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Chapter 61 by BlueKnight
How can Natalie and Eva adjusted themselves to this new world?
It took quite sometime for them to adjust themselves. Meanwhile, you learned more of what is going on out there.
After the Moore family is reunited, they leave the bunker along with you and Miss Blue after you instructed the young Native American woman to keep this venture as a secret and collected the data you needed inside of the computer about what is currently going on in the world. And since they have nowhere else to go, Elijah takes them with him to live with him at the new household of the Williams family.
Once returned with the newcomers, Brittany is happy to see that you are back safe and sound after realizing that you are missing! As soon as she saw you, she ran into you, hug you and even kiss you on one of your cheeks!
Obviously, Edward is not thrilled about having more strangers coming to live in his new home. But considering the newcomers are the wife and the daughter of Lieutenant Moore himself, he cannot just refused them. Not after the fact that he has been helping them in defending Port Williams from the raiders.
So he reluctantly allowed them to stay.
When you are back in your room, you finally decided to take a look at the data you obtained and begin to see it if you can modify the damaged drone into working as a computer of sort for you.
It took you a whole day to accomplish that but in the end, you managed to do so because of your high intelligent. With some helps provided by Eva, who still proven herself to be one of your brightest students.
"Now, let's see what we have here..." Eva said as she's looking at the drone-turned-into-laptop-like computer and then press one of the buttons.
And that is when you and Eva see it all! The most recent information about what is going on out there in the outside world!
Of course, the disguised spy drones are not very numerous and often the information they find is fragmentary and incomplete.
However, you also find several files with old observation reports among the spy drone software.
So, you learn a lot about what this world has become after five hundred years have passed since the Nuclear War...
The vast flat spaces of the central part of the Eurasian continent include sparsely populated and dangerous regions of steppes and forests.
In most of these lands there are no large settlements of intelligent creatures - only tribes of primitive nomads wander through these spaces.
Ruins of ancient cities and radioactive ruins of the ancient technosphere...
Horrifying representatives of mutated flora and fauna...
Rivers and lakes, the water of which is poisoned by toxic substances...
However, even among these huge wastelands there are "hotbeds" of a resurgent civilization.
In the delta of a large, full-flowing river there is a city with a couple of tens of thousands of residents - tents, buildings made from the remains of ancient ruins, adobe houses, buildings made of wood or bricks...
What is happening in this settlement?
What did the equipment of the disguised spy drone manage to record?
In Khaybar, the capital of Khazaria, is hosting the wedding between the foods festival that will lasted for a week. And all foods are confirmed to be kosher since the majority of the inhabitants of Khazaria are Jews. Khazaria is nation founded by the Jewish ruling dynasty who claimed descent of Genghis Khan and this nation controlled parts of what used to be parts of Ukraine and Russia around the Black Sea.
Speaking of the Black Sea, you and Eva have seen that the Black Sea is now connected to both the Caspian Sea and the revived Aral Sea. They are most likely the results of the tectonic plates being moved by the nuclear warheads in the aftermath of the Third Great War.
Up north of Khazaria, the Ruthenian states that succeeded Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia have been formed such as the Principality of Tver and the Novgorod Republic. And they are religiously tied as Orthodox Christian nations to the Tsardom of Bulgaria and Serbia in the Balkans and the Kingdom of Alania in what left of the Caucasus in the south.
All these relatively civilized communities are in a hostile environment - the threat of nomads, mutants or aggressive fauna is quite high.
Trade and diplomatic relations are maintained only at the cost of great sacrifices.
What have you managed to learn about what is happening in the western part of the Eurasian continent?
In Western Europe, the so-called French Question is one of the hottest topics because France is politically divided with the House of Orleans established the Kingdom of Neustria in the northwest, the Republic of Burgundy in the east and the United Duchies of Aquitaine-Gascony-Septimania-Corsica, simply known as the United Duchis, established by the House of Bonaparte in the south and on the island of Corsica.
