I-cimaci is Lisbon

When Rei is first awakened in Rome's Revolution, he is confronted with a torrent of new information. It takes him a long time to absorb it all.

One of things that he learns is that the current de facto capital of Earth is called I-cimaci which means "The Beginning" or "The First" in Vuduri. The reason this is significant is because when I was designing the Vuduri language, I had to base it off of something so I decided to base it off of Portuguese. My thinking was the disease vector, Darwin Virus Strain 4, would sweep through the US, Europe and Asia. Since Portugal is at the tip of the Iberian peninsula, I figured that if the disease attenuated at all, it would be the weakest there.

The only other place where people would be less affected would be land masses that are isolated, like Hawaii. That was why I decided to make that the home base of the mandasurte. It is ironic that MASAL decided to go there to create his staging area for conquering the human race.

The rest of the countries of the world were more or less reset. The story of Jack Henry (found in The Ark Lords) takes place in north Jersey but it is explained that eventually, people migrated from the Americas and back to Europe. By the time Rei and Rome get there, the continent is nearly deserted. Except for Southern California. You'll have to read Rome's Evolution to see what is going on there.