Editing Setting:The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap (section)

==General Overview==

This is an ambitious project where posters will be called upon to provide "on the ground intel" of what their local area (town, county, up to a region within a state) is like three years from now after a tense situation involving NATO expansion in Eastern Europe allows a missile detection system error to trigger a nuclear war that spirals out of control as other nuclear powers strike out either out of fear or a sense of opportunity. If we can eventually get even just one account, even it's just a single town and how it's dealing with other towns and forces inside of it's county, for each state in the United States I'd consider the project a great success. Such a collection would allow gamemasters and players a unique opportunity in semi-realistic post-apocalyptic storytelling, painting a picture of connected points across the nation. Accounts of the situations, both regional and national, of other countries from non-American posters would be greatly appreciated as well and help provide a better view at reconstruction efforts the world over.

The basic premise has only a few conceits from reality other than perhaps a tone that's more "gritty action/drama show or movie" than actual reality.

'''Premise: since most of the top tier of the federal government have been wiped out or gone missing anyways, that no real politicians be referred to and it be assumed that those that have survived and play into the setting, whether in the basic premise or in the posts of contributors, are not any that we would recognize.'''

'''Premise: certain Cold War era civil defense programs like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Program_Office National Program Office] never lost the majority of their funding nor were outed or at least called attention to in a major way or heavily dismantled after the collapse of the Soviet Union.'''