Actually, the Mod color is a lot closer to a light coral color. Just decided to find this out on a whim. The hex is #ff8080.
It's the entire world that got hit. I remember reading that humanity had been reduced to only ten millions in comparison to humanity's present population of 7500 millions, that would mean that the total of humans in the Post-Second Impact world accounts for around a 0.13% of today's population.
Pretty sure canon is "thanks to 2I and the ensuing wars and civil disorder, ~50% of humanity died".
Maybe I confused canon with Rebuild.
Pretty sure civilization would collapse if so little people survived. Not to mention infrastructure to produce even one Evangelion.
It's probably safe to assume it triggered some massive earthquakes. San Andreas, the Cascades, possibly New Madrid, and I think I saw Arizona mentioned. That would cause a catastrophic loss of life in America. At least in the tens of millions. Not to mention all the problems the quakes may cause.
LCL-based drug that shatters emotional barriers and makes you say nothing but the cutest things. Seems legit.
Can we call it Waff-serum? Please?
There is going to be one brief scene later cutting back to Japan, where Ritsuko and Maya discuss a few attributes of the 'Romulan Ale' that Misato forgot to mention. While drinking it themselves.
It has a few... side effects. Though Misato would mostly call them 'Awesome effects', and have another shot or three.Pretty bad. Canon is largely silent, but with global deaths at 3 billion, you can make up what you like to fill the gap. All we've got is the US has two major NERV bases (Nevada, goes BOOM due to Unit-04's S2 Engine test, and Boston, home to a MAGI set), and the economy to support building Units-03 and -04 by themselves when a single Eva Unit is in the 'bankrupt small countries' range. The 'polygamy and more is legal now' thing is mostly a handwave for The Hangover to have an excuse for why they'd even get a chance to do this.
Yeah, it's 'only' half of humanity. And worse, it's concentrated in the southern hemisphere, and coastlines facing Antarctica. So India? Mostly gone, between the Impact itself and the nuclear war with Pakistan that followed. Australia? 100% gone, save for a few settlements on the northern coast. So the US got off 'relatively' lightly, but still suffered a lot on the Pacific coast, and from secondary effects (Something like 1/4 the US economy depends on stuff coming in through the West Coast ports.)
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. 2I occurred in 2000.
I'll guess that means that pretty much the entirety of the Latinamerican and Subsaharian countries are gone, alongside with the Phillipines and the South Eastern Asia.
South America varies. The coasts got hammered, but inland was not directly hit, especially at altitude. So Bolivia wasn't hurt as bad from the Impact as Uruguay or Brazil, for example. There's no one left alive in the Falklands or Rio de Janiero, though. South Africa lost all the coast, but Congo and inland didn't feel the hit... but then comes the secondary effects of sudden climate shifts, wars, economic collapses, etc. The Philippines got partly shielded by Australia, but got hurt anyway, and the secondary effects hammered what survived the blast tsunamis. So yes, the Philippines are pretty badly wrecked, along with Indonesia and much of SEA. The parts of Singapore that are even still above water are a wreck.
The lack of world building in NGE means we don't know if that is the case for that universe, so all bets are off.
I don't really accept that considering NGE (barring SEELE and it's restoration on discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls) is supposed to take place in our world up until 2I. Thus, conversely, without any evidence I MUST assume the Soviet Union collapsed at the same time it did IRL on December 25, 1991.
There's already little signs it did not: The USS Kentucky and USS Illinois, the two Iowa-class battleships Misato shoves down Gaghiel's throat?
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. no. NO. That is not how Siberia or most of North Eastern Russia works @Strypgia. The infrastructure there is built on the idea that the very ground is either frozen soil or permafrost most of if not all of the year. So global warming combined with economic instability would have turned most of that terrain into a combination of soggy messy ruins of various pieces of infrastructure and the weird looking hills jutting out of the marshy land with nomadic groups roaming through it right after Second Impact. Whether Russia bothered to start reclaiming the land fully yet or is just using it as a buffer zone against China and any other southern or eastern state that would like to invade I couldn't tell you.
... Not exactly, but fairly accurate. It all depends on the exact region, because Siberia is freaking huge.
The rest of it is a good analysis of the state of Russia in the post-2I world as they would have still had enough infrastructure (Russia's infrastructure is built with a Scorched Earth policy of retreat in mind) left to rebuild into one of the main economic powerhouses and they have probably kept their permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Also China is know for their terrain reclamation efforts in the Pacific and Indian Oceans so I imagine that any border disputes that Russia and China have had probably involved China draining the marsh on their side of the border for space and then trying to take the part on the Russian side of the border that were drained by their reclamation efforts as new land.