History Literature / TeenLitWasteland

** ...[[CanadaEh Canada (Nanaimo Government)]]: A reimagining of District 13 from ''The Hunger Games'' and, more broadly, the [[BlackAndGrayMorality morally cloudy]] [[LaResistance rebel factions]] of many YA dystopian novels, portrayed here with a mix of Canadian egalitarian progressivism and the [[Literature/StarshipTroopers Terran Federation's]] militarism and xenophobia.

* TheRez: The Navajo Nation became an important part of the post-Collapse Arizona government after Phoenix and Tucson were nuked and the Colorado River valley was [[BigDamPlot flooded]].

** Alaska: The vampire state, specifically drawn from the portrayal of vampires as TheBeautifulElite in YA novels like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', here taken and portrayed as an elitist {{Ubermensch}} race who see themselves as masters and humans as mere pets.

** Australia: A mix of [[Literature/MortalEngines Mortal Engines]] in terms of general motivations and operating "mobile cities" and [[Film/MadMax Mad Max]] in terms of what these mobile cities actually consist of.

--> Put explicitly, people in Neo-Eden live fast, die young, and leave beautiful corpses covered in needle and razor marks.

--> '''Theodore Renzler, Canadian Ambassador''': Sure, I didn't see any crime, any unrest, any signs of general discontent with this society. The homes looked nice, with a car in every driveway, mostly our own or Panamerican with a handful of vehicles I didn't recognize. It looked like the pre-Collapse suburbs I read about in history class. Lots of perfectly groomed lawns and blooming May flowers. But it was a guided tour designed to show off the heart of the nation, so for all I know, they had their Happy Police run through and tell everyone to put on their best smiles for the visitor.

** The Battle Royale in Panamerica, a deathmatch inspired by [[Literature/TheHungerGames the Hunger Games]].

* {{Eagleland}}: Panamerica styles itself as Type 1 (the Beautiful), but it is a resounding Type 2 (The Boorish), with racial and religious prejudice and a hierarchal political system.

** The ''Alice Everdeen, Agent 701'' series in Canada is equivalent to [[Franchise/JamesBond James Bond]], with the titular character being named for [[Literature/TheHungerGames Katniss Everdeen]].

* TalkerAndDoer: Alistair Drummond and Patricia Fell had this kind of working relationship while building their nature worshipping society, with the former as the talker[[note]]Drummond provided the charismatic leader around which a society could rally around[[/note]] and the latter as the doer[[note]]Fell provided the scientific knowhow to keep the society running[[/note]]. However, the two also deconstructed this relationship.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: [[invoked]] In-universe, the Alice Everdeen comics and films are referred to as reflecting the mood, culture, and politics of Canadian society at the time each of them were created. It started with the violent and angrily political graphic novels written in the 2080s after Panamerica's humiliation of the country, turned more [[GrayAndGrayMorality self-critical and morally cloudy]] in the '90s and 2100s with the first wave of film adaptations (made as the bitter revanchism of the '80s was mellowing out), became glitzy and glamorous in the 2120s and '30s (a time of political stability, prosperity, and detente with Panamerica and California), and got a YoungerAndHipper reboot in the '40s that was quickly seen as an AudienceAlienatingEra. Finally, the newest film released in 2152 reflects the increasingly xenophobic and nationalist turn in Canadian society at the time.

** A pair of interludes involve ''The Enlightened'', a cliched InUniverse young adult dystopian fiction flick, complete with the obligatory LoveTriangle. The film is part of Panamerica's PropagandaMachine, with the dystopian society in question being an expansionist version of neighboring California that's been taken over by {{Satan}}.
** Numerous Canadian films are described or alluded to, including the ''Alice Everdeen, Agent 701'' series of SpyFiction films, a vampire war movie called ''Watch on the Stikine'', and a film called ''The Shroud Over Whistler'' that's described as ''Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Film/RedDawn1984''.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In time, this happened to everyone. Panamerica, founded by rugged survivalists and militiamen who hated the decadence and elitism of pre-Collapse America, saw the heirs to its founders become the decadent elite themselves. California, founded by a tech guru under the mantra of "Enlightened Science" as a solution to the superstition that he blamed for the destruction of the old world, saw its ideals ossify into a state religion increasingly detached from science. The Nanaimo government in Canada, fighting to preserve the old-world ideals of liberalism and tolerance, became increasingly illiberal and intolerant as it became a dominant-party system with an increasingly hostile attitude towards any cultural ideals to emerge after 2077. Theta Pi is a positive example, having been ditzy sorority sisters before the war but turning into a cunning and legitimately threatening all-female secret society afterwards.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: [[invoked]] In-universe, the Alice Everdeen comics and films are referred to as reflecting the mood, culture, and politics of Canadian society at the time each of them were created. It started with the violent and angrily political graphic novels written in the 2080s after Panamerica's humiliation of the country, turned more [[GrayAndGrayMorality self-critical and morally cloudy]] in the '90s and 2100s with the first wave of film adaptations (made as the bitter revanchism of the '80s was mellowing out), became glitzy and glamorous in the 2120s and '30s (a time of political stability, prosperity, and detente with Panamerica and California), and got a YoungerAndHipper reboot in the '40s that was quickly seen as a DorkAge. Finally, the newest film released in 2152 reflects the increasingly xenophobic and nationalist turn in Canadian society at the time.

* NuclearNasty: The Reaver virus was originally a fairly harmless germ. Exposed to radiation in the body of an unlucky miner in the former Nevada Test Site, however...

* VampiresAreSexGods: UpToEleven with the Alaskan vampires, who are not only described as incredibly beautiful, but use their durability to engage in some pretty... horrific kinks with each other and their human slaves. Which they broadcast to Canada just to horrify their enemy.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Canada uses chemical weapons with reckless abandon against the vampires in the Stikine, and in the event of war with Panamerica and California, they fully intend to use them against their enemies' water supplies and farmland.

In the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2027]], WorldWarIII destroyed industrial civilization as nationalism, religious fervor, ClimateChange, and [[PostPeakOil resource shortages]] pressed the world’s great powers to the breaking point. It is now 2152, a hundred and twenty-five years AfterTheEnd, and in various places across the world, some manner of civilization has rebuilt itself.

In the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2027]], WorldWarIII destroyed industrial civilization as nationalism, religious fervor, [[GlobalWarming climate change]], and [[PostPeakOil resource shortages]] pressed the world’s great powers to the breaking point. It is now 2152, a hundred and twenty-five years AfterTheEnd, and in various places across the world, some manner of civilization has rebuilt itself.