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<Snipped quote by The Grey Warden>

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. 
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True that it's like fifteen years away. But, that doesn't mean that we have the ability to do so. Plus, it's the GM's words in this after all.

You could play as an country in Southern part of Africa. Or be the Empire of Brazil.