[quote=@The Grey Warden]
<Snipped quote by Willy Vereb>

Wut. You know that we aren't [i]that[/i] far into the future.
[/quote]

That shit is literally fifteen years away at most--give or take five years. A third world war devoid of nuclear exchange would have facilitated an unprecedented degree of technological development.

A lot of traditional science fiction technologies simply aren't science fiction anymore by 2050 due to [i]Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns[/i]: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change#Kurzweil.27s_The_Law_of_Accelerating_Returns[/url]

Also, weren't some countries freed up due to a number of players dropping out? Still waiting for the owner of Nigeria to quit and/or lose interest, but I might draft something playable in the mean time.