In the conference room of Pittsburgh City Hall, display screens covered nearly every wall.
The screens were split into forty-three separate video windows, and in each window sat a mayor or county executive.
From the once-glorious steel towns of Western Pennsylvania, to the small coal-mining cities hidden deep within the Appalachian Mountains in the central region, to the manufacturing bases in the north near the Great Lakes Region.
Two years.
The Industrial Revival Alliance had snowballed from its initial seven founding cities to forty-three.
As for the remaining cities, even those that hadn't joined the Industrial Revival Alliance had refrained only due to special circumstances.
They used Alliance scrip, joined the Mutual Aid Alliance, and engaged in efficient exchange with cities in the Industrial Revival Alliance. Administratively, they were already part of the Industrial Revival Alliance.
