The World in the Late 21st Century

North America:  The U.S. government still controls the East Coast, the Midwest, and parts of the South.  Especially in the South and Southwest, many states have long signed service contracts with UPS.  The West Coast and Western Canada merged together under a single Micro-Tech service contract in the middle of the century.  Quebec is the only independent government in Canada, although it is very weak.  The rest of Eastern Canada is divided between service contracts with WorldComm, GeoBank, and UPS.

Central and South America:  Not a single national government remains in these regions.  UPS, GME, and Gen-Tech all compete fiercely to sell service contracts to individual towns and villages.  Quite a few lesser multinational corporations also flourish in South America and the Caribbean.

EarthWestern Europe:  Most of the remaining national governments exist in Western Europe.  They are all loosely unified under the European Union.  However, entire cities and provinces within these nations have virtually broken away and signed service contracts.  All the lesser nations of Western Europe—Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and such—have long ceased to exist, replaced by Micro-Tech, GME, and WorldComm service contracts.

Eastern Europe:  Russia technically remains as an independent national government, but it really only controls Moscow and a handful of other nearby cities.  The rest of Russia and Eastern Europe is divided between GME and GeoBank service contracts.  Even the corporations, however, have had a difficult time dealing with the vicious criminal organizations and huge black market of Eastern Europe.

Asia:  The Chinese government remains very strong in the eastern half of the country, although it has long downplayed its nominal communist ideology.  The rest of Asia is a constantly changing patchwork of local service contracts with virtually every major corporation and half-a-dozen minor ones.  Outside of China, Asia is one of the most chaotic, impoverished, and war-torn regions on earth.  Only Japan is stable, a longtime bastion of Gen-Tech (with a smattering of GME holdings).

Africa:  One of the first parts of the world widely given over to service contracts, for many decades UPS dominated the continent.  Beginning with the Corporate Wars, however, Gen-Tech gained increasing influence in Central Africa.  The coastline of Southern Africa is mainly dominated by GME.

Australia and the Pacific Islands:  Australia and New Zealand are largely split up between WorldComm and GeoBank.  Up to a dozen smaller corporations to hold sway over the Pacific islands and the more rural parts of Australia.

Antarctica:  This continent was largely destroyed in the Great Impact.  What remains is pillaged for resources by both the world’s national governments and all the corporations.

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