Long, long time ago, around year 2015, it began. Numerous gears began to move resulting in something, which no one expected would happen. It was exactly this year, when the Nightmare came from overseas, invading Europe.
We weren’t prepared for that, but it happened nevertheless. It could’ve been stopped, but Stupidity got in the way.
Nightmare caused many things, but the most important one of them was War. World War III.
How? Germany, Greece, Italy and other countries, that suffered from Nightmare, became weak. That created opportunity, opportunity for other countries to move on them. To try getting the absolute power in Europe or over the World, and so it began.
The spark, that ignited this fire, was Russia’s attack on Germany. Thanks to the fact, that Russia wasn’t affected by Nightmare, it remained strong during the years, and so, 2 years after the Nightmare arrived from overseas, they attacked. One nuke. That was all it took to put everything in motion. Soon, almost every country was in a state of war.
Most of the countries were destroyed, only few managed to somehow survive this quick Nuclear War.
United Empire of China and Japan took over whole Asia.
Kingdom of Poland took over the Europe.
Whole Africa was now a no man’s land, as it was completely destroyed.
USA took over Canada and everything to the South.
So did Australia - it conquered every country around itself.
Soon, thanks to these events, we were left with only 4 behemoths on the map. They all had similar strength, therefore didn’t attack each other as it would be impossible for either one to win against another one.
And so, after 5 years of war, the World again became peaceful. Many have died. Civilians, soldiers, children, women, elderly. To a nuke it didn’t matter who you are, you died either way. Bang, and that’s it.
World’s population went from 7 000 000 000, to something around 5 000 000 000. Can you imagine that? Around 30% of the whole population died. So many casualties. And it wasn’t even the end of bad things. Humanity still had to somehow deal with the aftereffects of Nuclear War. Radiation, toxic waste and destroyed land. It was a complete disaster, but we somehow managed to pull through it.
These, that survived, decided something - that never again could they allow something like this to happen. And so, in the year 2040, 20 years after the WW3, the 4 behemoths signed a treaty, which totally changed the World as we know it - from then on all conflicts between countries would be resolved through… sports, one in particular, but on that we’ll dwell later.
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Thanks to this, World remained in peace, years passed. Humanity entered the phase of prosperity and well being.
However, with the flow of time, people began noticing something shocking - those that survived the nukes and everything that accompanied them, aged more slowly. So did their offspring.
It turns out, that the radiation caused by the nukes, somehow managed to modify that part of our DNA, that was responsible for our aging process.
Average lifespan of human reached around 110 years and with next generations, it extended even more, reaching 125 years. It however was the maximum, no one has managed to live more than that. Like it was some kind of limit.
Faced with the limitations of our bodies, some great minds began working on Virtual Reality, a Virtual World and they succeeded. It was overwhelming victory at first.
Soon, experiments were hold - they tried to move person’s consciousness into that world, so one can live for eternity, but it failed miserably. It simply didn’t work. Every person from the experiment became a stupid zombie, that could only eat, piss, shit and sleep. Only primal instincts and needs were left of these people. Good thing that these trials were done on death sentence prisoners. It didn’t matter how many times and in what way the experiments were repeated, the effect was the same, so they were discarded.
Something like that also happened, when scientists finally managed to invent teleportation. They would disassemble given object on small particles and again glue them together on the place of destination. It gave the same effect, people, that were subjects to these tests, became mindless zombies.
It gave us evidence, that we are something more than just a body, and our consciousness isn’t just the effect of random chemical reactions in our brain, this proved the existence of a ‘soul’ or something similar and so faith and spirituality skyrocketed since then. Thanks to that world became even more peaceful on the surface, but deep inside, it remained the same it was many years ago.
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