The political sphere was dominated by large powers that operate on corrupt and violent governments which use its resources to gain power. This leads to immense suffering of the people as the nations grapple over what little resources are left. Bartering was welcomed in most places, since currency was rather unstable and could not flow from countries to countries. Gold, water and dried food were valuable currency, and fresh fruit and vegetables were also acceptable even though it was hard for people to preserve them as the climate was too hot. The official currency varied from country to country, with a fluctuating exchange rate around 1:1. This meant that the currency was roughly the same in value even though they could not be used in the wrong country. Countries guaranteed the validity of those currencies by exchanging them with food and water. Let’s look at a specific city: Gomorrah: A city in a subtropical climate situation and is the solar fortress city/capital of the nation of Lukerisca, a land built from the ashes of Egypt and which has, by force, acquired various territories across the north east and west of africa as well as portions of the middle east in attempts to gather resources but without oil the region has turned to other options to provide electricity to its citizens. The nations in the world United American Federative Republic (UAFR) • All of north America, south America, pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand The Asian Empire (AE) • East, south, southeast Asia, east Russia Lukeriscan Union (LU) • basically, the EU but UK joined back and west Russia joined, EU nations are provinces now Keldabe Republic (KR) • Encompass all of North Africa, the Middle east extending to south Asia, and Spain • Puppet state south Africa