World After The Flood || An outcast.

In the near future, at 2044, the global warming problems got so bad to the point where all the ice on north pole and south pole melt and made the sea level rise significantly; consume over 90% of the land which is shockingly hight from what most scientists expect to be only around 70 meters. Made most part of the world sink into the ocean, wipe 92.33% of humanity out in only a few years. And while human was struggling against this crisis every fish and aquatic in the water was slowly getting bigger without anyone noticing until it's too significant to ignore. The fish that use to be only a size of human hand grow up to arm length, and the fish that was already big turn into a giant and every fist now somehow able to live in the sea water doesn't matter if it used to be freshwater fish for no apparently no reason at all. And the plants too, most of it getting significantly bigger and freshwater plant now can also be in the sea water without yet any scient explanation of how it happened. One good example is lily pad, now it's a size of small ship, can hold weight up to 600 pounds without even tilted and mostly found in the spot where water is shallow and can be seen growth out of the floor or an abandoned building in the water.

In the years 2077, nothing go as imagination from people half a century where everyone think humanity will live in futuristic city and have a really advanced technology. Now the world is a mess with too much water and too less lands. What's left of humanity was forced to either live in the sea or the mountain peak where water can't reach yet. For people who live on the land, nothing really change much. They built a new social structure, new government, house hight up on the mountain and nothing special except for most people now working as a fisherman and deep sea scavenger that dive deep into the sea and retrieve the old relic from the past that now lie under water. But for the people who chose to live amongst the sea and marine animals, was a lot more interesting. Their body adapt to the rising water level surprisingly fast for these past decades and they start to develop gills on their body, on their neck slightly right below their ears that connects directly to their windpipe. It isn't yet to be perfect but enough to made them stay in the water for far longer than the land human(around 20 minutes max) while their body also adapt to the hight pressure of the deep water without any visible physical changes. But with this thay can dive deep into the depths around 300~500 meters without getting crush. Anything pass that will start to be fetal. And these sea people are a great swimmer since born too.

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Humanity was divine into two completely different races now. The land people who still is the same human from half the century ago. And the sea people who live with the sea.

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The land people was lead by the government that call themselves L.A.N.D(Last Authority of New Drylands) has a capital name "The Stone" which place in the middle of a huge volcano that's already extinct and won't erupted again, offer a huge circular land for people to live which has over an 15 kilometers of area within it and a firm stone wall against anything that might try to breach into this place. The capital itself place in the middle of the volcano, already eating up the space by 8 kilometres and let the outer layer of left space be a place where people have to cramped together in a tight space to live.

More about L.A.N.D:

Political Ideology of L.A.N.D. Name: Terran Preservationism

Core Belief:

Land is life. Whoever controls land controls humanity’s future.

After the sea swallowed the world, land became the rarest resource. L.A.N.D. believes that unrestricted freedom, overpopulation, and old-world democracy directly caused the Flood. Therefore, survival requires order, limitation, and centralized authority.

1. Land Supremacy Dry land is more valuable than human life, wealth, or history.

Any action is justified if it protects or expands dry land.

Floating cities, sea nomads, and ocean-based societies are seen as temporary, unstable, and inferior.

“Water is chaos. Land is order.”

All dry land is state property. Individuals do not own land—they are granted the right to inhabit it based on usefulness, loyalty, and contribution.

Land allocation is treated like oxygen: regulated, monitored, and revocable.

2. Centralized Absolute Authority L.A.N.D. rejects democracy as too slow and emotional.

Power is centralized in a ruling council or single Director.

Decisions are made by data, resource modeling, and survival forecasts, not public opinion.

Citizens are taught:

“Freedom sank with the continents.”

3. Citizenship by Contribution Not everyone is equal.

Citizens are ranked based on how useful they are to land survival:

Engineers

Agricultural scientists

Architects

Military defenders

Resource planners

Lower status:

Artists, philosophers, historians (unless repurposed for propaganda)

Sea-born populations

Refugees without specialized skills

Rights are earned, not inherent.

