Project Islamabad 2111

The world has gone through tough times in the last 100 years. The earth has shifted its orbit, and is now 2 km further from the sun. This has had a dramatic effect on the earth and almost all of the people are dead. Few places are warm enough to be inhabitable.

Islamabad is one of those places due to its proximity to the tropic of cancer. at a temperature of -20c, humans are thriving there. Resplendent in their black fur coats (to absorb more heat) they live comparatively simple lives. They also keep gas masks with them at all times. In case of red mists you see. Red mists are winds that come from the west containing radiation.

The west had always been stupid. They had caused this cold through nuclear war. They had doomed the world. And now, all that they had left to the earth was a destructive red mist. Most people called it the “mist of death”. The overly superstitious people thought that the Americans had been devils, who had cast a curse on the world.

Islamabad had once been a busy, thriving metropolis. It was now fairly reminiscent of Siberia a hundred years ago, cold damp and practically bursting with radiation. Life was very different from the optimistic predictions of a hundred years ago. Rather than flying around in hover cars people would walk everywhere. They couldn’t risk a high carbon emission. That would probably make even Islamabad uninhabitable. Of course the need for transportation vehicles has also lessened. With less than 10 percent of the old earth still inhabitable faster transport wasn’t required. The main remaining inhabitable places are Islamabad, the center of India, parts of china and southern Japan.   

Another issue was that due to the red mist the frost in the air had been radiated too and thus dangerous for human survival. To tackle deaths at the hands of the snow, the citizens of Islamabad built tall structures which were interlinked with roads. Islamabad was also referred to as “the city of the sky”. It had the current greatest population of 2500 people. The humans had once reproduced like rats but the radiation had altered the human DNA. Only a few had the gift of new life. Even then it wasn’t easy as with every new life there was the problem of satisfying hunger and other necessities of life.

The city in the skies is enclosed in artificial ozone with special radiation repelling properties.Sometimes people brave the radiation outside in an attempt to explore, to re-discover. All of them have he map from seen the maps of the old age but none of them believe that the world is still like its former self, what with all the earthquakes, volcano eruptions, meteorite attacks and tsunamis.

All in all, the entire world is in a dismal state. With so much radiation, 80 percent of living organisms have died out. And all of this because of the human need, the need for progress.