The year was 2015 in October 21.

America was In chaos.
There was alot of crime. We payed off out trillion dollar debt and were no longer in the wars.

However America started to get over populated. School's couldn't house all the kids and most children were forced to be home schooled.
Families had to live together due to The overpopulation. Crime was off the charts, the elderly were dying sooner, something had to be done.

The government invented a chemical, it was nicknamed "chemical 12". Chemical 12 was designed to Infect and kill Humans.
The goverment bombed some States, hoping it would drastically cut down the population. However There was a design Flaw in Chemical 12.
Instead of Killing the Humans it infected them. Even the dead ones. It somehow brought them back to life.

The dead came back to life, Craving nothing but Human Flesh. The dead began to kill The living, Spreading the virus. The virus spread across the states.
Eventually Infecting the entire world. Very few human survivors still existed.

To this day no one is sure What happened to cause all this. They only know one thing. They need to survive.