European Commonwealth

The European Commonwealth was a political union of sovereign European states that existed before the Great War.

Background
In 2052, Europe was heavily dependent on oil imports from the petroleum-rich states of the Middle East and responded with military action to rapidly rising oil prices that were damaging its economy, starting the terrible global conflicts that later historians simply lumped together as the Resource Wars. Limited nuclear exchanges in the Middle East rise global panic levels. Despite hopes of the United Nations resolving the conflict between the Middle Eastern nations and the European Commonwealth, the war persisted, with the Capitol Post reporting the United Nations dissolution on July 27, 2052.

When the European Commonwealth-Middle East War came to an end in 2060, the Commonwealth began to dissolve as many countries withdrew from the state. A long civil war followed.

Appearances
The European Commonwealth is mentioned in the Fallout intro, the Fallout Bible, and a Capitol Post article in Fallout 3.