5 April 2074 – Geneva, Switzerland – The UN Food Bank announced that the nuclear holocaust from Armistice Day and the hunger and sickness that have followed, has now taken 2 billion lives. “There is nothing we can do with our current resources,” pleaded director Shannon O’Connell. “What we really need to do is move to a socialist system or our species faces extinction. I feel like I am talking to a wall. These suits with their sushi buffets and thousand nuyen whores in the orbital need to get off their arses. Wait – this is on?”

reporting provided by Annetta Connolly of the Associated Press