What do you think is the status of the caribbean(Puerto Rico, Dominica republic,Virgin islands,etc.) after the great war? Most would have little reason to be targeted by bombs so maybe they survived relatively ok?The would still have to deal with radiated water though.

In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

The earth was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands, quickly raged out of control. Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth.

One of the recurring themes of Fallout is that life will find a way to continue, albeit often under great struggles and with violence and suffering. It's not unreasonable, given this notion, to presume that U.S. remnant forces remain in parts of China, just as remnant Chinese elements are in the U.S.; and that other countries are similarly ravaged and war-torn, with survivors crawling out of the rubble. If Australia was untouched by the war, for instance, then presumably after 200 years they would have projected their powerful industrial presence and comparatively high population all around the globe to take control of any remaining resources, and the Enclave would find itself locked in a war with the Aussies. It's likely that some underpopulated parts of the third world escaped the full brunt of nuclear devastation, but since these would have been low-population unindustrialized areas anyway, they are not exactly in a position to take advantage of their "good fortune," such as it is. (I don't imagine that many nukes were wasted on the Sahara.)

Other countries, seeing the US's missiles on their way, fire their warheads as well. What ensues is two hours of nuclear bombardment upon the earth's surface.

Tenpenny Tower was slightly inspired by Fiddler's Green, the skyscraqer in George Romero's Land of the Dead. But it was also an opportunity to introduce another character from outside the U.S. Allistair Tenpenny came to the Capital Wasteland from Great Britain to seek his fortune, so that alone tells you that the U.K. was also hit in the war. And if he came to U.S. to succeed, that says a lot about how screwed up Europe must be. So we just allude, a little bit, to the state of the rest of the world.

Killzig: What ever happened to the catholic church in the FO universe?

Tim Cain: I think it was nuked - the vatican that is.

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Established lore and developer comments aside, Bethesda has made it clear through several pieces of dialogue and entire DLC expansions that there are areas where no bombs fell, areas as large and urbanized as Pittsburgh, so it is certainly possible there are several island nations never hit with a bomb.

That said, Bethesda has also made it clear even these spared areas suffer the fate of a radically altered enviornment and a total lack of social structure, meaning those islands are likely buried under water, completely irradiated or suffering under anarchy or tribal rule.

It would be an interesting place to visit someday in a game or expansion though, this is certain.

What do you think is the status of the caribbean(Puerto Rico, Dominica republic,Virgin islands,etc.) after the great war? Most would have little reason to be targeted by bombs so maybe they survived relatively ok?The would still have to deal with radiated water though.

Boring, probably. Aside from the possibility of fighting a mutant chupacabra.