See comment in the "wars" area. I think more trade pacts and unions in that regard, but most of the world will still be destitute and bickering with one another. I think a strong SE-Asian economic union would absolutely undertake a mission like this. These days China and Japan are much more forward thinking. Right or wrong, China is seriously thinking about space again, manned missions, space colonies, the whole shabang. Eventually add on India, Vietnam, Mongolia, South Korea, etc, and I think you have a recipe for a concerted effort to make a push into space. Perhaps another space race is in order between the SEA (Southeast Asian Union), the EU, and the USA. --CmAmidon - 27 Sep 2004
No political comments? I'm surprised. Now is your chance to create an entire political environment. -- DaveK - 01 Aug 2004 03:30:18
Maybe we need to see how some of the other questions are decided in order to figure out the political situation? -- AnnelieseFox - 01 Aug 2004 18:08:31
After much thought, and going through the indepth Background page, this is what I think: One Earth government? Keep dreaming. We're far too petty, venegeful, and greedy for that idealistic scenario. No Star Trek idealism please. I vote for large trade blocks like the EU, the SEAU (Southeast Asian Union) and perhaps others. I still see good old USA staunchly independent, and therefore alone... I see the SEAU as starting another space race, one that last decades, building moon colonies, Mars colonies, asteroid colonies, beginning to push the outer planets, and the Climax would be interstellar travel. I think China and Japan would definately go for this; they're much more forward, technologically thinking than the USA, and the EU. There would still be plenty of nation bickering, even trade blocks bickering, even some small scale wars, world hot spots, etc. As a whole, similar to today except extrapoloated. Neither utopian or distopian. Some good places, some bad places. A mixed bag of politics, as has been Earth's history for a long time. I think Orwell's 1984 is the model, though not totalitarian and dark. What do you think? -- CmAmidon - 27 Sep 2004
I think a mixed political bag makes the most fodder for the imagination. Pull a bunch of different POV's together for the mission and you get a nice brewing pot for conflict. Since we're talking 2150 as a time line, there could even be some early rumblings from some of the colonies that they want independence and gripes of ungratefulness from mother countries since they funded the colonies. Shades of early America. -- EmptyKube - 01 Oct 2004
The USA has many competing factions. Some free traders, protectionists and anarchists. Some defy definition. Also, we are now members of WTO and GATT & NAFTA. I agree with Mike's shades of early America comment. Indies and loyalists could make for some interesting conflict. -- BobFriedman - 04 Nov 2004
