Character:Walt Disney

Historical Context
Mister Walter Elias Disney was an American artist, voice actor and industrialist who died in 1966. Seriously, you should know this.

Post-Resurrection
Walt decided to try a second hand at creating something the world would enjoy. Without his friend Ub, without the Disney corporation, and without the copyrights to Mickey Mouse or Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (both of which had expired under the ownership of his former company, once the United States underwent a reform in the 21st century), Walt searched for something iconic to "restart the engine".

That something was Whimsy the Wisp, a fictional creature with four pointed ears and a soft smile. At the insistance of the animator who created Whimsy, Walt started putting credits in his new company's movie productions for the first time in his life in return for ownership of the character. As if by magic, Walt had once again captured the hearts of his workers and their audience (though he didn't like to admit how popular he was), and Whimsyville was on the drawing board.

The Whimsyville Project
Like a blending between the best features of a planned community, a theme park resort, a superregional shopping mall, and an international airport, Whimsyville abandoned the monoculture and conformity of the Florida Project in favor of an idea he had stumbled upon in the Library of Virtually Everything, the Arcology.

The Tower of Tomorrow, anchored off the coast and bobbing on the surface of the ocean, quickly became more of an icon of the Whimsy corporation than the Whimsy character himself. The situation would be like if EPCOT and the Disney Castle were more famous than Mickey Mouse, and the world considered the Tower of Tomorrow the best way to get out of building the soulless containerized structures that were considered free apartments.

While the apartments in the tower itself were extremely expensive, a bunch of smaller and more affordable towers were made part of the modular hex grid that the Tower of Tomorrow had been built to accommodate for. This place became known as Whimsyville, the city of tomorrow. And, for a time, it was good.

The Decline of Whimsyville
Whimsyville was anchored to the continental shelf off the coast of Vancoeverden, with a ferry connection to the mainland and an airport for seaplanes. A good portion of the usable floor space of the city was below the water line, like basements but underwater. This meant that routine maintenance was a fair bit more complicated than it would have been on land.

Disaster struck in 12001 NHE, when an earthquake caused several of Whimsyville's anchor points to fracture. The damage ruptured the lower decks of some of the modules, but was contained by emergency airlocks shutting.

However, the lack of building codes beyond what the Whimsy corporation had set meant that dozens of people lived or worked in windowless units below the water line. People who had been trapped in the damaged sections as a result quickly drowned. Some were residents of the damaged sections, and found themselves in flooded bedrooms when they regenerated. In the worst cases, people drowned many multiple times over in hospitals until the damage was repaired.

The media, feeling threatened by the Whimsy Media Company's public acclaim, were quick to report everything they could about the people who had been tragically tortured by the unfortunate circumstances. The Floodgate scandal was born.

In the aftermath, Whimsyville's engineers redesigned the entire city to survive natural disasters better, but the damage had been done. Whimsyville's population dropped by 75% as people abandoned the city in favor of free apartments on dry land.

The Council of Descendants stepped in to regulate Whimsyland, and mandated or recommended various improved safety features that would prove to be the city's salvation. The council also made changes to the respawning procedures to prevent a tragedy like the flood from ever happening anywhere in the New Real ever again.

The Whimsy Renaissance
Whimsyville slowly regained public trust, and by 12017 NHE the city's residences were 50% occupied. As people returned, the formerly run-down structures were renovated or replaced to get the city back to something resembling its former glory. The future looks bright, but time will tell if the perfect city can remain in operation.

Aside from this, there are rumors that Walt is creating a new project using the advanced sciences that brought about the Library of Virtually Everything. Time will tell what that means for the future of the company.