Improbable Segmentation is a lighthearted post-apocalyptic adventure <insert medium here> taking place in a world where the conventional laws of reality have given up trying, inspired by Madness Combat and Red Dwarf.
Most tales of the apocalypse involve nuclear powers going to war, super-diseases with nigh-impossible levels of infectivity and lethality, or several natural disasters piling up on top of humanity. This is not the case here, as the apocalypse in question is unnatural and unexpected, to say the least. At an unspecified point in the future, what was considered normal reality... broke. The laws of physics across the globe drastically altered, many areas of varying sizes began experiencing their own localized physics anomalies, improbable events suddenly became very probable, and Dairy Queen started selling actually edible food.
This event, now known as the Improbable Segmentation, taxed governments around the world to their breaking points, leaving much of the world's population scattered into city-states and lawless wildlands. Many factions have risen up, some taking advantage of the destruction of order to do all manner of unsavory things, others trying to build a stable nation (at least as stable as you can get in the Segmentation), and others still having unknown or just plan bizarre goals and morals.
Tropes present in Improbable Segmentation:
- After the End: The Improbable Segmentation destroyed most pre-existing governments and threw the world into chaos.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Quite a few groups are vying for the title.
- The Sons of the New Columbia are a jingoistic faction seeking to seize control of the North American continent and instill a fundamentalist theocracy.
- The Canadian Federation is the remnants of the Canadian government who run a totalitarian state that commits atrocities trying to overcome the Segmentation.
- The Fractals, physics researchers driven insane by the Segmentation. They worship the event and seek to replicate it on a grander scale to take the current World of Chaos to new heights.
- And finally, Doctor Bent, who subtly commands these factions with the hopes that one of them will win... so he can take over when they inevitably break apart.
- Cosy Catastrophe: The world may be a chaotic hellhole, but it's surprisingly livable. Some settlements have gotten to a pre-Segmentation or better quality of life, and technological development actually advanced due to the disaster.
- Death World: The post-Segmentation world is teeming with all sorts of threats - areas where the local physics are lethal to humans, spontaneously and anomalously mutated lifeforms, hostile human powers of varying capabilities, crumbling structures and hazardous conditions...
- Divided States of America: Most countries have disbanded due to the Improbable Segmentation, but the dissolution of the United States is noteworthy. The former President at the time is currently in power in the Maryland Commonwealth.
- Evil Tower of Ominousness: The Chrysler Building. No one actually knows what's in there, but it seems to control the fractured reality around itself to destroy would-be infiltrators, and the entire building seems to be lit in a permanent red glow that can be seen for miles.
- Expy: Doctor Bent is directly based on Overlord, complete with sharing a similar name.
- Hate Sink: No-one likes the Sons of the New Columbia.
- Reality Is Out to Lunch: The best way to describe the Improbable Segmentation. And even with this, there's parts of the world where reality is even further broken.
- Shout-Out: Various products used by the characters feature a mascot who looks suspiciously like a certain Build engine action hero.
