The 13th Hour: A Long-term Future Timeline

I'm going to do this justice better.

The EU and Commonwealth are going to have other problems which I'll detail soon, namely in Eastern Europe.

Well yes, they’ll be trade allies and that, but they are more worried about threatening nations, my update today will show that.

The global geopolitical situation:

Americas:
The rise of Brazil, chiefly with it being the First Nation to develop in that region, lead to increased strength in Latin America. Southern Latin America and Mexico had joined the revised NATO, now just the ATO (dropping North to instead just become Atlantic). Venezuela had been split, with the South being a Republic and the north being occupied by Columbia. Cuba was also split, between the Democratic eastern half and Castro West. Puerto Rico had continued to survive after the fall of the US, running smoothly as isolation seemed to train it for. Canada had begun to arm there borders, and had entered into an alliance with the Republic of Alaska to defend the Aleutian state. Canada soon had also gotten a deal with the Great Plains and Rio Grande, who signed a mutual alliance. California was split between the Sun Belt Confederacy, the Bear Flag Republic, and Cascadia. The East had mostly settled out into Dixie, Appalachia, the Republic of the Atlantic, Delmarva, the PRoNE, New England, and the Great Lakes State.

Asia
After the fall of the United States North Korea invaded its southern neighbor, forcing them to Pusan. The Second Armistice was signed, creating the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea and the Free City of Pusan. China had consolidated a global alliance, with most of Asia being members. However, they did have opposition in India, who mustered up her own allies as well.

Middle East
For once, the MidEast was peaceful. Israel and Saudi Arabia had control of much of the region via coalitions and it worked to everyone’s benefit.

Europe
The small, half century of freedom was ending in the East. First Ukraine fell after being destabilized by Russia in 2023. Then, Serbia had found an imperial instinct in 2029 and conquered many of its neighbors. Greece, who’d left NATO after the US left, was invaded by Serbia and Turkey, who’d also left NATO. In 2032, Poland fell when an authoritarian party came to power. Western Europe looked to Brazil for help. Scandinavia had gone full authoritarian when the US collapsed and with it the world economy. Ireland barely put down a communist revolt in Dublin and Cork.

Africa
At this point, west Africa was in the sphere of Brazil while the East in the Chinese sphere. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi had unified into East Africa. South Africa, allied with Brazil, had begun to conquest and unification of lands south of the DR Congo.

Oceania
When the US fell, Australia and New Zealand went into action. The Christchurch Conference saw many of the islands of Oceania unite with Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan into the Pacific Union, which gained the support of Brazil.

General George Henry was leading the Sun Belt Confederacys forces through the city of Bakersfield. The city had initially sided with the Bear Flag Republic. The SoCal-NoCal split had never been more alive. Cascadia and the Sun Belt where in a sprint for Sacramento, the Capitol of the Bear Flag Republic. The NoCal state had been collapsing due to internal policy, Henry, however, is gonna go after a prize more precious then Sacramento. San Francisco would be key to controlling the Golden State. The plan is to March up to Fresno and then to break for San Francisco. Then, Henry looks down at the ground and finds a government letter in the ruins of a post office. It reads: To the honorable General Gavin Newsom II. You read the letter and find battle plans. The Bear Flag is retreating because Cascadia is in Chico. Everything seems to be going to Sun Belts way. The Sun Belt captures San Francisco and the gulf while Cascadia captures San Francisco.

Presiding Consul Justin DeJon couldn’t stay in power forever, Rio Grande was still a republic. DeJon was very popular in his first re-election bid in 2051, but 2056 was shaping up to be different. Instead of being challenged by the Constitutionals, he was receiving a challenge from the LPSA. Elena Hickenlooper had been picking up steam in the mountainous region on the promise of peace and forming five new states out of the occupied Sun Belt region. DeJon remained popular in Plano-Frisco and the surrounding regions as Dallas-Fort Worth had become the beating heart of the Rio Grandean economy. However, San Antonio and Austin where in favor of Hickenlooper, half Hispanic, in a Hispanic-majority region. Polls showed Hickenlooper beating DeJon in the Federal election, so DeJon knew he had to act fast.

That was why DeJon was in Mexico City. Since the fall of the US almost ten years prior, Mexico like much of the world had taken a pretty big hit and was know in debt to China and Brazil. Mexico, not wanting to be close with China, began to get desperate. Revolts had broken out in the Yucatán, but where put down. Then riots started in Mexico City. President Antonio was forced from power, allowing a new leader, Martin Lopez, to come to power. Lopez began with meeting with DeJon. DeJon and the Rio Grande were getting drunk on expansion, and Lopez knew that Mexico was getting weaker. He sold each Mexican state along the border with the Rio Grande as well as in the Yucatán and Baja California Sur to Rio Grande for 10,000,000,000 Rio Grande Notes.

DeJon’s popularity soared as he admitted Mexican states to the Republic. In Monterey, a new language was developing, referred to as Grandesian. The population of Rio Grande also became one of the most bilingual. Hickenlooper lost her bid for the Presiding Consul, and instead was appointed to Parliament .