These "states" do not control the regions completely - rather, local power is based on a collection of outposts and small settlements that are **** to constantly defend themselves from attacks by numerous aggressive mutants.
And there are indeed a lot of mutants here...
It seems that numerous French nuclear power plants detonated as a result of World War III...
And this led to terrible consequences...
Places suitable for agriculture and relatively acceptable life are few in number and surrounded by radioactive wastelands.
Nearby, you and Eva can see why the Orange Kingdom is now a thing. It is because most of the Low Countries have been flooded, thus resulting in the countries that made up of the Low Countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium to be underwater in nowadays.
A little further south, the Italian peninsula has been severed from the European mainland, resulting in a shallow sea to be created between it. In the south of the peninsula is where the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily ruled by the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is located with the Papal States functioned as the buffer state in the north that is the United Provinces of Emilia-Romagna-Tuscany-Liguria, simply known as the United Provinces. On the Italian mainland and on the island of Sardinia, the House of Savoy is now once again in control of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont while the Republic of Venice has been revived with Lombardy being part of it.
The same case also applied for the Iberian peninsula for it too has been severed from the European mainland. But unlike Italy, Spain is still under the House of Bourbon-Anjou but they lost the autonomous communities of Valencia and Murcia to the descendants of the Banu Nasr who claimed descent through the sons of Isabel de Solis and Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn S'ad of Granada after they established the Emirate of Valencia. As for Portugal, it is now a kingdom under the House of Braganza once again.
However, there seemed to be no calls for the Risorgimento in the Italian-speaking lands or the Reconquista in the Iberian peninsula at the time.
The lands that once belonged to Germany and its neighbors have undergone significant changes. The Nuclear War had catastrophic consequences that changed the local landscape. Several large lakes formed in the center of what was then Germany (these bodies of water are probably based on huge craters caused by the impact of missiles with nuclear warheads). Coastal regions (e.g. the lands around Hamburg, almost all of Denmark, the southern shore of the Baltic Sea) were flooded due to rising sea levels. The shift of tectonic plates caused the Alpine mountain range to expand northward. Among these forested mountains, the largest settlements of people arose, fleeing natural disasters and other threats. Over the centuries, these settlements grew and began to unite into a single community. As a result, today, approximately on the territory of southern Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and part of northern Italy, there is a state locally called the Fourth German Empire.
While studying the information of spy drones about Great Britain, you have found out something terrible...
As a result of the bombardment with missiles with nuclear warheads and as a result of the detonation of underground nuclear weapons storage facilities, a significant part of the British Isles became uninhabitable. In addition, the level of the World Ocean rose significantly and, therefore, vast lands were flooded. Scotland shrank and became an island. All of eastern England, London, Kent - all these lands were swallowed up by the waves of the sea. Wales and Cornwall are connected to each other only by a narrow isthmus of land. Most of Ireland is flooded by the waters of the Ocean...
However, despite these facts, in this post-apocalyptic world there is the British Commonwealth.
British Commonwealth, aka Commonwealth of Nations.
It seems that during the Third World War, the remnants of the British fleet were able to evacuate part of the population to safer regions. And the radio communications equipment installed on these ships helped maintain at least some kind of connection between the settlements that were far apart.
As a result, the British Commonwealth is now a fairly strong "state" that unites several regions and has a significant fleet.
Base on the Falkland Islands, settlements on the Cornwall Peninsula, a naval base in northwest Scotland, coastal settlements in South Africa, Malaysia and some other regions such as Australia and New Zealand, the Royal Navy once again dominated the world's oceans.
The British Commonwealth retains some relics of ancient technologies that allow it to maintain the unity of these regions and at least somehow avoid complete isolation.
Back in the Balkans, the rule of the House of Habsburg has been restored in Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and are united together into a new state called the Federated Realms of Danubia with Liechtenstein joining them while in Albania and Kosovo, the Sultanate of Albania under the House of Osman has been established. As for Hungary, Romania and Moldova, they are now united into Wallachia-Hungary-Moldova, most likely as a result of the Hungarian and Moldovan governments elected the Romanian royal family as their monarchs. And finally, Greece and Anatolia is united as the Isaurian Empire.
