UNPROFART

The former soviet republic of Perestrovia, whose leadership had attempted to embrace western ways by basing their entire national economy on bitcoin mining, has collapsed into civil disorder following the failure of 90% of the nation's power stations due to overload from the vast power requirements, and a series of crop disasters resulting from a critical lack of water due to diversion for GPU cooling. The central government now controls only a limited area along the coastline and around the capital city as it diverts most of its aid funding to paying the police forces in those areas, while the national army has dissolved and joined various local militias and warring factions in the remainder of the country.

Under the banner of a UN resolution, forces have been dispatched from Poland, Belgium and the UK to form UNPROFART: United Nations Protection Force: Administration, Reconstruction and Transition.

Opposing them are the warlords of the Bitcoin Bandits (farmers and hunters whose livelihoods were destroyed following their enforced pivot to labouring in the bitcoin mines), Techbros (former elite managers of the bitcoin operations who sold out fast enough to purchase advanced weaponry from foreign powers to defend their ill-gotten gains), and Neo-Luddites (fanatics who believe technology is the source of all their national ills and intend to enforce a return to subsistence agrarianism through the use of terrorism).