December 3, 1905.
Rhein City.
As the capital of a nation, Rhein City was developing at a breakneck pace, and what drew particular attention was the automobiles that were no longer anything rare on its streets.
Although automobiles had already become widespread in all the world's major cities and served as a symbol of industrial civilization, the more developed a city was, the more cars it tended to have.
On the streets of Berlin, Paris, London, and New York, one could see this curious contraption to a greater or lesser extent, but in the Rhine area the number of automobiles was almost excessive: the registered vehicles alone had reached the astonishing figure of over thirty‑three thousand.
At that time, the total population of Rhein City was only close to four hundred thousand, which meant that there was roughly one car for every dozen or so people; automobiles in East Africa had already become the mainstream means of transportation.