Personal freedom is secondary to collective survival. L.A.N.D. openly rejects pre-Flood ideas of universal rights, calling them “luxuries of abundance.”

Rights are earned, not guaranteed.

4. Anti-Nostalgia Doctrine L.A.N.D. forbids obsession with the old world.

Old national flags, maps, and anthems are discouraged or illegal

Teaching “pre-flood patriotism” is considered destabilizing

History is reframed as a warning, not a legacy

Their motto:

“The past drowned for a reason.”

The old world is officially blamed for the Flood:

Overconsumption

Political division

Environmental negligence

History before the sea rise is taught as a warning, not a heritage to admire.

5. Controlled Expansionism L.A.N.D. does not seek conquest for glory—only for survival.

Artificial land creation (mega-dams, reclaimed zones, elevated continents)

Military action justified to seize strategic high ground

Alliances only if they result in more land control

They believe peace is temporary, but land is permanent.

Social Structure Class System

Grounded – Born on land, full citizens

Elevated – Earned land rights through service

Anchored – Allowed to live on land but not own it

Driftborn – Sea populations; heavily restricted

Movement between classes is possible, but extremely difficult.

Government Structure: The High Cartographers – Supreme ruling council; they decide land use, borders, and evacuations The Survey Authority – Scientists and engineers who map rising seas and land stability The Allocation Bureau – Determines who lives where, and for how long The Preservation Guard – Military force protecting coastlines and enforcing policy

Public Messaging (Propaganda Style) Common slogans include: “Without land, there is no future.” “The sea takes the careless.” “Order keeps us above water.” “We remember so we do not drown again.”

Moral Ambiguity (for Story Depth) L.A.N.D.: Has saved millions from extinction Has also abandoned entire sea populations Prevents chaos—but crushes individuality Is cruel—but may be right

This lets everyone constantly ask: "Are they villains... or the last thing keeping humanity alive?"

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Sea people or some call seafolfs are as mentioned earlier, is a human that has adapted to live in the world where the sea level has risen, lead by government call S.E.A(Society for Environmental Adaptation). They mostly associated with water and inhabited in the ocean with their capital being an many small islands with area of around 12 kilometres across all islands combined. This capital is called 'New Corals' and is 40 kilometers away from the land of L.A.N.D. people in New Corals mostly travel to each island by boat even though seafolks are great swimmer, they still prefer to travel by boat more if possible.

More about S.E.A:

S.E.A. Political Ideology: Adaptive Communalism (Common shorthand inside the world: “Adapt or Include”)

Core Belief "Humanity must change with the environment, not dominate it."

S.E.A. believes the old world ended because humans tried to control nature. Survival after the flood, to them, came from coexistence, flexibility, and shared adaptation, not rigid borders or absolute authority.

Foundational Principles

1. Environmental Integration The sea is not an enemy, but a living system to be understood and respected.

Cities, homes, and technology are designed to flow with currents, migrate with tides, and minimize ecological damage.

Killing marine life unnecessarily is taboo; ecosystems are treated as political stakeholders.

2. Adaptive Citizenship Citizenship is earned through adaptation, not birth or territory.

There are three broad citizen tiers, but no permanent class system:

Surface-born (normal humans who join S.E.A.)

Adapted (those with biological sea traits)

Deep Kin (multi-generational sea-adapted families)

Movement between tiers is possible through training, biotech, or generational change.

This flexibility is what makes S.E.A. more forgiving than L.A.N.D.

3. Communal Governance S.E.A. rejects rigid centralized power.

Governance happens through floating councils, reef assemblies, and mobile convoys.

Leadership is situational:

Navigators lead during migration

Biologists during ecological crises

Mediators during internal conflict

Power is temporary and functional, not absolute.

4. Radical Inclusion Unlike L.A.N.D., S.E.A. believes:

Any human can join, regardless of origin, as long as they accept adaptation training and cultural norms.

