The year is 2021. The United States of America has again descended into Civil War. Across major cities, communists rise under the banner of the Proletariat Revolution. In the Northwest, a fascist warlord state has emerged to provide order and security. The East Coast is consumed by fighting between remnants of the US military, patriotic warlord groups, and U.N. Peacekeepers. Texas is its own republic again, and the West Coast has turned into a Chinese puppet state run by powerful tech mega-corporations. America's going up in flames, and nobody knows what tomorrow will bring...

You are The Messenger—former name, Walter White—and you lead the Sun Belt Crusaders. Your group is a radical Catholic cult claiming the papal throne and supporting itself via meth trade. After two months travel from your former territory in Southern California, carrying your small warband of soldiers and civilians, you’ve arrived in the Badlands, the old desert areas that were once called Arizona and New Mexico with bits of Nevada. The Badlands is pretty much unclaimed, though scouting patrols from the Northwest Alliance, Texas Republic and New Tianyi do sometimes traverse over it, the majority that make up the Badlands are Marauders and free cities that try to establish safe havens throughout the Badlands.

Currently, you are flipping through your drug operation budget reports, when your advisor walks in through the flap of your tent.