Europe

Europe is a continent that contained many countries significant in the events prior to the Great War of 2077.

Background
At some point in history, the member states of the European Commonwealth (the Fallout universe's equivalent of the real-world European Union) had integrated into a single state-like entity; this was probably a federal union. (It is, however, not known which European states were members; the only confirmed member was the United Kingdom).

In 2052, Europe and the nations of the Commonwealth were heavily dependent on oil imports from the petroleum-rich states of the Middle East, and the Commonwealth nations 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.

When the European Commonwealth-Middle East War came to an end in 2060, the Commonwealth began to dissolve, and many countries withdrew from the Commonwealth.

European weapon manufacturers

 * Glock (Austria)
 * Fabrique Nationale (Belgium)
 * Beretta and Franchi (Italy)
 * Royal Small Arms Factory (United Kingdom)
 * Rheinmetall AG (Germany)
 * Heckler & Koch (Germany)
 * Sig Sauer (Switzerland)

Beretta

 * 9mm M9FS Beretta (Fallout Tactics, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel)
 * Beretta 470 Silverhawk (Fallout Tactics)

Birmingham Small Arms

 * Lewis MKII (Fallout Tactics)

British Royal Armoured Corps

 * Boudicca-78/S (Van Buren)
 * .303 British (Fallout Tactics)

Franchi

 * SPAS-12 (Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel)

FN

 * FN FAL (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * FN FAL HPFA (Fallout 2)
 * FN P90c (Fallout Tactics)
 * M249 SAW (Fallout Tactics)

German Army

 * PPK12 Gauss pistol (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * M72 Gauss rifle (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * 2mm electron charge pack (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * MP38 (Fallout Tactics)
 * Vindicator minigun (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * Rheinmetall 9mm machine pistol (Van Buren)
 * H&K MP9 10mm SMG (Fallout, Fallout 2)
 * H&K CAWS (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * H&K P90c (Fallout 2)
 * H&K G11 (Fallout 2)
 * H&K G11E (Fallout 2)
 * MP5 H&K (Fallout Tactics)
 * Glock 86 plasma pistol (Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)

Glock

 * Glock 86 plasma pistol (Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * Plasma Defender (Fallout: New Vegas)

H&K

 * H&K MP9 10mm SMG (Fallout, Fallout 2)
 * H&K CAWS (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * H&K P90c (Fallout 2)
 * H&K G11 (Fallout 2)
 * H&K G11E (Fallout 2)
 * MP5 H&K (Fallout Tactics)

Mauser

 * 9mm Mauser (Fallout, Fallout 2)

Rheinmetall AG

 * Vindicator minigun (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * Rheinmetall 9mm machine pistol (Van Buren)

Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield

 * XL70E3 (Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics)
 * Light support weapon (Fallout 2)
 * Bren gun (Fallout Tactics)
 * Sten gun (Fallout Tactics)

Sig Sauer

 * 14mm pistol (Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout: New Vegas)
 * P220 Sig Sauer (Fallout Tactics)
 * 14mm armor-piercing bullet (Fallout, Fallout 2)

Countries mentioned

 * Austria
 * Belgium
 * Finland
 * Germany
 * Greece
 * Ireland
 * Italy
 * Romania
 * Soviet Union
 * Switzerland
 * United Kingdom

Appearances
The European Commonwealth is mentioned only in the Fallout intro, the Fallout Bible and a Capitol Post article in Fallout 3. Products from European manufacturers appear in nearly all Fallout games.

A prequel to the Fallout series, Fallout: Resource Wars, set in a collapsing Europe (during the European Commonwealth's invasion of the Middle East), is one of the games that J.E. Sawyer would like to make if he could do any game, regardless of money and development time.