Nation/Thatchertropolis/History of the United States of Thatchertropolis
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The United States of Thatchertropolis has a unique history behind it.
1813-1863: Thatchertropolis's first fifty years
Settlement
Before 1813, Howard Thatcher was enjoying moderate success as an American entrepreneur of shops in New York City. While in one of the shops on February 13, 1813, he and his colleagues were going to fetch mugs of water when they discovered a small maelstrom on a wall in one of the rooms. They wondered if it was real, or if it was fake. Not the smartest choice an entrepreneur has made, we know. The band of men and women tried to touch the portal, but once they came close to it, they were being pulled in by its strong magnetic force, and nothing could stop it. At all. Once Thatcher and all of his coworkers were sucked in, the maelstrom shrank and disappeared completely, not to appear again until 2013.
Thatcher and his friends fell out of the other end of the vortex, which was situated in dense forest in the west coast of another incarnation of North America. They found that there were gigantic reserves of iron, uranium, aluminum, coal, oil, gold, and cinnamon, and that the forests on the continent were quite pervasive and dense. Thatcher's best friend, Boris Joh, said that he had a pickaxe and a hatchet with him, and another companion, Percy LaSalle, said that he had several guns with him, and that was all they needed to start their first settlement, which they named Thatchertropolis in 1815 for Howard, because he was the one who suggested that they settle on the land.
Once their first settlement had been founded, Thatcher et. al. began to explore the forests around them. The band did not find very many dangerous or "irresistibly cute" organisms (as a woman sticking with Mr. Thatcher had written in her diary), but they did find orca whales walking around in the area.
