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What a Wonderful World is a near sci-fi political drama set in the 2040s. America trudged through the 20s and 30s as a shattered nation. A broken economy, a divided population, and incompetent leadership stood to accelerate the inevitable collapse of the United States. But from the woodwork come claimants to the title of president. Three men make the ultimate gambit: Jimmy Glen leads the loyalist US government in New England, intending to reclaim the country, Joseph Markin holds the throne in the south, declaring the New Confederate States with his intention to preserve it, and finally John Carlson a Fascist populist who will stop at nothing to reform the broken nation into a form more to his liking.
Explore this world through a large, diverse cast of characters experiencing the conflict from all walks of life. Like a spider web, their stories may seem disconnected at first, but in life, our actions are rarely disconnected from each other. As our cast will come to find out, there are connections we cannot see. Perhaps this civil war is less organic than it seems. As the old saying goes: When two friends play chess, it is the pawns that hate each other.
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