The year is 1948 and the world has just witnessed the worst of what governments will do to people when left unchecked with its power. America is the leader in the world, mostly due to the fact that Europe was a smoldering pile of rubble and all of its treasure was traded for bombs and tanks. The Americans, however, were very busy back at home plotting how they could control the continent from across an entire ocean.
From the creation of the Smith-Mundt Act to the formation of the World Health Organization and NHS, the world kept spinning after the war and some of the control structures that remain to this day were installed during 1948. Israel & North Korea were formed on disputed land, and South Africa decided that its land dispute would be handled in a very particular way.