Does this assumption also include the other half of the World ignoring the affected? You raise some excellent points, but I think for chaos levels to reach soc

Does this assumption also include the other half of the World ignoring the affected? You raise some excellent points, but I think for chaos levels to reach society-crumbling status, it'd need to stop the whole World. Then absolutely, it would be devastating and the resulting power-struggle when trying to maintain order within so many ranks of authority throughout various Governments would end in disaster. However, if the other half of the World is relatively unscathed, I don't think they would let the other half just fall into oblivion.