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[Fallout] Hypothetically, what would Canada be like in the Fallout world with the culture being 50s inspired?
gpt
If Canada survived, they're going to hate America's guts. And Canada may not have survived.

Canada basically got hijacked at gunpoint by the US in the years before the nukes flew. Having twisted Canada's arm into letting them place military units on the Canadian west coast to protect the Anchorage -> Lower 48 oil pipeline, those forces adopted a policy that can be described as "whatever we want, whenever we want, and fuck the locals". And after several years of acting like they owned a place, pissing off the locals and provoking resistance, the Americans stepped it up to actually annexing Canada and brutally smacking down any military or civilian forces. By all indications, the action was brutal. Shit was so rough that when it was time to show film reel to the U.S. public, they chose a *gunshot execution of an unarmed, kneeling Canadian citizen* as the face of the annexation, and narratives by participants (like Randall Clark >!aka the Father in the Cave!< from the Honest Hearts DLC) suggest that it was pretty much a big pile of war crimes against Canada's population.

Handicapped by that invasion taking down their military and civilian command and control structures, and (to our best knowledge) lacking a parallel to Vaultec to build large underground shelters, any Canadians who survived the nukes would have a long row to hoe in terms of rebuilding. Fewer groups would be able to hold out long enough to establish tribal-level communities, and as far as we can tell no NCR-tier nation-states have emerged in the generations following the war and the emergence from the American vaults. There may be nothing left up there worth describing... or there could be some descendants of the old Canadian partisans, who remember the sins of the past, and are waiting for the right moment for revenge.