The year is 2077.

The new ultra-right-wing American Traditional Party clinches control of the government with only 35% of the vote in a divided electorate.

Their executive, President Ronald Jameson, issues an executive order reinterpreting the text of the Culturally Significant Properties Anti-Appropriation Act.

He reclassifies medieval and renaissance Europe, as well as Rome, and all derivative properties, as White European, a group which previously had no assigned cultural properties under the act.  

Chaos ensues.  Hundreds of thousands of cultural appropriation lawsuits are filed.  Challenges are made both to his interpretation, and to the unique ownership of these ideas and concepts.

But it is too late.  The Act was never designed with the proper restraints on power.  After all, the future only moves forwards, right?  And the metaphorical train of Separatism soon left the station.