New Jersey

New Jersey is a state within the United States of America.

History
The state caught a lot of refugee and homeless traffic and as a result the highway network is still dilapidated. The poor could not afford to leave New York City and the rich could afford comfortable, secure housing, but the middle class workers opted to move elsewhere and commute to work. New Jersey was, of course, happy have its people bringing New York money from the office and spending it on New Jersey food and rent, but New York was less than pleased, so they tried all sorts of solutions, but each was illegal, unenforceable, or neatly sidestepped by imaginative entrepreneurs. DMS bought Atlantic City after the Collapse left the owners in debt. DMS forced out the organized crime element and rebuilt the city to appeal to the modern European. The rising sea level has forced to build dikes along the beach, but there are stairs and docks to ensure that visitors can still see the ocean.

By 2077, most of Atlantic City lies in ruins, but it is still partially inhabited. The rest of the city has been used as a 10,000-acre landfill, one of the world's largest, for toxic and biological waste. At one point, a large fire breaks out in the dump that lasts over a week with no signs of slowing down. The inferno claims the lives of seven firefighters and incapacitates dozens more through inhalation of the poisonous fumes.