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And to developers, the scenario you're projecting will never happen. The world will not fall apart in five year, or in ten for that matter.
However, we've heard this before as a criticism of Supreme Ruler 2010, and the long answer is that it's not entirely impossible. Improbable and unlikely, yes, but not beyond the realm of possibility.
Recently a number of good books have been published on the history of WWI and its buildup, and one thing that everyone agrees upon is that in 1910 nobody expected the world (or Europe at least) to pretty much fall apart before the decade was over. After all, everyone in power in Europe was pretty much related to everyone else in some way, the major dynasties had their own survival to worry about, and nobody wanted millions of their productive citizens dead over "some damned foolish thing in the Balkans".
And except for some with a high level of paranoia, most people in 1935 didn't expect the world to come falling apart again in a few years. Neville Chamberlain remains controversial, but he certainly wasn't a fool - and he honestly believed that "the world will not fall apart" right up until it started happening.
When we talk about present day, there are already a lot of people that discuss the possibilities of a major collapse in many world institutions, due to two reasons: 1) Oil demand starting to outstrip supply as developing nations grow, and 2) Massive US debt and trade deficits.
One of the catalysts of the Supreme Ruler 2010 storyline is the switch by OPEC to Euros from US Dollars for the sale of oil. This has extensively been discussed in financial and economic papers and journals - and they all point out the the sale of oil in US dollars creates a huge artificial demand for dollars (and dollar reserves) that wouldn't exist otherwise. There is no consensus on the result of a switch to Euros for oil, but predictions range from a major US recession to a massive collapse of US financial systems. Clearly, SR2010 puts its bets on the collapse possibilities.
Doing a few google searches for articles on the topics of "petro euros", the US debt, and the US trade deficit result in a collection of possibilities that make SR2010 look all too plausable... in fact, it almost seems that the only thing holding the whole system together is that nobody wants to "throw the first stone", since in the end there everybody would lose in one way or another.
-- George.
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