Background and Facts
New Riverdale is a midsize city of around 170,000 residents situated amongst the salty ocean coast and several fresh-water rivers. Today, New Riverdale sports world-class universities, an international airport, many active and well-funded cultural institutions, a massive park system, and plentiful jobs spanning everything from ore mining to space exploration.
The bustling and buzzing city we see today didn’t pop up overnight, of course. The first settlers put down roots in today’s Financial District around 180 years ago. Like many small cities, New Riverdale was initially grown with the help of heavily polluting industry. In the almost two centuries of its existence, the city has pushed the industry farther and farther outside its boundaries and has worked diligently in rectifying the natural abuses it committed. In fact, much of the area that most recently served as industry and refuse processing has been decontaminated, reforested, and incorporated into Victoria National Park, a massive natural preserve designed to prevent future environmental destruction, as well as to educate visitors on the value of protecting our environment.
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