Some more clues about the future Earth in my sci-fi project. Also, Dies Irae is just a tentative title.
Beginning in the mid-21st century, decades of unparalleled worldwide peace and prosperity create a global near-utopia (imagine the Federation in Star Trek, only with a lot less space travel). The world is a united democratic federal republic with a mixed economy, united by a network of high-speed partial-vacuum tube trains and near-space plains and cybernetically-implanted smart phone/computers. The world capital is Istanbul, chosen because it is built on two continents, but each country has subsidiary power and its own national capital. The IAL currently called “Language P” has emerged as a global trade language used alongside natural languages.
The world’s largest city would have a population of over a billion: a massive urban conglomerate, or “gigapolis”, centered on Delhi. Similar complexes exist in East Asia (Tokyo-Seoul-Beijing), Europe (the “Blue Banana”, etc.), North America (BosWash, Great Lakes, Texas Triangle, SanSan) and South America (São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro). The total world population is in the 10-12 billion range, or as high as 15 billion.
Towards the end of the century, everything falls apart. Crime, corruption and massive inequality of wealth turn the utopia into a Metropolis-like dystopia. The military and law enforcement has little success quelling riots and protecting peace. People start demanding order, even if it means being subjected to a more authoritarian system. This eventually results in the rise of a Novum Imperium Romanum.
A religious cult, based in Dallas, answers the call. It establishes its own political party (far-right agenda, far-left tactics), begins to take over North America first, then the world. Though it spreads by the use of technology, propaganda and brute force, there are rumors of the inner circle attempting to use arcane magic to extend its rule—and create a new, advanced race of Übermenschen.
(There will be a lot of philosophy in this work, including that of Nietzsche, but also Dostoyevsky and Kafka and such.)
Beginning in the mid-21st century, decades of unparalleled worldwide peace and prosperity create a global near-utopia (imagine the Federation in Star Trek, only with a lot less space travel). The world is a united democratic federal republic with a mixed economy, united by a network of high-speed partial-vacuum tube trains and near-space plains and cybernetically-implanted smart phone/computers. The world capital is Istanbul, chosen because it is built on two continents, but each country has subsidiary power and its own national capital. The IAL currently called “Language P” has emerged as a global trade language used alongside natural languages.
The world’s largest city would have a population of over a billion: a massive urban conglomerate, or “gigapolis”, centered on Delhi. Similar complexes exist in East Asia (Tokyo-Seoul-Beijing), Europe (the “Blue Banana”, etc.), North America (BosWash, Great Lakes, Texas Triangle, SanSan) and South America (São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro). The total world population is in the 10-12 billion range, or as high as 15 billion.
Towards the end of the century, everything falls apart. Crime, corruption and massive inequality of wealth turn the utopia into a Metropolis-like dystopia. The military and law enforcement has little success quelling riots and protecting peace. People start demanding order, even if it means being subjected to a more authoritarian system. This eventually results in the rise of a Novum Imperium Romanum.
A religious cult, based in Dallas, answers the call. It establishes its own political party (far-right agenda, far-left tactics), begins to take over North America first, then the world. Though it spreads by the use of technology, propaganda and brute force, there are rumors of the inner circle attempting to use arcane magic to extend its rule—and create a new, advanced race of Übermenschen.
(There will be a lot of philosophy in this work, including that of Nietzsche, but also Dostoyevsky and Kafka and such.)
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