a few years ago scientists began to create a lifeform that would absorb and destroy cancer harmlessly. one day the building that they were working in inexplicibly exploded, there were no apparent survivors. the next day, creatures began to appear on the streets and bodies appeared. some were maimed, and others were shredded to an unrecoginzeable pulp. people began to display unusual abilities. with this outbreak, the world's society began to crumble and governments dissolved. The countries of old nolonger exist and new ones formed from the ashes. many have become empires as people began to conqure the available land. the unitedstates has broken into five countries, one along the coast and newengland, the second forming from the appalachian mountains to the great plains, the third streaching from the arkansas river to the black hills, the fourth going from the arkansas river to the sonora desert, and the fifth being everything else. each of these empires has different agendas and tend to not get along. then theres the international control agency that tries to keep the semblance of peace.