The World

North America

Already reeling from the VITAS plague, the Awakening of magic, and the appearance of metahumans, North America splintered August 17, 2017 when—responding to the United States' escalation of its conflict with Sovereign American Indian Movement into a campaign of outright extinction—Howling Coyote initiated the Great Ghost Dance at Native American communities across the continent. Freak weather and uncanny disturbances assaulted the US military effort, with the havoc reaching its height with the eruption of Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Large portions of the United States and Canada were carved out to form the Native American Nations (NANs).

Already weakened, the United States and Canada were further destabilized with the Crash of '29, when an unprecedented virus swept the world's computer systems, crashing systems, wiping records, and destroying hardware. In need of a lifeline, they joined together into the United Canadian and American States in 2030. The alliance couldn't hold together, however, and the UCAS soon faced a rush of successions.

United Canadian and American States

The United Canadian and American States, also referred to as the UCAS, is a federal republic in eastern North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the beginning of the Rocky Mountains. It is the successor state to both the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America. It shares land borders with Quebec, Algonkian-Manitou, Sioux, Pueblo, and the CAS. The state of Seattle on the West Coast of North America is enclaved in the Salish-Shidhe territory.

The country has 31 states, which have a level of local autonomy according to the system of federalism, and a special district, the Federal District of Columbia, encompassing the capital Washington DC. The state of Seattle is sometimes designated as the metroplex of Seattle, though it possesses all the attributes of a Union State. A UCAS citizen may be referred as an American or a Canadian, UCASer, or Canadian-American.

See also the dedicated pages for The Seattle Sprawl and Chicago.

Confederation of American States

The Confederation of American States, abbreviated as the CAS, and sometimes referred to as the Confederated American States, is a republic in eastern North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the beginning of the Sierra Madre. It shares land borders with UCAS, Pueblo, Aztlan, and South Florida.

The country has 13 states, which have a level of local autonomy according to the system of federalism. A CAS citizen may be referred simply as an American, a Confederationist, or a CASer. While much of the country embraces the term Confederate, a minority of it, and many expatriates, consider it an insult, interpreting it as a reference to the moniker used in the American Civil War.

While marginalization of metahuman populations is common, the CAS has a reputation for the extremity of their subjugation, with the non-human portion of its prisoners being vastly higher than the already-common disproportion and prison labor being highly integrated into the national economy.

California Free State

The California Free State is a libertarian republic on the west coast of North America. California borders the Pacific Ocean the length of the Sierra Nevada, featuring a diverse landscape and Mediterranean climate. The CFS comprises only a portion of the former state of California, with the territory from San Diego south claimed by Aztlan, Los Angeles having succeeded, and San Francisco—while still formally part of the CFS—being in practice controlled by a coalition of Japanese megacorporations.

Free City of Los Angeles

Enclosed on land by the California Free State, The Free City of Los Angeles sprawls across what used to be the Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange counties, and additionally includes the western part of San Bernardino county. The free city is best known for its still-dominant position in the entertainment industry, ranging from film and TriD to simsense recordings and video games.

Native American Nations

Denver

Denver was where the agreement establishing the North American Nations was signed, and has been thereafter governed under the joint administration of the signing parties: the UCAS, Aztlan, the Pueblo, the Sioux, and the Ute.

Central America

Aztlan

One of the Native American Nations created in the wake of the Great Ghost Dance, Aztlan covers all of Central America, between Rio Bravo and Nueces River and the Andes, including the former territory of Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama (excluding the Panama Canal Zone under the direct control of the Corporate Court). It also includes portions that used to belong to Venezuela and Columbia, as well as parts of the former US states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

The country of Azlan is inextricable from Aztechnology. The AAA megacorporation dominates politics with its Azatlán party, intermingling its corporate governance with the national government, while also being the primary provider of security and military services to the state. The nation and corporation are notorious for their use of blood magic.

Europe

Allied German States

The Allied German States (AGS, German: Allianz Deutscher Länder, ADL) is the loosely organized collection of Kingdoms, Duchies, and republics that were once the Fifth World country of the Federal Republic of Germany. These include: Baden and Palatinate, the Black Forest Troll Kingdom, Brandenburg, Franconia, the Free State of Bavaria, the Free State of Saxony, the Free State of Thuringia, the Free State of Westphalia, the Grand Duchy of West Rhine-Luxembourg, Greater Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau, the North German League, North Rhine-Ruhr, Wuerttemberg, the Free City of Berlin, the eleven enclave of the Duchy of Pomorya, and the Saar-Lorraine-Luxembourg Special Administrative Zone established to contain the damage caused by the meltdown of the Cattenom reactors in 2008.

