The Internet Age (19-canon)

This age was named as such because of the widespread use of the Internet and its influence in radicalising people into waging wars. It could also be from Galactic people reading Internet comments and remarks by politicians among surviving historical records, resulting in very negative attitudes towards Earthlings and depictions of them as evildoers. Others referred it as "the Dark Age", due to the tensions that led to World War III; or "the War on Terror" for the early decades' conflict against various militant groups.

As a result of its horrible events leading to the birth of the Earth Union and the supposed backwardsness of those centuries' peoples, many Galactic peoples (who were created and descended from clones) disliked and persecuted people from Earth, blaming and punishing them for those events.

## The Oncoming Storm

* 11 September, 2001 - A militant Islamic extremist group, al-Qaeda, hijacks two planes and directs them to crash at two business towers, killing hundreds out of revenge against American policies. Angered by this massive loss of lives, the American government and its allies wage war against that group and similar extremists, who fight back with more massacres.
* 2001-2020s - Roughly 32 million people were killed during America's attacks on several countries in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa in the War on Terror.
* December 2007-June 2009 - The real-estate market in America collapses, plunging their world into an economic recession and fuelling support for more radical positions.
* 13 June, 2014-2040's - The Global War on Terror is focused against the Black Gloves (a criminal cartel) and its massacres in the Middle East and other parts of Asia and Africa.
* 2010's-2030's - China starts various projects to help dozens of countries in Africa build their infrastructure: however, these projects threaten smaller local businesses who might become overwhelmed by Chinese goods. This prompts India to develop a network of ports to defend itself from pirates and other navies, securing its own alliance known as the Samudravarman Campaign.
* 28 May, 2016 - After a boy falls into a zoo's exhibit, Harambe the gorilla was killed before he could kill the boy. Some people in the future jokingly claim this as the turning point that made this timeline worse.
* January 2020 - A worldwide plague forces many countries to enact quarantines to stop its spread. Another recession ensues.
* February 2020 - Australia suffers from massive wildfires.
* May 2020 - Protests erupt all over the United States against widespread police brutality.
* 2020-2024 - Due to a lack of coordination and resources between the governments of the world, and due to riots by anti-maskers in richer countries, the plague continues for four years, killing a third of Earth's population. The Plague was first detected in China, leading to international condemnation by radicals.
	+ Some countries issue patent protection over their vaccines to stop the plague, claiming it as "they need time to be fully developed and tested before they can be ready to be sold". This move is condemned by various nations and socialists as "genocide" against the poorer nations, as it prevents vaccines from reaching poorer countries, risking more infections and deaths. As a result, countries around the world turn away from the Western world and towards China and India, who continue to produce their own vaccines.

