2002. The world is flooded, cities and settlements divided by storms raging in the earth-absorbing ocean. World governments have disappeared, power is fractured between small armed groups roaming the forests made up of marauders, bandits, deserters, soldiers from the remaining military bases, and townspeople with crooks and power-hungry people trying to control them. Honesty is out of fashion, violence is commonplace. Constant rain and lack of resources.

Dark times indeed.