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The date is 2020. The United States finally has reached a universal agreement with the United Nations. Every country in the world, except for a few stubborn ones, has aligned with the United Nations. Democracy has been molded with Communism. Ideals of both styles adopted to make a government ran by true equality, aside from a few differences. The "President" figure is elected by popular vote. Poverty has been virtually erased, leaving everyone their own house, status, wealth, and pleasures.

Taking in the fact that life has become infinitely easier amongst the largely united world, Military still takes hold of almost 50% of the world budget each year. New technologies are constantly being created. Such as: Lewis Theodore Paradox's Warp Engine which allows human kind to finally explore the reaches of space. A team of engineers are still being trained for such a mission due to be launched in 2035. These new technologies are ran by the UNMB, or United Nations Military Branch. Some speculate the Military still hide secrets like any possible war outbreaks or unrest within the United Nations.

This new Government, aptly named Democumism, runs the easy going lives of all the Nationists(Like "Americans"). Simply put, The people of UN are under a very tight watch of the government for their own safety, or so they are told.

March 10, 2020, New Korea, one of the few countries not united, launches extremes tests with their technologies. It is a new kind of ICBM(Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) that is packed with a new kind of nuclear explosive created by nuclear waste. This nuclear waste was dumped on the outskirts of New Korea by the United States(before UN) in a fit of rage to an attempt to start a third world war.

This new missile is said to have the ability to severely cripple a large portion of the entire United Nations, if not the entirety of it...

2:34 PM CTZ(Central Time Zone)

Streets of a huge city where New York used to be lives strong, constant. People fill every corner and every section. Cars are different, but all run with the same engine work and same sounds. Everyone is the same, but is able to express themselves differently. Stores are buzzing, restaurants are filled and life is bland. Someone looks up. They gasp in horror at the sight. A smoke trail streaking from behind a bright orange light with a long cylindrical shape in front of it all.

Jason, an engineer in training for the 2035 mission to space, instantly notices the object is an ICBM and urges people to get behind cement or whatever they can find to shield themselves from the blast. His tall figure allows him to be "leader" form and a crowd of people follow. Jason leads his crowd into a parking structure that, luckily, extends underground.

(More to come)

God, you aren't kidding. My role play buddies abandoned me.