The globe adjusts to metahumans - some countries also adopting their own Hero programs, others criminalising the use of metahuman abilities.

As of September 2018 the Federal Hero Program has been in operation for four months. To those within the program it is clearly still under development, relying on a small number of highly trained, powerful metahumans to enforce the law. To the public it is already a branch of the federal government.

Other countries have undertaken similar programs, tentatively introducing Heroes to combat metahumans who seek to use their powers for personal gain. In other places metahumans are treated alternately as gods, or as weapons. Some countries have ruled all metahumans as property of the state, and subject them to experimentation and testing.

Britain is a prominent country that has taken a radically different approach. Metahumans are required by law to register their powers and public use of abilities is prosecutable by law, regardless of the reason. Parents with metahuman children can be deemed unfit to raise them with no recourse or warning. They have been roundly criticised, and many pro-metahuman groups hold up Britain as an example of what they fear may come to pass.

Heroes have become a major part of public life in America. Licensed merchandise is now a market worth millions. Posters, posable action figures and clothing bearing the icons and colours of popular superheroes can be found at local stores and in nationwide chains. Talk shows have grown around them, and Heroes are now at the centre of the greatest cultural shift since the printing press.