History Heartwarming / Overheaven

* India successfully recovering from a national-scale TraumaCongaLine. They suffer a nuclear war in 2009 which leaves much of the country destroyed or irradiated, and the following decade is one of political upheaval, general chaos, poverty, refugee crises, terrorist uprisings, dubiously-ethical medical experimentation on a desperate populace, and governance that is often NecessarilyEvil ''at best''. But Ryzov points out that while India's [[TarotMotifs tarot card]] - the Hanged Man - represents predicaments beyond one's control, it ''[[ShownTheirWork also]]'' represents the patience and strength of character needed to ''get out'' of that predicament. And, as it turns out, by 2022 that's exactly what India's doing. The standard of living is increasing, and the death of many elderly has paved the way for younger, more driven generations to take the reins, choosing to move past the tragedy. The recently elected president - no less a figure than Creator/ShahRukhKhan - has turned out to be exactly the kind of positive influence India needs, and the country is entering what Ryzov outright calls an "economic miracle." Out of all the nations that suffered in the nuclear war, India is the one that [[EarnYourHappyEnding earns its happy ending]], and by 2150 they're shown to have become a world-class superpower.

* The Barsu. A new religious movement with undeniably kooky beliefs (in a hard sci-fi setting, no less), it would have been easy to portray them as a CorruptChurch, a ScamReligion or an outright {{Cult}}. But instead, [[SaintlyChurch they're precisely the opposite.]] It's mentioned that their "prophet," Aelita, would welcome pilgrims (often people with various mental problems) to her compound, listen to their struggles, and (partly by accident) help them overcome some trauma or problem of theirs, after which the visitor would be inducted into the Barsu faith, provided with the welcoming, accepting community they often ''badly'' needed, and declared worthy to start their new life on Mars. The Barsu, both in the alternate present and in the future, are consistently portrayed as, for the most part, a friendly, environmentally-conscious and tolerant group who don't try to bring religion into politics, and those on Earth do what they can to make it a better place before they leave for their "homeland."

* India successfully recovering from a national-scale TraumaCongaLine. They suffer a nuclear war in 2009 which leaves much of the country destroyed or irradiated, and the following decade is one of political upheaval, general chaos, poverty, refugee crises, terrorist uprisings, dubiously-ethical experimentation on a desperate populace, and governance that is often NecessarilyEvil ''at best''. But Ryzov points out that while India's [[TarotMotifs tarot card]] - the Hanged Man - represents predicaments beyond one's control, it ''[[ShownTheirWork also]]'' represents the patience and strength of character needed to ''get out'' of that predicament. And, as it turns out, by 2022 that's exactly what India's doing. The standard of living is increasing, and the death of many elderly has paved the way for younger, more driven generations to take the reins, choosing to move past the tragedy. The recently elected president - no less a figure than Creator/ShahRukhKhan - has turned out to be exactly the kind of positive influence India needs, and the country is entering what Ryzov outright calls an "economic miracle." Out of all the nations that suffered in the nuclear war, India is the one that [[EarnYourHappyEnding earns its happy ending]], and by 2150 they're shown to have become a world-class superpower.

* In spite of all the atrocities that the Second Korean War produced, something good did come of it. Japan is [[ReluctantWarrior drawn into the war]] by North Korean missile attacks, and now that the [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce JSDF]] is NeutralNoLonger, they turn MartialPacifist into an art form. Japanese search-and-rescue specialists pull people out of bombed cities, Japanese [[CombatMedic medics]] save thousands of South Korean and American lives, and Japanese civilians do whatever they can to help, from volunteering at refugee camps to providing enormous amounts of donated blood and synthetic blood substitute (which Japan is Asia's only supplier of at the time). Japan provides so much aid to South Korea during the war ([[TechnicalPacifist without ever technically fighting]] save via [[EagleSquadron volunteers]]) that it's credited with [[ReconcileTheBitterFoes easing the longstanding animosity between Japan and Korea]].

* In spite of all the atrocities that the Second Korean War produced, something good did come of it. Japan is [[ReluctantWarrior drawn into the war]] by North Korean missile attacks, and now that the [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce JSDF]] is NeutralNoLonger, they turn MartialPacifist into an art form. Japanese search-and-rescue specialists pull people out of bombed cities, Japanese [[CombatMedic medics]] save thousands of South Korean and American lives, and Japanese civilians do whatever they can to help, from volunteering at refugee camps to providing enormous amounts of donated blood and synthetic blood substitute (which at the time Japan was Asia's only supplier of). Japan provides so much aid to South Korea during the war ([[TechnicalPacifist without ever technically fighting]] save via [[EagleSquadron volunteers]]) that it's credited with [[ReconcileTheBitterFoes easing the longstanding animosity between Japan and Korea]].

