Chapter 4 (Cont.)
After the all-out nuclear war, the already hostile relations and situations of the nations in America had permanently ceased and gone out in a blackout. 99% of the American landmass had suddenly fallen into a grave silence. All that remained were slight speckles of preserved habitats, scarcely distributed through the staggering scale of black, scorched soil; and cracks betwixt from where contents of the dead ocean arose as to further dishearten the deteriorating sanity of Mother Earth. Even now, in 2149, half a decade since the nuclear destruction, Northern American nations have no evident knowledge regarding the fate of their intracontinental neighbours, let alone other continents of the world. Even within the nations, there were only but strategic agreements among the surviving packets now known as city-states; there was no such thing we could formally identify as alliance. For instance, Tatterstown traded its technologies with Painicipality in exchange for credits. And conditional immigration between the two was tolerated, although had become a tedious bureaucratic process with ample chances of failure. The New World Federation still had some degree of intranational communication. On the other hand, information on the two neighbouring nations: Middle America and Southern America were largely experts' deductions based on raw satellite reports. Since each nation, in Northern America and other parts of the globe, had uniquely developed the preservation technology, there were major differences in efficiency and behaviour alike. Some advanced electromagnetic shields, such as the one in Tatterstown, were made to be completely impenetrable by known synthetic visors. Nothing that happens in Tatterstown could be made out from current generation satellites. This aspect of protective measures was somewhat ubiquitous in all survival systems as every strategist, scientist, engineer had foreseen the potential information warfare afterwards. However, several technological corporations in Tatterstown, including the one my husband used to work in, had developed progressing decryption methods and advanced penetrative algorithms that could crack into some invisible protective matrices used in some nations around the continent of Northern America. Recent breakthrough in this project suggests that Southern America's pre-war regime has maintained a firm grip in the region since the nuclear war. Although, decisively, the key city-states in the nation have more sophisticated encryption systems that escape the bounds of Tatterstown's technologies.
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