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Grant City In a far away city called Grant City, the main export and production products are the widgets, Proteins. The entire town is designed to build and export widgets. The town hall, Nucleus, has the instructions for widget making. Widgets come in all shapes and sizes and any citizen of Grant can get the instructions and begin making their own widgets. Widgets are generally produced in small shops, Ribosome around the city; these small …

…packaged and labeled for export. Sometimes widgets don't turn out right, and the "rejects" are sent to the scrap yard, Lysosome, where they are broken down for parts or destroyed altogether. The town powers the widget shops and carts from a hydraulic dam, Vacuole, which is in the city. The entire city is enclosed by a large wooden fence, Cell Membrane, only the postal trucks (and citizens with proper passports) are allowed outside the city.