Union Of Imperial States
The Crumbling Empire
In the north, covering a vast expanse of the continent in factories and rail lines, exists a confederation of powerful industrialists, aristocrats and military nobility. Though their territories are extensive, and their legions of armor and artillery are a force to be reckoned with, and their concrete superfortresses and colossal vehicles a marvel of military engineering, their empire has been slowly eroded by the gnawing attacks of raiders, corrupt officials, dwindling resources and sabotage by rival powers. Unless a great leader can emerge to reverse their fortunes, they exist on borrowed time.
Warband Tribes
The barbarians
The most numerous peoples of the Second World. Countless miles of land and sea are ruled by all kinds of isolationist nomads, superstitious cults, seafaring pirates and bloodthirsty motorized warbands. For a long time they have been considered too technologically backwards to be an existential threat by the civilized border nations - beyond the occasional raid - authorities have recently scrambled to decry rumors of so-called witches, strange creatures, and massive armies of twisted machines made from the litter of the old world wreaking havoc across the continent as hysteria and hyperbole. While these backwards peoples have existed for centuries, if a single warlord were to unite them all, it could very seriously mean the end for their more civilized neighbors.
Triple Consortium
The new world order
In the east, a series of private enterprises and local militias have risen from humble origins and conglomerated into a singular entity. This new state is now the single most advanced fighting force on the planet, using re-engineered technologies from the Old World to put it ahead of its rivals, and rapidly expanding its territories using enormous mobile refineries and walking structures supported by the best trained soldiers and pilots on the continent. While even in recent memory its peoples were once simple farmers and workers, with the rapid industrialization of its cities and emergent military force this new government has set its sights on expansion, and no rival powers may be able to stop it.