The post-nuclear wastes of California in which the Fallout series takes place offer a glimpse into a steampunk Dark Age in a state of flux. As the American Commonwealth falls away amid the dropping bombs, new factions vie with one another in a bid to establish their truths as the New Order.
The vault-dwellers, descendants of the pre-war rich, who could afford access to the fallout shelters known as vaults in the old world, reside underground in ordered communities run by the Vault-Tec Corporation.
