<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=72345.msg3175286#msg3175286">Quote from: Lithos on 20-06-2010, 01:01:01</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">It is not like it takes nuclear war to change the world as we know it though, total economic collapse and food shortage could do the same and leave the infrastructure and nature that we know and love (or hate) intact, or at very least to a lot lesser decay.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I actually like this spin on things a bit more than what I was suggesting earlier.  Perhaps this "Near-Future Gated Community" could be a joint project between the world's elite when it seems that society is on the verge of economic collapse or all the myriad problems brought on by overpopulation.  With corporations and rich/influential people all leaving to grab a space in this "Utopian Bubble", that would leave the rest of the world largely intact but equally out of sorts.  Everything within this city would become all advanced and glossy and pristine according to the "impeccable tastes" of its inhabitants, while other countries grow gradually more decadent.