(AN: Hello and welcome to my newest AL fanfic. If you're new here then please take a look at my other AL works, because it helps put a lot of things in perspective. If you've already read the other stuff then thank you for being part of this crazy journey.)
The year 2020 was considered by many historians to be the most tumultuous period of the century. The threat of war looming at the start and middle of the year, outbreak of a deadly virus, worldwide riots and economies tanking were some of the many issues plaguing the planet during the year. However, those were the issues that were known to the public. It is entirely unknown what kind of struggles each nation, country and state were facing as everyone in that year were primarily concerned with staying alive more than anything else.
This came all to a head in the year 2022. The mass public had had enough with the rich and powerful doing whatever they wanted and getting away with it. In March of that year, a large gathering of protesters in an unnamed city stormed their Government offices, dragged their mayor out of office and held a kangaroo court in the streets. Although the police and army quickly mobilized to dispel the rioters before a conclusion was drawn, the action spread like wildfire across the planet.
Mere days after this incident, reports started cropping up all over the world of rioters amassing at Government buildings, demanding those corrupt leaders be held accountable for their actions. This went down in history as the 'One Month War.' Surprisingly, it was one of the few wars the planet had seen that didn't involve any form of bloodshed or death.
The One Month War was followed by five years of upheaval and changes. Corporations were made to pay hefty taxes, Government officials were required to be more transparent and held accountable for their actions, wealth was slowly but steadily transferred into cities and towns, education became a necessity for everyone, borders were formed and erased from the maps, alliances were forged, hatchets were finally buried and eventually, a new world was forged from the remnants of the old.
Poverty still existed but was not as rampant as before, the middle class did not suffer under huge debts and the rich now had to pay plenty of taxes, making them not as rich as before.
North America and South America became the Guild of Services. Africa and Europe became the New League of Nations and Asia and Australia united to become the Federation of Countries.
If the year 2020 was a year of disasters, then 2030 was the year of prosperity. Life was good, people were happy and for ten whole years, everyone was happy. This went on for the better part of five years thanks to a robust and carefully thought out system put in place by the revolutionaries of 2022.
In summation, life was good.
It is during this time that the age-old saying should be remembered: 'Hard times create strong people, strong people create good times, good times create weak men and weak men create hard times."
The cracks in this almost utopian world slowly started to show. The three ultrapowers that were once led by dedicated, hardworking and honest leaders soon became the minority while the majority were the same crooked people who lusted for power.
In front of the cameras, these power-hungry lunatics smiled, shook hands and kept their appearances up. Behind closed doors though, these men and women sought to undermine everything done in the last decade, quietly sowing the seeds of the old world.
Yet little did these people know that they were nothing more than pieces in a much greater game. As humanity began to revert to how it used to be, no one knew of the greater threat looming in the darkness.
Whether they knew it or not, the world was about to enter another period of upheaval once again.
(AN: I'm not sure how often I'll be updating chapters because I have an overall idea of how the story is going to go and the flow, but the finer details still need to be ironed out. But rest assured, I have no intention of leaving this story unfinished... like my other FF).