Dystopic world, after 1991?

The challenge is to make a world that is clearly a, or have tones of, dystopia, after the collapse of the USSR. I'm interested in what you come up with.
 
The challenge is to make a world that is clearly a, or have tones of, dystopia, after the collapse of the USSR. I'm interested in what you come up with.

How do we get around the "One man's dystopia is another man's utopia"-question?
Unless, of course, we're talking about the kind of dystopia that's born out of a couple of thousand mushroom clouds, but that's pretty unlikely with that POD.
 
How do we get around the "One man's dystopia is another man's utopia"-question?
Unless, of course, we're talking about the kind of dystopia that's born out of a couple of thousand mushroom clouds, but that's pretty unlikely with that POD.
By making a world that is, to most people, a dystopia.
 
Have the collapse of the USSR become less 'civil' and more 'war'. Next, have the majority of the world ecomony that of Greece via 2010 due to financial/political/weather issues or whatever you can think up.
 
The assassination attempt on George Bush Sr. goes off as planned in 1993, and Clinton announces his intention to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. Panicking, Hussein halts the destruction of his chemical weapons and instead begins firing chemical Scuds at Israel in order to bring them into the war and rally the Arab world behind him. After the horrific death of thousands of Israeli citizens, the IDF joins the war and massive anti-American rallies erupt across the Middle East, evolving into an early Arab Spring - but with an overtly anti-American focus. Civil war erupts in Saudi Arabia, driving oil prices through the roof and plunging the world into a serious economic depression. A 9/11-scale terrorist attack emerging from the ruins of Saudi Arabia leads to an American invasion of the country, and near-global jihad ensues even though Clinton is careful to only use local proxies to patrol the holy cities.

In Russia, the blatant accumulation of all the extra oil money coming in by a tiny oligarchy leads to Gennady Zyuganov taking the Presidency in 1996 and reviving a hardline Communist regime. As America is distracted by the Saudi War, Russia pours troops in to support Milosevic in ex-Yugoslavia, who entrenches his regime with Nazi-scale genocide. Soon America is funneling funds to the Croats and Albanians, and a second Cold War is in the works.

Great Depression II, Crusades II and Cold War II. Good enough?
 
Good enough
Lol
I want a TL out of this beauty


The assassination attempt on George Bush Sr. goes off as planned in 1993, and Clinton announces his intention to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. Panicking, Hussein halts the destruction of his chemical weapons and instead begins firing chemical Scuds at Israel in order to bring them into the war and rally the Arab world behind him. After the horrific death of thousands of Israeli citizens, the IDF joins the war and massive anti-American rallies erupt across the Middle East, evolving into an early Arab Spring - but with an overtly anti-American focus. Civil war erupts in Saudi Arabia, driving oil prices through the roof and plunging the world into a serious economic depression. A 9/11-scale terrorist attack emerging from the ruins of Saudi Arabia leads to an American invasion of the country, and near-global jihad ensues even though Clinton is careful to only use local proxies to patrol the holy cities.

In Russia, the blatant accumulation of all the extra oil money coming in by a tiny oligarchy leads to Gennady Zyuganov taking the Presidency in 1996 and reviving a hardline Communist regime. As America is distracted by the Saudi War, Russia pours troops in to support Milosevic in ex-Yugoslavia, who entrenches his regime with Nazi-scale genocide. Soon America is funneling funds to the Croats and Albanians, and a second Cold War is in the works.

Great Depression II, Crusades II and Cold War II. Good enough?
 
In the post Soviet Russia the 1993 constitutional crisis soon ends in violence and factions that lead to an eventual full-scale civil war that spreads across the country. During the chaos some of nuclear from within the former Soviet Union makes its way to a Middle Eastern based terrorist organization inspired by the violence in Russia to begin assembling a small suitcase nuclear weapon for use in Washington D.C. The bomb is detonated in front of the White House and kills President Bill Clinton and his cabinet. Military Intelligence assumes that a Russian attack has taken place and demands a full nuclear response. The new President Thomas Foley orders a limited retaliatory strike with nuclear weapons in the faction's territory where the material originated from. The nuclear warhead detonates on a base controlled by the faction blamed for the manufacturing of the suitcase bomb and is perceived as a full scale nuclear attack by the Americans. At least one Russian faction with access to ICMBs fires back at US bases in the Middle East and Europe and on major cities overseas. A full scale nuclear war has begun.
 
The assassination attempt on George Bush Sr. goes off as planned in 1993, and Clinton announces his intention to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. Panicking, Hussein halts the destruction of his chemical weapons and instead begins firing chemical Scuds at Israel in order to bring them into the war and rally the Arab world behind him. After the horrific death of thousands of Israeli citizens, the IDF joins the war and massive anti-American rallies erupt across the Middle East, evolving into an early Arab Spring - but with an overtly anti-American focus. Civil war erupts in Saudi Arabia, driving oil prices through the roof and plunging the world into a serious economic depression. A 9/11-scale terrorist attack emerging from the ruins of Saudi Arabia leads to an American invasion of the country, and near-global jihad ensues even though Clinton is careful to only use local proxies to patrol the holy cities.

In Russia, the blatant accumulation of all the extra oil money coming in by a tiny oligarchy leads to Gennady Zyuganov taking the Presidency in 1996 and reviving a hardline Communist regime. As America is distracted by the Saudi War, Russia pours troops in to support Milosevic in ex-Yugoslavia, who entrenches his regime with Nazi-scale genocide. Soon America is funneling funds to the Croats and Albanians, and a second Cold War is in the works.

Great Depression II, Crusades II and Cold War II. Good enough?

Throw in President Pat Buchanan.
 
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