<span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>

The Betaverse, in the series Charlie Jade, is a parallel universe in the Multiverse—our universe, our world, one half-hour from now.

As far as Vexcor is concerned, the sumulative effect of man's history, culture and economics has driven our world beyond saving. It is considered just a link in the chain to the real target - Gammaverse.

It's a world of capitalist economies and struggling democracies, fallen communist regimes and fanatical religious dictatorships.

A world of overcrowded and polluted cities, vanishing rainforests and dying oceans. A dehumanizing and frustrating world of sensory overload, choking on technology and becoming more like Alphaverse every day.

Factbook

Population: 6 billion

Government Structure: Independent nation states of various electoral, monarchial, and autocratic systems.

Class Structure: Various regional class systems based in socio-economic rank and tribal relationships.

Environmental Issues:

• Air pollution (greenhouse gases) from fossil fuels acting on atmospheric O3 layer; resulting in climate change and altered weather patterns
• Water pollution, deforestation levels rising.

Energy Production: Heavy dependence on fossil fuels - coal, petroleum, natural gas. Some nuclear, hydropower.

Incarcerated Population: 3.7 million - 0.0006% of global pop.

Life Expectancy at Birth:

• Total population - 61.43
• male - 55.63 years
• female - 68.36 years