* In America, four subcultures emerged as a result from the Plague of 2020. Three of their names were distorted from their most commonly-used phrases, labelled by future historians and artists.
	+ The Stadomians ("stay at home") or Weromaxins ("wear a mask") faction forces people to stay in their homes, claiming that the population's health is more important than the individual. Those who make fun of the home-bound and their mental problems became the public face of the faction. Hooligans among them are also notorious for ordering people in public venues to go home, and they also beat up people for not wearing a mask in public. Many of them are urban intellectuals, college students, and relatives of people who died from the Plague.
		- To some Stadomians, the loss of jobs and businesses was considered a good thing. They believe that the more people become unemployed, the more likely the American economy will collapse, forcing people to depend on socialist communes which will then replace the American economy. Then, more people will be forced to share their resources to the marginalised.
		- After the pandemic was over, these splinter groups of Stadomians harassed people for attempting to start their own businesses, accusing them of "oppression" simply for having other people work for them. They applied the same harassment tactics done during the pandemic to drive more people into joining their groups. Other Stadomians, even Marxists and anarchists, instead helped marginalised people rebuild their own businesses after they mourned for the dead, even though private businesses were a sin to their beliefs.
	+ The Tabbackians ("take back [what was lost]") or Mafridonese ("my freedoms") faction not only retaliates against the Stadomians and the governments for enforcing the lockdowns, but also attacks healthy people, marginalised people, and anyone wearing a face mask, blaming them for all the entertainment and jobs lost due to the lockdowns. They also barge into public spaces to order people to remove their masks, and they sometimes beat up anyone who still wears a mask. They are also very hostile against Asian people, blaming them for the pandemic. Many of them are rural people and middle-aged adults, and they refuse to wear masks or take any vaccinations.
		- In response to the Stadomians' harassment of lesser entrepreneurs, some Tabbackians helped elderly and younger people start their own businesses and find jobs. Unfortunately, many of those support groups preferred White people and Christians and distrusted anyone else.
	+ The Nechuzilins ("nature is healing") praise the plague's existence, claiming that the deaths of millions of people are a necessary purge by nature to reduce pollution. While most of them are obnoxious Internet users and artists, some of them engaged into bioterrorism to kill more people, making the public hostile against this movement.
	+ The Mourners were a softer protest against the Stadomians' zeal: if the Stadomians wanted to take away their entertainment for the people's health, the Mourners might as well never return to their entertainment and live miserable lives, to see if the Stadomians would enjoy their suffering. A few Mourners lived more rugged lifestyles, moving from shopping malls and nightclubs to exercise, physical crafts, and farming. Many Stadomians answer that the Mourners should just keep waiting for the disease to become lesser, but it was the few Stadomians who bullied them that caused many Mourners to forego their entertainment in protest. Although they correspond with the Tabbackians, they wear masks and practice hygienic methods, and they do not attack people in public.

* As a result of the broken American economy, some people formed their own communes and cooperatives to stop being dependent on other businesses or the government. Some of those communes banned luxury items as "symbols of capitalism".
* 2020's - China's and India's economies surpass the United States. They are also challenged by Brazil, the European Union, Russia, and Poland.
* 2050's - America's bureaucracy becomes too pervasive and demanding, leading to frustration from the general populace.
* 2054 - An American politician, Martel Vinneson, proposed building an enormous wall in central Africa and Asia to isolate Muslim countries, accusing the latter of attempting to subjugate all non-Muslims under a global theocracy. This led to angry protests in the West, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa; and occasional calls in the Middle East to invade the US and impose an Islamic government to punish the locals.
* 2054 - Johanne Vindars writes a novel inspired by Martel's controversial comment depicting a world divided between several militant blocs known as "Wallworld". In his novel, America (as a fascist empire), Arabia (depicted as a caliphate that rules over most Muslim nations), Russia, Socialist Europe, Fascist Europe (the Fourth Reich), China, India, and Latin America have built their own blocs surrounded by fortress-like walls, each being at a state of war against the rest. His protagonists are various people that were forced by each bloc's leaders to become a murderous soldier.
* 2056 - Mohamed ibn Kais, a novelist from Tunisia, writes his own take on Martel's comments: "Dar Al-Harb". In his novel, the Muslim countries are united as a federal caliphate (instead of an autocratic empire), threatened by the Western Hegemony and Great China that seeks to isolate them from the rest of the world; meanwhile in the east, the Turkic Hegemony and the theocracy of Holy Pakistan seek to break away from the Reformed Caliphate to pursue agendas to build their own empires. The protagonist of his novel is an intellectual who debates against hawkish politicians and militants who seek a punitive military campaign against the West and the breakaway Muslims, as he refuses to allow his civilisation to repeat America's mistakes and the atrocities of the Black Gloves.
* 2054 - The Dystopian Wave takes place, in which many authors from around the world write their own dystopian novels inspired by Wallworld.
* 2058 - First attempted colonisation of the Moon: Yugong Research Station, under China.

