@Reno: Nope! Not at all. That's a large part of why the state of the world isn't described in too much detail, so players can fill in details themselves. All you really need to remember is that large parts of the world are mostly uninhabited, and that the bases set up near, but not on, Earth are probably outright uninhabitable due to the damage wrought upon them.

@JerkChicken: ... Weeeeeeeeeell... Trucker sure. Space not so much, because just about all of the off-planet locations are either unknown for the past century, or uninhabitable. And I did a little reading on the Tallgeese, and it's pretty tough. After talking with my Co-GM, we'd rather you used something else.