Artist's commentary
In 20XX, the New Order has emerged as the preeminent power of the entire world. Across the entirety of Europe, to the island of Japan, to the former Commonwealth of America, the eagle’s wings have spread across the oceans and above the mountains of practically every speck of the globe. There still exist remnants of old powers here and there, within the barbaric wastes of Africa to the untameable peoples of South America, and there remains resistance within… but they are inconsequential. In time, they will be removed.
What had to be solved immediately, however, was who got the right to be part of this prestigious new world order. The Eurasian Unionists had their own opinions about the optimal racial makeup of this new state, while the Fourth Reich had a wealth of its own ideas, all while the upper crust of the Commonwealth just simply wanted to “get a solution to the dark problem”. In the interest of completely defeating an argument before it could threaten this emergent power, a brutally simple and wretched plan was finally hatched. One that finally gave the billions of “worthless refuse” a use to the newly formed aristocracy.
Large swaths of women from all respective races would be placed into particular teams, and then forced into nearly antique combat with one another in the intentionally-left-behind regions of the world. Central Asia, the Balkans, the Midwest of America… These various places, depopulated for one reason or another, would be turned into natural arenas for a new brutal form of entertainment that would also serve the purpose of ensuring genetic hygiene that everyone could agree with. Still, many would say that these new games being in the interest of serving the eugenics aims of the state was just a cover for the depravity of the overlords of the New Order. Those who say such things will quickly find themselves shoved into these wastes all the same.
The poor, the destitute, criminals, dissidents, former enemies. None were spared in being placed in these numerous pseudo-historical wastelands, all with their own theming. They would then be forced into war against one another for the right to rejoin society and the ability to start families, likely in the harem of those who remained in the modern regions of opulence and hedonism.
This is one such region of battles, themed in a manner of Napoleonic warfare. The technology has been forced into the time period of those old battles of line infantry, and the uniforms granted and set by the various rules of these games have been forced to be more showy than they ever were in reality. All of it is in the interest of entertaining those who watch from unseen spectator’s halls, and through the many hidden cameras in these places. War is constant for who has been unfortunately thrust into these games, and the wars of Napoleon were some of the most destructive Europe had ever seen.
Whoever wins in this cruel reality of warfare… is for fate to decide.