Athenian democracy developed in the Greek city-state of Athens comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica around 550 BC. Athens is one of the first known democracies. Other Greek cities set up democracies, and even though most followed an Athenian model, none were as powerful, stable, nor as well-documented as that of Athens.
Cities are liable to occasional depressions of trade, resulting from over production, or the successful rivalry of foreign nations, or even portions of the same country; or there are smashings of banks, and commercial panics, and periods of general mistrust.
All the communications and military satellites would be gone, shot down and destroyed. Most of the world's power grid would have failed due to EMP bombs.
