Haramase World (10 years later)

A biological weapon was released from a laboratory and changed the genes of all the people, making women be able to give birth only to one man out of ten babies. It affected human males themselves, making 90% of them die within a year of the catastrophe. To make matters worse, many surviving men weren't unharmed by the weapon, their health being impacted and needing time to recover and often suffering long-term sequels of the disease. It's been ten years since the men stopped dying.

Governments all over the world had huge changes, their old male majority dead, now filled by women. Same applies to pretty much every old male-dominated industry and field. Despite the downturn, it's a time of opportunities for women with ambition and grit.

Industry has been reestablished, but low priority luxury products are still not being produced. Consumerism is dead, at least for the time being; resilience, reliability, practicality and efficiency are prioritized over aesthetics and maximized performance: for example, led tvs are being made and sold, but aren't optimized to be the thinnest possible, and absolutely vibrant colors and 4k definition are not being implemented. Infrastructure is thankfully largely untouched. Technological and scientific development have restarted after a temporary stop, but are currently slow; There is however fast development of practical, low-cost, technologies. As a silver lining, the frantic pace of the modern world has slowed down. In many ways it resembles the world of a century before, even if advanced technology is still available.

Laws have been adjusted more or less haphazardly to the new situation and still have some holes. Polygamy has been made legal. A law against 'forced monogamy' has been made, but is unclear what makes monogamy 'forced'.

Gender roles, dynamics and social norms have suffered a massive shift and practically inverted. It's now common for women to show strength and toughness, and for men to be sheltered and fussed over, motivated over both the sudden loss of men in the past and their uncommon births now. Situational lesbianism has become normalized, women that are attracted to men can find physical and emotional comfort in other women, putting in question old concepts of sexuality. Almost all women have their first romantic and sexual experiences with other women.

Most governments implement propaganda campaigns promoting 'new values', which include big polyginic families, strength and assertiveness in women, protecting the leftover men, men taking more supportive roles, and having children. Acceptance of these values has slowly increased over the decade, but is not absolute. In addition, closed polyamorous arrangements have organically become normal, with groups of women sharing a single man also being romantic and sexual with each other. Despite efforts, the ideal of 10 women married to a man is rarely reached, the fantasy of having an harem of women proving overwhelming in practice. Large scale semen donation and government funded artificial insemination have been implemented by necessity. Besides the coveted large families with a man, single mothers, lesbian couples raising their children and even groups of more than two women together exist as alternative family units, almost 40% of the population living in one of these arrangements.

Sexual crimes against women have plummeted, although not disappeared completely, perpetuated by a very small percentage of the leftover healthy men, and lesbians. Sexual crimes against men have risen, despite the low numbers of men, mostly mere harassment or molestation, but actual rape is not unheard of. It is largely men who gotta practice caution with women now.

The new generation of under 20 years old has grown adapted to this new world. The new girls are stronger and more assertive. The new boys are more spoiled and delicate. Girls enjoy freedom but have difficulty ensuring access to a man. Boys are pampered and showered in love and gifts, however they are constantly watched over, have limited autonomy and are kept away from danger.

Some of the surviving men eagerly took advantage of their newfound status, others were swept-up in the changes until settling in new roles, and a few resist against a changed world.

Almost a whole generation of high-schoolers dropped out to work when the catastrophe occurred, but education has been reestablished by now, although in a more basic form, averaging 2 less hours of class per day and clubs are gone.

It's easy to find employment currently, however, many jobs are paying low salaries below the table. The government does it best to crack down on tax evasion, being always in need of funds. The economy recovers steadily.

Birth rates vary in different places, but in average it has reached a healthy 3.0 per The internet remains, but has shrunk, countless domains dead without their servers running. Speeds have are around what you'd expect in 2008.

Organized Crime and gang activity suffered a restart. The old gangs and mafias are gone, but new ones have slowly cropped up, now made up of women rather than men. The new human traffic is a smaller, very profitable but very hard to execute enterprise. Women are almost never taken as sex slaves or forced prostitutes anymore, however men are about 20 times as valuable in the same roles now.

The world is overall more peaceful now, large scale armed conflicts not really restarted, small scale ones are tragically common in rural and less organized areas. Where women were raped by rogue armed groups before, now is men who suffer the same fate.

Many of the older women are widows now, and some of them are lucky enough to have their husband alive.

Despite adapting, the old world is still fresh in the collective memory and is still mourned, and the new generation becomes familiar with it through the breadth of pre-catastrophe media still largely available.