Refugees from flooded zones or even defectors from L.A.N.D. are welcomed.

This makes S.E.A. a melting society, but also politically unstable at times.

5. Pragmatic Morality S.E.A. is forgiving but not naïve.

Crimes are judged based on impact on the community and ecosystem, not abstract laws.

Punishments focus on restoration (repairing damage, ecological service) rather than imprisonment.

Exile is rare but used when someone threatens collective survival.

View of L.A.N.D. S.E.A. ideology sees L.A.N.D. as:

Static Fear-driven Clinging to old-world ideas of ownership and borders A common S.E.A. saying: “They stand on land that is shrinking and call it power.”

Internal Tension This ideology creates real challenges:

Some Adapted citizens believe Surface-born humans slow progress. Others fear too much adaptation will erase what it means to be human. Without strong central authority, S.E.A. can struggle to respond quickly to large-scale threats.

This makes them morally appealing—but politically fragile.

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Dynamic between two civilization:

Core Relationship: Necessary Rivals L.A.N.D and S.E.A are not enemies by choice, but rivals by worldview. They fundamentally disagree on what humanity should become, yet neither can survive alone.

They trade

They argue

They distrust

They occasionally cooperate

They quietly prepare for the possibility that cooperation will fail

This creates a constant state of cold tension, not open conflict.

Ideological Clash (Why They Don’t Get Along) L.A.N.D’s View of S.E.A

Sees S.E.A as reckless evolutionists

Believes adapting the human body is dangerous and irreversible

Fears S.E.A represents the loss of “true humanity”

Thinks S.E.A’s flexibility leads to instability and lack of control

Official stance: “They abandoned the land when it needed people most.”

Privately, many in L.A.N.D also fear:

That S.E.A may be better suited for the future

That land-based humanity is slowly becoming obsolete

S.E.A’s View of L.A.N.D

Sees L.A.N.D as rigid, elitist, and afraid of change

Believes L.A.N.D is trying to cling to a drowned past

Thinks their obsession with control will cause collapse

Views L.A.N.D citizens as protected, but sheltered

Common S.E.A saying:

“They rule the last land like it’s the first.”

Resource Dependency (Why They Must Cooperate) What S.E.A Controls

Food (marine farming, algae, fish, coral crops)

Medicinal compounds from sea organisms

Biological materials unknown to surface science

Sustainable energy from tides and currents

Without S.E.A:

L.A.N.D faces famine

Medical stagnation

Ecological collapse

What L.A.N.D Controls

Ore & metals

Rare minerals

Advanced scientific infrastructure

Precision tools & engineered technology

Without L.A.N.D:

S.E.A struggles to build long-lasting structures

Limited high-level research tools

Slower technological advancement.

Trade Relationship: Unequal, but Balanced;

Trade is handled through strictly neutral zones:

Floating platforms

Shallow-water stations

Artificial reefs near land borders

Key traits of trade:

Always regulated

Always monitored

Never fully trusted

Often accompanied by political posturing

Neither side wants to be seen as needing the other— even though they clearly do.

Social Friction Between Citizens Migration Tension

S.E.A welcomes surface-born humans

L.A.N.D restricts sea-adapted individuals from full citizenship

This causes:

Mixed-heritage individuals being viewed with suspicion

Black-market movement between societies

Cultural identity conflicts.

Cultural Misunderstandings: L.A.N.D values structure, hierarchy, permanence S.E.A values fluidity, adaptability, communal decision-making

Each sees the other as:

L.A.N.D → “Too soft, too chaotic”

S.E.A → “Too strict, too brittle”

Political Status: Cold Cooperation

Official classification between the two:

Not allies

Not enemies

Strategic coexistents

There are:

No shared military

No shared governance

No shared future vision

Only shared survival—for now.

“The land believes survival comes from holding ground. The sea believes survival comes from letting go.”

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Other than two civilization clash against eachother and flood of the world, now rain is a lot more of a common thing than before, which always followed by a storm.

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