you wake up after 30 years in your cryopod after the war that took place as the last war was started from people protesting against the Final Impact. Russia had a governmental argument with Japan about this, while Kazakhstan and Georgia became a superpower, and decided to escalate the situation. Kazakhstan and Georgia decided to drop bombs on locations near NERV as well as NERV territories. The entirety of Japan has became a dry, and hazardous wasteland. You must survive.