The period between the Khan Solar Storm of 187 BFC and the formation of Dominio proper in 181 BFC is sometimes known as the Reset of Nations or simply the Reset, due to the rapid geopolitical shifts that occurred. The foundations for many of these changes had previously been laid by the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and the United States increasing disinterest in intervening in international conflicts, but were accelerated by the disintegration of large amounts of state power in the aftermath of the storm.

The immediate geopolitical changes in the first years were the complete disintegration of Venezuela, Syria, Georgia, Lebanon, and Pakistan, and economic collapse in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Sogdia economic zone. The political and economic vacuum was usually filled by neighbours such as Türkiye, Uzbekistan, and the newly formed Levantine Republic, or from nearby administrative districts such as Aruba y Paraguaná taking over the Paraguaná Refinery Complex. At the same time the Trypanosomiasis crisis destabilised much of Africa and South America. The changes from the initial two years of chaos created the conditions for the formation of the Eurasian Bloc and Dominio.

Longer term geopolitical changes were created by the combination of growing food abundance from engineered RuBisCO proteins developed as a crisis response measure, along with widespread availability of Synth child care and a general optimism from the recovery, leading to a baby boom and the Ceres Wave in the 170s. Another change seeded by the Reset was the increasing eradication of endemic tropical diseases in the aftermath of the Trypanosomiasis crisis leading to increasing GDP growth and expansionism from countries that previously struggled with them, most notably Indonesia, India, and Nigeria.

The reset paved the way for a long laissez faire period, lasting up until the Retrograde Diaspora, marked by an increase in corporate managed international and off earth policing as the United States was replaced first by a combination of private organisations such as the Havfélög and other large national forces such as the GPR, and later by larger coalition forces such as the Peacekeepers and Greater Zhōngguó which were primarily focused on larger scale piracy, trade, and military issues.