On the day of the ceremony marking the transition from the A.D. to the Universal Century calendar, the space station Laplace, official residence of the Earth Federation prime minister, is destroyed by a terrorist bombing. One of the terrorists, a young man named Syam Vist, is caught in the explosion but barely manages to survive. He obtains a forbidden box that will come to be known as Laplace's Box.

Almost a century later, in Universal Century 0096...
...Presidents and Prime Ministers spoke
.تحدّث الرؤساء ورؤساء الوزارء مع مواطني بلدانهم المعنيّة فحسب...
Bisher sprachen Präsidenten und Premierminister
nur zu ihrem eigenen Land und Volk.
…los líderes políticos les hablaban solo
a los ciudadanos de sus respectivos países.
…los líderes políticos les hablaban solo
a los ciudadanos de sus respectivos países.
… les chefs d’État ne s’adressaient
qu’à leurs propres concitoyens.
Outros presidentes e primeiros-ministros