On 11:55 PM by Rev. Dr. Eric Z. Willman in The World of Robotech
After the Zentraedi assault on the planet Earth, the long, arduous task of rebuilding lives and civilization began. Much of the world was totally and completely decimated. In the North American Sector, Alaska and the western states were obliterated. With the exceptions of Iceland, Scotland, Ireland and parts of Germany, Poland, Scandinavia and Russia, the European Sector was wiped out. Even today, several years later, the once proud nations of England, France, Italy, Turkey and the entire Mediterranean, Middle East and Northern Africa, are little more than barren wastelands and deserts. Most of China and the rest of Asia shares a similar fate. Only the occasional, shattered wall of a building, or half buried basement stand as mute testaments of the civilization which once thrived.
Only Japan, Indonesia, Australia and parts of Canada were spared the annihilation which plunged the rest of the world into a second dark age. Although war torn, they would be among the first to recover and rebuild. However, it is a very different world than the one previously known.
As one might imagine the world was locked in chaos. The one, Unified World Government was destroyed, as were the most of the regional governing bodies. The RDF and what remnants of world governments which still survived, represented the only vestiges of law and order. The first few years after the holocaust were filled with the chore of simple survival. Burying and burning the dead, combatting disease and pestilence, treating the infirm, building or finding shelter, reestablishing communication, transportation, producing and distributing food, defense against looters and bandits, as well as Zentraedi, were the things that would occupy the world for years. Starvation and disease would claim the lives of thousands. Thousands more would die in wild civil wars and acts of barbarism.
It has been only recently that the world's people have attained some semblance of their old world. With this return to normalcy, new cities, named after the old, begin to grow and prosper. The Unified World Government has been reestablished, but with less than satisfactory results. Several independent states, nations such as the Soviets, refuse to rejoin the Unified World Government. Mounting political unrest threatens its continued existence. Already a handful of political and military factions have broken from the new government to create socalled "Baronies", small, often tiny, self-proclaimed, self-governing, political entities. Political unrest and aggressive new leaders have made the future of the one world government a precarious one. Some politically astute scholars have predicted the total collapse of the unification movement within the next decade. In its place will be a sort of new feudal order, seeing a plethora of independent, self-sufficient baronies, linked by treaties, sworn alliances, and industrial and military superiority.