Nigeria

### Interesting Fact

Lagos had the highest cost of living as well as highest minimum wage of any region in history. With a minimum wage of 100K a year, in adjusted 2020 American dollars, but the cost of an apartment reaching around 5 million dollars.

**Nigeria** was a nation located in the continent of Africa, which after the 4th World War, emerged as the pre-eminent hyperpower of the post-war world. it was the primary conduit which Pax Africana emerged, as it led the world out of the era of Eurasia, and into the era of Africa. It oversaw the world as it progressed into the 22nd Century. The city of Lagos became the center of the world, and Nigeria became the center for all things diplomatic, economic, and financial. With the new institutions of the Global Defense Coalition being centered around there, as well as the African Union.

Nigeria was the main target of the Roasian invasions, which the Roasians correctly identified as the strongest and most powerful of the Terrestrial powers. The 3 year long battle over the skies of Lagos largely defined the entire war, with the relatively small African nation, even if a superpower, holding off the combined military might of the entire planet of Roas. The final defeat of the Nigerians and the destruction of Lagos bought the rest of the world enough time to mobilize a military force capable of pushing the Roasians off of Earth. For the Americans to eventually recover and form into the North American Federation, and for a coalition of the Chinese Federation, North India, ASEAN, and the Islamic World to take over as the new protectors of the Earth.

## Technology

Before the fall of Nigeria in the Roasian invasion, Nigeria boasted a technology sector unmatched by any country on Earth. The region around Lagos was home to many of the world's largest technology giants, especially in the expanding frontier of psychic research. The nation funded more psychic research, and made more psychic breakthroughs than any other on Earth. Nigerian scientists were one of the driving forces that brought the world into the 22nd century. It was the Nigerians who first posited FTL travel in the Noosphere, the Nigerians who built the modern Psychonet, and who cracked the secrets of immortality to kickstart the Immortal Age. Though it was the Americans who first found the Noosphere, it was largely the Nigerians who explored it.

While the space race continued primarily between the United States and France, the race for the exploration of the Noosphere was spearheaded by mostly African countries, with assistance from partners such as the East African Corporate Republic and the West African Commonwealth. The Nigerian Psychonautic Agency were the leading agency for sending psychonauts into creating the infrastructure that would build the library of memories, the Omnithecia, and others.

Even aside from its dominant role as the center of psychic research, they still had a decent grasp on the information technology industry, which is traditionally dominated by the United States. Most notably with their technology giant Majunga, a video streaming service that overtook Youtube as the world's dominant video sharing platform everywhere outside of North America by the 2070's. Also of note, Nigeria was the leading funder of the Sahara Terraformation Project, which at the time was the largest terraforming project ever attempted to date. Finally is their large stranglehold on culture, especially artificial intelligence based culture generation efforts. Such as AI-assisted films, movies, songs and plays.

## Culture

Another region, also known as "Nollywood" became the cultural center of the world, with movie stars, aspiring writers and actors looking to move to Lagos to start their career in the culture industry. As previously mentioned, Nigeria won the competitive fight for AI-generated and AI-assisted films, movies, songs and plays. Though AI are still unable to fully replicate the desires of the human audience, their assistance in screenplay writing, script-writing, and its invaluable assistance in generating humanity's most cherished intellectual products is impossible to overstate. As culture flows downstream from Lagos, Lagos eventually became the shining city which every young person in the world aspired to go to. A similar sentiment to California was for Americans in the early to late 2000's. This greatly gave them an influx of the most creative, talented, and inspriing young people in the world, which only further solidified their dominance on the world stage.

## Institutions

A large amount of global institutions were centered around Lagos. Including acclaimed international banks, the African Union, the Global Defense Coalition, Nigerian Bank and many others. For the period between 2070, when the new world order was created at The Jakarta Conference, and 2141, the fall of the Nigerian nation, the Global Niara was the world's strongest and most widely used world currency, though the US Dollar continued to give it competition. The Lagos Institute of Technology was the world's most prestigious Terrestrial university, only rivalled by competitors such as De Gaulle University around Venus. Finally, Nigeria's Global English became the world's dominant language for international business, though it inherited a lot from American English from the heyday of American cultural dominance.

## Lagos-Country Divide

As can probably be inferred, almost all of Nigeria's worldwide success is concentrated in the city and region surrounding Lagos, leading to a deep and stark divide between the city and the countryside. The city of Lagos grew extravagantly rich, with millions of immigrants disrupting and gentrifying the native Nigerian population. The mass influx of capital greatly increased the cost of living in the rest of the country, and was beginning to gentrify the native Nigerians out of their own country. This led to much resentment between the city and the rest of the country, with the city consistently electing progressive, globalist leaders, while the countryside went hard for Christian nationalist and Conservative Islamist Parties. But with most of the population, wealth, and power in the hands of the cities, the gentrifying of Nigeria continued, as the native populations were displaced, at least until the Roasian invasions, where the countryside was left to sort out the rubble left from the destruction of Lagos.