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One Century Later


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It is currently June of 2123. The national government no longer exists. There is no President, there is no Electoral College, or anything pertaining to a federal power. The largest government is the entire state of California. State borders mean next to nothing compared to what they used to. There are now only 5 actual states on the continent. The borders to Canada and Mexico are regulated by each country. Mexico regulates its north border, and Canada regulates its south border. Most of America is a wild land. The 5 remaining states of Old America are like small nations. They police themselves, they trade with each other, and they handle politics on a continental level. Even in the states, not everything is like what we’re used to. Futuristic technology has intertwined with that of history, in fact, lots of people out in the Midwest live in tanks! It is common to come across run down machines from generations ago reclaimed by trees and moss, and to see people carrying swords made from various things. Guns are not always found. In the ungoverned regions of America, it’s like a scene from a movie. In the more urban parts of the States, there is usually at least one or two weaponsmiths in each town who make anything from knives to some firearms. Civil war turned the country into a divided land of opportunity, where taxes are almost non-existent, police officers never carry weapons, and the American military doesn't exist. Few people these days are ignorant of differences, the odds of seeing someone who doesn't accept another religion, for example, are a mere fraction of what they once were. The states educate people with their own personal freedom, without national regulations from people who don't know the first thing about teaching, and few people go to college as a whole. Most of the ones who do are in New York and Florida, but they're not the only states with higher education, all of them have it for the price of a house, which isn't saying much, but it shows what people can do when the iron fist above their heads is broken and recycled for the better.

The technical world has changed just as much, it is much more quiet online, social media is rare, but most people still use the internet as a means of communication more than anything, Google is a shell of its former hubris, data collection on a mass level has been destroyed, and privacy has taken a step forward. You don't hear as much online outside the states, but the internet is still out their in the Anti-State regions, service providers are owned by the people, the local governments in the states run things themselves instead of corporations, and everywhere else, they are kept in check as best as they can be, not everyone out there has, or has ever heard of the internet, but people do their best with what they have.

Capitalism has lost, the states detest greed, water and food cost pennies, and Fox News doesn't exist.

Welcome to what has become of the greatest country in the world.




There are only 5 official states in America, their shape and sizes are nothing compared at all like how they used to be. They are Ohio, Carolina, California, New York, and Florida. Everything else around or in between these states is either too small to be put on a map, too obscure, or lawless territory. These parts of the continent are referred to by names such as the wildlands, the frontier, the wasteland, or any other negative term. To a lot of the people who are all cozied up behind their borders, the free territories are lifeless and hopeless, nothing can survive out there without the wonders of the six biggest civilizations on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Anyone who thinks the free territory is that way is either too lazy to go out and see for themselves, or is afraid to leave the States behind. In most of the States, there are documented reports of people leaving the borders, with varying reactions depending on where they left, and sometimes they come back. Sometimes.

But sometimes people enter the States from the free territories. Sometimes people moving into the more “civilized” place come from genuinely lawless places, and sometimes the only difference between them and the States is that the States have governments to watch over their people. On average, the States have a total of 7% of their population who are or are directly related to what is commonly referred to was “Anti-State.” The term is neither used to demean anyone who isn’t a natural born citizen of any of the States, nor as a way to divide them up, it is simply to distinguish one’s origin for paperwork, or to just explain where you’re from. Though a few people here and there are a little weary of Anti-Staters, especially in Florida, it’s almost never a serious problem for them to adjust to State life, unless they come from some of the more unsavory places in the wilds, like the Mounds.

The States






The Free Territory



How Did We Get Here?


In the year 2025, tensions between the national government and the citizens of America continued to grow out of old wounds. Human rights being stepped on, cops getting away with things they shouldn’t, senators not keeping promises, the list goes on. America’s people couldn’t take it any more. They were tired of using words to get through the to government, they were tired of having people die because they couldn’t afford medicine. They finally said “enough.” In the middle of June, people started spreading the word about just booting the government out. No more negotiation, just exile, it was time to use that piece of legislature in the Constitution that said the government could be torn down. All over social media, and all over tv, various viewpoints presented the idea of what was, in the simplest terms, mass treason. There were no major names in this rebellion, there were no George Washingtons to lead an army, because there wasn’t an army. All over America, people simple flooded the streets and burned everything they saw. Every police car was destroyed, every precinct was burned to ash. Every government owned building was destroyed.

America effectively became an anarchistic wasteland in the following year, the government was reduced to a few whispers. Money didn’t mean anything, many miles worth of neighborhoods went without electricity for a long time. The biggest pieces of civilization were in New York City, Miami, Columbus, and Las Vegas. Many people left home, taking shelter from from their houses in places many states away in these four places. They were the best places to go for refuge, but they were also in ruin, the only thing they had going for them was the sheer amounts of people that made it easy to rebuild. With only the average people left, it felt like anarchy would take hold. The people in these three cities slowly but steadily rebuilt every facet of life over the course of ten years, in that decade, they established connections with each other, establishing radio and wireless communications across the continent. They exchanged ideas of how to handle the law enforcement, since that was one of the biggest problems of the old America. They each agreed and disagreed with each other on various things, but they worked out their own methods. California’s police never carried weapons. They spent two years in training around field psychology, non lethal self defense, and verbal diffusion. By the end of 2035, things were vastly different, but everyone in these small states agreed that it was for the better.

