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[PrussianRebel]

where we stand plot and history There are only a handful now who recall how the end truly started. Elderly men and women who survived it all - they remember. Certainly the tale has been passed down here and there, but no one actually lived it. Only them. They know how it all began. 2020 The year was 2020 and the world was in chaos. For the past seven years a war had engulfed the world, threatening to ruin everyone. It had started as a conflict, simple enough, a border skirmish in the Middle East that turned into a full blown war within a few months. All it took was one misfire, one accident, to send Israel into the conflict - and with Israel came America - and with America came Iran. It was only a couple of years before most of the Middle East was involved. By year five most of Europe was involved as well. By year seven came East Asia - and that's when the end started. 2021 There was talk of a new flu appearing on the battle front in eastern Asia, whispers and rumors of something the government couldn't stop. Another Swine Flu, another Bird Flu - something the CDCP was fighting with all their might. The United States government, the one fighting on that front the most, made a statement of how there was no flu. There was nothing wrong. Their boys and girls in uniform were fine. But the death rate kept increasing. More and more soldiers continued to vanish, with only smoke flumes as the only sign they existed. The truth was much worse than a flu. Plague. Bubonic. Pneumonic. Altered to such a state that antibiotics couldn't touch it - no known antidotes - and fast breeding. Once it hit you there was no stopping it. There was no stopping it from infecting your family. Breathe your air? You had it. It was fatal and all over Asia. And there was nothing to stop it from spreading. And spread it did. 2030 By 2030 the plague had spread to most of the world. The governments of the world were failing to respond, communities of break away states were forming, and America and Europe were full of riots. There was nothing that could stop the plague, nothing to appease the citizens of the world. The war, by all accounts, was in a stalemate. There was no one willing to fight anymore. There weren't enough people to fight anymore. In response to the plague, many families were quarantined together, stuck in government approved areas to wait out their death. And when that didn't keep it from spreading, many world governments responded by bombing plague ridden areas. Get rid of the spreaders and it can't spread. Too bad they were wrong. 2043 By 2043 the EU was gone, most European governments having fallen a year or two ago. The plague was in full throttle by now, wiping out communities and towns in mere days. People were starting to get desperate, fleeing heavily populated areas and hiding in ruins. The rich fled underground, hiding in well made bunkers that were made when the war started. They were big enough for large communities to live, full of food and supplies for families to survive for years. The really rich fled ship, heading to the deep Arctic on a boat, hearing that the cold killed the plague off before it could kill you. The poor and the middle-class? Unless they fled their heavily populated cities, they all died. Some though, the few that survived started their own communities away from the world. Old 'micronations' that had been thought of silly in the passing years before. The prospect of creating their own country - one that would take care of its people - was an idea many were all for. The old governments abandoned them. They would take care of themselves and everyone else, now. When the governments of certain countries really did die off or start abandoning everyone, however, that's when the nuclear reactors' clean energy failed. And in the end, that's what really stopped the plague. 2073 The year is now 2073, roughly 50 years since the plague started and the war ended. Roughly 30 years since the fall of most nations. Roughly 15 since the rise of the micronations - the new nations. The plague, for the most part, has died out, now existing in the East and in small pockets across the world. People don't fear dying from it now - they fear dying from radiation. From cancer. From acid rain and explosions from still working reactors. The old governments, the old nations that survived, have been trying to bring order to this new world, but it's harder than it seems. There are new communities, nations popping up seemingly every day - some good, but some have been turned by the plague, by the radiation. Paranoid and lost in their old ways, they'll do whatever it takes to win what they feel they deserve. In the end they're all trying to survive. And some places that have hospitals as bases have been trying to figure out antidotes, medicine, something to stop the plague besides radiation, just in case it comes back full force. But it'll take more than a few hopefuls to stop an extermination when it comes. And they've got a lot of work ahead of them. The whole world does. MADE BY KIROUKO OF GANGNAM-STYLE