Path of Humanity (Scenario)

Welcome to Path of Humanity, created by TheRealAwesome!
Path of Humanity is a timeline exploring what I believe the future will look like, first stopping in 10 years time in 2032, before letting the map game that is attached with it decide the path this timeline will go to. The timeline currently stops just short of the 2032 USA Presidental Election on November 8th, 2032. Phase 2 would be determined by the Map Game attached to it. Should the map game be activated, then the story of the Map Game should hopefully take us into the 2040's. If not, Phase 2 will extend this timeline until May 8th, 2045, which is the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. Phase 3 will take the timeline to the intended end of this timeline in 2050. 
So what does this timeline explore and talk about? The timeline focuses on the unification of Anglophone states in 2026, the devolving of Russia from a secondary superpower to a dysfunctional state, as well as a cold war between Europe, America, China and other lesser regional powers. The timeline mainly explores how such a world will play out, and what awaits humanity in a political, societal and a technological perspective. Now obiviously, this is PURELY A FICTIONAL SCENARIO, SO IF YOU ARE OFFENDED, TURN AWAY. 
==Introduction==
From the ruins of an isolated and declining Russian Federation, to a squabbling and ineffective parliament of the USA, the year 2032 could have seen better days. The Western World has been utterly torn apart into the social democratic Europe and the corporatist United States, whom many Europeans has described as an oligarchy like the Russians. In Africa, water and resource shortages are leading to many civil wars in the DRC, Nigeria and even Ethiopia, while South America is seeing a new wave of socialism or fascism rising across the continent. In Asia, tensions between the minor powers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran are at an all-time high, while East Asia remains as voliatile as ever, with fears of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan now boiling across the First Island Chain. There is optimism to be held however, as the pace new technologies and space exploration are increasing exponentially. Will humanity cooperate to achieve dreams of a true Galactic domination? Or will humanity be focused on politics and ruin all potential for the future? You decide.
==Background ==
What is the future of humanity? Will we all go extinct? Are we headed towards an Orwellian World? Are we on the verge of a technological singularity? This is the timeline of Path of Humanity, or POH. 
By the year 2032, the world's landscape has changed from a divided world with around 200 countries to one dominated by superstates. The most prominent of which is the United States of the Anglosphere, formed in 2026 after a rather controversial referendum meant that the British Isles, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are merged into the United States of America. This new country added 20 more states, and is the world's largest country, even surpassing the Russian Federation. The USA is on paper a liberal democracy, holding free and fair elections. While the country is still liberal and free, the elections are are certainly not fair. The elections are dominated by the former Republicans and the Democrats in America, the former now reformed as the Republican-Tory Coliation (RTC). There are many other factions, like the Angelic Labour Party (ALP) or the CANZUK Party, the latter being a far-right group seeking the total independence of the former Commonwealth nations, but in most cases, the Americans dominate the political landscape. This sense of American superiority within the supposedly "equal and free" Anglosphere rubbed many Britons, Australians, Canadians and Zealanders the wrong way, and perhaps the country is not meant to be after all...
With the Anglosphere forming in 2026, any love between Europe and America is vanished with what they essentially deem "occupation of the British Isles". NATO is disbanded following the referendums, and Macron approached Scholz towards the end of his presidency with a proposal: Merge the Nordic States, Germany, Benelux, Poland, Czechia, Austria and France into the European Federation. After some heated debates, the bill was passed in 2028, and the marriage between France and Germany was made complete on January 1st, 2029 with the European Federation, dominating the landscape of Western Europe. Despite many nations like Spain, Italy or the Balkans wanting to join the EF, the Europeans have so far refused all applications, as they want to stabilize the new nation first before admitting more states. While the EF did allow more parties and is lesser dominated by two parties or member states for that matter, radical groups felt like France and Germany should never be together, and anti-European terrorism is on the rise since 2030, very nearly killing the Prime Minister of the EF, Mario Czaja in 2031.
