Halyah said:
blackrave said:
It would be kinda funny if remaining world would be mostly utopian societies.
Why nobody helps USA?
1.Most people don't really care about US or China because these fuckers killed each other.
2.Those who tried, were eaten by deathclaws or killed by supermuties.
I doubt thats the case and it'd be rather silly if it was. Granted fallout has always been a tad silly. That said I always got the impression that the conventional warfare used in the resource war and the subsequent infighting amongst the dissolved European Commonwealth(pseudo-EU) trashed the european countries so hard that it'd take a -long- time to recover when the nuclear fallout began to spread across the globe and generally make the climate turn shittier. That said there's still the open questions of what happened to Africa, south america and parts of central america(Mexico is implied to have been nuked in Honest Hearts).
Or to put it like this: Europe is probably busy with old habits and the knowledge of no oil to get anywhere would be common knowledge. With the USA and China nuked into near oblivion, they'd be worthless in terms of other resources anyway insofar as people living on another continent cared.
Most of all that.... I really wanna know what happened to Norway! I know why its never touched on since its assumed all oil ran out and the thorium discoveries happened after F3 was released anyway(plus I'm surprised whenever anyone outside of europe even remembers we exist xP).
Europe was torn apart by the resource wars and most member states left the Union/Commonwealth. Britain is implied to have survived as a nation state with Scotland still existing (You actually encounter a Scottish traveler in the series who doesn't appear to be a vault dweller)
There's also a brotherhood of steel member whose a descendant of a family of finns who fled Europe I seem to remember. Though most likely they were attacked by Russia (that said, don't think finns were caught unawares on that front, they're always preparing for the russian invasion), not the fellow members of the Commonwealth. I just don't see Sweden/Denmark/Norway even in a post apocalyptic scenario having any reason to invade Finland. Then again, Fallout is crazy.
With Germany having been likely the single largest remnant of the Commonwealth, Denmark/Sweden/Norway might have remained with it. Since while the United Kingdom or France could have split off I don't see a reason Scandinavia would risk a war of aggression with such a large neighbor even 'if' the world was going to (or had gone to) shit. Though maybe that's my idealism speaking and Germany could well have invaded a united Scandinavia in an attempt to seize what little remained of the ocean oil, winning (Even in a post-apocalyptic world if they weren't nuked chances are they're more powerful) and forcing them into submission whilst wasting the last resources fighting France and the U.K.
In which case your Norway might well be part of what remains of the European Commonwealth, for better or worse. Surviving nuclear war and russian invasion, if barely.
That's just my speculation anyway.
Bonus edit:
In an expanded cold war, the U.S Government (Enclave) could very well have built vaults on Greenland and Svalbard escaping nuclear disaster. This would be historically accurate to similar things done by the U.S. Though unless they were SECRET vaults (Not uncommon for the fallout series) I don't know how they would have lasted.