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The year is 2062. The world has been in a tense standoff for the past 115 years. Since the end of the Pacific War, Asia has been divided between the imperfectly democratic southern Republic of China supported by the United States and the communist northern People's Republic of China supported by the Soviet Union. Europe is also held in suspense. Decolonization of the Far East hit Britain hard, exacerbated by American policy and their withdrawal from European politics. France is holding onto its North African territories for dear life as the Constellation of Southern African States prosper. They remain weary of the Weimar Republic, who has feigned good faith in the past but still harbors revanchist sentiments, and the Soviets, who have been steadily picking away at the old Russian Empire. Perplexingly, the world experienced 1950s aesthetics and decided, "Yeah, this is it." Salad in jello is all the rage, airplanes have shinny metallic skin, and portable nuclear weapons are in service with the world's armies. Space is heavily militarized and nations are pushing out into the solar system and beyond. Spaceships are Air Force-coded though (the Navies the world over lost the fight for nuclear supermarines in space).