My Fictional Country – Big City [Tlig Frado] (#1)
Welcome to my fictional country, Big City! If you are new here, start reading from this one and then move up the order. 🙂
Welcome to my fictional country, Big City! If you are new here, start reading from this one and then move up the order. 🙂
Agriculture is not one of the major activities in Big City but still, it is known for its tobacco, wheat, and rice exports. During the early 20th to mid 20th century Big City was a huge exporter of staple grains such as rice and of potatoes but after its independence, the government started buying up […]
Big City gained independence in 1945 and unlike other countries, it didn’t hold elections right away, instead it waited a whole 25 years before holding their first elections as the leaders thought that they must make the country prosperous first. (Read here). Unsurprisingly, this was a very controversial move as people thought that the interim […]
This happened on the 21st of June, 2029 on Big City’s Superhighway 8’s Ley Town stretch (the busiest stretch of the highway); two white helicopters with the words “Him-Uq” (the infamous terrorist organization known for targeting Big City) written in black flew over the highway and dropped hundreds of black bags on the road. Immediately, […]
Velocity Sixty Five is the name of Big City’s war plan in case they have to go to war with their neighbour Australia – this was just one of the country’s Velocity Files. Despite the two countries being on the best of terms, this plan was drawn up by then-army chief Nicholas Bernard in the […]
The Aukrust Betting Ring was a huge underground illegal betting ring which was being run in Big City’s State of Big City. In Big City sport betting and gambling is legal but there is a limit to the amount of money that can be bet and cockfights and dogfights are illegal with serious punishments. Sven […]
Before this read – The Elections of 2040 After the Goggle Party lost control after being in power for 30 years (2010-40) to the Peace Party, Prime Ministerial candidate, Lala Amarnathpo vowed to come back strong and regain power in 2050. The Prime Minister, Eva Cascarret had had a pretty quiet first 2 years, in […]
The Big City Interstate Highway Proposal was made in October 2055 which proposed the construction of 4 highways connecting all 5 island states of Big City. The highways would be bridges built over very deep water using the floating-pillar technology developed in the early 2040s. The highways would join S.O.B.C. to Cyber, Cyber to Ran, […]
The Big Citian Railway System was developed fairly later in the 1980s by the company Stenson & Larry Pvt. Ltd. and was bought by the government for around 267 million Amires (~US$400 million). It was ran by the government for roughly 18 years before Stenson & Larry Pvt. Ltd. was re-hired to manage and run […]
The Daneville Illusion Tower is a 76 meter tall tower located in the Daneville locality of Iam, Dezo, Big City. It was constructed in 1822 by the indigenous tribe, the Hurnus. The tower was built using an intricate system of levers and pulleys designed by the chief of the Hurnu tribe during the tribal era, […]
Before reading, it would be helpful to read blog #72, #73, #95, #96 and #97. After international-level terrorist Bunty Amarnathpo was executed by the Big Citian forces, they had realized that the government had accidentally killed a body double and then the real Bunty was tracked down and executed two days later and the […]