During the mid-2000's, America's president got into a debate with the Prime Minister of Britain over whether tea was better than coffe. This greatly offended the Prime Minister, and he declared a full-scale war on America. Because all of the other countries were bored, they decided to jump into the fight as well. Because this is the future, pretty much every single country had some sort of nuclear or atomic weapon, and each country ended up using them. Because of this, the world was plunged into an atomic war, which ended in the destruction of life as we knew it.
Now it is currently the early 3000's, and life on Earth is not any closer to technological Nirvana than it was before. In fact, the destruction of the Earth kinda set it back a few thousand years.
Now there is hardly any technology left, the Earth is in ruins, and everyone is out for their own survival. Let's see how long the game of Life can last now?