Sauklund
Sauklund is a major metropolitan area located 90 miles south of Rivertown and the nation's third-largest city.
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Sauklund is located on the southern shore of Lake Lawrence, and was the home to nearly four million people before the superflu epidemic. It features extensive suburbs especially to the northwest, west, and southwest, and in total the Greater Sauklund region had 12.9 million people living there.
As the larger industrial city on the banks of Lake Lawrence, Sauklund and Rivertown have had a long-standing sibling rivalry of sorts. Like Rivertown, Sauklund was populated by immigrants in the 19th century, and the economy revolved around agriculture, manufacturing, and the lake.
Through the 20th and 21st centuries, Sauklund was one of the world's largest financial markets. It suffered a major terrorist attack in 2039 when the Barrow Tower, the world's second-tallest skyscraper, was destroyed by a dirty bomb. It's fall severely damaged other high rises and helped send the city spiraling into an economic depression. It took the city's financial district 20 years to recover and by the 2060s the city was again back on its feet and thriving only for the global recession of the 2070s to again drive it to its knees.
During the superflu epidemic of 2088, Sauklund fell victim to a series of debilitating terrorist attacks that included destroying the nuclear power plants that provided the city's power as well as poisoning the fresh water supply. Radiation sickness swept through the northern portions of the city. The meltdown of the northernmost Kaukauno nuclear power plant effectively cut off travel between Sauklund and its norther neighbor of Rivertown.
Like Rivertown and other major cities, Sauklund was heavily damaged during the fall of civilization and suffered a series of crippling terrorist attacks. The extent of the damages is unknown to the inhabitants of Rivertown.
The number of people living in Sauklund is unknown to the inhabitants of Rivertown.
Like Rivertown, Sauklund was not entirely destroyed and has resources. How those resources have been managed in the wake of the superflu is unknown to the inhabitants of Rivertown.
The Rivertown Compendium draws from the much larger Rivertown Chronicles, a wide assortment of personal narratives and catalog entries of people, places, and things.