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Mad Max World

  • 24-03-2018 6:38am
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    Ever wonder when watching a Mad Max film what the world would be like. What occupies all the current countries? Here is an attempt to explain some of what might be there.

    Name: Australian Provisional Republic.
    Location: Coastal Australia.
    Regime type: Between Democracy and Emergency Authoritarian state.
    Significant places: Sun City.
    Leaders: Provisional government.
    Source: Mad Max.

    Name: The Wasteland
    Location: Australia's interior.
    Regime type: Anarchist mostly, warlordism, fascism.
    Significant places: Bartertown, Bullet Farm, Gastown, The Citadel.
    Leaders: Lord Humungus, Aunty Entity, Immortan Joe Moore.
    Source: Mad Max.

    Name: The Christian Republic of Gilead
    Location: Eastern Half of the USA, perhaps parts of Canada.
    Regime type: Theocratic Christian Fascist.
    Significant places: Gilead.
    Leaders: Frederick Waterford, Serena Joy, Nathan Holn, General Bethlehem.
    Source: The Handmaid's Tale, The Postman.

    Name: The Holnist Republic.
    Location: Western Half of the USA, perhaps parts of Mexico.
    Regime type: Fascist, Neo-Nazi.
    Significant places: Oregon seems to be the stronghold of the regime.
    Leaders: General Bethlehem. Formerly Nathan Holn and Frederick Waterford.
    Source: The Postman, The Handmaid's Tale.

    Name: United States of America.
    Location: Alaska, Hawaii and California with some outposts surrounded by Gilead and Holnist states.
    Regime type: Democracy.
    Significant places: San Francisco, LA, Offworld colonies.
    Leaders: Elected president.
    Source: Blade Runner, The Handmaid's Tale, The Postman, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

    Name: Islamic State/Islamic Caliphate.
    Location: Arabic Middle East, North Africa.
    Regime type: Islamic fascist.
    Significant places: Iraq, Syria, Libya.
    Leaders: Undefined warlords. Founded by Osama bin Laden.
    Source: Realish.

    Name: Persian Iranian Afghan Islamic Union.
    Location: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia.
    Regime type: Islamic Republic.
    Significant places: Tehran.
    Leaders: Ayatollah Khamenei 2, one of Ali Khamenei's sons.
    Source: Interpretation of a real world state.

    Name: Russian Union.
    Location: Russia and Slavic Europe.
    Regime type: Military dictatorship.
    Significant places: Moscow, Prague, Warsaw, Kiev, Belgrade, Minsk.
    Leaders: Military Junta.
    Source: Interpretation of a real world state.

    Name: European Federation.
    Location: The former EU, Norway, UK, Switzerland.
    Regime type: Emergence government.
    Significant places: Ireland is included. So Leitrim is regarded as the safest and least polluted place on earth.
    Leaders: Various.
    Source: Interpretation of a real world state.

    Name: Far Eastern Union of Socialist Republics.
    Location: China, Japan, Korea, SE Asia.
    Regime type: Communist.
    Significant places: Beijing, Tokyo, Hanoi, Seoul.
    Leaders: Chinese Communist Party.
    Source: Interpretation of a real world state.

    South America and most of Mexico seem intact.
    Source: The Handmaid's Tale.


    It is assumed ALL these were formed during or after a significant world war between 2 superpowers. Oil states fell and other states consumed weaker states. Dictatorships rose in many former developed countries. America is caught between a war between democratic state based in California and the Holnists and Republic of Gilead. It assumed the latter 2 are allies against the insurgency against fascist theocracy. Australia seems to be a warzone between the weak provisional government seen in the world of Mad Max 1979 and the warloads seen in all 4 Mad Max films. Immortan Joe emerged as the most powerful and was part of the world war.


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