Histofactoid: The Floating Capital circa 1911 AP... or perhaps today?

A Heck of a Town!

Ask any Floating Capitaller (they jokingly refer to themselves as Caterpillars!) what they love best about their city (aside from baseball, of course!) and the answer will invariably be the glorious parks that adorn this most civil and cultured of urban confections. In the distance on this delightful old rendering of the great metropolis, one may see depicted the now-recently restored Singer Tower and, of course, the familiar Metropolitan Life building! Today, in 2006 AP the steamships have stack-scrubbers and a full score of newer towers have been erected further up the island but otherwise we find little has changed since this splendid view was drawn; if anything, there are more parks and trees. Also, the Floating Capital now has the finest and safest mass-transit system in the world and plenty of fresh air. Praise Wotan--while other nations have cluttered their urban zones with either chintzy and visually abhorrent glass towers lacking all tasteful adornments, or grotesque parodies of the architectural glories of The Floating Capital, we have preserved and maintained those structures of highest quality and greatest artistic merit. Subsequently we offer up what many consider to be the most beautiful city on Erde. Agog tourists hailing from the sprawling, mayhem-riddled, conurbations of The People's Paradises of Tic-Toc, Nipponinc, and elsewhere--cities whose very molecules are determined by the flow of lucre rather than the force of reason or the desire for civility--contribute mightily each year to The Floating Capital's coffers!