Pre-War Nations

Bits of information about the world before the Great War. For chronology of the events leading to the War, see the timeline of the Fallout universe.

China
The president of China in 2073, and probably until 2077 was called Xin. Due to the divergence of the Fallout world from ours, it is not certain if the Fallout China was communist or not.

European Commonwealth
the EC was the Fallout equivalent of the real-world European Union, although it is not known which European states were its members. In 2052 Europe was dependent on oil exports from the Middle East, and responded to rising oil prices with a military action (starting the Resource Wars), which suggests that unlike today's EU, the EC was also a military pact. Some time after the war ended, as the Middle Eastern oil fields went dry in 2060, European Commonwealth dissolved into quarreling nation states fighting for the remaining resources.

Israel
The country of Israel was most likely still a place of Jewish-Arab conflict as in the real world, as in December 2053 a terrorist nuclear bomb destroyed Tel Aviv.

Soviet Union
The Soviet Union still existed in the 21st century in the Fallout world, as Natalia, one of the  Fallout 1 pre-made characters, is a grandchild of a Russian diplomat who worked at the Soviet Consulate in Los Angeles. It is, however, most likely that it it lost its position of the dominant communist country to China, as it is not mentioned at all in other parts of the background, especially in background concerning the Great War, although due to the divergence of the Fallout world from ours, it is not even certain if China was communist at all.

United Nations
In May 2052, the UN begins to collapse, and it is finally disbanded in July, after many members had withdrawn from it.

United States of America
As seen in one of the pieces of Fallout art, the United States flag has only 11 stars on it, as the USA were divided into eleven super-states.