In the northeast corner lies Gaines City, a district for budding revolutionaries, graduates of Eastland, and students of The District. With more than 3 million people living in Gaines City, it is a starting point of building a career or losing one. It is in Gaines City that the nurture and tested. Students learn the new rules and whether they can lead, follow, or who resigns and retreats back to the woods or the eastside.
The birthplace of the Courier-Journal the Lake’s formidable newspaper and its hard-hitting journalist dragging their claws against any tale appearing any bit devious or disconnected. Reporters are nomadic and ruthless. If someone’s trash appears empty it is either a rodent or a reporter. Nonetheless, they know their time has come to lead, follow, or resign. The three words Gaines Citians live and breathe.
Those who have outgrown Eastland flopped in Victoria, or represent Woodland Hills in grassroots efforts reside in Gaines City. It is not a place to stay for too long, but those who have are staples or artifacts of life that had promise. Shame is a hard act to follow, and those who do not resign, stay, and live in their shame. For example, a former mayoral candidate who dropped out of the race for personal reasons could not return to Eastland, could not afford Victoria, and could not stand to stay in Woodland Hills for more than a week had no choice but remain in Gaines City and be forever the headline ‘Mayoral Candidate Drops Out Due to Flu’.
A traditional skyline of a busy city surrounded by suburbs. Former Victorians own the shore but live it up with the locals on the outskirts. Woodland Hills alums are driven, focused, and loyal to their land and ignore the shenanigans of the natives. The natives, uh. They gossip and gab, tattletale and tickle their fancies, and enjoy an uneventful life watching others climb and others fall. Readers and watchers, native Gaines Citians are merely seat fillers. No ambition, other than amusement. Work to live. Driven, but only to find the footer and then exploit it. ‘GC: A City of Trolls’ was the trending topic for 23 hours when Dancy McCloud released her manifesto before hanging herself from Tellers Bridge on 5th. McCloud described Gaines City as a social media platform come to life: fake friends, filtered photos, clip bait conversations, and so on. Most said she was not fit for Gaines City, so she resigned.
‘If someone can survive Gaines City, then they may have a chance in The District. Woodland Hills native Dancy McCloud clearly could not hang with this crowd,’ wrote Alex Torey in the Courier-Journal two-hours after the Bureau of Leyipirian Affairs (BLA) announced her passing. Naturally, Woodland Hills and Eastland residents were not happy with Mr. Torey. They demanded an apology, retractions, corrections, and got nothing. Torey, on the other hand, moved to The District.
Welcome to Gaines City.
