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I was under the impression, judging from what Sigma had established this as in his first few OOC posts, that this was a take on the world as if the science and culture of the 1950s, defined by postwar extravagance and just overall optimism for the future that had lied ahead, advanced to the point of what they had envisioned the next fifty years or so to be rather than having technology and the like progress at the rate and points of divergence it actually had, meaning that I'd seen all technology as being some sort of retrofuturism tied in with the inherent the sci-fi that accompanies that movement, if that makes any sense. As for the lore specifically, I'd assumed that after some cataclysmic nuclear war the world's population and ecological integrity alike degenerated to a point of, as you'd mentioned, iron age levels that eventually progressed to the aforementioned Fallout series-esque themes which itself owed much its incarnation to our civilizations managing to maintain remnants of what they'd considered the epitome of human development - our pre-cataclysmic technology that serves as a defining factor in differentiating our varying nations and their cultural, technological, et cetera identities...