Idea: A warlord called the "State of New Petoria" run by BeefFishStick, centered in the ruins of Houston. It's one of the last bastions of the 21st century digital culture, being one of the few warlords with sufficient electricity, analog TV and dial-up internet. The government is stationed in the convention center that hosted the second iFunnycon. BeefFishStick is not mentally well after the starving time, as he's hyper-dedicated to larping as Peter Griffin from Family Guy, including doing the voice 24/7, dressing in a white shirt and green pants, wearing fake glasses and constantly acting like the cartoon (he's in his 50s mind you). There are wild rumors on the forums over his birth name & old identity along with the theory that his right hand man, Prime Minister Glenn Quagmire, was soyjak.party's "Soot" admin. Nonetheless, Chef Peter's followers remain loyal due to the realm's relatively nice living conditions.
Too much to detail in one comment, but, in short: a level of chaos and disunity similar to that suffered by the United States. There are numerous rival Russian rump states and countless more warlords and local governments just trying to make it along. Russia’s survival rate was similar to that of the United States, roughly 5%, and most of its population now lives much more south than it used to. Siberia had a lower survival rate than European Russia, as so much of its population is urban and therefore vulnerable to nuclear strikes.
You’ll learn a lot more about Russia in the Washington issue of FC, which will come out later today.
Are the park rangers ok? Most of the country is probably being reclaimed by the wilderness, national parks aren’t really special wildlife refuges anymore.
In some ways, the environment is healing following the Great War; in other ways, it's worse than before. Many species were hunted to extinction, and runoff industrial pollution is actually a bigger health concern than nuclear fallout.
Park Rangers, where they can still be found, mostly exist as a governmental authority to rule over and defend the people under their care. This was especially the case in Yellowstone National Park, where they had to resettle and govern tens of thousands of stranded tourists who had no homes to return to.
Any environment-duties they have mostly relate to fighting against poachers and illegal loggers to prevent the forests from being depleted. Their goal is less to preserve a pristine natural environment, and more to defend a stockpile of food and timber from being used up. In Arkansas, the King of the Ozarks placed the Ozark National Forest under his personal protection, and it functions much like how a royal forest in the Middle Ages would operate.
No, but there's a lot going on there. Oklahoma and the states surrounding it are a bit different from the rest of the country, and you'll notice it once we get there. Lore is more developed and a little more "out there" in some areas. The Oklahoma entry is going to be longer than the California entry. This is because this whole Fallen Continent setting is part of a novel I've been writing, but the novel itself mostly takes place in Oklahoma. The Kingdom of the Ozarks is the faction that the protagonist and his friends end up siding with, so they are, so to speak, a "good guy faction." But I've tried to keep them complex and multifaceted so that they aren't a Mary Sue wish-fulfillment faction. In short, it's a legitimist warlord faction that's successfully made the transition out of warlordism and is now trying to cement itself as a modern state with real institutions, with all the growing pains that includes.
Idea: A warlord called the "State of New Petoria" run by BeefFishStick, centered in the ruins of Houston. It's one of the last bastions of the 21st century digital culture, being one of the few warlords with sufficient electricity, analog TV and dial-up internet. The government is stationed in the convention center that hosted the second iFunnycon. BeefFishStick is not mentally well after the starving time, as he's hyper-dedicated to larping as Peter Griffin from Family Guy, including doing the voice 24/7, dressing in a white shirt and green pants, wearing fake glasses and constantly acting like the cartoon (he's in his 50s mind you). There are wild rumors on the forums over his birth name & old identity along with the theory that his right hand man, Prime Minister Glenn Quagmire, was soyjak.party's "Soot" admin. Nonetheless, Chef Peter's followers remain loyal due to the realm's relatively nice living conditions.
You joke, but there are a small handful of totally stupid meme warlords out there. Not quite that ridiculous, but still pretty damn out there.
What's going on in Russia?
Too much to detail in one comment, but, in short: a level of chaos and disunity similar to that suffered by the United States. There are numerous rival Russian rump states and countless more warlords and local governments just trying to make it along. Russia’s survival rate was similar to that of the United States, roughly 5%, and most of its population now lives much more south than it used to. Siberia had a lower survival rate than European Russia, as so much of its population is urban and therefore vulnerable to nuclear strikes.
You’ll learn a lot more about Russia in the Washington issue of FC, which will come out later today.
Are the park rangers ok? Most of the country is probably being reclaimed by the wilderness, national parks aren’t really special wildlife refuges anymore.
In some ways, the environment is healing following the Great War; in other ways, it's worse than before. Many species were hunted to extinction, and runoff industrial pollution is actually a bigger health concern than nuclear fallout.
Park Rangers, where they can still be found, mostly exist as a governmental authority to rule over and defend the people under their care. This was especially the case in Yellowstone National Park, where they had to resettle and govern tens of thousands of stranded tourists who had no homes to return to.
Any environment-duties they have mostly relate to fighting against poachers and illegal loggers to prevent the forests from being depleted. Their goal is less to preserve a pristine natural environment, and more to defend a stockpile of food and timber from being used up. In Arkansas, the King of the Ozarks placed the Ozark National Forest under his personal protection, and it functions much like how a royal forest in the Middle Ages would operate.
Are there gnomes and nigga knights in the ozark kingdom?
No, but there's a lot going on there. Oklahoma and the states surrounding it are a bit different from the rest of the country, and you'll notice it once we get there. Lore is more developed and a little more "out there" in some areas. The Oklahoma entry is going to be longer than the California entry. This is because this whole Fallen Continent setting is part of a novel I've been writing, but the novel itself mostly takes place in Oklahoma. The Kingdom of the Ozarks is the faction that the protagonist and his friends end up siding with, so they are, so to speak, a "good guy faction." But I've tried to keep them complex and multifaceted so that they aren't a Mary Sue wish-fulfillment faction. In short, it's a legitimist warlord faction that's successfully made the transition out of warlordism and is now trying to cement itself as a modern state with real institutions, with all the growing pains that includes.
LMAO, I was hoping someone would read that acronym that way.