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Tense usage? What to use in future situation?

I am not sure why you talk about the subjunctive since there is no subjunctive in the sentence you give.

It is, as you correctly tagged and used, a conditional.

With the conditional, you have to use the indicative present, as you did, or the imparfait tense, which are both correct sequences of tenses.

Here it is with the imparfait, which appears more natural to me, although your example is also correct:

Dans l’avenir, je ne serais pas surpris si les nations disparaissaient et étaient remplacées par les organisations a l’échelle planétaire.

This is just an extension of Subtenante’s answer:

And if you replace si by que (I wouldn’t be surprised if becomes I wouldn’t be surprised that), you have to use the subjunctive:

A l’avenir, je ne serais pas surpris que les nations disparaissent et soient remplacées par les organisations a l’échelle planétaire.

Instead of:

Dans l’avenir, je ne serais pas surpris si les nations disparaissent
et sont remplacées par les organisations a l’échelle planétaire.

you should write:

Je ne serais pas surpris si, dans le futur, les nations disparaissaient (imparfait) et étaient (imparfait) remplacées par des organisations à l’échelle planétaire.

It’s a question of “concordance des temps”.
A similar question has already be asked here: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/je-ne-serais-pas-surpris-que-si.1036006/?hl=fr

But you can also write:

Je ne serais pas surpris que, dans le futur, les nations disparaissent (subjonctif présent) et soient (subjonctif présent) remplacées par des organisations à l’échelle planétaire.

“Dans l’avenir” doesn’t sound French.
“A l’avenir” and “Dans le futur” are correct.
“A l’avenir” is synonymous of “Désormais” (From now).
But “Dans un proche avenir” or “Dans un lointain avenir” are correct if you are telling about the future.

 

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