Aplastante



The Aplastante is the name used in Dela Hiberia for the apocalyptic period of the true collapse of factual cultures and institutions. In this fictional setting, "postmodern culture" struggled on past 2022 for approximately two more decades. Wars, famines, the collapse of the Internet, pandemics worse than Covid 11, climate-change floods, storms, and other natural disasters raged around the world in diverse ways throughout 2050-2090. During that final decade, the former midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin managed to achieve enough centralized government within their own borders that had similar enough goals and agendas to create something a little bit like the factual European Union.

None of the characters in the first novel experienced the Aplastante first hand. A strong oral tradition has emerged, however, in Dela Hiberia that paints the 20th and 21st centuries in very grim terms. The [https://www.bl.uk/sacred-texts/articles/the-abrahamic-religions#:~:text=When%20people%20refer%20to%20the,of%20Judaism%2C%20Christianity%20and%20Islam. Abrahamic religions] are demonized as is capitalism and consumerism. The citizens of Dela Hiberia have institutionalized rage and fear against a lot of things (both good and bad) that are foundation of modern society.