The XY wars
Forty-three nations vie for control of the continent using XY war clones. The Continental Company is the largest of these, having a population of one billion Johns. Life is MRE menus, ammo box crunches, compliant haircuts, and gun care. But death? Death is a slutty goddess, and we are her suitors. The idea that man was once made whole by wo-man is religion. The wo-man myth has made men revere a non-existent era, seeking union with his missing complement. Yet man can only be completed in death, for he has no earthly complement.
Both death and wo-man are voids. Thus man has become fanatical about death out of a twisted reverence for the feminine. 'She' and 'her' refer to machine guns who fuck men -- soldiers everywhere flirt with death -- war is an orgasmic n-some where n = wartime casualties. The so-called 'feminine aspect' was invented to mythologize death. This myth is what binds the priestly caste with the warrior caste. Even short-timers want to die for a divine temptress whore. This culture inspires fear in others, making Johns far more combat effective than competing models.