Scenario: Sticks and Stones

''“I don’t know what weapons might be used in World War III. But there isn’t any doubt what weapons will be used in World War IV. Stone Spears.”''

-Albert Einstein, 1949

Background
It was every Posadist's and Anprim's wet dream; Nuclear War, a strained biosphere, and Climate Change had resulted in modern civilization collapsing by the Mid-22nd Century. However, there would be no communes, nor would life in this new world be easy. Widespread Cooling in the Northern Hemisphere caused by the weakening of the Gulf Stream, made even worse by Nuclear Winter, resulted in agriculture being impossible in much of North America and all of Europe. China, one of the most damaged areas, would be a wasteland for thousands of years.

Due to all of the nuclear strikes detonating in the air, there is relatively low amounts of radiation released. However, Nuclear Winter still occurred, in addition to radioactive rain caused by dust from the explosion floating up into the atmosphere.

China
With major industrial and military centers such as Beijing, Liaoning, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Qingdao, Sanya and Lanzhou nuked, China was in an incredibly bad state following the Catastrophe. However, Southern China was, for the most part, spared from the immediate effects of the Nuclear War. From the year 2119 to 2161, numerous totalitarian regimes would rise and fall in Rapid Succession. The longest-lasting of these regimes, the Sublime State of Baidicheng, would exist until the year 2418.

Europe
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Gradual Recovery
Several areas went through the 21st Century Catastrophe relatively unscathed. The government of New Zealand existed in some form until the 23th Century. Indochina, Indonesia, Australia, and South America all saw societal decline and collapse of governments, but they weren't reduced to Neolithic levels of technology. In the centuries which followed, the Ozone layer would gradually recover, and in the next few thousand years, wide-spread agriculture could be practiced in the Northern Hemisphere.