Bush Wars

The drums of war echo throughout Zanobia fair. The nuclear holocaust in the northern hemisphere did little to change the deteriorating state of affairs in the continent, ideological and political proxy conflicts still defining much of Zanobia's geopolitics. While much of Zanobia still reels from the loss of their Heosian economic lifelines, three particular proxy conflicts have been central to the current state of geopolitics in the south of the continent, often colloquially called 'bush wars' due to the regional climate.

Viratia was the final northern power to hold colonies in Zanobia, and, despite mounting international pressure, maintained these institutions whilst locked in a perpetual low-intensity conflict against Communist insurgencies. Plenty of liberalizations have happened since then, bringing forth the formation of the Overseas Federation of Cuama and Luabo, a somewhat coequal entity in respect to the Kingdom itself. Today, the fight continues, even with the foreign lifelines cut. The collapse of greater economic trade due to Eurysian Storm's nuclear aftermath has largely forced the Kingdom of Viratia to rely on its industry in Cuama and Luabo for resource sustinence.

To the south, the Republic of South Zanobia wages a similar counterinsurgency conflict against the South Zanobian People's Army and the Ruiter Resistance Front, both forces ideologically opposed to the gradual modernization and liberalization of the country, albeit for different reasons. The South Zanobian Bush War largely involves the suppression of terrorist forces crossing from Cuama and Luabo in the north and insurgencies within the country itself.