## Catalyst Years

### The Purge of Europe

* 2060 - The global economy crashes, plunging many nations into poverty and unrest.
* 2060's - Economic troubles cause nationalistic politicians to dominate the governments of various nations in Europe. The Purge of Europe is held, as thousands of foreigners and suspected leftists are forcibly deported and exiled by right-wing groups and police forces. Various governments abolish the European Union and replace it with an alliance.
	+ Iceland is ruled by leftists, and attempts to spread the Purge to Iceland by conquering it were stopped by American forces stationed on the island.
	+ Conversely, with a lot of talented people being expelled with the foreigners, this instead contributes to the economic growth of western Africa. Together with help from China, India, and Brazil, they make the central parts of Africa greener. However, the exiles also spark various activist movements in the parts of Africa where they were deported in.
	+ Some parts of Africa accommodate waves of climate and war refugees from several other parts of the world.
	+ Worried over the loss of jobs, overpopulation, and the risk of being replaced by the immigrants, several nationalist movements emerge in Africa and pick fights against the immigrants. Some European militants support their African counterparts in attacking and expelling the immigrants to the Americas, while others attempted to form their own White enclaves in Africa. A few countries in Africa are seized by dictators who oppose the immigrants as a threat to their society.
	+ With nearly all forms of opposition suppressed or removed, the nationalist regimes of Europe focus on improving their working-class poor and elderly. They also:
		- Enact policies to increase childbirths; enforce the traditional, heterosexual family as a legal social unit; and promote capitalism as the only viable economic system.
		- Promote nationalism, traditional European values, Christianity, and the cultures of their respective countries in public schools; mostly to remake their nations into their own utopias as the antithesis of "leftist Europe".
			* Some of the governments' supporters even encouraged racism and bigotry as "natural" out of hatred against leftism, even as the nationalist governments either refused to accept this or simply left it aside. They wanted to make their people more fanatical, to continue their utopia with fanatical devotion or to wage war against leftists and other undesirables.
			* Occasionally, the regimes' supporters formed vigilante groups that attacked anyone suspected of "leftism". People suspected of insulting the nation or culture were greeted with angry vigilantes who beat up the "perpetrators".
			* Encouraged by the growing fanaticism of the regimes, some fanatics and vigilantes formed their own militant groups to wage war against the governments.
			* Eventually, even the Europeans began to fight each other, with some viewing themselves as "superior" over other Europeans. Although the governments tried to avoid border clashes, fights broke out between young European men from different countries, even within the same nation.
			* Some of the Europeans, especially the Nordicists and the Nazi armies, also had fights with the Slavic soldiers who supported their conquest of Europe, accusing them of "defiling" their bloodlines. Others readily accepted them as "fellow Europeans".
		- Force people not to rely on government aid but to "bootstrap" themselves out of poverty, no matter how impossible. This led to more people becoming poorer as some corporations were able to monopolise.
		- Restrict various forms of entertainment to force people to be more traditionalist -- however, smaller artists were given more freedoms. This became the only available outlet for secret leftists to express themselves in an otherwise-restrictive society.
		- Enact a blacklist system towards anyone suspected of leftism, and ban all forms of leftism in their countries as "treason".
		- Prohibit various forms of protests, but permit nationalist marches and religious processions. Some protests were permitted as long as they were from members of the same political party that dominated their governments, although they immediately suppressed any that became into riots, making those countries police states.
		- Launch programmes directed at conservatives and right-wingers from America, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, and Russia to immigrate to Europe.
		- Become into dictatorships complete with strict and harsh laws to force the people into their "utopias".
	+ The nationalist European regimes then declare war on Israel, accusing it of manipulating their people into self-destruction. Some of these countries supply its Arab neighbours and the Palestinian militias; this forces Israel to become a militaristic dictatorship, forcing more Jews to emigrate to the US.
	+ In Germany, the nationalist government fights against a resurgent Nazi army that sought to overthrow it and turn Germany into an empire bent on conquering Europe and Asia.
	+ Other regimes refuse war with "racial enemies", in spite of pressure from militants. They instead focus on producing more children and influencing them into following traditionalist lifestyles, some of which had strict standards. Some of these states attracted immigrants who fled from violence in other lands -- but only those of European descent.
	+ Meanwhile in Europe, resistance movements were formed against the nationalist regimes, by groups that managed to escape and hide from the roundups. These groups were supplied and funded by the USA. Many of them were centred in immigrant and minority communities that resisted the deportations.
	+ America sends more troops to defend the democracies' governments from being conquered by the right-wing armies. They are joined by activists who supported the resistance movements. Among the parts of Europe that resisted the right-wing armies included Scotland, northwestern Italy, Brittany, Galicia and Portugal, and the Netherlands.
	+ Some of the regimes in Europe were seized by fascists, prompting protests and revolts. Others battled fascist and racialist militants who sought to overthrow them and impose their own dictatorships.
	+ Some of the nationalist states have banned Islam, sparking anger in the Middle East. In return, a few states in the Middle East banned Christianity, forcing local Christians to flee to friendlier states such as the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.
* 2060's - The Nordic State, a fascist regime, is formed from the former governments of Norway and Sweden. It launches attacks against Denmark and Finland to incorporate them into their control. Northern Norway resists Nordic attacks, supported by American personnel.
* 2060's-2070's - The "Mediterranean Exchanges" occur: militants and Internet commenters from Europe and Arab and North African countries raid and kill each other, seeking revenge over historical crimes and murders. Some of these militants also attempt attacks against Israel and the US, while others immigrate to the AF. It was those losses that caused some countries in Europe to focus more on families instead of militarisation.

