Its set 17 years in the future of the Resist Ending. Carmina, the Rye Family's Daughter had found your boss and asked him to help build your community back up, you're the Captain of Security on a train going to Hope Country, but then the Highway Men attack and the Twins show up and beat your bosses ass up, along with a cowardly officer. You enter Hope Country and get introduced to the People of Prosperity and they tell you that they need to get Professionals all over the map. You need to scavenge around and destroy outposts so you upgrade a lot of things to get the most of the game and IIRC they will take you off the map into other locations around America.
CONFIRMED LIVING:
SHARKY
HURK JR
JEROME
ALL THE RYES
JOSEPH SEED
CONFIRMED FUCKING DEAD:
BOOMER
CHEESEBURGER
I was surprised by a couple of extra details as well:
Turns out that the Highwayman are a national group and the Twins aren't the head honchos, but they run the division around Hope County. They often enslave other communities to work in factories, mines or other hard labour camps. They send out supply drops fequently and seem very well established.
Also it seems that the map suggests that the magnetic poles have shifted because a lot of the maps in the area are turned upside down. Also, small feature, but people hesitate when saying compass directions.
Edens Gate is still around, as New Eden. you'll see their members just prowling around at night killing Highwaymen, but I haven't really interacted with them, nor know much about them. Text says that they have given up on technology and are living on the land with basic tools up north.
Also you'll notice very quickly that animals are so much more vivid than their natural counterparts, I assume this is something to do with choice of design, because you will see clown-colored turkeys and a FUCK TON of white deer. These white deer are absolutely everywhere. In fact there are a shit ton of animals just wandering around in these pink flowers that had superbloomed all over the place. Also On the outskirts of the map you can see dead, trees where the superbloom hasn't hit yet.