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Pinecone Ranch.
Towering walls of stone bricks interspersed with wooden stakes enclosed a vast swath of land. On one side of the wall stood densely packed houses and on the other, fields crisscrossed by paths and orchards were dusted with snow.
Rather than calling it a ranch, it was more accurate to describe it as a city from a classical era.
Within the walls lived 10,000 to 20,000 people, forming a settlement centered around a marketplace, including officials, craftsmen, soldiers, and their families. Outside the walls were 30,000 to 40,000 more. They were mostly farmers, with more than half being slaves and the rest who were farmers renting the land and had not gone bankrupt yet.
Everything there was the property of the landowner.
Both the land, and the people.
If Boulder Town was the extreme product of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee, then the farm was the other extreme born from the free evolution of survivor settlements.
There, there was no sign of industrialization at all.
Though a near-future metropolis was not far off, no trace of inheritance could be found in Pinecone Ranch, not even a faint resemblance.
The reason...
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