

These include, but are not limited to, the effects of overpopulation and what would happen if one person lived in a vault by themselves with nothing to keep them entertained but a box of puppets. Unbeknown to almost everyone, the vaults were actually built for human research to test different psychological scenarios on the inhabitants. These vaults would house and protect privileged people from the atomic bombs. government knew that a nuclear war was probably going to happen sometime within the next few decades, so "Project Safehouse" was initiated to construct special nuclear fallout shelters known as Vaults. Vaults A traditional birthday party in a Vault

Society in Fallout is locked in a 1950s aesthetic, even as robotics and computers advanced far past the technology of that era. The Fallout series is known for its retrofuturism aesthetic, the result of technological advancements outpacing the rate of cultural change. It isn't known who launched the first missile. Soon, nuclear missiles began flying everywhere, and after two hours the world descended into a barren wasteland. The United States then responded by invading China. A war broke out that lead to the invasion of Alaska by China. Over time fossil fuels and other resources became extremely scarce, and all of the advanced nations around the globe began scrambling to secure as much supplies as they could. The war itself, referred to as the Great War, was a result of severe tensions between China and the United States following an energy and resource crisis.

The games are set in post-apocalyptic United States after a deadly nuclear war wiped out most life on the planet. Fallout is a series of role-playing games originally published by Interplay but now being published by Bethesda Softworks.
