The Juneau Panhandle suffered greatly when the Second Great Depression ended the easy shipments of American prosperity. Government was the biggest employer, and paper pushing was the greatest industry of the area, and it effectively ceased to exist when Federal support ended. But the career government bureaucrats who lived there knew exactly how to weather a crisis caused by the failure of American Capitalism. Big Brother would always hold out a helping hand to those in need if everyone gave him the proper resources. So they quickly formed a new, more caring, collective of the people,, and collected all resources within their reach. And so the Socialist Republic of Juneau arose to save the people, and there was great rejoicing when the new government provided the necessities of survival to the people according to their need.