State of the World (Mercbl)

The Mercbl Timeline is a scenario that explores one possible timeline of the next 100 years.

This article explains the the world explored in this timeline, from the perspective of someone in the year 2122.

Europe
With the demise or gradual atrophy of power of the rising superpowers of China, India and the USA, the power balance of Earth has shifted back to the continent of Europe. The nations of Europe have taken full advantage of that, with the European Coalition (EC), jointly lead by Russia and Germany, the most powerful bloc on the continent and in the world. However, all is not rosy for the EC, as a new alliance in Asia, the Greater Asian Alliance for Prosperity and Development (GAAPD) has risen to challenge them in what has been dubbed the Third Cold War.

In western Europe, the period of almost anarchy following the Franco British Nuclear Exchange has ended, with several major players in the British Isles and the former lands of France. While the surrounding nations of Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia and Spain have all made some kind of move to control territory in these lands, there are also budding nation states that have appeared all across the unclaimed territories, including the Federal Republic of Occitania, the United Kingdom of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Federation of North French Provinces and the Libertarian State of Lancashire, among others.

Asia
Most of Asia is in some way involved in the ongoing Third Cold War between the EC and the GAAPD.

Currently, most of the Indian subcontinent in embroiled in the Great Indian War. Meanwhile, China has only recently reunited following the collapse of the PRC, but is already well on its way to reclaiming its former status as a superpower as a founding member of the GAAPD.

North America
North America is at a state of peace. The three most powerful nations (Canada, Empire of Mexico and the United States of America) are all uninvolved in the Great Indian War, and the Aguascalientes Accords have created a free trade area between all three. The most likely cause of any tension in between the three is the status of the Republic of Texas, whose independence in 2117 nearly brought the USA and Mexico to war, but it has been a priority of the administrations of President Caroline Howard and Emperor Veronica Molina to mend relations between the two nations.

Oceania
Almost all of Oceania's land is controlled by Australia, which has one of the strongest economies on Earth, due to its extremely strong renewable energy resources which have allowed it to be a major exporter of not only electricity, but also cheap chemical, electronic and processed metal exports.

All of Oceania is part of the Pacific Union, along with parts of Southeast Asia.