On August 15, 2047, India celebrates its centennial birthday yet it is no longer united as a nation as Gandhi achieved a hundred years earlier when he successfully led the peaceful resistance revolt against the British occupation. Instead, the subcontinent has broken into twelve semi-autonomous regions that compete economically, religiously, politically and militarily to control at a minimum the local state, but also with hopes of expansion into rival states. In this hodgepodge of bloodthirsty aggressive mini-nations, the residents of the city of Varanasi in the independent state of Bharat feel dichotomous towards the schism as they can worship their pantheon of Gods not the Mother Country.

(Source: Pyr)