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Post by Alice Locke on Jan 13, 2012 15:47:40 GMT -5
No one would have really thought in 2011 that the world would actually end in 2012. Surely, no one had escaped the catastrophe flicks on the television, or the mad men with their signs on the sidewalks. But they were just that… fiction, and madmen. As the New Year came, though, tension built up all across the globe, and by summer 2012… the war was a fact.
More and more states got involved. Casualties skyrocketed on all sides. Multiple theories about what had triggered the events were whispered in the dark depths of the fallout shelters all across the world, but the real reason was soon lost in the fires destroying our Earth. In a last, desperate attempt to end the conflicts once and for all, America tried to pull another Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Though this time, they were not the only ones with big guns…
All the major countries fell. Europe lay in ruins. America was wiped off of the maps. All of industrious Asia – gone in a clean swipe. Without their aid, South America and Africa soon followed. Left standing was neutral Australia, but not for long…
Civil war broke out in Australia in late -12. All over, people struggled for survival in the acid rains that fell over the soil and destroyed the crops. The bigger cities fell one by one to anarchy. All trading routes to the continent were closed down – there was no one left to trade with. Infrastructures fell. Chaos broke out. Tourists, stranded from vacations that had been prolonged when planes were unable to leave the ground, slept on the streets. And famish… People starved, and hungry, desperate people, are dangerous.
So Australia fell, at long last. The government was overthrown, and it seemed like the last of civilization had been wiped out.
That was not the case, however…
Fifty years later…
A paradise has risen to power on the northeast shores of the Australian coastline – a new utopia, where the rich and the powerful can lead their comfortable lives in a pristine city known as Shangrila. Founded in 2022 by a sole man, the resort-like town has grown into a fairly sized city, populated by the best of the best.
Shangrila, hidden behind thick, heavily guarded walls, is a virtual paradise where electricity, sunny weather, delicious cuisine and access to all sorts of entertainment are taken for granted. While the world outside crash and burn, the societé of this self-proclaimed paradise clinks their wine-glasses in a toast to their own supremacy… and watches, without a care in the world.
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