The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/Netherlands

Part of the Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap Project.

Only half a dozen major cities were targeted in the entire Benelux region, of which only three cities in the Netherlands suffered from a direct nuclear impact. However due to its small size, radiation fallout is high across the country, cities that were not directly targeted were destroyed by food riots and looters. Almost all levees have collapsed, flooding the region with radiated water National and regional governments collapsed under the sheer weight put on them by need of this densely populated nation. The western provinces slowly turned into a hellhole with roving bands that to this days pick clean the bones of the cityscape. The more northerly provinces are relatively calm, but still suffer from food shortages, lawlessness and fallout sickness. Life expectancy is low and the outlook for the foreseeable future is exceedingly grim. We are once again a nation of subsistence farmers; all the things once known must be relearned. I feel optimistic thoughts should not enter my mind, but I know through perseverance we can pull through. We always have.

- Excerpt from a diary found on a body on the outskirts of Groningen city.