States of Europe - 2068 C.E.

The Long Crisis was the end of Europe's long prominence in the world. Assaulted from all sides, from populist uprisings, from terrorist attacks, from ecological catastrophe, the liberal order entrenched itself. To survive the oncoming deluge, it would be nesecary to discard the values and structures that were preventing the system from working efficiency. Democracy. Civil liberties. The Welfare State. The old liberal order was replaced by a new and ruthless post-liberal system. The Zentrum International. The EU itself became an instrument of Zentrum Hegemony. European security forces and courts operate on a pan-national level, dealing with crimes that threaten the entire union. Policy and diktat from the European Council is usually implemented, willingly or not, by its members. The common market has become the epitome of post-liberal market facilitation, with common health, energy, security and water markets connecting the European economies. 

That was then, in the '30s. And now things have begun to unravel. Zentrum-backed parties and dictators that were once able to effectively manage their democracies have fallen from power, and the reformists that have taken their place are not as willing to remain under the Zentrum and the EU's hegemony. Countries like France, Poland and Serbia, who rejected the idea of Europe, have begun to flex their muscles, interested in becoming regional hegemons in their own right. Radical political movements are on the rise. Municipalists in Spain, France and Scotland. Synthesis Marxists in Portugal, Italy and Iceland. National Syndicalists in the UK and in Turkey. All opposed to the present order, and all willing to reshape the world into their own vision. Terrorism is still a threat. While Islamist terrorism ended in the 20s, and Christian Remnant attacks ended in the 40s, both Black Tides cultivated waves of nationalist terror that still reverberates. From the Padanians in Italy, to the Wallonians in Belgium, to the Catalans in Spain, ethnicist terror is still a pressure, further destabilizing a precarious situation. 

2068 will be a pivotal year in the history of Europe. With the general election in Italy, and early election in the UK, extremists have the chance to gain power in some of the most important countries in Europe. The 2068 Full Convention of the Fifth International in Islamabad is set to resolve both the "Iraqi" and "American" questions, and the decisions made there could throw the entire Eurasian continent into conflict. 

Europe holds its breath.

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Note: Logos on the bottom, left to right.
-Logo of the New Society Party, the principal Synthesis Marxist party in Greece.
-Logo of the Zentrum International.
-Logo of the Majority Party of the Russian Nation (New National Bolsheviks).

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From the shining mega-cities of the African coast, to the flooded streets of Old Miami. From the packed arcologies of China, to the bleak burning fields of Venezuela. From the vigorous debate of commune meeting halls in Buenos Aires, to the hushed whispers of secret party meetings in Munich. From the singing in the historicist concert halls of Montreal, to the screams over the burning slums of Moscow. From crowds of protesters in London, New Delhi, and Oran, to lonely miners on the Moon. All of it lives, all of it breathes, and all of it will one day die. All under the same twinkling light of the stars.

Our Fathers' Stars.