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:Long enough that the "new world" is shaping up (a few to several years), so things aren't too chaotic and we can begin to see what direction society is headed in, in answer to the question left hanging at the end of Oni.

: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, for the time being they are forming coalitions. Nobody wants to be the one country that's left without a bunch of other countries on their side. The natural result is that the political situation is restored to how it was before unification by the WCG. I can think of no better extrapolation of today's politics than the situation that was described in Gundam 00. Admittedly, Gundam 00 took place 300 years in our future, and Oni was 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.:

 

 

**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.

:Also fragmented. The regional branches are now working for their own nations like National Guard forces.