There are exceptions, Mutes with excellent recall who keep the tribe's traditions alive through an oral tradition of story-telling. Most are affected by a variety of radiation-induced infirmities, such as somewhat short-term memories and deformities varying in severity by individual. Adopting a warrior ethos and tribal society similar to Native Americans, the Mutes are primitive, employing spears and knives in combat. Ordinary citizens of the United States who managed to survive the nuclear war and adapt to the radiation mutated into a clan-based warrior society known as the Mutes. The Federation's personnel are heavily susceptible to above-ground radiation and rarely live past their fortieth birthdays as a result. It is technologically advanced, employing microlight aircraft and ' wagon-trains', massive, 600-foot-long vehicles that act as land-based aircraft carriers and mobile HQs for heavily armed infantry personnel. By AD 2989, when the novels begin, the Federation sprawls across much of the south of the United States, from Colorado and Arizona to Mississippi. Ruled by a self-perpetuating dynasty known as the First Family, the Federation expanded slowly in numbers and territory. Over time, their descendants established additional underground bunker-cities (known as divisional bases) linked by a high-speed subterranean rail network. Four hundred American citizens survived the nuclear war in a vast underground bunker beneath Houston, Texas. The most organised band of survivors is the Amtrak Federation. The resulting war lasted only a few hours, but between the nuclear exchange and the years of nuclear winter that followed, the overwhelming majority of the human race was annihilated. The United States and Russia were involved in this nuclear war but who fired the first shot is not known. In AD 2015, the old world was destroyed in a nuclear war, known in the books variously as 'The Holocaust' and 'The War of a Thousand Suns'.
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