A country divided by war and conflict.

This is off shoot of another thread I made:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14376866090A77093900&page=1#4

The topic in this one is slightly different.

In my world the division is reinforced by historic disputes. The largest dispute has been the older Eastern part of the country and the newly colonized western side that wants government separation. The last civil war broke out about 40 years ago and ended when a nuclear bomb that destroyed a major city.

To maintain peace the government created a national police force that's localized to all major cities. This policemen have to power to control and generate specific elements. (i.e. Fire, Ice, Lighting, Earth etc.) This was done to keep the internal conflicts from becoming nuclear.

To maintain the energy infused into them the users of these elements have to be between the ages of 13 and 34.

The biggest threats in the world are eternal. Religious extremists from a lost tribe want to destroy everything in the country, finding bliss in their enemy's demise. Corrupt millionaires and white collar crooks wanting the maintain or increase the chaos for their own selfish benefits. Finally corrupt cops who have gone mad with their new "Power" and feel they're superior and more than human to the people they swore to protect.

I know that's all over the place but that's the jest of this universe.

edited 23rd Jul '15 9:47:55 PM by ChrisNGibbs

It's a really huge leap to go from locally deployed nuclear weapons to superpowered cops. You're a step away from describing Japan in 1985.

Explain who the — for lack of a better phrase — "player characters" are.

(Also, be aware that that's more or less the situation in Japan now, except the heroes are fictional. Seriously, every town with enough money to pay a graphic designer to create a themed website has a local superhero or mascot.)

Deus is right. So far you've got a decent enough setting, but without a character to ground the action it's just so much fluff.

Excuse me, do you have a question?

Soitenly! If I take the blonde, you gonna take the one in the toiban?

edited 10th Aug '15 1:15:31 PM by DeusDenuo