Disclaimer: Resident evil, the idea of zombies, the whole zombie "philosophy" that has been created over the years, and anything associated with resident evil is neither owned by me nor created by me. And the umbrella corporation is not paying me to say this…

Inside the Chaos

Its been a year since the decimation of Raccoon City. The president of the United States of America had ordered a quarantine of the city and the area around it shortly after the infection broke after the chaos ensued. The operation was code-named "Cleansing" but all it did was deeply root the terror and fear of the virus created by the Umbrella corporation in all the world. The United Nations placed a trade embargo on the corporation-shortly after which it completely fell apart. Umbrella corp. has since ceased to exist.

After the fall of Umbrella, the U.S. realized how much it truly relied on Umbrella for many of its pharmaceutical needs as well as the needs of the everyday household. Umbrella had put stock into practically every company that had been established in America, and when they were decimated the money went with them. On top of all this, Umbrella held hundreds of thousands of American jobs within its factories and headquarters. Soon major corporations began to crumble due to the lack of being able to supply their demand. The strain was thus put on the backs of the people to make up for the nation's everyday need- a need which they could not bear to keep.

The people scrambled to keep everything in order and so call "leaders of the free world" tried to promise to make it all better. Afterwards their fears were confirmed and their promises made void: the stock market crashed along with the entire American economy. A severe depression followed that was worse than had ever been seen before. People had become reliant on their technology and common items that made their existence easier. Without these, the people were thrown into a state of helplessness. With no food, no money for electricity and gas, and with the inability to pay the last few corporations that owned their homes and everything they had, millions were thrown onto the streets to fend for themselves. The corporations were soon bankrupt without any customers to pay them and thus the homes that were previously occupied and the land that they were on was handed back to the government once again.

Without the stock market and with the inability to start or keep any company for any amount of time, the last few "rich" citizens were beginning to lose their grip on their money and all they had. In the past they kept their private fortunes to themselves buying only luxuries and thinking of themselves, and now they were thrown to the street along with everybody else. Rich and poor alike pulled the little money they had out of the banks, thus they were forced to close down also. The great United States was in a state of panic and horror.

In the realization of their state of disaster, the people grew restless. They began to riot against their governmental leaders and military action ensued. They burned court houses, bombed local government offices, killed officers, and rioted outside of military instillations.

The government that was built for the people by the people had now turned on its citizens in order to keep the "peace"- also known as their ability to sit back and watch the American people starve and die on the streets without being held responsible for the crisis.

The democracy had descended into a kind of police state with the president, at the head of the military, completely running the show. The government had taken all of the land and homes that were previously privately owned causing state property to be the form of "economy". When congress tried to put limits on the president's power trying to actually do something to help the people instead of hurt them, the president used the military to disband congress. The Supreme Court dared not stand up against him and thus they gave up their voice. The American government had descended into a form of dictatorship-in essence, a communist regime.

The president decided shortly after he had come to complete power- after seeing how his actions turned the U.S. into a modern day Soviet Union- to regain his country's previous status in the world by rebuilding the citizen's economy. His solution: rebuild the Umbrella corporation.

Shortly after Raccoon city was destroyed, the U.N. threatened to place sanctions on any nation that tried to re-establish Umbrella in their country or even let them operate legally within their borders. This neither hindered nor stopped the "president" in his decision. He gathered all the previous leaders of the corporation and told them of his plan. They quickly agreed.

Umbrella gathered all its previous scientists and all of their former workers and once again gave them jobs and places in the corporation. The government gave them free reign over the resources and land they needed. As a result, Umbrella is now the largest company of any kind in all the world. Their facilities occupy the majority of land in Montana, and its branches reach to the corners of the nation. Umbrella re-wrote the borders of the states according to their testing lands and the military instillations- the larges of their test facilities all lie outside of areas of high population such as New York and Seattle, Washington- after convincing the "president" that it was needed for them to flourish.

The U.N. did place sanctions on the U.S. after the re-establishment of Umbrella,-since then they had moved to London from New York- but it did little to actually effect the country. No other country in the world was allowed to trade with the U.S., help them in times of war or crisis, nobody was allowed in or out of the country, and any support or help for the citizens of the country from other nations was strictly prohibited. Any nation that violated these sanctions was to be put under the sanction. Thus no nation dared to come near the U.S. with a 10 foot pole. However, with no economy and no nation helping them before anyway, the sanction was little more than a joke.

The economy slowly began to rebuild itself after this. The people returned to their homes, businesses once again began to rise up, and it appeared that Umbrella had saved the day. The new, communistic government still exists, but Umbrella seems to have formed their own "government". They have formed their own military, and they enforce their "state" borders keeping everyone out and everything in. The corporation is now shrouded in mystery and every deal they ever make is kept secret inside of their steel walls inside of their militarized camps inside of their protected borders. Rumors circulate of what their doing inside, but nobody is allowed in and thus nobody really knows. The government doesn't interfere from fear of another depression, and thus they still have free reign in the country.

This is where nightmare, once again, begins.