The AGS is notable for having several great dragons, and a (relatively) large number of Night Ones and Giants.

Black Forest Troll Republic

The Black Forest Troll Republic is an Allied German State (ADL) and one of the Awakened Lands. After the secession of the Süddeutschen Bund (Southern German Federation) in 2038, an attempted pogrom of orks and trolls led to a resistance movement by King Berthold (suspected to be the dragon Kaltenstein) that established a constitutional monarchy within the Black Forest to shelter metahumans.

Middle East

East Anatolia

East Anatolia or East Turkey (also called the Ottoman Empire) is an insurgent-ruled state situated in the eastern portion of Anatolia and is ruled by Islamist extremists who are remnants of Alliance for Allah.

Asia

Chinese Splinter States

China is no longer a country, but a region occupied by dozens of splinter states all warring with each other. The four largest states (the Canton Confederation, the People's Republic of Henan, the Kingdom of Shaanxi, and the Sichuan Dominion), which retained the former country's nuclear weapons, vye to reunify China under their respective banners, while the other lesser states serve as political wildcards.

Canton Confederation

Consisting of the former provinces of Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian, as well as the city-state of Macao, the Canton Confederation is the most economically powerful of the former Chinese states, but its weak-confederation system prevents its federal government from exerting significant non-economic foreign influence. Bordering the South China Sea, the confederation is the Chinese Splinter most integrated into global commerce.

People's Republic of Henan

The People's Republic of Henan became the home of the remaining hardline communists following the breakup of the PRC. Governed by a neo-Communist regime and hostile to corporations, it has attracted a number of anti-corporate policlubs and is believed to provide anti-corporate terrorists with covert support, rumored to be home to training facilities for GreenWar and the Sons of Sauron.

Kingdom of Shaanxi

The Kingdom of Shaanxi is a monarchy comprising a large portion of north-central China, with a desert in the north and mountains through the central region forming a natural barrier with much of the rest of former China, but with the population concentrated in a subtropical zone to the south. The kingdom puts itself forward as a cultural center of pre-communist China, with Queen Michelle being a dedicated promoter of both traditional and modern Chinese art.

Sichuan Dominion

The Sichuan Dominion is a militaristic, magocratic warlord state located in central China. While possessing a democratically-elected parliament, it is ruled by the Mage General Liang Hong, backed by the Eastern Great Dragon Lung. The structure of the Dominion favors the awakened, rewarding them in its extensive civil service program even beyond the utility of awakened abilities, with the unawakened barred from holding high-ranking position in the civilian government and military.

AAA Megacorporations

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Ares Macrotechnology

Headquarters: Detroit, UCAS

Core Industries: AresSpace, Ares Global Entertainment, Ares Arms, Knight Errant Security Services, and General Motors

Aztechnology

Headquarters: Tenochtitlan, Aztlan

Core Industries: food, consumer goods, and thaumaturgical products

Cross Applied Technologies

Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec

Core Industries: computers, electronics, multimedia products, biotech

Fuchi

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Core Industries: Matrix technology

Mitsuhama

Headquarters: Kyoto, Japan

Core Industries: computers and robotics

NeoNET

Headquarters: Boston, UCAS

Core Industries: Matrix infrastructure, software, electronics, biotech

Renraku

Headquarters: Chiba, Japan

Core Industries: memory storage and databases

Saeder-Krupp

Headquarters: Essen, Germany

Core Industries: heavy industry, nuclear energy, oil, chemistry, aerospace and telecommunications.

Shiawase

Headquarters: Osaka, Japan

Core Industries: power systems, biotech, environmental technology, business analysis

Wuxing

Headquarters: Hong Kong Free Enterprise Enclave

Core Industries: finance, heavy industry, shipping, automotive, consumer goods and services

Yamatetsu

Headquarters: Kyoto, Japan

Core Industries: Crashcart Medical Services, consumer products, naval technology