The year is 2038 and the world is more interconnected than ever, country's large and small exist in the longest and most prosperous stretch of peace in human history but nothing lasts for ever and it all came crashing down when a dispute in the middle east between NATO and Opec came to a head and inevitability the foolishness lead to a nuclear exchange first between smaller nations but quickly devolved into all out nuclear war on a apocalyptic scale.
What had taken humanity thousands of years to build was wiped out in seconds along with Billions of innocent people located in the city's across the globe, from the United States to China no country big or small was sparred total deviations. in the aftermath what governments did survive fell in hours or at the latest days as panic among the populations out sides city's lead to riots and looting which overwhelmed the remaining authority's leading to further lose of life.
When the dust finally settled the world was quite, no planes flue in the skys, there was no running water or electricity...billions are dead and no one is in charge. You are a 22 year old hermaphrodite woman named Scarlett, you have short messy blonde hair, blue eyes, Caucasian complexion, tone athletic body, medium sized breasts and you have both a penis and a vagina.