Van Hoosearville Research Paper

Final Write-Up: Van Hoosearville It is the year 2120. Van Hoosearville has grown to a population of 25 million people. It became a metacity a few decades ago, and ever since then our city has been struggling to take care of its residents. You might be wondering, how did this happen? How did Van Hoosearville turn from a little city with a few hundred people struggling to survive in the 1870’s to the giant metacity it is today? Well, here’s a few main reasons how it happened.
Roughly thirty years ago, iron started to become scarce across the globe. The value of iron rose considerably, and soon became more valuable than gold. As you know, we use iron to make steel, which builds buildings, roads, and basically any form of infrastructure you can

This location gives our city easy access to immigrants from other countries, and allows it to trade with other cities, states, and countries easily. Well, when iron became the rarest mineral on earth, every country was affected, especially Japan. Japan’s #1 export at the time was vehicles/automobiles, and those are made of almost entirely of steel, so when steel was no longer accessible, Japan’s economy crashed. When the Japanese government tried to take action, it used methods that were unpopular with the Japanese people to try to build its economy back, like giving all power and authority to one dictator, raising taxes to an unprecedented level, lowering the minimum wage to almost nothing, and shutting down almost half of the government’s departments in human services, education, and infrastructure. At this point, the Japanese had no reason to keep living in Japan, with the lack of job opportunities, low pay for those who did have jobs, high taxes, and a dictator promising to make their lives worse in the future, and millions upon millions left the country. In search of a better life, these people moved to Van Hoosearville, the city located right on the coast of the United States closest to