Lowland Republic's capital, Antwerp City.
In the Upper House, the true power center of this country, eighty Upper House members have all gathered.
Yet, just as in every day of the past half year, the faces of these well-dressed bigwigs rarely show any smiles.
Outside, the streets are bustling with people, seemingly having gradually restored a normal economic order. However, only they know, many things have already changed.
In the last Tulip Bubble and the ensuing bankruptcy wave caused by the "credit tightening," a large number of high-quality assets in the country: mines, plantations, shipyards, factories, trading companies... were bottomed out.
Especially under Aiven's lead, the well-prepared Tulip Alliance gnawed down the largest piece of the pie.
Phaletis seized the opportunity and even acquired the largest Haliburton Iron Company in the Lowlands at a cost nearly equivalent to only one-twentieth of its original price.
