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Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games created by Interplay Entertainment, currently owned by Bethesda Softworks. The games revolve around the occurrence of a global nuclear event known as the Great War.

The franchise's timeline stretches from pre-War years, to the "future of the fifties," to the decades following the destruction of the earth by nuclear war. With the goal of exploring ideas revolving around a futuristic, post-nuclear world, the game setting exists in a timeline that diverged after World War II. This fork led to a world where technology progressed quickly, leading to a worldwide shortage of resources such as petroleum and uranium. The series of conflicts between the United States, Canada, China, and European powers that followed were known as the Resource Wars.

Such conflicts culminated in the breakdown of the United Nations and deployment of nuclear missiles at and by the United States. Prior to this, some citizens had elected to purchase space in underground vaults which shielded those within from the nuclear event. Those who survived outside of the vaults or who emerged from underground created new communities, rebuilding in what remained of the country.

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