New World Oligarchy

Soviet Communism has fallen, and has been replaced by something that remotely resembles a democracy, but isn't so Eurasia is in place and gearing up to claim the future. Chinese Communism hasn't fallen, but has mutated into blatant kapitalism with a happy few on top, shamelessly feeding on suppressed and largely ignorant masses who apparantly need Nike, Cola, McDonalds, Wallmart and so forth more then they need literacy, freedom of speech, healthcare and the likes. They got to be most favoured trading partner because of all these eager peasants. They get to host the Olympics too. Enter Eastasia.
The Unted States of America, the land of the free, is slowly crumbling as well and turning into Oceania. Freedom of speech applies only to those who agree, ghost prisoners arrive daily in third country prisons, robbed from even the basic human rights, mass surveillance is everywhere, not just in court. The "holy trinity of the American political establishment [are] big business, the major political parties and the commercial media."[2] Add the forth mayor player in these affairs, the militairy/industrial complex, and all four ministeries are in place. Not all that far away from just one political party formed by those who want to stay the course, Democrats and Repulicans united in their support of an occupation which is being sold as war. Not far away from a single media voice, revenues from commercials split evenly between some 4 multinational entities, a percentage of which being shipped back to the two parties who behave like siamese twins.

So, the dreaded New World Order seems to have arrived in the form of three global Oligarchies, cooperating while competing much like rival telecom companies together chip in for transatlantic cables. The last stronghold of something we could consider democracy might be Fortress Europe, future battleground for commerce and possibly not able to hold it's ground under this trifold pressure, but home of the Last Man in the World no doubt.
Roll the bones.
Somewhere early 2008 Israel and the USA will attack Iran while Russia and China will attack North Korea after a nuclear device has exploded in an American harbor. National emergency declared in the USofA, martial law, FEMA takes over, suspends the constitution. And Bush is going to be president for life.
Orwell doesn't roll in his grave. He's laughing.

[1] Oligarchy
[2] The Democrats walk themselves to the gallows