Finished my steampunk Fallout map!
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Ah Steampunk. Sometimes utopian, other times dystopian, but almost to a world it is powered by abundant, seemingly inexhaustible reserves of coal. Well, in the case of this earth it is no longer abundant as in the spring of 2052 centuries of ruthless exploitation of it by the nations of the world finally caught up with them as global reserves entered terminal decline, and in their wake brought about a series of resource wars that have for the last quarter century torn the world apart.
The technology exists to save the Earth of course. In response to the global crisis the Imperial Federation of Great Britain finally cracked the secret to exploiting oil as a fuel source when it developed the internal combustion engine in 2066. However the increasingly authoritarian empire and it’s shadow government the Enclave tried to hoard the technology for themselves and as a response a desperate Russia invaded the province of Alaska to secure the coal that was to be had in that arctic land. Eleven years of brutal war followed, and now in October of 2077 with the Tsar’s kingdom on the verge of collapse the monarch is days away from ordering Russia’s entire stockpile of poison gas and newfangled atomic weapons unleashed onto the world. “If Russia can’t win the Great Game no one can,” he claims, but all he is proving is war never changes, no matter what punk you live in…..
Edit: Had to add Mexico's blurb.