In the dusty, open plains of Patagonia, there lies a small, wooden sign. No taller than 7 feet, there is an inscription on it. "Welcome to Ushuaia. Gate to the Antarctic". Yet, some residents have a better inscription for the sign. "Welcome to Ushuaia. Welcome to the End of the World". Home to the Yaghan people, for most of history, Ushuaia served as any other spot in the bottom end of the Southern Cone, as a place where natives lived and died. Faced with bracing winters, and humid summers, Ushuaia is not an easy place to live in. Yet, it has transformed into something else.

Something much stranger, and more powerful than the former fishing village ever expected. Ushuaia has been turned into a chess piece, in a long and very intricate game against Chile. Argentina and Chile both demand and require the coveted title of "most Southern city in the world". While at first this may just seem like a vanity project, this "competition" has real, tangible consequences. The winner would have control over the entire Strait of Magellan, and all the trade that goes around it. While the Strait has been made mostly redundant due to the Panama Canal, much intercontinental trade - and naval ships - still pass through the region. Whoever the winner is, the townsfolk of Ushuaia will continue as they did 10,000 years before. At the end of the world.