Board Thread:Timeline Disscussions/@comment-32656-20121219042849/@comment-32656-20131208165958

Iowa City is part of the Quad Cities Alliance.

Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, nuked.

Ames would have been devastated by fires and refugees.

Cedar Falls-Waterloo was the center of a short-lived provisional government. Raiders and Gangs took that one out within a year or so. Some sort of state officials set this one up after fleeing the capital. Another such thing of a similar nature happened in Dubuque, with internal gangs before its takeover by the Quad Cities Alliance in 1998.

The area you're talking about - west of Cedar Rapids and northeast of Des Moines - is basically gang territory.

If memory serves, there has been talk of small entities existing in Fort Dodge and Mason City. I believe that something in Ottumwa may work, myself. Fort Dodge, given the groups that took out Waterloo, would really not be workable. Mason City may be good, though.

And, as an fyi, the westernmost parts of the state, near the river, are under the authority of Lincoln for the most part, with the northwest corner under the new USA.