In the year 2150, an explosion of energy erupted on all major continents of the world. Nobody died and no buildings were destroyed, arousing the attention of news outlets and civilians. In the beginning, they all thought that the nuclear facilities of the significant powers went off in some freak accident. But that wasn't the case, and it wouldn't take them long to find that out.
The explosion wasn't from a nuclear weapon, it was an explosion of energy that came out of nowhere. People could absorb this energy, surpass human limits, and gain different abilities. With this energy that randomly went about it didn't take long for superhumans to show up out of nowhere with powers, but before the general public could know that this mysterious energy would change their society as a whole the already awakened superhumans were taken by the governments and offered contracts to work but hide in the shadows.
In 2153 the CIA, NSA, FBI, and DEA all came together to form the Council which was a group whose goal was to have a monopoly over the superhuman population and run America behind the scenes and eventually the world. A few years after the Council was formed they started their manipulations behind the scenes and starts to war with Central and South America whose goal on the surface was to combat the war on drugs but in reality, it was to take over both continents.
America was not the only country that had such grand ambitions as the other two continents also hid the existences and superhumans from the public and begin their war with America. All three of these forces kept the war a secret; even Canada was out of the loop and was preoccupied with its own problems. The DEA creates artificial bioweapons that cripple drug production and causes massive wars between drug lords and other cartels, which have superhumans in their ranks in Central and South America. The war got so bad and chaotic that the governments of Bolivia and Venezuela collapsed completely.
The war reaches a new high when the cartels retaliate from the bio attacks on their drug production by colluding with terrorist organizations to launch a superhuman attack in New York City which causes half of Times Square to be destroyed from the intensity of the battles. With this attack, the war between the U.S. and Central and South America is put on hold, with such a huge attack news spread quickly all around the world making the existence of superhumans known to the general public.
The population of superhumans began to increase rapidly on a global scale but thanks to the top nations keeping them a secret for a reasonable amount of time they took precautions and made contingencies if the existence of superhumans became known to everybody. Some big families and corporations had already discovered the truths and had plenty of superhumans in their ranks but like the government, they hid the truth from the public, with this they were able to establish deals and partnerships with them and keep a firm foothold on the superhuman population.
They kept a monopoly on rare and crucial techniques of all Professions of supers to restrict them and force them to work for the government or the powerful families.
This along with the ceasefire on the Central and South American War continued until 2177 when the United States get caught manipulating the stock market and trying to instigate a war between China and Russia from the shadows. This causes the stock market to crash and for the U.S. economy to completely break down and 1/3 of the entire American population goes homeless, gang activity and crime reach an all-time high, and the whole country is forced to go into martial law and the megacorporation who are watching this from the sidelines begin to rise in power.
But somewhere in the middle of the stock crash crisis, the U.S. was able to ignite a world war that ravaged the entire planet. Supers started popping out left and right and at the peak of the war a massive explosion of energy happened again but this time the earth increased multiple times its size. The United States was busy dealing with its internal problems so it didn't get involved in the war and was not touched by it even though they were the one who started it in the first place.
In 2199, the U.S. restarted its war with Central and South America but it didn't last long and ended in 2204. During that time whistleblowers and others began to investigate the background of the United States and by 2209 The Council got exposed.
This along with the ever-increasing restriction of Super by the elites triggered a massive insurrection in America that ended in the absolute eradication of the U.S. government and most of the major families and the megacorporations and PMCs that were steadily rising in power ever since the stock market crash were now the undisputed powerhouses of the country. The insurrection ended by 2215 but peace barely lasted as after the civil war ended a violent corporate war broke out.
During the corporate war, gangs started taking over certain parts of the United States and by the time everything calmed down in 2220 the United States didn't have states anymore as the country was now divided into Zones.
By the end of the First Corporate War in 2220 the megacorporations were able to take back the territories occupied by all of the gangs.