Jack of Harts

The Second Great Depression saw the Commonwealth of Virginia in desperate times. Richmond had long since been taken over by those far more loyal to Washington D.C. than to Virginia, and they did not take well to any who refused to bend the knee to the Federal government. That is why modern Virginians call it the Second Civil War. But it takes a great deal of money to keep a restive population under control, and the Feds ran out. They could print as much as they wanted to, but the almighty dollar’s buying power decreased to the level of a Third World Banana Republic. Which America had been performing an excellent imitation of in previous years. When the dollar crashed, the economy collapsed, and Richmond lost the ability to enforce Federal will on the many counties far from the capital. It was the beginning of the end for Richmond.