Asia, also known as The Far East or The Orient is a landmass part of Afroeurasia, one of the three (arguably four) continents on Planet Earth.
what Asia would look like from space, pre-War.
History[]
Before The Sixty Minute War[]
Before the war, Asia was home to a number of nations. Sometime in the future from now, around a few decades (up to 2016), the nation Greater China dominated this continent from the east, most possibly annexing smaller contries around it. This led to the Sixty Minute War - a catastrophic nuclear exchange, with the American Empire.
The Sixty Minute War[]
The Sixty Minute War blew massive craters in the far East of Asia, creating a crater sea in Greater China: the only Chinese citizens who escape the brutal orbital attacks and missile strikes must have lived in the Himalayas which were not very populated and therefore targeted by weapons less. They later regrouped into Shan Guo [三国/山國].
The Black Centuries[]
The Dark Centuries[]
Along with Africa, the first saplings of civilization started to sprout in Asia, particularly central Asia in the mountainous areas. The (presumably) most successful and largest mountain nation, called Shan Guo, came from these parts.
Asia And The Traction Era[]
The Traction Era scared the inhabitant(s) of the Shan Guo mountain nations of Asia, becoming the leading nations of the Anti-Traction League, starting around 1 TE when the nomad nations of Europe rose to power. When traction cities became popular around 400 TE during The Second Traction Boom, not all of Asia remained Anti-Tractionist.
It has been mentioned that cities exist in South-East Asia, and around the cratered far East of the continent. Around Indonesia a mini-traction boom started, lagging behind Europe's Third Traction Boom by some years, (possibly because of the ATL). Most cities from that region became raft cities, but possibly land cities existed around the far East and South-Eastern peninsula. However these probably died out or moved over Siberia into the main Great Hunting Ground.
Asia was the centre of the Green Storm's war effort, being a good location to drive their forces into the Hunting Ground.
After The Traction Era[]
When the last cities stopped running their engines and settled down around 1030 TE, a new era began, returning the world to the state it had been a thousand years ago. It's quite possible that the Asian nations helped the now static traction cities to set up.