October 2055

At Buckingham Palace the New Britain Confederacy Prime Minister Michelle Balcklock  presided over the thirty second anniversary of the establishment of the first Martian Colonies by the Netherlands in 2023.

Canadian Northern Territories President Richard Brentwood speaking from the capitol in Albany,New York
is due to give a world wide press conference on the Mars/Cydonia Archaeological  Mission launched in 2051.Also anticipation builds as images from the Ares Deep Space Telescope on Phobos reveal what might be first contact  for the planet Earth.

So much has changed on our world since late 2013.
The fall of the European Union in May of 2013,and the formation of what would become the New Britain Confederacy.
The birth of New Palestine in 2014 and the Arab-African Alliance in 2016.
The change of what was America in 2015.The American Confederation unifying it's southern states.It's northeastern states joining with Canada.The western states becoming the North Provinces Of Mexico.

Let's hope the next forty-two years are as productive and interesting as the last  forty-two have been.