Politics means electronic voting. Governments are virtual corporations, with their heavy lifting privatized to commercial ventures. The have-nots are given spending vouchers. Southeast Asia and the coast of China manufacture most of Consumerland's goods, and consume almost half themselves. Latin America is their branch office.
Japan gets richer and unhappier.
Russia exports trouble in the form of neoreligious cultists and mafioso. The US and Europe become large theme parks. Of course, categories are only handles. Real issues entail a bit of all four forces. The point of listing the driving forces is to look past the everyday crises that typically occupy our minds and to examine the long-term forces that ordinarily work well outside our concerns.