* In spite of all the atrocities that the Second Korean War produced, something good did come of it. Japan is [[ReluctantWarrior drawn into the war]] by North Korean missile attacks, and now that the [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce JSDF]] is NeutralNoLonger, they turn being a MartialPacifist into an art form. Japanese search-and-rescue specialists pull people out of bombed cities, Japanese [[CombatMedic medics]] save thousands of South Korean and American lives, and Japanese civilians do whatever they can to help, from volunteering at refugee camps to providing enormous amounts of donated blood and synthetic blood substitute (which at the time Japan was Asia's only supplier of). Japan provides so much aid to South Korea during the war ([[TechnicalPacifist without ever technically fighting]] save via [[EagleSquadron volunteers]]) that it's largely credited with [[ReconcileTheBitterFoes helping ease the longstanding animosity between Japan and Korea]].

* India gets put through a national-scale TraumaCongaLine in ''OVRHVN''. They suffer a nuclear war in 2009 which leaves much of the country destroyed or irradiated, and the following decade is one of political upheaval, general chaos, poverty, refugee crises, terrorist uprisings, dubiously-ethical experimentation on a desperate populace, and governance that is often NecessarilyEvil ''at best''. But Ryzov points out that while India's [[TarotMotifs tarot card]] - the Hanged Man - represents predicaments beyond one's control, it ''[[ShownTheirWork also]]'' represents the patience and strength of character needed to ''get out'' of that predicament. And, as it turns out, by 2022 that's exactly what India's doing. The standard of living is increasing, and the death of many elderly has paved the way for younger, more driven generations to take the reins, choosing to move past the tragedy. The recently elected president - no less a figure than Creator/ShahRukhKhan - has turned out to be exactly the kind of positive influence India needs, and the country is entering what Ryzov outright calls an "economic miracle." Against all odds, India seems to be [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning its happy ending.]]

* India gets put through a national-scale TraumaCongaLine in ''OVRHVN''. They suffer a nuclear war in 2009 which leaves much of the country destroyed or irradiated, and the following decade is one of political upheaval, general chaos, poverty, refugee crises, terrorist uprisings, dubiously-ethical experimentation on a desperate populace, and governance that is often NecessarilyEvil ''at best''. But Ryzov points out that while the [[TarotMotifs tarot card]] he's assigned India - the Hanged Man - represents predicaments beyond one's control, it ''also'' represents the patience and strength of character needed to ''get out'' of that predicament. And, as it turns out, by 2022 that's exactly what India's doing. The standard of living is increasing, and the death of many elderly has paved the way for younger, more driven generations to take the reins, choosing to move past the tragedy. The recently elected president - no less a figure than Creator/ShahRukhKhan - has turned out to be exactly the kind of positive influence India needs, and the country is entering what Ryzov outright calls an "economic miracle." Against all odds, India seems to be [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning its happy ending.]]

* The story of Tsuru Yashima. She was a 25-year-old Japanese woman in 2001 who found out she had a terminal cancer [[YourDaysAreNumbered that would kill her in less than a year.]] In desperation, she volunteered to be the first test subject of Project Chrysalis, an experiment by a joint Japanese-Russian laboratory to remove a human brain, intact, from the body and implant it into a full-body prosthetic. Yashima's only chance to keep living rests on this procedure - and it works. She experiences considerable dysphoria at first, and it's a few years before she's comfortable enough to appear in public again, but the Chrysalis scientists succeed in saving Tsuru Yashima's life by making her the world's first FullConversionCyborg. In 2006, five years after Yashima would otherwise have died, she's gained enough confidence to appear, with an upgraded prosthetic body, on the cover of Magazine/{{TIME}}, alongside the ''second'' person to undergo the "Yashima Procedure" - Creator/ChristopherReeve, now freed from his paralysis. What's more, it's mentioned that Yashima's experiences helped Reeve with his own post-transplantation dysphoria, possibly implying an IntergenerationalFriendship between the two.

* In spite of all the atrocities that the Second Korean War produced, something good did come of it. Japan is [[ReluctantWarrior drawn into the war]] by North Korean missile attacks, and now that the [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce JSDF]] is NeutralNoLonger, they turn being a MartialPacifist into an art form. Japanese search-and-rescue specialists pull people out of bombed cities, Japanese medics save thousands of South Korean and American lives, and Japanese civilians do whatever they can to help, from volunteering at refugee camps to providing enormous amounts of donated blood and synthetic blood substitute (which at the time Japan was Asia's only supplier of). Japan provides so much aid to South Korea during the war ([[TechnicalPacifist without ever technically fighting]] save via [[EagleSquadron volunteers]]) that it's largely credited with [[ReconcileTheBitterFoes helping ease the longstanding animosity between Japan and Korea]].

