Chapter 11 · 2000 to 2010
Paper Fortunes
Markets crash twice, the outer ring boils over, and the fight moves to youth contracts, refineries and bank bailouts, on a map that now reaches beyond the ring road.
- Map
- 28 districts
- Newspaper
- The Ticker
- Street lighting
- Sodium and neon
The levels
- The Bubble6 March 2000
- Ring Nights27 October 2005
- First Contract7 February 2006
- The Trader19 January 2008
- Black October29 September 2008
- Pension Autumn7 October 2010
- Interlude 11
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The booklet opens
Prologue
In 2000 the city had a ring road, a business district of glass towers beyond it, and an outer ring of estates that it preferred not to see.
If the interlude ended this way: The government withdrew the reform.
The unions remembered the winter of 1995, when they had stopped the city and won.
If the interlude ended this way: The strikers accepted the partial deal.
The unions remembered the winter of 1995 and its half-won deal.
Otherwise
The unions had lost the winter of 1995, and the employers had not forgotten.
Everyone had a mobile phone, and the news never stopped.
The factions
The Revolution
- The left opposition
- The Socialists and their allies, out of power and waiting for the next election.
- The Ring
- Samir Haddad's youth collectives and the associations of the estates beyond the ring road.
- The unions
- Bernard Lucet's refinery workers, the railways and the public services.
- Students
- Clara Fontaine's coordinations in the universities and the high schools.
The Law
- The government
- Prime Minister Dominique Villiard and his ministers.
- Riot companies
- The mobile companies of the riot police.
- The Interior Ministry
- Thierry Valcourt's ministry, its anti-crime brigades and its cameras.
- Intelligence
- The intelligence services and their files on the estates.
- Banks and employers
- The banks of La Défense and the employers' federation.
Neutral factions
- Rolling news
- The 24-hour news channels, which react to everything half as fast again.
- Shopkeepers
- The papers
- Parisians
Characters
- Thierry Valcourt, interior minister, then President
- Prime Minister Dominique Villiard
- Jérôme Kessel, trader
- Samir Haddad, youth worker
- Clara Fontaine, student coordinator
- Bernard Lucet, refinery union leader
- Inès, nursing student
The booklet closes
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Epilogue
If the Revolution won Pension Autumn
The decade ended with the streets louder than the markets.
Otherwise
The decade ended with the markets calmer than the streets.
Along the ring road, the orange sodium lamps were beginning to give way to white LEDs.