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==Background setting==

==Background setting==

The setting of the Fallout series is in an [[alternate history]] that diverged from our own following [[World War II]] due to the rampant predictions of future technology, which were erroneous in reality, turned out to come true in this world.  As a result, the dominating style of American culture stayed as it was in the 1950's, while developments in technology followed differents paths resulting in robots, laser weapons, and similar elements common in traditional [[science fiction]] while real-world developments such as portable computers never came to fruition. Also kept from the 50's was the extreme (and in some/many cases justified) [[paranoia]] of [[Communism]], particularly of a [[China|Chinese]] variety by the time of the eventual apocalypse. This world-state persisted up into the late 2040's, when oil supplies across the world began to run dry, and conflict broke out in the "Resource Wars", seeing the United Nations disband, fighting between the [[European]] Commonwealth and the [[Middle East]] until the oil fields ran out, and eventually, leaving America and China desperately competing for control of the [[Alaska]]n pipeline (which also caused the United States to [[annex]] [[Canada]]).

The setting of the Fallout series is in an [[alternate history]] that diverged from our own following [[World War II]] due to the rampant predictions of future technology, which were erroneous in reality, turned out to come true in this world.  As a result, the dominating style of American culture stayed as it was in the 1950s, while developments in technology followed different paths resulting in robots, laser weapons, and similar elements common in traditional [[science fiction]] while real-world developments such as portable computers never came to fruition. Also kept from the 50's was the extreme (and in some/many cases justified) [[paranoia]] of [[Communism]], particularly of a [[China|Chinese]] variety by the time of the eventual apocalypse. This world-state persisted up into the late 2040s, when oil supplies across the world began to run dry, and conflict broke out in the "Resource Wars", seeing the United Nations disband, fighting between the [[European]] Commonwealth and the [[Middle East]] until the oil fields ran out, and eventually, leaving America and China desperately competing for control of the [[Alaska]]n pipeline (which also caused the United States to [[annex]] [[Canada]]).

Fear of the imminent nuclear war would cause the United States to start the Vault program (see below), which was designed to build a number of underground fallout bunkers that could hold a thousand people until it was safe to recolonize the earth. However, through the machinations of the semi-shadow government Enclave, most became [[social experiment]]s that were never designed to actually save their inhabitants. At the same time the American culture was on rotten stands, soon to collapse as the strain of the world began to take its toll.

Fear of the imminent nuclear war would cause the United States to start the Vault program (see below), which was designed to build a number of underground fallout bunkers that could hold a thousand people until it was safe to recolonize the earth. However, through the machinations of the semi-shadow government Enclave, most became [[social experiment]]s that were never designed to actually save their inhabitants. At the same time the American culture was on rotten stands, soon to collapse as the strain of the world began to take its toll.