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Another break from Lenin, which just has one last entry anyway. It's GURPS Cyberworld[1]. While this doesn't show up in Infinite Worlds, Infinite Worlds itself is explicit that all GURPS settings are in the Infinite Worlds. So, this counts.

It's a cyberpunk dystopia written in the 1990s, so it's weird. The United States is a dictatorship under the ProGov regime, China's CCP has been overthrown by the "Third Revolution" movement, and there's a Chilean-Argentine union. What I found most charming about Cyberworld is how poorly it has aged and has become a time capsule of sorts for 90s sensibilities. Germany has gone nationalist and is leading the nationalist bloc in United Europe. The Iberian Federation is leading the anti-nationalists and is challenging Germany for #1 in the UE. Canada breaks apart. The CIS becomes the replacement for the USSR, and is highly modern and globalist. The CAF is around because you have to have an ersatz-Soviet Union. Japan is a great power again (aligned with Russia), because of course Japan's decline is temporary. Fidel Castro died in 2002, and the Americans naturally responded by invading the place. Apartheid ended in a race war. Australia was wiped out by a possibly-artificial plague. A very unique timeline. Quite a few of the annotations are direct from the sourcebook, which I recommend to anybody interested in looking further on this.

[1] This is also the same geopolitical setup as GURPS CthulhuPunk. Distinct from CthulhuTech, which is published by another company.

Description
Another break from Lenin, which just has one last entry anyway. It's GURPS Cyberworld[1]. While this doesn't show up in Infinite Worlds, Infinite Worlds itself is explicit that all GURPS settings are in the Infinite Worlds. So, this counts.

It's a cyberpunk dystopia written in the 1990s, so it's weird. The United States is a dictatorship under the ProGov regime, China's CCP has been overthrown by the "Third Revolution" movement, and there's a Chilean-Argentine union. What I found most charming about Cyberworld is how poorly it has aged and has become a time capsule of sorts for 90s sensibilities. Germany has gone nationalist and is leading the nationalist bloc in United Europe. The Iberian Federation is leading the anti-nationalists and is challenging Germany for #1 in the UE. Canada breaks apart. The CIS becomes the replacement for the USSR, and is highly modern and globalist. The CAF is around because you have to have an ersatz-Soviet Union. Japan is a great power again (aligned with Russia), because of course Japan's decline is temporary. Fidel Castro died in 2002, and the Americans naturally responded by invading the place. Apartheid ended in a race war. Australia was wiped out by a possibly-artificial plague. A very unique timeline. Quite a few of the annotations are direct from the sourcebook, which I recommend to anybody interested in looking further on this.

[1] This is also the same geopolitical setup as GURPS CthulhuPunk. Distinct from CthulhuTech, which is published by another company.