Shanghai Wasteland

Shanghai (上海) is a huge metropolis in China, home to over 50 million people by the year 2077. The biggest city in terms of population and size in China at the time, it is home to several foreign influence, maintaining itself as the largest financial hub in China. Aside of this, the economy, infrastructure and government, along with the rest of the country, are all competing with the Soviet Union and the United States of America, especially prior to the Sino-American War. Shanghai Wasteland, a submerged ruins of the city, was created after the Great War.
== Interlude: Differences between the real world ==
"Shanghai, a city of contrasts of old and new, would look different in contrast most real life modern-day counterpart,which would not exist in the Fallout universe, so the metropolis would be full of unique, atomic and space age-themed architecture and skyscrapers."
== Background ==
As of 2050, Shanghai was known as "The Manhattan of the East". The city had up to three hundred dominating Googie-styled buildings and skyscrapers, due to the flourishing economy. Eventually, it became one of China's most developed and Western-styled city, and the number-one business tourist attraction in Asia.
Aside from this, Shanghai was also the largest automobile and technology hub in the Far East, with several factories producing Chryslus-licensed vehicles and several European/Japanese/Soviet/British technologies such as cars, television, radio, clothes, vehicles, shops, etc. Although it was in a communist country, it was fictionally colonized by many American, French, and British companies, especially prior to the Sino-American War. Before the war, Hongqiao Airport dominates itself as the second-largest hub of China and Asia and has been for over a century, serving lots and lots of passengers from around the world. Miles away, Shanghai port accomodates millions of local and foreign imports per year.
== Downturn ==
=== Resource Wars ===
During the Resource Wars of 2052, riots over gasoline and fuel then broke out in the city, triggering a huge military presence in the city. Imports gradually slumped due to huge wars breaking out in other countries. To save it, scientists at the research facility had to find other fuel alternatives, but to no avail; these tests proved unsuccessful, as there aren't many selections at the time.
To make things much worse, the European Commonwealth’s official stock market crashed at the beginning of May, resulting in major bankruptcies across the globe, so China then declared financial crisis in 2055, because so many provinces, especially the more rural ones, began to fall apart. Inability to find more alternatives also increased the price of transportations. 
=== Transport issues ===
Most of the cars in Shanghai are powered by diesel and gasoline, hence electric cars are rare. As the result, the government promoted use of more electric-powered cars,to no avail;electric cars aren't popular and well-known in the vehicle market, due to less promotion, high price, and less demand, as people were afraid that the car would turn aggressive.
Even though there was a scarcity of electric automobiles in the US and Europe in 2060, they were still uncommon and only available in Japan and Australia when the city's cars ultimately ran out of petrol in 2058. Following the transportation demonstrations over the lack of gasoline and a deal between the two nations, Japan exported electric cars to China hence Shanghai, thereby promoting their dependability and safety. Additionally, abandoned cars were also fitted with electricity, increasing mobility finally. 
=== Sino American War ===
When the Chinese forces invaded Alaska, economic sanctions and a trade embargo were imposed by Australia, Japan, Europe, and other developed nations, falling apart the economy once again. As a last ditch to prevent the growing population from bankruptcy, the government then encouraged the use of more nuclear fission, but this wasn't the most effective and realistic attempt to curb increasing poverty.
As Shanghai's money and oil reserves dried up months later, more riots occurred in the city, in particular on Black Sunday, February 12, 2068. This particular event escalated to a coup d'état, which eventually overthrew the government. Following the revolt, a new leader was elected, and after peace talks with the Western countries and Japan, he finally decided to split Shanghai from China to become an independent state.
Shanghai was cut off from China by the 2nd quarter of 2068, and the new leader renamed the city "The Republic of Shanghai." After the new country was born, he persuaded the other countries to lift the embargo on the 3rd quarter of the same year. The economy was restored once again, but not for long.
== The Great War ==
On October 23, 2077, Shanghai was one of the hardest hit cities in China during the Great War, with the first nuke landing at 9.49 p.m. It was struck 6 times by the United States during the nuclear exchange, particularly aiming at the factory and military districts, or the districts with the highest population density. One notable ground zero was Nanjing Road, near the Bund, and the military bases not far from the city. Just moments after the nuke hit, the entire metropolis was choked of burning cars that had crashed, smoldering boats that had slammed into the pier, and debris from 747 airliners that had crashed into the airport itself, the Huangpu River, the terrain, and even the buildings in the city. 
Most of Shanghai's infrastructure was destroyed during the Great War, made worse by the firestorms which occured immediately after the initial blast, which consumed even the city's most resilient buildings, turning the city into hellfire hence collapsing any traces of society and government. The shockwave from the blast also blew away the seawall, resulting in massive flooding of the city. The nuclear fire also caused planes at Hongqiao Airport to explode. Most people are killed because of the flooding and the scarcity of nuclear vaults or cryogenic chambers, despite earlier evacuation. Despite the massive firestorm, most Googie buildings and skyscrapers in Shanghai still survive mostly intact. 
== Post War ==
As fires died down, an explorer discovered the ruins of the Bund, describing it as "a submerged, smoldering, lifeless heaps of steel and concrete from cars and buildings." However, the end doesn't seem to be over. A week later, an piece of an asteroid called Alpha 77 slammed into the East China Sea, powerful enough to sever parts of the Pacific Ring of fire. This huge displacement of the tectonic plates created a massive 9.5 earthquake to hit East Asia and a resulting 100m high tsunami to sweep Shanghai, destroying 97% of all structures in the entire metropolis. At the end, only skeletal skyscrapers remain intact from the waters of the former city-state, so it was forgotten completely. It was rendered uninhabitable, to the point that the former city was only inhabited by mutated sea creatures in the following centuries. 
=== Rediscovery ===
In 2340, explorers from former Japan discovered skeletal heaps of metal.... 
== Layout ==
Shanghai is completely submerged following the Great War, but some buildings and lasting evidences from the former city area still stood. Here's the layout of ruins discovered by settlers, raiders, and explorers in the 25th century.
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