. We might not even have it anyway.
 * Subject #1: Despite slow decaying processes, Yuri Watney's body is kept for the next 12 months if it gets into the skeleton, with every week a screenshot was taken, done since the disposal of Watney's body in Las Vegas. They are also waiting if there's any external changes to the body somehow.
 * Subject #18: The body of Zac Golding is given a decrease in temperature in a test if the pathogen mutates somehow. If the pathogen can survive in cold temperatures after being observed, could it mutate somehow at a fast pace or reproduce or even reanimate somehow?
 * Subject #21: The brain is further studied if it continues to change but Subject #21's body will do nothing at least.
 * Subject #144: Live subject released into an isolated room in the Right Zalgo Wing. Expect instability in the contained room specially built to contain it from escaping (for now), allowing researchers to observe it's behaviours from a distance. All others that are bitten or close to being infected are put into quarantine in a different wing, with those haven't got bite marks that become too obvious for three to six months.
 * Other bodies: Nothing happens.
 * Setting up the Alaskan Research Military Base (ARMB): The ARMB finally opened up as a backup research base with some of the other bodies being transferred to that base. Only a few know about this in case the coordinates for the main base were leaked and they have no choice to abandon that base for these reasons.
 * Diplomacy
 * Norway: You don't know anything about it, stop being a huge meme metagamer. And you can't see where it came from.