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Prologue
Today, I passed by the the Great Lobby of the Capitol Building on Central Park North, her north facing Harlem as glorious as ever. Like much of this area of the city, it is a reminder of the National Revolution, a reminder of the beginning of the 21st Century, truly New York's true Golden Age, but to truly admire what we have now, we must first recognize the feats made by our ancestors. We must go further back than the founding of our Republic in 2011, we must go further back into the past. We must go further beyond the National Revolution, beyond the Popular Front and James Matthias, beyond anything we know see as political rhetoric by our leaders. We must go to what is fact, we must go to what is indisputable, we must go back to what we learn on our first day of school, in songs like
Our Great Colonel, or
New York, New York, to truly admire what we have no, and to reminisce on the sacrifices made by our ancestors so that we can truly know what we have today. Our Internationalism, our Freedom, we must go further beyond even our official founding, but the preceding events to our founding. We may learn about these things in our schools, but we don't truly know what caused the events, or what it felt like to experience them.
In this novel,
New York, New York, we compile thousands of documents into one, comprehensive record of our great history, of our alliances, wars, economy, politicians, and culture. Thanks to the Excelsior Broadcasting Company, which celebrated its centennial this year, we have enough funding to create this history for all of our citizens, and citizens worldwide. We have enough information to compile in one, definitive record what truly happened. What really happened on the Titanic to President Astor? What really went through Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mind in his last moments? Was the Cuban War definitive in crushing the Confederation? These questions can at last be answered by recently opened government records during the bicentennial celebration of our nation this year, and we can at last answer them with no adherence to urban legends or conspiracy theories, but absolute fact.
I stood today in the Grand Lobby of our Capitol Building, it's polished wood railings around the Great Globe as new as ever, the Great Globe polished daily by workers of the government to show a constantly updated map of the world, and a hall of world flags forming concentric circles around the center of the lobby, with the seals of our 17 regions and 5 protectorates etched into the marble floor, and roses around each bust of our Presidents, past and present. It is truly a reminder and a spectacle to New York's greatness, New York's true place in the world. While not a Rome, New York is more akin to a modern Venice or Phoenicia, an Empire not based on military might, but on dreams. We present this history to you, the people.
-The Author