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Originally Posted by Tegyrius
If none of your players are experts or natives, they won't notice your errors. Don't sweat it.
You don't need nuclear strikes to blow up one of those countries. High-altitude EMP will do the trick just fine, wrecking infrastructure and collapsing the supply chain that keeps the cities fed. Then your "warring armies" are different factions of refugees against loose alliances of rural villages, each organized around a particular charismatic leader.
As far as WW3, I think you need a major destabilizing event that makes a lot of countries hungry at once. One thing I suggested early in the 2013 design process was a massive volcanic eruption in the Aleutian Islands that triggered a Year Without a Summer-like event. The resulting global famine did the rest for me.
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All of the above +1
A general overview of the target country and a few bits of information for colour to illustrate what makes the country different to your own will be enough for most Players. If you really want to get detailed, borrow one of the Lonely Planet guide books from the library.
Modern societies, especially if they rely on a lot of administrative or resource "centralization", are surprisingly fragile and find it very difficult to cope with major disasters.
Take electricity out of the normal daily life of any North American, European or other 1st/2nd World country and the world is finished. We rely on electricity for nearly every aspect of our lives from fuel pumps at the filling station, to the checkout counter at the supermarket to keeping our food fresh and ourselves entertained at home.
All you need is one really big solar flare and you have "Nature's own EMP" to screw up the electrical system for a really long time. After that people will argue over resources like food and clothing at the local stores because modern living has made us all too materialistic and selfish. When it goes on for week after week, then you'll have communities fighting other communities for resources and after that countries against countries.
Everyone should research The Year Without Summer if they want another possibility for Nature to end the world. A series of volcanic eruptions close to each other would tip us into the abyss. The interruption to agricultural along with disruption of the weather patterns to cause "Katrina" like events and the lack of such things as air travel due to layers of airborne debris would screw us up worse than it did everyone in 1816 because most of us live and work in cities and have very little idea how to grow food, raise animals, collect/prepare wood for fires and so on.