We have a solid timeline leading up to the year 2021.
I'm posting it here so ya'll can check it out.
Comments are most certainly welcome.
Battlefront 2021: The War for America – Timeline
2000: The U.S. presidential election ends in an apparent draw, prompting a rancorous debate over the role of the Electoral College.
2001: Islamic extremists launch a devastating terrorist attack on the United States, killing thou-sands. Congress passes the PATRIOT Act to bolster national security, while the President de-clares an international War on Terror.
2002: The U.S. invades Afghanistan, overthrows the fundamentalist Taliban regime, and uproots al-Qaeda. An insurgency quickly develops, hampering efforts to reconstruct country.
2003: The U.S. ignores international council and invades Iraq. Once again, an insurgency devel-ops, taxing the resources of an overextended U.S. military.
2004: Another contentious election reveals several irregularities in the U.S. electoral system. Talk of secession appears in the alternative media, first as a joke (i.e., the "Red/Blue divide"), but with increasing seriousness as the cultural impasse in the country intensifies.
2005: Hurricane Katrina devastates Louisiana and Mississippi. New Orleans is flooded, and hun-dreds of thousands of people are displaced. State and federal authorities, overwhelmed by the disaster, are widely perceived as incompetent.
2006: The Military Commissions Act effectively ends due process in the United States. Despite a Democratic victory in the mid-term elections, the White House increasingly governs by execu-tive decree.
2007: A wave of foreclosures threatens several large mortgage lenders, leading to a financial cri-sis as the dollar sharply devaluates. The stock market continues to fluctuate upward, however, al-lowing pundits to downplay other indicators that point to recession.
2008: Iran implements an oil bourse priced in non-dollar currencies. Within a week of its activa-tion, the U.S. launches air strikes in an effort to bring about immediate regime change. Instead, the Middle East is thrown into chaos as Iran invades Afghanistan and Iraq and closes the Strait of Hormuz. The loss of Persian Gulf oil triggers immediate fuel shortages. When Russia and China begin dumping dollars in retaliation for the attack on Iran, the U.S. is plunged into a hyperinfla-tionary depression. Predictably, this causes widespread civil unrest. The President invokes NSPD-51 to declare martial law, suspend national elections, and dissolve Congress. When the legislature refuses to disband, the military is split, and the country descends into civil war.
2009: Having been thoroughly infiltrated by Christian dominionists, the U.S. Air Force declares for the President, believing him to be the founder of a new evangelical state in North America. The international community is terrified by the prospect of the U.S. nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of religious extremists. Several European governments convene to discuss the possibil-ity of armed intervention. Meanwhile, the U.S. experiences open warfare between Red and Blue factions, with much of the fighting taking place in urban areas and along interstate highways.
2010: The EU deploys peacekeeping forces to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, landing troops in and around Chesapeake Bay. The reaction to the invasion is mixed, with some Ameri-cans welcoming it as a stabilizing influence and others deploring it as a violation of national sov-ereignty. In the interior, large pockets of majority-Red or Blue territory form as refugee flows redistribute people according to cultural values.
2011: A European breakout from the Chesapeake beachhead elicits a tactical nuclear response from Red forces in Virginia. Baltimore is destroyed in the cross-fire. A retaliatory strike launched by France) levels Norfolk, and the world is momentarily brought to the brink of nuclear war. Faced with the lunacy of the dominionist bloc within the Red faction, several states declare themselves to be separate and neutral countries. Fighting temporarily ceases as the Union frag-ments.
2012: The Dominion of Christ Triumphant, based in the American Midwest, invades Canada in order escape encirclement by hostile neighbors. Despite fierce resistance, Canada is cut in half. Quebec secedes and requests military assistance from the EU. The remaining provinces follow suit. European and Dominion forces clash briefly in Ontario, but renewed fears of a nuclear ex-change lead to a negotiated ceasefire -- the so-called Christmas Peace.
2013: The Treaty of Boston establishes nine U.S. and Canadian successor states on the North American continent. In the American Southwest, a growing Chicano insurgency known as the Aztlan Revolutionary Front (swelled by refugees from an unraveling Mexico) demands recogni-tion under the treaty, but is denied.
2014: The ARF captures Los Angeles and declares the formation of an independent Aztlan na-tion. Thousands of Anglos (including blacks and Asians) are stripped of their property and de-ported -- or simply murdered. Those that remain are subject to discriminatory "ethnic remedia-tion" laws. Tired of war, the other successor states protest loudly but decline to intervene.
2015: The European Union develops an advanced missile defense system as a hedge against nu-clear brinkmanship. To mollify Russia and China, the EU shares this technology with all inter-ested nations, forming an interlocking "global shield" that effectively ends the era of Mutually Assured Destruction. Perversely, this results in more frequent conventional wars, as countries no longer need fear catastrophic escalation.
2016: In the absence of widespread fighting, developments in molecular engineering and bio-technology begin to percolate throughout North America. Microbial bio-fuels and photovoltaic paints, which can be synthesized almost anywhere, virtually eliminate the continent's dependence on imported fossil fuels, removing a major constraint on the battered American economies.
2017: In lockstep with the nascent biotech revolution, advances in computers and robotics pro-duce versatile cybernetic systems for commercial and military use. In North America, this results in an arms race, as the successor states overhaul their dated militaries with new hardware de-signed after the civil war.
2018: Aztlan invades and annexes the northern states of Mexico, ostensibly to suppress warlord-ism in the failed republic. Far to the south, Mayan rebels declare the Zapata Autonomous Zone. The country lacks a central government -- being essentially an anarchist stronghold -- yet man-ages to repulse all efforts by neighboring states to subjugate the territory.
2019: Sectarian divisions between Charismatics and Evangelicals within the Dominion threaten to split the country. In an effort to promote unity, the theocratic government launches a propa-ganda campaign against the Latter Day Saints, painting Mormonism as an intolerable heresy. Border incidents proliferate as Christian militants cross into Deseret and attack Mormon towns. Fearing dismemberment, the government of Deseret proposes a mutual-defense pact with Pacifica and Lacustria, and the Coastal Alliance is born. To counteract this threat, the Dominion negotiates with Aztlan and the Confederacy (strange bedfellows, but the only receptive powers on the continent) to form the Interior Coalition.
2020: Hostilities between the Dominion and Deseret escalate into a shooting war following a raid on Logan, in which the city's temple is burned. Initially, the Alliance governments refuse to mo-bilize, hoping to negotiate a peaceful settlement; however, when troops from Aztlan seize St. George, it becomes apparent that a general war is unavoidable. The Second American war, as the conflict comes to be called, opens with a massive Coalition assault on Deseret, which is nearly overrun. Only the last-minute Pacifican reinforcement of Salt Lake City preserves the Mormon population from genocide at the hands of Dominion zealots.
2021: The present day.
And then, of course, you gave games like Conspiracy X, Shadowrun, Abberrant, etc. . . all of which paint various US government agencies as villainous organizations.
