Steampunk Metropolis World Cup - Competitors Chosen!
Cast your fine eye over the list below, gentle reader, for it contains the names of sixteen cities branded into our global heritage. Some of the names are redolent with history, or culture. Some are synonymous with great economic riches - or the opposite; terrible poverty.
One thing is certain about all of them, however. By the end of this year, after the inaugural Steampunk Metropolis World Cup, only one will still exist. The other fifteen will have been defeated and destroyed, their industrial, military, economic and agricultural resources picked clean. Millions of people will be dead. So read the list, gentle reader. Read, and wonder how we came to this point, where the finest minds in the world have agreed that the only possible solution to global over-population is a series of one-to-one death matches between sixteen rival cities until only one remains.
- Addis Ababa
- Beijing
- Buenos Aires
- Dubai
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Istanbul
- Johannesburg
- London
- Madrid
- Mexico City
- Mumbai
- New York
- Toronto
- Sydney
- Tokyo
- Tripoli
Read the list one more time, gentle reader. And while you read, remember this: next year, we will have to print the names of another sixteen cities.
Tags: Steampunk, Steampunk Metropolis World Cup
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