Across the Polish border, we find the Russian Federation. The Russians have certainly seen better days before this point, with the country being increasingly stale and depressing as days past. Vladimir Putin, the "President" of Russia, is now 79 years old, and although he isn't as fraile and teetering on the verge of death as the Western media would have their citizens believe, he is spending more and more time in hospital for routine checks, leading to some to question if he has much longer to alive. The country is slapped with tens of thousands of sanctions ever since their invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and despite an eventual Russian victory at the end of that year, they were only able to officially annex Crimea and the breakaway areas of Ukraine, a far cry from the areas Putin would have hoped to gain. Later on in the 2020's, Belarus and Kazakhstan were annexed, and Georgia was invaded in 2025, sparking even more sanctions that basically destroyed the Russian economy. The Russians are now effectively cancelled from the entire world, with no internet, no access to the banking system, no trade, and barely any imports or exports. Even China has fallen out with Russia following their annexation of Kazakhstan, leaving the Russians in an isolated mess. The Russian Ruble is even worse off, with hyperinflation being rampant during the financial crisis of 2023, and now the exchange rate is stuck at almost 100,000 to the dollar, despite the fact that the Ruble is now worth less than the Venezuelan Bolivar. The nation seems to be on the verge of total collapse.
In the Middle East, a cold war is emerging between Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Turkey under Erdogan has been expanding rather rapidly, taking over the failed states of Syria and Lebanon, while an uneasy truce has been established between them and Iraq, with the Turkish annexing all of Kurdistan. Iran has been playing chess with Saudi Arabia along the Persian Gulf, while the tiny state of Israel is basically left on their own with the USA now busy in trying to stabilize the country. Egypt meanwhile is becoming a frightingly powerful country, interfering in the Sudanese-Ethoipian War in 2025, leading to the Second Ethiopian Civil War. In the south, Tanzania and Kenya finally made the East African Republic a reality, becoming a major juggernaut in the region's politics. Meanwhile, Nigeria is still fighting the Boko Haram, as DR Congo falls into another Civil War. Across the entire MENA area, food and water are becoming scarce. Who knows when will a famine break out in the region?
In Asia, the situation is equally dire for all parties involved. Pakistan and India are on the brink of total war after a tense standoff between both sides near Kashmir. The Taliban government in Afghanistan is also looking to the south, trying to reclaim the lands they deemed that they have lost. In China, there has been even more evidence of an all-out genocide of minorities of Turkic people in the region of Xinjiang, and to no one's surprise, China has denied it. The Chinese territory of Hong Kong has practically devolved into a political anarchy zone, with the Yellow and the Blue Camps (i.e. Anti-China or Pro-China) literally carving exclusive territories as if it was the segregation era in America. Raids on both camps by the police or the Hong Kong Free Milita (HKFM) are rampant, all the while Macau is feeling the effects of the collapse of society in Hong Kong, with many refugees coming to the already crowded Macau for a peaceful life. The tensions are also felt in Taiwan, where a buildup of Chinese troops near Kinmen has made the Taiwanese government uneasy. The ramifications of the Sino-Anglo Cold War is most felt across East Asia, where it has developed into a heated conflict between China and Japan. Korea finds itself stuck in between this conflict, still divided in 2032 between the North and the South.
Finally, let's talk about South America. In South America, the region's politics are dominated by the rise of the Socialist Republic of Brazil and the formation of the Federation of Gran Colombia. Compared to the other continents, this continent is rather calm. Although, tensions are rising between Brazil and Argentina, with another mini Cold War happening between Colombia, Brazil and Argentina, fighting for influence in South America. A war might not be immient, but it is on the table for sure. As you can see, 2032 in this world has seen a resurgence of nationalism, extremism, superstates and tensions. It's almost a guareentee that World War III will inevitably eurpt. The question is: When?
==Main Pages==
*United States of the Anglosphere
*Peoples' Republic of China
*Russian Federation
*European Federation
*Path of Humanity (Map Game)
*United States Elections (2024, 2028, 2032)
*Socialist Republic of Brazil
*Russo-Ukrainian War
*The Greater Filipino Republic