The great city of Cashmakil could be a metaphor of past empires in our world, and the superpower of today, because Cashmakil was a superpower light years ahead of the superpowers in our world. The city nation of Cashmakil would be the size of Spain and France combined. On the eve of its destruction the size of the city had declined. There were other competing large city nations that were almost rivaled in size. But none could compete. Cashmakil was a city of levels extending underground for several leagues; and on the surface of the earth the many levels had almost reached the upper atmosphere. The city resembled an octopus shaped skyscraper with hundreds of floors. There was almost no breathing room for nature, there were only structures with extremely wide highways for vehicles, the air was filled with air vehicles of an endless variety of configurations that choked the skyline where none of the inhabitants could see the clouds, sunsets and sunrises. Outside the city there were some green spaces, there were suburbs but this was rare. The population was so dense that it became difficult to find work, living space and privacy. Long before Cashmakil’s technological growth, that culture valued privacy, these rights were gradually taken away as the city got larger in favor of central groups and total authority of government. This was the city where it was considered a virtue to control everything, it was also about the accumulation of wealth not through coins or paper money because the people of Cashmakil don’t use this. Wealth was in the accumulation of structures, having things, accumulating artificial universes, processing secret intellectual knowledge. There was a kind of money that was used for exchange, this was of solidified light that was shaped like small chips, spheres and cubes in various colors; inside of the cubes, spheres or chips, one could observe scenes of stars, galaxies and planets at night; during the day the shapes would turn back into solid colors with abstract designs. Some of the chips, spheres and cubes were rare, others were more common. It seemed that in Cashmakil everyone could have had almost anything they wanted, and this is what caused the downfall of the great city. People felt they were entitled, they couldn’t do without their precious things, there was no need to think for themselves, a device could do this for them. Even when danger threatened Cashmakil, people didn’t care or want to take notice, it seemed that they had become lazy and did not want to do anything.

There were nations founded on wonderful principles but as they grew and became financial empires, technological empires, military empires, cultural empires or religious empires, they eventually faded away or were destroyed in violent upheavals. This has been repeated in our world with all the empires that have come and gone. There have been golden ages of artistic achievement such as the Italian Renaissance in Florence that gradually declined after the 15th century. Then later in the 17th century the Dutch golden age also came to an end. Cashmakil was the city of everything, but it came to an end.