From what you read, Wallachia-Hungary-Moldova functioned as three sovereign states that are in the military and diplomatic alliances with one another that happened to be sharing the same royal family.
What did you learn about the east of the Eurasian continent?
Most of Japan was swallowed up by the waters of the Pacific Ocean…
Little was left of the island of Honshu and, unfortunately, many of the remaining territories were contaminated with radiation. The islands of Kyushu and Shikoku sank completely. However, on the island of Hokkaido, people were able to organize new settlements, which over the centuries grew and united into a kind of "state".
Moreover, this community was able to unite with the settlements of local inhabitants, which were located on the Korean Peninsula.
As a result, the Japanese-Korean Empire was formed…
In East Asia, the entirety of the Korean peninsula is now reunified as the Kingdom of Korea and is sharing a monarch with the Japanese Empire and Taiwan and the Sakhalin Island are also added to create new prefectures for Japan. And apparently, the Japanese-Korean Empire functioned in the fashion similar to Wallachia-Hungary-Moldova as well. As for China, it is divided into north and south with the north remained loyal to Mao Zedong's ideology while the south embraced democracy of the nationalists who fled to Taiwan back then.
Africa, however, changed quite a lot. A large shallow sea that began at the borders between Tunisia and Libya ended up splitting North Africa apart and divided the Sahara Desert into two, thus turning the world's largest desert into one of the greenest areas in the world while the Nile River is now flooded to the point that Blue and the White Nile Rivers also flooded all the way back to their sources, thus creating one of the world's longest and biggest swamps.
As a result, the nations such as the Caliphate in the Lands of Sudan and the Ethiopian Empire not only revived but also thrived! And both African states are being led by the Caliph and the Negus respectively. As for South Africa, it remained as one of the many territories within the British Commonwealth across the world.
"Apparently, monarchies are restored in many places around the world. Most likely because the peoples needed their monarchs to lead them when the previous governments collapsed.
Although the question remains about the true connection between the families of the current ruling monarchs and the ancient dynasties... It is quite possible that the current rulers simply appropriated the ancient names of the dynasties, based on vague echoes of the past and the desire to justify their power with the imaginary fact of observing ancient traditions.
And from the look of it, Europe, Asia and Africa seemed to be on the path of recovery. A good one to be exact!" - You think to yourself.
Then, you and Eva refocused on the Western Hemisphere, specifically at what used to be the North American continent.
And by just looking at the map, you found more than just the Republic of Florida, the Republic of Texas, the Republic of Yucatan and the Dominican Republic that now dominated the entirety of the Hispaniola.
There are other states such as Deseret Theocracy at where the State of Utah used to be and the Republic of California also formed at where the remnant of the State of California is located as well. Up in the northeast where the borders between the United States and Canada used to exist, there is the Republic of Madawaska that claimed to be the successor of Canada and is planning to expand westward to reclaim Canada in the name of the British Crown.
"Have they even contacted the government in Edinburgh yet?" - You think to yourself as you are staring at the information regarding the Republic of Madawaska, the self-proclaimed successor of Canada.
As for the islands in the Caribbean Sea such as the Bahamas and Jamaica, they too are part of the British Commonwealth while Cuba and Puerto Rico are now part of Spain once again.
Believing that you and Eva have learned enough for one day, you decided to not continue and go to have dinner downstairs.
As you are eating your foods, you can see that despite Natalie's best attempt to socialize with everyone, she ended up only talking with her husband. And his current appearance definitely scared her a little but she seemed to be accepting of his current condition now.
And when it comes to Eva, she is getting along just fine with Brittany and Rain. It is most likely because they are at the same ages with one another. So you may not needed to concern much about her.
What awaited you next after this?
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Post-apocalyptic world.
The world after the nuclear apocalypse. A world of brutal struggle for survival.
Updated on Jun 15, 2026
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Created on Oct 11, 2023
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