The surplus created by the majority of the country’s population dying could support the remaining people for a century. Some people make their living traveling the nation to pillage warehouses for clothing, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, electronics, furniture, and even weapons to sell and trade.

Trade between England, India, Israel and Zaire are conducted with ships fueled by sails and wind. New Boston barters with medical supplies and inoculations for the poorer, less technologically advanced nations. Molasses, tea, spices, tobacco and clothing are the major imports.

New products are also manufactured in the dozens of plants and industrial buildings cramped in the industrial sections of each of the new cities, though the new is usually much pricier than the old, and only the affluent can afford them.