EA48: Heavy Rotation

I plan on adding to this, but for now: Please prepare for a very idol future.
– ♥, Nabocchan

In the grim darkness of 2016, there is only idol.
The dictatorship of EA48 spans from the shifting western border of China to the easternmost islands of Japan, its tendrils stretching into the ruins of Russia and India.
The greatest minds in idol music criticism had gotten it fatally wrong. Talent agencies weren't serving the Japanese government's agenda. The government worked for the idol groups.
Did they even know? It's difficult to say now. Things changed very quickly.
December 31, 2015: In an unprecedented move, AKB48 unveils a surprise rerelease of Heavy Rotation. This new edition is televised nationwide and broadcast internationally via the internet. Within thirty hours of listening, all who are exposed have either expressed a desire to surrender themselves fully to idol rule and spread the song further or have died of some sort of mental trauma.
It would seem that someone in the States knew about this plan. Youtube Red was implemented in late October to block AKB48 videos, a last-ditch effort. Whoever designed it probably thought they had saved most of America. Maybe it was the last thing they thought. It would be a merciful oblivion.
But fansubbers proved tenacious, and within two weeks reuploaded videos were blaring from every street corner in every country. Populations moved blindly toward Japan in great exoduses, plunging into oceans and dying of starvation in the billions.
Only one demographic has proven resistant to the broadcasts: other idols. Could their marketability coaching or opposing collective identities have accidentally functioned to build defenses? Could it anyone have planned such a thing?
Regardless of reason, these idol units have roamed the East Asian territory seeking recruits, forming factional alliances, and above all trying to survive. Most have already been eliminated or absorbed back into the EA48 machine.
In a world of idols ruling over idols, Team Shachihoko's Capital Relocation Plan may be the last hope at toppling EA48. Even now the Nagoya-based operation nears its final stages...