User blog comment:YNot1989/Second Dark Ages TL/@comment-899576-20100904072803

2010

 * Texas public schools omit key secular facts from American History books, promoting conservative ideology.
 * Most of the southern states begin ordering similar revisionist history books.
 * The Green Revolt in Iran ends in the brutal slaughter of thousands of protestors in the Tehran Massacre.

2012

 * Over ten thousand people travel to the Mayan ruins in Mexico to commit suicide.
 * President Obama defeats Haley Barbour for re-election. He is nearly killed during his victory speech.
 * The Midwestern states adopt revisionist history books, one major publisher stops producing a second secular history book.
 * The US Supreme court rules in a 5-4 decision that Creationism can be taught in public schools.
 * Utah passes a law that makes abortion punishable by life in prison.

2016

 * Sarah Palin is elected President of the United States. She is shot and wounded while returning home after the end of the campaign.
 * Global sea levels rise by 10 meters, the North Pole is ice free.
 * Tibet stages a massive revolt against the Chinese after the Dalhi Lama is killed while making a speech in near the border in Bhutan.
 * The State of Vermont passes a law that states that it is illegal to teach Creationism.
 * Southern Californian leaders create a separate state Militia.

2020

 * In what many call a sham election, Sarah Palin is re-elected president of the United States.
 * Sea levels rise by close to 100 meters, climate refugees reach close to 2 billion.
 * Russia is divided by the new Ural Sea.
 * China enters into a bloody civil war as the conflicts in Tibet and East Turkestan begin to cause other secessionist groups to break away from the failing regime.
 * President Palin leads the country in a massive prayer service.
 * Utah religious leader Aethan Smith is elected Governor.
 * The Mexican drug war divides the country among the various cartels as the flooding leads to greater instability.

2025

 * In arguably the most heated election in US history, President Palin, having gained emergency powers from Congress is narrowly elected to a third term, the final talley having been completed on January 4th, 2025.
 * Vermont secedes from the Union.
 * A number of states begin to see a number of secularists revolts. The Western haves of Washington and Oregon split off from the rest of their states; Northern and Southern Califronian militias engage in open combat across the state.
 * Quebecian Catholics secede from Canada.

2028

 * As food and water begins to run out in India, millions of refugees begin to flood into the other South East Asian nations.
 * A limited Nuclear exchange occurs between China and Russia as the Chinese attempt to take Russia’s isolated Eastern territories. Both countries collapse, nuclear fallout sweeps over most of the northern Hemisphere.
 * The Aniu people gain independence in Hokaido.
 * The world is cut off from space when an unknown missile destroys the ISS and causes a Kestler Syndrom.

2048

 * The largest nation on Earth is now the Nordic Union, the second largest is the Saudi Caliphate.
 * In America, the Holy American Empire is the largest nation, being comprised of most of the Deep south and portions of the Midwest. Its chief rival is the Christian Republic of Texas, and Deseret.
 * Vermont has formed the largest secularist nation in the former united states, the Greater Vermont Republic, having taken portions of New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts.

2088

 * The world population has dropped to 2 billion due to drout, famine, disease, and war.
 * The Texarkana war comes to an end after thirty years of bloodshed, the Holy American Empire is victorious.
 * Cascadia and Deseret’s war over the western halves of the old states of Oregon and Washington finally ends after the treaty of Yakima.

2109

 * The Republic of Lakota and the Christian Republic of Montana sign a peace treaty dividng Wyoming between the two nations.
 * The Holy Roman Empire unites all of Italy and the Alps under the Vatican’s rule.
 * The last remaining secular nations meet in Iceland to sign the Treaty of Reichavich. The Treaty establishes a military co-dependence between all secular nations, though Vermont and the Nordic Union are the largest.
 * The Saarland war ends with the Kingdom of Paris’s conquest of Bohn.

2155

 * Vermont completes the wall along its southern border.
 * Deseret conquers Alberta, making it the largest theocracy on Earth.
 * The Lee Dynasty in China conquers Kamchatka.
 * The Nordic Union annexes the Yukon.
 * Texas falls to the Holy American Empire.

2174

 * The Nordic Union and Vermont finally defeat the Quebecios.
 * The Treaty of Montreal unites the Secular nations of North America and Europe under the Secular League.

2289

 * The Secular League reaches its greatest extent after taking Kamchatka back from the Lee Dynasty, and brining Honsue into the Union.
 * The Holy American Empire and Deseret engage in a number of border conflicts.
 * Genetic Engineering causes the Secular League to break off from Humanity as a new sub-species.

2341

 * The Secular League links their country by a number of mag-lev lines; it is the most technologically advanced nation; by comparison to the Empire of Tibet that is forced to use swords and arrows.
 * The Saudi Caliphate detonates a nuclear weapon against the Iranian Empire’s capitol of Tehran, the Muslim world is now