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Lovino was no better off - Rome was no longer the bustling metropolis it once was. After his male citizens were wiped out, he felt empty, a combination of grief for his people and the feelings of the survivors. Feliciano missed Lovino's mood swings, but that was far from being the only thing he missed.
The whole world lost its vigor, its life. Very likely, this would be the last generation of people left to live. Unless, perhaps a miracle could be found...
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Ivan Braginsky/Russia was used to things going badly. He was one of the older Nations and had suffered through centuries of a very long and very bloody history. And yet, he was still here.
This current situation was just the latest in these bad things happening.
His men were dead. His citizens, his people were left without a future.
Furthermore, he was very much damaged internally. A nuclear power plant in Leningrad exploded with several times the force and radius of Chernobyl because every employee maintaining the facilities died; Russia and many of the surrounding areas were suffering from what America and Japan predicted would be decades, perhaps even a century, of radiation poisoning and fallout. It would be quite a while before that region could be considered habitable again.
Ivan was too weak to get out of bed. But he was able to move around just a little. He looked at himself in the small mirror he had. He looked so weak, so defeated. His hair fell out and he looked alarmingly thin. He wouldn't die from this (after all, the plague that killed off the men didn't kill him), but it would definitely leave him in a less-than-optimal position for a while.
Ivan was used to things going badly. But this wasn't just bad - this was truly and utterly hopeless. And he did not like it one bit.
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With at least half of the world's population dead, things were both chaotic and quiet. Chaos erupted from mixtures of shock and disbelief at the current situation; people went crazy. On the other hand, the reduced number of people made things much quieter and calmer now.
In terms of the military, fourteen countries, including Spain and Germany, had female soldiers who served in ground combat units; absolutely none of America's near 200,000 female military officers had ground experience. Sweden, Norway and Australia were the only nations where women served on the submarines.
When the final reports came in three months after "The Unmanning," the numbers were known now. Approximately 48% of the world's population was wiped out; 2.9 billion men were dead. On top of that, about 95% of all commercial pilots, ship captains, and truck drivers were dead in America alone, as were 99% of the mechanics, electricians and construction workers. On the other hand, 51% of the world's agricultural labor force was still alive and well and in the United States alone, 92% of all violent criminals and felons were male dead.
Worldwide, 85% of all governmental officials were killed, as were 100% of Catholic priests, Muslim imams Orthodox Jewish rabbis.
As of now, the world was truly at a loss over what to do. Some wanted to blame a scapegoat for killing the men and starting this whole mess, but as time went on, the novelty in that wore off.
They just didn't know what to do.
This was the unmanned world.
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