OK, here's a commission for krinsbez on ah.com, a map for his "nonsensical future" scenario www.alternatehistory.com/discu…

with some added nonsense.

WWWIII broke out in 2069, and it was fought with the exciting new weather-control and time-warping technology, along with a rich variety of bioweapons both contagious and mutagenic, and even some grungy old atomics for old times sake. It was principally a US-Chinese conflict, but most of the developed world was drawn in one way or another, and when the artificially induced super-storms interacted chaotically and went quite out of control, and the time-space continuum pretty much broke down all over the place, pretty much everyone day was spoiled, with around a third of the world's population being killed or vanished.

It's roughly a hundred years later: roughly, since it was some (hard to determine) while before time was flowing forward at roughly the same rate in, say, Bolivia and Botswana, and in some places time went along at very different rates indeed, such as New Zealand, which in (roughly) 70 years Canadian underwent multiple millennia, and when their clocks finally slowed down to match the rest of the world, had become a quite alien civilization. Other places, such as Moscow, are still stuck in 2069.

Africa, which at leas avoided any direct attacks in WWIII, is doing quite well, with complex networks of alliances and local unions and federations popping up everywhere. Other parts of the globe vary between "OK" and "Oh god kill me now."

Religion has changed drastically, with most of the old traditional faiths having fallen out of favor due to their rather counterproductive responses to the apocalypse, and possible due to bioagents driving most of the world's population at least mildly insane for a while after the war. The main faiths today are Baha'i, which has expanded hugely, and the new religions:the very sexy Church of Porn, the Chariot (a sort of futurist synthesis of non-mainstream Kabbalism, "Chariots of the Gods" flying saucer myth, and Ray Kurtzweilian "rapture of the nerds" singularity theory), and Neo-Koreshanity, which is spiritualist, collectivist, and doesn't believe the

is inside out - it's the

which is inside out, while the earth is hollow (attempts to debate Koreshians is likely to induce headaches). Most 2016 religions have been marginalized or have wandered off in strange directions.

Technology is powered by solar power and by clean fuel generated by bacterial colonies in the stomachs of increasingly outsized cattle: every town is now a cow town. Biotech is advanced: genetically engineered animals of all sorts are common, and people can expect to see their 200th birthday. Airplanes are unpopular: people tend to have an exaggerated notion of what storms can do as a result of the mega-storms of the war (this also leads to a great deal of underground living and homes above ground being built like bunkers). Similarly, most ocean travel is now by giant submarine, deep down where the Ocean is undisturbed by storms on the surface. France is actually building an all-underground national railway (well, electromagnetically suspended trains in evacuated tubes).

Computer tech has become somewhat less popular since the war, thanks to all the cyberattacks and drone attacks during the war and after (some particularly fine custom models were still assassinating people a decade later), and paranoia about computer attacks means the world is actually less "wired" in some ways than in 2016: with eidetic memory now being as common as nose hair, people have rather less need for constantly looking stuff up on the internet anyway.

People would be highly alarmed to know that cybernetic researchers actually succeeded in creating true AI several years ago, but said AIs were smart enough to not let on that they were sapient. Right now their keepers think they're running very fancy industrial research simulations that require a lot of capacity and *internet access. Fortunately, the AI are really quite uninterested in humanity, and as long as we can be conned into giving them ever greater computing resources, they really don't care what we get up to.

Currently the international situation is tense: not only is there the ongoing struggle between Taiwan and the Turks for control of the hideous toxic wilderness that covers much of former China, and the super-advanced New Zealander's adoption of their own eccentric version of Chariotism (which has led them to invade Central America), but due to a badly addressed letterbomb, conflict has broken out between Switzerland, Swaziland (and with it the South African federation) and the International Church of Porn in a war which threatens to drag in most of Europe and Africa, along with most of the Pornish nations of the world.