Talk:Ozarkia (1983: Doomsday)

Right off I see a few problems with a "state" having been established here. First, if a state of any size had been established in the area, it's capital would have been Cape Girardeau (long accepted self-contained city-state). Second, the southeast corner is decidely not "Ozarkia," for those mountains are on the other side of the state. Third, if Ozarkia is to represent all of south Missouri, then Joplin would have been the obvious capital (if Cape Girardeau remained separate).

Farmington is far too close to St. Louis to be viable as a lasting city-state. Its population of less than 20,000 would have been over-run by refugees fleeing the St. Louis suburbs - possibly as many as a million, including perhaps 10,000 or so of the badly injured survivors from the bombed city itself. The town could not have survived the influx. If a population did decide to escape, the article about Cape Girardeau makes it clear that they did not come there. Most likely, they dispersed into south central Missouri and northern Arkansas to face what became an inhospitable anarchy-ridden area, civilized after a while with the help of the Joplin city-state. SouthWriter 14:15, April 7, 2010 (UTC)