If the English were never able to settle because they were expelled by the Native Americans...

Development and Growth of Meshanticut

A look into how Meshanticut would develop as a nation into the modern age.

• It is expected that native american culture, practices, and technology would evolve over time like any other society, though at a slower rate than the United States in our timeline.

• Foreign influence and interaction with the rest of the world is impossible to ignore, though seclusion and the unification of local groups allows for the prevention of colonization.

• As the nation of Meshanticut progresses, It would eventually begin to take on foreign technology and aspects of life that benefit their own way of life and society. Civilization would still be largely agrarian. 

• Meshanticut would develop similar to Siam (now Thailand), where interaction with the outside world happens, but the country remains independent. Infusion of western culture would appear as time progresses.

• This “infusion” would be in the way of adopting technologies and habits that the Mechanticut population find beneficial to their own society, such as newer forms of irrigation, construction, transportation, and communication over the years. 

• Adoptions of foreign technologies, just like in other countries across the world, would cause debate and division between those who wish to adhere to more traditional aspects of one’s culture and those who wish to advance their society technologically.  

• The Industrial revolution in Europe would bring change to the Americas like it would in Siam. While not industrialized, Meshanticut would contain what would seem an unending amount of natural resources (lumber, coal, iron ore, agricultural goods) which would be worth quite a lot to an industrialized Europe. This would propel the country into a more modern age. 

• Flash forward to the modern age, Meshanticut may see light industrialization, largely based around the export of natural resources that dominate the economy. 

• Meshanticut in the modern world would act similarly to how Asian and South American countries operate, with their economies geared towards resource extraction instead of producing finished goods. This would lead to large port/trading towns or cities which also act as a way of bringing in foreign goods into Meshanticut. These modern port cities would be very different from the more traditional inland towns and villages due to foreign influences and the large amounts of capital flowing through them.

• Focus on natural resources would lead to the development of more sustainable ways of power an extraction, in part due to the Native American’s connection with the natural world.

• The contrast between modern trading cities and the more rural mining and agricultural towns could lead to a cultural divide in the country between those who embrace the material (cities) and those who embrace the spiritual (rural towns).  

• (For the game): The social conflicts and rifts forming between communities lead to the issues that the player must solve utilizing the nine virtues that people within the Meshanticut community are beginning to forget or ignore in the modern age.