User blog comment:YNot1989/Future of The Second Renaissance/@comment-899576-20090825014821

Well I should remember to add a map I found that is kind of the basis for my article on the Flood, and really most of the TL past 2013. The map shows Russia divided by a fairly large sea in the area of Siberia just past the Urals. Mixing isolation, ethnic nationalism, and communist nostalgia just seemed like a good powder keg I guess.