Setting
Consider the year 2011. The world would be, under normal circumstances, still recovering from the economic crisis. New technologies are invented nearly weekly in remote locations. The president is black. All in all, the world isn't good, but isn't bad. There is tolerance, progress, and yet many people can't claim to have much - just enough.
After the outbreak of the virus, however, things changed. As the outbreak spead virulently, and unsuspected, the deaths numbered in the millions. Services shut down in the span of a few months, unable to handle the amount of calls they got - first the fire departments, then the police. Lastly, an