What happened with that whole western abandonment thing? I recall it was solved with the Adopt a State Progrwm, but what caused it?
Especially early on, people registered in the states they actually lived in, while foreigners just registered wherever they felt like. As such, most of them picked "big states", like California or New York, while the Midwest suffered, lacking both "native born" Atlasians and ones registered from abroad. The Adopt a State program was basically an organized attempt to try to get them to seek greener pastures, by convincing posters (especially foreign ones) that if all else was equal they could gain by moving to places where no one was registered.