Where is power armor gonna come from without them?

^Pre-war military bases, random spots on the map, some merchant inventories, or we could make our own. Though that last option sounds like a slog (it's hard enough to maintain power armor).

Well America in Fallout universe includes annexed Canada, so perhaps having a game take place there would be a sort of medium.

@Firebends that could be fun. We'd get stuff like Canadian Mounties, etc. and I totally can see storylines where there's still natives who are bitterly angry at Americans and hates them for what happened to the world, blaming America for everything. for good reason. Americans annexed them, then the bombs dropped.

Also knowing japan was highly influenced by america in the 1950s theres a chance they kinda adapt to a mixed culture sorta thing so it wouldnt be like unreasonable

And Japan was one of the friendlies in the great war right? it was just china that was the baddos

^^ that's right. though there still was a lot of racism against Japanese-Americans, proably because Chinese spies and what not could easily pass themselves off as Japanese to the uninformed.

There's some canon characters, like Gerenal Chase, who were so racist against them that he kept on mixing up Japanese and Chinese customs and practices, treating them interchangeably. To him, Chinese and Japanese were the same, and it certainly vexed him that we were friendly with Japan but not with the Chinese. and this could be seen in the simulated mission DLC in Fallout 3, which Gerenal Chase had an hand in. Hint: the simulation has the Chinese doing things like committing sepkuu, which is a Japanese thing. the Chinese never did something like that.

Paulson also consistently calls Toshiro the "Chinaman" when he's clearly a Japanese samurai.

It's cool that you guys are talking about what Fallout would look like outside of America, but I asked if a Fallout game could survive without the BOS or Enclave.

@HorrorMasterGuy I would say yes. I think we can get all the cool power armors without them in a lore-friendly way. But I think it also would have to be the opposite of Fallout 4, where you pretty much find power armors almost everywhere... they'd be hard-to get collectiables. and the NPCs would have to comment on it every time they see you in power armor.