Wasteland

The Wasteland or Wastes basically describes the majority of the globe's post-nuclear environment in the Fallout universe.

After the nuclear bombs of the Great War fell, the majority of the Earth's native plant and animal life was destroyed by the resulting radioactive fallout, creating a vast, arid emptiness. Along with the ecological damage sustained by the world, all human structures were partially to fully destroyed. When the survivors emerged from their various shelters, they saw this desolation and aptly named it "the Wastes". Not all buildings were destroyed, possibly because of their structure and the low-yield nuclear weapons deployed by the various nuclear powers in the Fallout world, and many still stood, though with at least partial structural damage. However, some buildings are still standing in the Capital Wasteland but this could be due to the lack of proximity to a nuclear blast. Though Wasteland usually describes barren land, the Wastes have been known to be populated with hardy or wilting vegetation and many mutated animals. The few remaining trees either seem to be dying or wilting or alternatively could be stunted in growth, though none appear to bear fruit of any kind an have little to no foliage. The radioactivity of the land itself varies as most of the wasteland seems to be free of radioactivity (although water supplies are tainted) while other areas which sustained direct nuclear strikes seem to suffer from massive fallout radiation.

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