1. The main location in a popular video game called Fallout 3 ( Basically a destroyed Washington D . C )
2. The real Washington D . C could still be considered a Capital Wasteland due to crime , crooked cops , crooked politicians , as well as it's strange on again off again gun ban laws that violate the constitution from the same country and so forth.
( example 1 ) Gamer 1 : " I killed a super mutant at the capital wasteland. "
Gamer 2 : " I didn't know you liked Fallout 3 ".
( example 2 ) Man 1 : " I got a job working for the government. "
A person who not only loves freaking out at the annual end-of-days, blast zone celebration known as Wasteland Weekend, but carries that love into the rest of the year, enjoying things such as, (but not limited to), Mad Max, Fallout, The Blood of Heroes, and getting together/finding other Wastelanders to revel in the sun-scorched, bleach-boned, spiked-leather goodness of the post-apocalypse.
After months of raiding, the Wastelanders are gathering and headed to the Mojave to revel in madness and exult in their spoils.