[quote=Fisheye]
I think that I've decided to go with this RP along with PoW. Anyway, before I start faction-crafting, could anyone give me a rough idea of what population, land, and tech level are to be at in this RP? Also, what is the state of the environment itself? Is it a more realistic TLOU-like setting with overgrown structures and the like or a more desolate Fallout-esque landscape with little arable land?
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I'mma let you use your imagination on this to determine the nature of the former urban or rural environments as well as total population.

As a note, the massive solar storms that flipped off the lights would have left humanity more-or-less at about the same level of population as it would be in roughly ten years time. So there's a base to work on when you go through to try and figure your population. But like building condition and the like, keep in mind that there's been sixty years of minimal maintenance and fighting over resources and the loss of technology would leave a lot of important resources harder to gather in the mass needed to sustain civilization or population, which'll be a factor.

As for tech, the crash of electronics would set the world back to something akin to the 19th century. Though it's plausible some functions still tick on (maybe a computer or two out of a hundred and some people could fix small generators) it's still best to work with the overall tech level being very 19th century.

The world also shouldn't be cooked as it it's often pictured in Fallout. The most immediately damaged areas would be Chicago which got hit with a nuclear missile and the resulting band of fallout damage. By now the area would have come under a sort of Chernobyl like environment with still-growing trees and wildlife, but I wouldn't count on it being very healthy to live or travel through.