Appendix B

The Seven Wonders of the Modern World

1. The Twin Towers in Manhattan

They are the seat of World Government. The original Twin Towers in Manhattan, USA, were destroyed in a terrorist attack in September, 2001. They were rebuilt, but destroyed again in a nuclear attack on June 12, 2045. They were rebuilt again by 2049. At 4000 feet, well over twice the original height, they are the tallest manmade structures in the world. The North Tower houses the World House of Representatives, the South Tower the World Senate.

  

2. The Vaz Palace of Mexico City

The Vaz Palace was built in 2091 by Mexican Mayor and suspected gangster Fernando Vasquez. It is the largest palace in the world with a one-mile square base. The entire surface of the palace is plated with gold, with jewels embedded every few yards. It has numerous spires that go a thousand feet into the air, with fireworks displays every hour on the hour. Inside are an indoor soccer stadium, art museums, and staging areas for opera and an orchestra. An earlier Vaz Palace had been destroyed in 2078 by invading American troops during the Eth War.

  

3. The Great Mall of China

The Great Mall is just over 500 miles long as of 2100, and continues to grow every year. Communist officials in China plan that one day it will parallel the entire length of the 4000-mile Great Wall of China. The roof of the mall has a mural that is also 500 miles long, depicting China’s long history from ancient times to the present. Many Chinese said you weren’t truly Chinese until you’d hiked the Great Mall. World leaders often make the trek.

  

4. The Baleine Bleue Aquarium at Dover

The blue whale aquarium was created by the French in 2089, and located in Dover, England, overlooking the French National Bank. It is actually two aquariums, each a mile long, and a quarter mile tall and wide. They parallel each other, a quarter mile apart, with a huge tube connecting them. The aquariums contain 26 blue whales, each named after one of the 26 regions of France. The most famous of the whales is Lorraine, a genetically created blue whale with the horn of a narwhal.

  

5. The Layered Wheat Cube of Sarawak

The wheat cube is a perfect cube, a half mile on a side, with 660 layers. Each layer is densely packed with genetically created dwarf borlaug-15 wheat, a high yield and high protein version. It went into operation in 2096, with more planned. The cube grows over 600,000 tons of wheat each year, enough to feed three million people annually.

  

6. The Colossus of Bapoto in Dar es Salaam.

[Destroyed on October 1, 2100.]

Construction on the Colossus was completed in 2090 by General Amri Bapoto, then the leader of Tanzania. The 800-foot statue is a likeness of the General, holding a book under one arm, and a laser aimed at incoming ships in the other. The entire surface is platinum plated. It stands astride the 300-foot wide Dar es Salaam harbor.

  

7. Mount Bharat and the Generals

Mount Bharat is an artificially created mountain near New Delhi, India, in Sultanpur, National Park. Carved into the huge granite mountain are the figures of Generals Kadam and Chatterjee, architects of the Great Compromise of Sultanpur in 2054. The two are shown clasping hands in friendship. The mountain is about 1000 feet from base to top.