>>5190635Babylonia is a technocratic, mercantile city-state, modeled after maritime republics such as Venice and Genoa. She controls a small series of islands called the Belt of Dreams, and maintains a limited amount of colonies around the Belt.
>>How are nations build up after the happening?The current state of the world is one where the land/sea ratio is roughly around 7:93, give or take one standard deviation. Land is a precious resource, and there's only so much to go around before people start killing each other over it. And while the Ring of Fire's eruption created new island chains in the Pacific regions, there's a generational trauma of volcanos instilled onto the survivors: a mere 100 million humans.
One of the most prominent land-holding polities is the Megiddan Empire. A theocratic, feudal monarchy based along the archipelago that was once the Rocky Mountains. The Empire was founded by an enclave of evangelical Christian millionaires, who pooled their money together to create the "Megiddo Ark" for the Rapture. After the dust settled, they emerged from the Ark to settle the Rocky Mountains as their Promised Land. Life was hard, especially during the Dark Winter, but they survived into the Flooded World through sheer determination and faith. The saint who guided them to the promised land.
The (Hydro/Aqua-ponic) Hanging Gardens of Babylnoia make the city the breadbasket of the Flooded World, but the Megiddan Empire has their own strengths. They export large quantities of lumber, mine raw ores and coal out of the mountains, and have a burgeoning industry that's slowly catching up to Babylonia. They aren't about to start rediscovering how to make PUEXOs, but they're settling comfortably at pre-WWII levels of technology.
Come to think about it, the Megiddan Empire is the current forerunner in aerodynamics. There aren't many that people in the country who has enough space for an completely straight airstrip.