The_Doctor
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« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2018, 09:37:33 PM » |
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« Edited: September 12, 2018, 09:46:59 PM by The_Doctor »
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Prologue: The 2060s-2070s
(January 1, 2069) - Washington, D.C. It has been a long forty five years in the resurgent liberalism that dotted the landscape since the forty seventh President - one Richard Adams Cordray - took the oath. A slew of Democratic White Houses and a few Republican Presidents followed the Cordray Presidency, and the United States embraced a muscular liberalism that incorporated the hawkish internationalism of Ronald Reagan with the New Deal ethos of Franklin Roosevelt.
The Third World War (2045-2049) was brief but recemented the United States as the dominant world power, with the international institutions forged in 1945 updated and revamped for a new age. The League of Democracies (John McCain’s legacy) is in force and the world has a muscular internationalist system that replaced the aging Roosevelt - era framework. Global warming has been handled through a series of climate change agreements that radically remade the world economy and international landscape.
At home, universal based income has replaced the old patchwork of the New Deal welfare programs as the workweek has been shortened to 4 days and the AI has automated formerly mundane jobs, like retail, cleaning, and so on. The Knowledge Economy is in full bloom.
A thousand technologies emerged, including self-diagnosing medical technology, self-driving cars, faster jets, genetic engineering, stem cell therapy, 3D holographic messaging devices, rapidly fast broadband internet, the AI, and other inventions have brought a Jetsons Age feel to the world.
The Space Age has taken off and the United States has launched a Mars colony as well as the Moon colony (which casts 3 electoral votes apiece). Currently, on Mars and the Moon, there are a couple of colonies apiece owned by Britain, India, China, Germany, and of course, the United States.
In the United States, Puerto Rico and DC are American states. The South and Southwest is now a bastion of the Democratic Party, powered by minority voters while the whiter Midwest, Interior Plains states, and the Northwest - and New England - are more Republican.
The Republican Party has emerged from a long period of struggle within the conservative movement. The alt-right and the traditional right fought a war for twelve, sixteen years before electing the first minority coalition Republican White House (a President Corrin Dawson, R-Minnesota, if memory serves). After that, of course, was the third World War.
In the 2050s and 2060s, questions have begun to emerge about the post-war economy and the need for a global corporate order to complement the increasingly internationalist flavor of society that seems to now transcend borders. The populist liberals, after the Third World War, focused on bringing the Third World up to parity with the First World but left many questions about the role of businesses and corporations up in the air.
A rising social conservatism has reemerged in the First World, fueled by the growing uneasiness with the secular dominated world. The Catholic Church retreated to Africa and Asia, after being driven out of much of North America and Europe. Protestant Evangelicals left these areas as well, unable to handle the tide of secularism. But in the 2050s and 2060s, as questions about what it means to be human in the age where robotics are part of everyday life to a degree never really questioned before rise, and a morality that seems rooted in humanism is slowly being seen as ineffective, a religious revival, in a sense, is taking hold in the United States.
The Presidency of Hirose Ukon (D-New Mexico) is where the story begins. Elected in 2068, the Democratic Senator prevailed against Gov. Rajendra Joshi (R-New Jersey) in a closely fought Presidential battle. The Senate stand at 57 Democrats, 47 Republicans (the colonies can cast electoral votes, but do not have formal Congressional representation until 2072). The House is 257 Democratic and 186 Republican.
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