100 years

One hundred years from now the
world will have destroyed itself. The small remaining band of survivors has
congregated and is now living in northern India. The survivors are made up of
people who took shelter in the neutral Switzerland and Nepal during the catastrophic
world war. An attempt to regain older
customs and cultures has failed because there is too much cultural diversity,
and most possessions they owned were destroyed during the war, because, despite
its neutrality, both areas still received damage and plague. The language barrier has been broken and there
is now an entirely new universal language that they are all learning and their
children are taught. Since the population is so small, a direct democracy has
been working very well for these people for the past twenty years. Their
populations are now stable enough that they have begun the repopulation of the
human race.