Overtime, people began to think about taking back some of the land that they lost. Many people wanted to go back into North Dakota and start new, the problem was getting there. Many of the roads out in the open territories were hard to navigate due to a decade of neglect. Most, if not all of the people who dreamed of going back to the Dakotas lived in post-war Ohio, working normal jobs as blacksmiths or mechanics. As a result of this, the two states today are very similar. One of the “pioneers” to enter the Dakotas was a woman named Maggie Carolina. An Ohio mechanic with roots in the Dakotas, she was the one who organized one of the first trips home through the modern wastelands. She was the one who led an expedition of 30 to 40 people across the land, and back home. When they arrived in the Dakotas, they found nothing but devastation. Forests were barren and concern in ash, once beautiful neighborhoods were dusty rubble. It wasn’t until 3 years of reconstruction passed that they started to make the place really feel like home again. When they established radio communications with Ohio in 2038, they heard talk about more people moving out to the supposed colony. In just a few short months, the population in the post war frontier had exploded to a few thousand. Maggie Carolina eventually died to causes unknown, and in honor of the person who led them to their home, the people elected to become the state of Carolina, the 5th post war state. Every state had its own issues, and there were always a few fights to break out, but over the course of several years, it began to really feel as though the country hadn’t gone to hell and back for nothing after all. Carolina became the farming capital of the continent, Florida became an isolationist military state, and California swallowed the White House whole. Peace has been achieved for the most part, all is good, for now at least.

What About You?


A century has passed, and you are a denizen of this wildly changed continent, whoever you are, and whoever those around you are, things are starting to pick up for you. Maybe you just landed a job at a mechanic shop in New York, maybe you snuck out of Florida and are trying to make it to Ohio. Or maybe you’re a prisoner of some not-so-likeable Anti-State outlaws and managed to grab their gun before running off. In any case, America is yours! You can do whatever you could imagine. You could invent a jet pack and take it to New York, you could grab some like minded individuals and lead a journey up north into the mysterious land called “Alaska,” or you could dig up some old tech from before the war and then think about the future! There really is only a handful of things you can’t do, obviously you can’t rise to power and ban all swords from the state of Ohio (or can you?) or steal a D-Class Enceladus Cruiser from Florida (says who?!) just to sell it to California, but that’s two things separating you from literal infinite possibilities! Raid the wildlands, become the captain of the Floridian government, builds guns, steal guns!

Take the hand dealt to you and run like hell with it!

This will be an rp in which you make your own adventures, friendships, enemies, and mistakes. I hope to work with you and your fellow players on setting up a beginning based on the backgrounds of your characters, meaning we don’t all have to start in one spot, unless you just want to. I’ll also be happy to set up a discord server for us to talk in, post memes, nerd about, and more! This is open ended so you can make your mark on things, so go nuts. I’d love to appoint some Co-Gms, I won’t force anyone to actually step up for that role, but I don’t want to hoard the authority all for myself, you can make that you want out of that, and if you want to contribute to anything outside of the story, in any way at all, let me know, I welcome that stuff. Wanna make a new location? Let’s hear it. Want to make a new layer in the lore of the swordsmen to made their last stand at the Field of Sunlight? All ears. Want to make a new faction idea that only becomes relevant towards the end of the plot? Sure!

I look forward to writing with you.

Rules


1) Don’t be a dick, no racism or transphobia or anything of that nature. You’re out the moment I have to get onto you about this.

2) Please try to plan your actions with everyone else in mind.

3) I’m not actually going to police this, but I’d appreciate it if you try to post at least once a week, I won’t get mad if you can’t, since we’re all busy here and there, but don’t forget us when you’re free!

4) Don’t fight in my thread if you don’t want me involved.

5) No character limit but I recommend a max of two.

6) Don’t make fun of someone else’s writing. This is casual, not advanced, we have lives in this part of town.

7) Remember, you can die. We don’t have futuristic cyborg bodies yet but we’re only at the technological level one could expect ten years from now in the real world, and that’s a stretch. The thing to take away from this is that you’re very much mortal, and not everything is easy with tech.

Characters


The plan at the moment is to create a plot based on the backgrounds of your characters. If we have a majority of farmers from Carolina, we might start as a bunch of angry farmers at the border trying to drive back some bandits, only to wind up having to track them down vigilante style because they kidnapped someone and took them into free territory, making them immune to State law. Alternatively, if we have a very mixed cast mostly made of Anti-staters and Floridian runaways, and, we could make a whole new life and potentially change the course of the world. This will be up to everyone as a whole, not just me, and whether I actually make a character or not depends on the way things go.

There will be a dummy character below this, as well as a character sheet to give you an idea or two, have fun.





Story

Anything that you’ve done in this universe ranging from any new lore, a discovery or making of a specific location, or anything else important will be found in the section of the OOC. This will also include the over arching plot we make as a whole, and all the important events that follow, arcs, character death, etc.
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Very interesting! Will be working on a character(s) in the next few days
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@Wind Flower Hell yeah
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Interested in this, got an extremely bare bones application. Will edit the rest in later in the day.


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H H H H H H-
I really want this to happennnnnnnnn-
I'm all up for it-
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By the way we have a discord now
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i don't have discord-
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It’s ok, it takes like two minutes to make one but it’s cool if you don’t wanna make one and stuff ^^
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I forgot to mention but your character is accepted

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