Sierra Leone

, and Liberaia banded together during the plague years and emerged to advance north along the former coast of Mauritania.



Northern Eurasia

The Holy Russian Empire is without question home to the largest piece of infested territory on the planet, and despite being an important member of the UN, it routinely refuses to allow any foreign power to enter its territory. In truth it only maintains its membership in the world community for economic aid and access to the still functioning American spy satellite network that is so crucial to its war against the living dead in Siberia. To the rest of the world, Russia's membership in the UN is seen as an embarrassment. The Orthodox Christian theocracy is in many ways more radical than Iran after the Islamic Revolution. Women who can reproduce have no rights in this nation of 50 million people, half of which are under the age of 18. The age of consent has been reduced to 13, and state run fertility clinics have condemned basically every woman to serve as a brood mare for the state until they either die or reach menopause. Men are pressed into national service, either as serfs to the Church or military service to clear the living dead. Homosexuals, or even people accused of being homosexuals, have the worst fate of all; the gulags and slave labor camps in the east tasked with rebuilding the Trans-Siberian Railway, or recovering military equipment from frozen battlefields of the war, right in the heart of the White Zones. Those that do not submit to this punishment are shot, or worse...



East Asia

No region saw such a devastating loss of life as this. Where most nations saw maybe 2/3 of their population reduced by the plague, China and India's combined 2.4 billion people were reduced by 90% to just over 250 million combined. While not reduced to the so called, "Third world countries" they were during the Cold War, these nations are far from the rising powers they were before the war. The only nation in this region who saw an improvement in the quality of life is the People's Republic of Tibet. A strange mishmash of pre-war Chinese Communists who took refuge in the mountains along side the local Tibetans to form a strange combination of Maoism, representative democracy, and Buddhist theocracy, this once quiet mountain region in the Himalayas stands as the world's most populace country, with a population of 200 million people; and one of the only nations to have voted against the Saratoga Plan to have survived as a coherent nation-state.





Oceania & Pacific

Australia and New Zealand remain, quiet, underpopulated members of the British Commonwealth, while the rest of the Pacific Continent continues to endure as a federation of islands, artificial atolls, and in some cases remnants of the drifter fleets who continue to trade with eachother despite the shrinking prospects in the Pacific. Many of the islands are being abandoned once again or look to the US or Australia for their economic lifeblood. No one can escape the fact that the world's oceans have all the biodiversity of an Arizona lake. All but a few species of whale and dolphin have been hunted to extinction, Bluefin Tuna populations are only maintained by great floating cages, and even those farming programs are expected to be discontinued soon as the Fish keep coming back with plastic, lead, and mercury saturating their bodies. Many scientists fear that the zombies might ultimately win, just from the damage done to the world's oceans.



This is a fan work of the book "World War Z" by Max Brooks. If you haven't read it or listened to the audio-book, I highly recommend you do so. Happy Haunted History Month!NOTE: Light-colored areas are directly administered by the UN and have no recognized formal government.Ten years after the formal Victory in China Day, the world has far from recovered from the war with the undead. While humanity is more united now than ever before, and the effort to purge the Earth of the last remaining zombies remains the dominant issue of geopolitics, life on Earth is not without conflict between humans.Once the unquestioned economic and military superpower of the Earth, the United States is simply happy to still be considered among the world leaders. Its economy is no where near its pre-war status, and the West Coast is still home to the bulk of the country's 100 million citizens. But the resettlement of the Great Plains has slowly but surely made the country the world's largest agricultural power, finally supplanting Cuba and their increasingly service-based economy. Moreover, the US and Canada collectively stand as the world's largest producers of oil and natural gas now that the Dakotas and Alberta are once again under control. Despite these improvements, however, the dollar has still not recovered and the Cuban Peso is decidedly the dominant currency of the planet, but America can at least boast that their house is in far better order than Canada's and Aztlan's. Canada's population survived the worst of the plague years, but the cold from nuclear autumn, combined by the thinning resources from several million refugees from the US, did more to thin Canada's population and devastate their once pristine landscape than the living dead ever could. Aztlan, once known as Mexico, is a neo-Aztec pseudo-death cult mixed with a military junta. Its government has largely pacified the country, but only through roving death-squads sanctioned by the government who are authorized to purge whole towns if necessary. Is it really any wonder that so few businesses are comfortable investing anywhere outside of Cuba still?While the nations of the Andes mountains have been all but cleared of the remnants of their zombie hoard (save for Bolivia who's defense perimeter tragically failed during the war) the Western Half of the continent still has frequent reports and sightings of the living dead. Ironically, this has made the Amazon rain-forest, one of the few biospheres on the planet that is actually doing better after the war than before, as few of the volunteers dare to venture into the jungle. Brazil may still be one of the world's larger countries in area, but in truth, most of the population still hugs the Atlantic coast west of the Brazilian highlands and the Cerrado. Brazil's inability to project a great deal of power during the war, proved advantageous to Argentina. While the fall of Buenos Ares forced the government to retreat to Patagonia and much of the population toward the Andes. They had a clear path to retake lost territory, as opposed to Brazil which struggled to move material up and down mountains and rivers to retake its interior. Was it any wonder that the Junta pushed past their pre-war borders and conquered the whole of the Rio de la Plata? That move may have led to their official expulsion from the UN, but 10 years on, no one can debate Argentina's newfound status as the world's third largest economy, having sitting just behind the US for agricultural production.The dream of a United Europe came to pass in perhaps the only way it ever could, from a common existential threat. Today the EU enjoys a comfortable position as a great power, and while the continent is at peace, the great open plains that define northern Europe, and the practically pacifist lifestyles of the whole of the continent, contributed a great deal to the incredible loss of life the Old World suffered compared to those in the New. The nation-states that survived to join the federation willingly are far and away outnumbered by the eastern provinces that are slowly being resettled. Europe is also living with the curse of its "Deportations" carried out by some of its southern member states during the war, where career criminals were simply dropped into infected white zones to die and instead many resolved to not only live but build their own personal fiefdoms. Most of those in Europe have been destroyed or re-integrated, but those in North Africa have become havens for pirates and terrorist groups with a grudge against the nations that abandoned them to the living dead.While Asia saw the worst loss of life, Africa saw the greatest cases of political destabilization. Many of the former European colonies who's populations simply did not have the luxury of natural defenses against the living dead or unified societies to defend against them as a single unit. East Africa endured far better than the west, with the Great Rift Valley and its mountainous terrain offering a shield against the living dead. New, and powerful states have emerged, many challenging the pre-war conception of Africa as a land of weak powers. The new Ethiopian Empire, the East African Federation, Mozambique with its extensive natural fortifications, and of course the United States of Southern Africa which has reclaimed the whole of its own territory and advanced to dominate the sparsely populated, but resource rich lands to the north. The only exception to this East-West power disparity is in the West-African Federation. One of the few areas with natural fortifications to guard against the living dead, the nations of Guinea,