Apocalypse

The Apocalypse or also known as Z-Apocalypse was a major event within The Last Survivors universe. The event killed around 90% of the world's population (roughly around 7billion) within a few months in 2021. Although first appearing in as early as December 2020, the event hit worldwide in late February 2021 with the last country collapsing in mid October 2021. In The Last Survivors, so much of the American population has fallen victim to the Apocalypse that many major cities have been left abandoned or handed to bandits.

History
The eventual Apocalypse was due to the spread of a mutated virus from an unknown origin and host. It was first recorded in East Asia but can be traced as far back as Central and South Asia. At first, the virus only spread through infected water but greatly mutated to spreading through shared fluids with an infected. South Korea was the first country to collapse due to the virus in around April 2021. However, the virus wasn't recorded and seen by social media platforms until about May 2021.

In around February-April 2021, the virus rapidly spread through the Middle East, North Africa and Europe where noticeably in The First Survivors, the virus "enveloped the land masses". However, a worldwide panic dubbed as The Great Panic, didn't hit until May 2021-June 2021 where trade, transporation and power were cut from all major countries. During this panic, many went into hiding or fighting with others causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands for simple things like food to small things like toilet paper. In around June-July 2021, many megacities were firebombed to slow the spread (the governments didn't realise it were too late).

Statistically, around 90% of the world population were dead as of late 2021 and around 88% of the United States population were dead as of November 2021, meaning that in other areas of the world there may of been an even higher or lower % of dead citizens. The only other country beside the United States with a known statistic is Barbados who only had 200 survivors out of the 286,000 (which is roughly 99.93% dead). In the 2032 timeline, it can be guessed that this 90% can be increased to around 95-97% due to other worldwide events such as The Great Blizzard and Fire of Rio.

Extant

 * United States 18 Safe-Zones (only 1 remains as of 2032)
 * Saint Catalina Island (as of May 2021)
 * Unnamed Idaho Community (2021-present)

Collapsed

 * Krieger Farm (2021-2032)

Unknown

 * Kingdom of Himalayas (extant as of mid 2021)
 * City of Edmonton (extant as of 2021)
 * City of Calgary (extant as of 2021)
 * City of Saskatoon (extant as of 2021)