Memphis (city)

Memphis is a city located in western Tennessee, a state in the Confederate States of America. It is also the capital of the Confederacy. Memphis has a population exceeding 500,000 and is the economic center of the nation.

Infrastructure
Memphis hosts the 1,010 foot New Memphis Trade Center, which is the headquarters of the North American, and in turn the world stock exchange. 17% of North American capital and 4% of global finances circulate through the NMTC. Memphis is also the location of the Fowler Building, which is the headquarters for Dixie Steel, the largest steel manufacturer in North America. The Memphis Astro Needle is being built as well. The city is host to the beginning of the Memphis-Nashville-Knoxville Amtrak Triad and is where most Confederate traffic funnels through to cross the Mississippi River, utilizing the Nathan Hewitt Bridge.

Power
Memphis has dozens of active coal power plants, but receives a large fraction of its power from the Memphis Good Energy Nuclear Power Plant 3.5 miles southeast of the city limits.

History
Memphis was the capital city of the state of Tennessee, a lower level of government in the United States of America, the country with preceded the Confederacy before the Great Silence. The original re-settlement of Memphis began in 1833. Black Codes were enacted shortly after in 1840. It became the capital of the established Confederate States of the South in 1950, with a population of over 200,000.