June 21, 2032

The world economy has stabilized. All countries are beginning to prosper and compete in worldwide free trade.

October 8, 2034

Benedict delivers a State of the World address to the General Assembly of the United Nations. Garrett Valdison sits in the Presidential section. The state of the world has never been better.

Now comes the beginning of a period of strange unanticipated, but decisive, events that were well on the way to happening apart from the splendid changes brought about by Libertarian Nationalism.

March 2035

The first of these is the mass migration of lower caste people from India, and the bushman population of Australia, to those portions of Africa which seem best suited to them culturally. Why this happens, and why it is allowed on such a scale, is never clear to anyone except those involved.