### Elsewhere

* After riots caused by a broken economy and clashes between militant groups, South Africa is split into three nations: a Black communist republic at the middle (Azania), a multiracial Zulu monarchy in the east (KwaZulu), and an Afrikaner federation in the west (Volksland). The three South African states were initially hostile against each other, but they later got along. The former government of South Africa was overthrown by a Marxist militia, triggering the other two realms to secede from the resulting communist state.
	+ KwaZulu is supported by India's alliance to resist raids by the Middle East and militants from the rest of Africa, and sends forces to protect its allies in Lesotho and Eswatini. It takes in refugees that rejected the European racialism of Volksland or the militarism of Azania.
	+ Azania welcomes some left-leaning militants that broke out during the 2060 Crash, and wages war against the other two realms and attempts to convert the neighbouring states into Marxism. It is supported by the US, who sees this as an opportunity to influence Africa towards its ideology, but Azania rejects what its leaders condemned as "Ussian softness".
	+ Angered by the Marxist takeover of South Africa, Afrikaner militants form the republic of Volksland. Although they aligned their state with the Purge of Europe, they rejected calls by its allies in Europe to wage war against the other African nations, preferring only to defend itself from Azanian attacks. Volksland takes in immigrants from the European nationalist dictatorships to replace the Black, Asian, and White refugees that fled from the country to KwaZulu, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Argentina, and Australia.
	+ Within Volksland, the hamlet of Orania refuses to submit to its government's militarism. It is supported and fortified by dissidents that resisted Volksland's warlike stance.
* Horrified by the successful rise of dictatorships within Europe and hundreds killed by vigilantes, the people and leaders of the United States sought to turn their nation into a leftist state to prevent the Purge of Europe from happening in their country. At the same time, European militants began forming their own enclaves in American soil, supported by local militants who waged war against the American government.
* April 15, 2061 - Following the suggestion of his supporters, President Hefasteo makes a speech that declares leftism as the national ideology of the United States, in opposition to the Purge of Europe. This causes many right-wingers to form their own militias to defend themselves from vigilantes, or form their own vigilante groups to attack leftist groups.

