The Great Rise and Fall

Humanity’s excessive technological development, climate change, the destruction of the natural environment, resource depletion, biological contamination, and nuclear pollution have caused the global population to plummet. Rising sea levels have erased most countries, and the few government institutions left in the world can barely maintain basic order. People who lived through this global catastrophe gave this disaster in human history a single name: the Great Upheaval! After the Great Upheaval, the world changed beyond recognition, and the human living environment became incredibly harsh. Those at the bottom struggle to survive. Social order has collapsed, morality and ethics have vanished, and the worst of human nature is laid bare in this apocalypse. The surviving lower classes will do anything to stay alive, fighting over food and resources and even killing one another. Meanwhile, monsters tainted by nuclear-contaminated creatures devour the space people need to survive, while the powerful government officials and their wives, accustomed to lives of privilege, revel in luxury and excess, turning a blind eye to the suffering of ordinary people. They live extravagantly, heedless of humanity’s future, concerned only with their own comfort and power.