* The Barsu. A new religious movement with undeniably kooky beliefs (in a hard sci-fi setting, no less), it would have been easy to portray them as a CorruptChurch, a ScamReligion or an outright {{Cult}}. But instead, [[SaintlyChurch they're precisely the opposite.]] It's mentioned that their "prophet," Aelita, would welcome pilgrims (often people with various mental problems) to her compound, listen to their struggles, and (partly by accident) help them overcome some trauma or problem of theirs, after which the visitor would be inducted into the Barsu faith, provided with the welcoming, accepting community they often ''badly'' needed, and declared worthy to start their new life on Mars. The Barsu, both in the alternate present and in the future, are consistently portrayed as, for the most part, a friendly, environmentally-conscious and tolerant group who don't try to bring religion into politics, and those on Earth do what they can to make it a better place before they leave for their "homeland."

* India gets put through a national-scale TraumaCongaLine in ''OVRHVN''. They suffer a nuclear war in 2009 which leaves much of the country destroyed or irradiated, and the following decade is one of political upheaval, general chaos, poverty, refugee crises, terrorist uprisings, dubiously-ethical experimentation on a desperate populace, and governance that is often NecessarilyEvil ''at best''. But Ryzov points out that while the [[TarotMotifs tarot card]] he's assigned India - the Hanged Man - represents predicaments beyond one's control, it ''also'' represents the patience and strength of character needed to ''get out'' of that predicament. And, as it turns out, by 2022 that's exactly what India's doing. The standard of living is increasing, and the death of many elderly has paved the way for younger, more driven generations to take the reins, choosing to move past the tragedy. The recently elected president - none other than Creator/ShahRukhKhan - has turned out to be exactly the kind of positive influence India needs, and the country is entering what Ryzov outright calls an "economic miracle." Against all odds, India seems to be [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning its happy ending.]]

* Many countries, particularly in Africa and Latin America, that fell to dictators and/or have been stuck in poverty OTL have done well for themselves ITTL, often thanks to the technological and social changes brought on by the Space Boom. While there are undeniably bad patches along the way, Ryzov repeatedly describes the world of ''OVRHVN'' as being one of "techno-optimism," where TheFutureWillBeBetter is conventional wisdom.

* The story of Tsuru Yashima. She was a 25-year-old Japanese woman in 2001 who found out she had a terminal cancer [[YourDaysAreNumbered that would kill her in less than a year.]] In desperation, she volunteered to be the first test subject of Project Chrysalis, an experiment by a joint Japanese-Russian laboratory to remove a human brain, intact, from the body and implant it into a full-body prosthetic. Yashima's only chance to keep living rests on this procedure - and it works. She experiences considerable dysphoria at first, and it's a few years before she's comfortable enough to appear in public again, but the Chrysalis scientists succeed in saving Tsuru Yashima's life by making her the world's first FullConversionCyborg. In 2006, five years after Yashima would otherwise have died, she's gained enough confidence to appear, with an upgraded prosthetic body, on the cover of Magazine/{{TIME}}, alongside the ''second'' person to undergo the "Yashima Procedure" - Creator/ChristopherReeve, now freed from his paralysis. What's more, it's mentioned that Yashima's experiences helped Reeve with his own post-transplantation dysphoria, possibly implying an IntergenerationalFriendship between the two.

* The story of Tsuru Yashima. She was a 25-year-old Japanese woman in 2001 who found out she had a terminal cancer [[YourDaysAreNumbered that would kill her in less than a year.]] In desperation, she volunteered to be the first test subject of Project Chrysalis, an experiment by a joint Japanese-Russian laboratory to remove a human brain, intact, from the body and implant it into a full-body prosthetic. Yashima's only chance to stay alive rests on this procedure - and it works. She experiences considerable dysphoria at first, and it's a few years before she's comfortable enough to appear in public again, but the Chrysalis scientists succeed in saving Tsuru Yashima's life by making her the world's first FullConversionCyborg. In 2006, five years after she would otherwise have died, she's gained enough confidence to appear, with an upgraded prosthetic body, on the cover of Magazine/{{TIME}}, alongside the ''second'' person to undergo the "Yashima Procedure" - Creator/ChristopherReeve.