### The Second Civil War

* 2070's - The threat of a reprise of the Purge of Europe in American soil cause the United States to split into two nations: the leftist-held United States (in the coasts and the Midwest) and the conservative American Federation (along the heartland).
	+ The United States' remnants have better technology, and in spite of their beginnings with a lessened economy they outpace their rightist rivals and are favoured by Africa and South America. The American Federation enjoys better prestige with the rest of the world (especially nationalists in Europe and Asia) and more individual freedoms than the United States, but behind its moralistic facade it develops a vulgar underbelly. In spite of growing networks of speakeasies, some districts even entirely prohibited videogames and alcohol!
	+ Both Americas have strict laws: the US's laws oppose what its leaders consider to be "bigotry", while the AF's laws attempt to stop "deviancy" and "degeneracy".
	+ Since the successful secession of the AF from US control, its economy narrowly avoided a crash due to growing Black businesses aided by reparations.
	+ With any remaining resistance in the two Americas weakened, the US maximises as much progressive programmes as they could. This forces many suspected right-wingers (and anyone who wasn't able to agree with much of the US's stricter laws) to emigrate elsewhere to avoid being reeducated/deradicalised; and to replace them, the US invites poorer people from all over the world to its borders.
		- Conversely, the AF adopts policies to make its society more Christian, and it also starts its own reeducation camps for delinquents, "vulgar people", and dissidents. Some of the more stubborn ones that could not be put to death were exiled to Mexico and Europe, and are replaced by immigrants and refugees from Russia, Western Europe, the Caribbean, southern Africa, and the Nordic State. In later times, the AF becomes more nationalistic and racialist.
	+ Around the same time, Cascadia secedes from inland parts of British Columbia and northern Washington, as its people seek to escape from clashes between the AF's secession and the race wars.
* August 13, 2069 - The Last Patriot Party takes over several towns in Kansas in a coup, with Marktown as their new capital. It was supported by the European militants from the Purge of Europe.
* 2070's - America has become destabilised due to clashes between White and Black extremists, who saw the failure of the USA government to stop the fall of Marktown as a chance to punish any opposition. Many of the White extremists joined the American Federation, only to be purged for any slights against the president.
* Clashes ensue between the two Americas as they claim to be the legitimate successor of the 21st-century superpower, leading to the Second American Civil War. It ends with a stalemate. This results in a brief economic disruption that affects much of the world.
* 2073 - The United States reestablishes relations with Cuba, allowing the latter to grow its economy faster. The American Federation attempts several blockades against the US's supply fleets, leading to skirmishes along the East Coast.
* Some of Western Europe's dictatorships collapse due to economic pressures, leading to the restoration of democratic regimes aided by the US. Others become more militaristic, funding local militants who seek to reestablish their respective nationalist regimes. The remaining dictatorships of Europe band together against the American-led democracies in the west.

### Later events

* Finland breaks away from Nordic State rule.
* 2070s - Second attempted colonisation of the Moon: Pakoseyimowin Station, under the US.
* As more people leave the corrupt regimes of Central America for the US, some of these regimes collapse due to having low population, and are seized by stronger governments or warlords. Mexico sends its soldiers eastward to enforce order in some of the unstable Central American countries, while communist and anarchist leaders carve out their own communes.
* Due to a famine and internal strife within its government, the so-called "communist" dynasty of North Korea was overthrown and replaced with a new government, the Republic of Joseon. As the Joseonians distrust the South Koreans, they instead accept the Chinese government's attempts to rebuild their country. The Joseonians use a green and blue flag.
* 2084-2088 - The American Federation makes Christianity (or its own version of it) its state religion, leading to restrictions against its minorities.
* After bouts of attempted theocracy against an idealised conservative government, several states in the American Federation split up to form the Second Confederacy. While it does not practice slavery as its predecessor did, its leaders' support for fascists (who were disallowed in Federal society) led it to create very harsh laws and attacks against the two Americas. Raids were conducted into the Second Confederacy to stop their terrorist attacks and punitive expeditions.
	+ The Battle of Alabama occurs when the Alabamans repel Confederate attempts to wrest their state from the AF.
	+ As the Second Confederacy was not as devout as the AF, it also attracts people who would had otherwise been banished or jailed for "vulgar behaviour". Even they were forcibly ordered to become more "proper", sometimes with literal whippings.
* Hawaii adopts a monarchist government under US protection, and Alaska is developed as a bulwark against Russia and China.
* Mexico uses two native languages alongside Spanish as the three official languages: Nahuatl in the west, and Yucatec Maya in the east. Regardless, Nahuatl is used more often throughout all of Mexico, resulting in accusations of bias towards the central regions.
* Criminals were sent on ships bound for Mars as a method of execution.
* Finland successfully reclaims its borders from the Nordic State and Russia.

## Trivia

* The Plague of 2020 in this timeline is stronger than the Covid-19 virus.

## See also

* Rinnarverse timeline
* Age of the Six Powers
* 21st century