The year is 2021. The continental United States is in something of a political lull, albeit a docile downtime, not a stagnation. Following Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, a young-and-upcoming female Republican senator obtained the presidency for two terms; this is the first year of her second term. With the seeds for the dissolution of the conflict in the Middle East sown in the mid-2010s, and Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – the King of Saudi Arabia appointed in early 2015 – passing away mere months after his appointment at the age of 79 requiring the title to be passed to a younger man within the royal family, the US and Saudi Arabia have established a relative, unwritten peace between the two nations. Both have used the time within this figurative interim to better their economies and infrastructure. In particular, the United States recently passed a bill for a constructive reformation of the greater Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.

However, with no imminent foreign threat to America and bright, questioning minds left to their own devices without the distractions of institutionalized xenophobia, several instances of domestic terrorism have sprung up, particularly on the East Coast. Being of modest center-right political ideology, the president has made strides to change the outlook and objectives of the Republican Party for the better, in addition to vehemently repairing their image in an attempt to further align the intended goals of the two primary parties. These changes have overall made the start to the 2020s resemble the 1960s, with the period following a lengthy national conflict giving way to a more leisurely international environment, and the national notion of a brewing, localized terror.