Nuclear energy has an undying infamy in one aspect, it is an inevitable harbinger of DEATH. After the world is ended in a cataclysmic Nuclear Fission Power Plant meltdown, civilization clings to any aspects of humanity that may have survived as it spirals out of control. The United States, now divided into three fragments; The mostly civil and collected FREE STATES. The over-controlled and over-policed REPUBLIC. The last is a dangerous, desolate, waste ravaged by mutants and fabled monsters, known as THE OUT.