Working Title - The Foreigner
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Last published Fri, Oct 16, 2020
In Tom Clancy's / Ubisoft's "The Division" some really "mad scientist" unleashed a genetically modified version of smallpox via contaminated US $ bills on Black Friday 2015 in New York. Just a week or two later millions of people are dead, the government and all the state institutions are gone and inoperable, what is left of the US emergency services and the US military operates as the sad remnants called "Joint Task Force" but cannot hold onto more than local safe zones and houses, especially in the big cities. Before succumbing to a heart attack President Waller authorized the activation of a network of sleeper agents of the Strategic Homeland Division in an attempt to regain control from raiders, rioters, criminals and all kinds of assholes who used the breakdown to let out their basest and lowest of instincts. It did not quite work that way ... especially since some Division agents followed own sinister agendas and worked against their own comrades-in-arms.
But outside the major cities and all the stories of Agents, soldiers and US citizens trying to claw back their way to a decently civilized life there are other stories. Additionally the US, whatever it may be at the moment (with 2020's own version of a pandemic and a deeply divided country), was and probably always will be a country with strong tourism and hundreds of thousands of visitors from abroad. After reading some stories about "ordinary John/Jane Doe characters" I was beginning to wonder what such a "foreign visitor" stuck in this mess might be experiencing ... from foreign social rules to the prevalence of firearms (which is not a thing in much of Europe and especially my home country of Germany) and especially being cut off from returning home, probably forever.
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