Sixth Timeline

The **Fifth Timeline** is the current timeline being played. It takes place in 2030 AC and currently has a pace of 1 in-game month per day. As of March 21, 2018, the in-game date is February 2031.

In contrast to previous games, where players took the role of a whole country, players now create a customer character with their own traits and starting conditions, and choose a specific county district to be in. No alliances between players are allowed until they meet each other.

## Characters

* Matthew Anderson
* rain
* Rhys

## History

### 2008

The USA is hit by a moderate recession that could start affecting other countries if not remedied soon. During the elections, a candidate running on strict trade protectionist/economic policies takes the polls by storm and is placed in power on the back of working class fervor.

### 2009

The President of the USA manages to get numerous unitary trade tariffs installed to "protect American industry from foreign economic influence", which mostly targets China, who in response started moving its trade to other countries. Preferably ones who are developing rather quickly, primarily Russia. The overall decrease in American trade influence hits western Europe hard, leading to an overall economic depression for the Western world.

### 2011

Due to increasingly bad economic status, civil unrest has largely increased within the US as more and more material and economic shortages occur. In the West, overall unemployment is at record highs. Meanwhile in the East, Russia and China have formed the Eastern Trade Alliance, attracting many small developing nations into the fold.

### 2012

The President of the USA is killed in a fiery car explosion just before the election is called. In response, the VP takes power and announces that the election will be postponed due to national security reasons. With the backing of the military, the new president manages to effectively get rid of checks and balances and unite all branches underneath the Executive Branch. Protests and riots erupt throughout the country but are quickly stomped out with the newly mobilized military and MP forces.

### 2013

In response to mass unemployment and social unrest, the president of the USA issues new orders calling for the rapid increase in the size of the US Military, and the nationalization of the Military Industrial Complex. With recently bolstered forces, the USA and NATO lead an invasion on Saudi Arabia in an attempt to seize its resources and oil fields.

### 2014

With NATO forces seizing Middle Eastern assets and resources, Russia decides to invade Iran by annexing and moving through Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Taking advantage of this, China sends in paratroopers ahead of a full scale invasion force to seize Russian oil fields, sparking war and officially ending the Eastern Trade Alliance.

### 2015

Due to the sudden collapse of the Eastern Trade Alliance, the East is thrown into disarray, with most of its ex-members falling into a depression similar to the Western economic disaster. NATO forces take advantage of the China-Russian war, seizing more Middle Eastern assets without fear of intervention. In a short time, Iraq, Yemen, and Oman have all been occupied.

### 2016

As the Chinese-Russian war comes to a standstill, NATO aggression begins to cool after it seizes the Syrian oil fields. Meanwhile, debate breaks out within NATO as to which countries get what Middle Eastern resources. The USA insists it gets the vast majority, leaving the rest of the others to debate over. The other NATO members strictly object, leading to the USA withdrawing from NATO, which ends in the other members leaving until NATO is considered defunct. The USA, having the most forces in the Middle East, enforces its claims and pushes the now ex-NATO forces out of the Middle East completely.

### 2017

Seeing it as useless and defunct, the USA formally leaves the UN, and is followed by China, Russia, and most of Europe. The UN was formally dissolved shortly after. Taking advantage of the nearby US forces occupying its old enemies, Israel attacks Palestine in full force. Meanwhile, as the Euro continues to plummet in value, the EU begins to crumble, eventually collapsing near the end of 2017 and disbanding entirely, with many countries abandoning the Euro and attempting full scale economic reform.

### 2018

Russia and China both reluctantly agree to a temporary ceasefire, due to their horribly failing economies and mass civil unrest. In an act of desperation, Palestine launches nuclear missiles into Israeli territory. Israel at first seems like it can handle the missiles incoming, until many more launches are detected coming from Iran, and Israel is entirely obliterated by a surprise Iranian nuclear offensive. The USA in response declares war on Iran and Palestine.

### 2019

Citing tremendous unpaid USA debts, China demands the USA pull all assets out of Asian waters and territory. The USA outright refuses and starts moving its navy more aggressively near Taiwan and South Korea. China in response moves a massive amount of troops through North Korea, eventually passing the DMZ and invading South Korea full scale with the assistance of North Korean forces.

### 2020

Chinese Forces form a naval blockade of Taiwan, blocking off American naval forces and firing off many warning shots. South Korea is now fully occupied by a Chinese-North Korean coalition, with the American backed government entirely demolished. In response to the aggression from China, the USA declares war against China. The American naval forces clash violently with the Chinese naval forces, with the Chinese forces eventually sinking the majority of the American navy. China begins moving towards mainland United States in an act of desperation, and on the verge of a total societal collapse due to economic and social disaster, the USA launches its full nuclear arsenal against China. China responds with its own entire nuclear arsenal. This catastrophic event dissolves into a world ending disaster where the world's defense systems are triggered globally, ending in the total destruction of nation states as we know them, and essentially the end of the modern world.

The starting year is 2030, merely 10 years after the nuclear holocaust. Due to advancements in nuclear technology, like the hydrogen bomb, radiation is not as rampant as it would have been had the nuclear holocaust happened 30 years before, but it is still very bad.