Create a Show Challenge: The Fall

Most end-of-the-world stories take place after a great apocalypse - aliens land, a meteor strikes, a virus sweeps across the planet.  But this time, the end comes not with a bang but with a whimper.  Much like other historical precedents - Greece, Rome, Byzantium - the modern global empire dies not from one single wound but from a long illness.  Too many people are born and not enough food is grown; irreplaceable resources are used up; extreme weather plays too much havoc.

Most people don't know they're living during The Fall.  Things aren't as great as they used to be, but most everyone expects things to get better.  World War Three is more than a decade in the past, and things are getting stitched back together.  Life is tough, but hope is the prevailing sentiment of the day.

Hope is misplaced.

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