The following day, after the ten-minute war between the Congo and the Antipodes, many supra-mutants joined Griffin. As well, several countries officially recognized his nation as sovereign on the world stage. The benign and promotional videos continued to come out on social networks, the marketing campaign having now become a part of daily internet life. Within two days, it was as if no war had ever happened. The only positive note that Michael saw was a counter-campaign sprouting up. A video was released and went viral roughly two days later, put out by Bruno, the Brazilian Olympian who could change his own gravitational field. It was a short movie of him showing off his neighborhood, his friends, his family, and it ended with a self-shot of him and his family overlaid with a text mess

