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A. Starting days after Oni ends would be interesting. There would be a lot more energy at this time period than any other point we could place the sequel at.

'''B. A few years -- long enough that the "new world" is shaping up. This will allow us to answer the questions left hanging at the end of Oni as to how society will turn out, or what the intermediate stage will be, anyway.'''

C. So far after Oni that Konoko is gone and a new generation of characters can be introduced. It would be hard to pull people into a sequel without one familiar face (not that we couldn't work out something with clones or what-have-you), but this would free us from worrying about Konoko being too powerful for a sequel.

:It's fractured. When the worldwide network of ACCs falls, the main question is, "How quickly can we restore or build new ACCs?" Because this is an extremely costly project, the areas which formerly made up each sovereign nation, each with their own national identity, entered a "me first" state of mind. Why should their people's tax money be used to pay for ACCs somewhere else? Any nation unsure that it had enough of the WCG's attention was bound to break off from the world government and start hoarding resources. Like World War I resulted from the germ of chaos in the Balkans, the nations that defected first caused a chain reaction of defections and new alliances that took down the WCG almost overnight (on a political time scale).

 

:Even though each nation is prepared to stab the other in the back, they are still forming coalitions. Nobody wants to be the one country that's left after everyone else has picked a side. The natural result is that the political situation is restored to how it was before unification by the WCG. What was that situation, exactly? I can think of no better extrapolation of today's politics than the situation that was described in Gundam 00. Admittedly, Gundam 00 takes place 300 years in our future, and Oni is more like 30 years in the future. Also, the main reason for Gundam 00's prediction of north-south power consolidation was the development of the orbital elevators, which would ideally be placed near the equator, thus requiring some measure of cooperation between hemispheres. However, orbital elevators would be a long way off in Oni's future — even if it shouldn't take us 300 years to make them, the world of Oni is suffering from the BioCrisis, so I don't think they're very concerned with the "final frontier" right now. Here are where some of the nations of the world lie in Gundam's version of 2307 A.D.:

 

**[[wikipedia:ASEAN|ASEAN]]

 

**Africa has no member states but African land is used by the AEU for their orbital elevator

 

Some notable nations missing from the above list: Israel (surely this would be in the Union with America?), and Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Middle East. The Middle East in Gundam 00 has lost all its power due to the exhaustion of the oil supply, and has descended into rank poverty; the question we might have to answer is, would this already have happened by Oni's time or not?  Finally, the whole continent of Africa is without representation, although this is hardly surprising from a historical perspective.

 

In any case, this world situation is the farthest thing from stable. It's entirely possible that the blocs will be going to war with each other, or even within themselves as they jockey for position, finally leading to a third world war.

:As a law enforcement arm of the erstwhile WCG, the TCTF as a pan-national agency is naturally no longer in existence. The actual personnel are still working in regional branches for their own governments.

:However, immediately after the Cataclysm, things went to heck for a while. Seeing their perfect equilibrium shattered, angered that the world was falling to pieces around them, the WCG had the TCTF wage an all-out war against BGI and the Syndicate. Many strongholds that the WCG had pretended not to know about were raided and destroyed in a matter of weeks, with numerous casualties on both sides. However, the WCG soon dissolved, and the branches of the former TCTF in each country needed to focus on maintaining law and order among the general populace, so the firestorm was soon over for BGI and the Syndicate. The casualties in the upper ranks did, however, cause the two criminal organizations to also splinter and re-organize into smaller groups.