Asia and the Far East

The Far East and Asia are now a hodgepodge of damaged nations, with Japan slowly recovering from the ravages of the Arasaka Corporation's abortive coup. China is still recovering from the loss of Hong Kong through a biological terror attack, and fierce battles in both the South China Sea and the Mongolian Plateau for access to strategic resources has left the government exhausted and tottering. The Koreas, fractured again by the 4th Corporate War, have become strongly isolationist, although North Korea, drawn into the conflict by promises of Arasaka support, has collapsed into a chaos of warlords and petty fiefdoms. Hammered by brutal fighting over trade routes and oilfields, much of Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Australia are now isolated, damaged and potentially prey to the next powerful group to come along.

Asia is a long way from the boom times of the 2020s.