The world has been at peace for 4 years now. The NR and the NZE has established order. The old rebellion has collapsed after their imports were cut off. Later, the rebel base soon took a sudden blow, servile crippling the production of units, and remints of mobiles suits or mobile armors.
Besides the fact of defeating the old rebellion, small nations broke off from both the NR and the NZE some using force and resistance to military opposition. Some would fail miserably, other would succeed greatly. At least a total of 30 nations removed their names from the alliance list. Another rebellious group that hand once fought against the AEU and the Union has taken the challenge and commenced ballistic warfare, and bombing runs. They were slightly more advanced compared to the old rebellion. With flags, ships, an even aircraft, they even were able to acquire a few GN-X model mobile suits. However, their numbers are known to be small, this faction group is known as Katharon.