Questions tagged [economic-failure]

This is a famous quote from Douglas Adam's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Many years ago this was a thriving, happy planet – people, cities, shops, a normal world. Except that on the high streets of these cities there were slightly more…

I'm writing fanfiction for the superhero serial novel Worm. The main setting in Worm is Brockton Bay, a failing city of about 300,000 people. The economy has been in decline since the decline of shipping through Brockton Bay. I assume manufacturing…