The Future can be a strange and confusing place, and in this section I'll and explain what's going on in the year 3000.

Aliens

There have been huge advancements is space exploration, allowing all kinds of strange aliens and creatures to live on Earth and the thousands of other planets known to man. Here is a list of some of the aliens featured on the show:

Decapodians - Zoidberg's species
Water People - From My Three Suns
Aliens from Amphibios 9 - Kif's species
Mutants
Neutral Aliens (Brannigan, Begin Again)
Yarn people of Nylar 4 (Brannigan, Begin Again)
Vega 4 aliens
Methane Planet aliens (Lesser of Two Evils)
Giant Birds (The Series Has Landed)
Space Lizards (Brannigan, Begin Again)
Insectoids (Brannigan, Begin Again)
Purple Fruit Snake (8 eyes)*
Sharktopus*
Chilean Space Bass*
Parasitic Puppy*
Gretchen Mole*
Windy Shrimp*
Vampire Slug*
Excommunicated Cardinal*
Four-legged mimic*
Molotov Cockatoo*
Hermaphlamingo*
Balls of energy
Aliens from planet M-41 (Raging Bender)
Balls (War is the H-Word)
Neptunians - Elzar's Species
Native Martians (Where the Buggalo Roam)
Morbo's species
Giant bug creatures (police show from Lesser of Two Evils)
Shapeshifting Cricket Alien (A Bicyclops Built For Two)
Fly-like alien (Phnog from Raging Bender)
Amazonians
Brain Slugs
Space Wasps^
Space Bees
Space Beavers^
Space Chickens^
The elusive Yak-Face^
El Chupanebre (Lesser of Two Evils)
Mer-People (Deep South)
Slug Creatures (Fry and the Slurm Factory)
Grunca Luncas (Fry and the Slurm Factory)
Buggalo
Nibblonians
Brains
Omicronians

*-animals from Virgon 6 (Love's Labours Lost in Space)
^-aliens we haven't seen, just been talked about/written.

There seem to be two main languages in the universe (although others still exist, but French is certainly dead), English and Alien. Alien is just English written in the alien alphabet:

There is also a second alien alphabet that is far less widespread. This is more of a code and is rather complicated. Info on how to translate at The Futurama Point, here. This is the ancient language of the Nibblonians.

The Nibblonians have existed since before the beginning of time, and are very intelligent. It is their sacred duty to protect the universe from the evil brains, who have the power to make people stupid and carry out various schemes. One Nibblonian, Nibbler, is stationed on Earth to keep an eye on Fry, who is immune to the brains and therefore very important to the cause.

Technology

Obviously, there have been huge technological advancements in the last 1000 years. One of the main ones would be the advancements in robots. All the robots in the world, and probably the universe, are made by Mom's Friendly Robot Company, owned by evil overlord Mom. Professor Farnsworth, while working for her, designed robots that all the current robots are based on.

At Christmas, now called Xmas, a robot Santa designed in 2801 to act like Santa, visits Earth. Unfortunately, his standards were set too high, and he invariably judges everyone (except Zoidberg) as naughty and goes on a killing spree. There is also a KwanzaaBot and a Channukah Zombie. Also, the robots of the Sunset Squad take everyone over the age of 160 to a mysterious planet where they are held in a chamber and hooked up to a system that makes them believe they are in an old person's home.

Another major advancement is the invention of a system to keep heads alive in jars, even if they had been dead before the method was invented. Thousands of famous heads from the 20th Century are kept in the head museum and continue their careers. In fact, there seem to be few celebrities with bodies, except celebrity chef Elzar and robot actor Calculon.

People are transported around New New York by a system of tubes that suck them from place to place, and there is still a congestion problem. To allow faster space travel, scientisis increased the speed of light in 2208. Dark matter, the leavings of nibblonians, is now used as rocket fuel.

History & Politics

During the time when Fry was frozen, two alien attacks occured, causing civilisation to be rebuilt twice, once in a medieval fashion and once in the current year 3000 style (although both attacks missed the cryogenics building). These invasions look they were by the Omicronians, as the ships are the same as the ones they frequently use in their attacks. America seems to have taken over the world, as the presinent is now President of Earth, although the USA is still an individual country. At one point, a robot president, John Quincy Addingmachine, was elected. He struck a chord with the voters when he promised not to go on a killing spree, but did not stick to the promise. A supervillain mayor of New York was also elected, who moved a lot of the world's monuments to New York. The current president of Earth is the evil and insane Richard Nixon, who got a new robot body (Bender's, then an enourmous killing machine) and ran for office. He recieved no votes from humans, but the robot vote was almost unanimous. The inhabitants of Earth are known as 'Earthicans'.

In 2443, the second coming of Jesus occured. This was probably not a pleasant event, as most videotape was destroyed and a common exclamation is now "Sweet zombie Jesus!"

Culture

Along with the technological advancements of the 31st century, there has also been some change in culture. People are assigned career chips and meant to do the job they are best at for life, although no-one seems to pay much attention as people can still be fired and they've barely been mentioned since the pilot episode.

Entertainment has remained much the same, with similar popular soap operas on TV. We have yat to escape the scourge of Reality TV, as 'The Real World: The Sun' is a popular show (typical dialogue-"ARRGH!! I'm buring to death!"). New New York has plenty of bars and trendy nightclubs, such as The Hip Joint. Realising that baseball was boring, it was jazzed up and is now called Blurnsball and makes very little sense to the casual onlooker. The internet is still popular, and still mostly as an enourmous worldwide pornography database.

Judging by Amy, popular 31st century slang includes 'Guh!', 'Spluh!' and similar variations, meaning 'Duh!', and the word 'zidiot' is often used instead of 'idiot'. 'X-mas' has replaced 'Christmas', and 'ax' has replaced 'ask'.