Fjurthermore at 467

Bet you'd thought I'd forgotten about good old Fjurthermore, huh? Huh?

Well, maybe for just a while. But every couple of weeks I check in on it, and Meredith checks in on it, and the yeti hideaway grows bit by bit.

The place has grown large enough to require a police department now, but crime is kept very low thanks to vigilant volunteer abominable snowmen and women.

The best Fjurthermore has ever done in the rankings is 89th, and currently, it's at 95th. It's sort of interesting to be right on the neglect threshold.

Want to stop by and add to the population? Then click here!

Fjurthermore at 260

I know people have been clamoring to hear more about Fjurthermore in the last few weeks, stopping me on the streets, calling me after 10 p.m., especially with the collapse of Iceland.

Well, geographically-challenged onlookers, don't fret. Thanks to Norway's rich resources and enormous capital reserves, Fjurthermore has continued to grow even in these Tough Economic Times. The pace has slowed, but new residents and industry still arrive nearly every day.

The city has grown large enough that investments are sometimes required into the transportation network. Try it out! Adding transport won't add to the size of the city, but it'll fill those Scandinavian coffers for future growth.

And of course, you can visit anytime to the city proper.

Fjurthermore Makes, The World Takes

Fjurthermore has now reached the vital population of 50! My original house has been replaced by a 10-story apartment building, and the town boasts five paved roads.

With hard statistics such as these, you'll be inclined to agree that our yeti hideaway is ready for the sweet urban kiss of industry.

If you would like to bring your industrial business or franchise opportunity to the Warmest Little Cold Town on Earth!tm please follow this link:

http://fjurthermore.myminicity.com/ind

Of course, regular population is also welcome. Remember, the more often you stop by, the sooner you see whatever pithy one-liner I've decided to amuse visitors with.

Make travel reservations today!

Punk'd

I was impatient to wait for Fjurthermore to grow organically yesterday, so I emailed Meredith to get her to visit. She did, and I checked back in:

Jeff: There's 2 houses now! Awesome!
Meredith: I think your house is bigger than mine. Why? That's not fair. I'm just as good as you.
J: Actually, that's your house.
M: Oh, of course! Haha!
J: Also, we both know you're not as good as me.
M: At being a punk...

Visit Scenic Fjurthermore!

On Monte's boards, I discovered a lil' Web game that is just my kind of low-impact tamagotchi-type amusement: MyMiniCity.

When someone visits your mini city, you gain population and such. It sort of procedurally grows from there. It also doesn't require me to give them my email address, so it's a double WIN.

Since I already live in the USA, I wanted to put my city some place more exotic, so I tried to find a place I'd never heard of. Eventually, I found Svalbard, an island chunk of Norway, circa 80 degrees latitude with a population of 2400. Sweet! It's a yeti's island getaway!

Svalbard also contains the awesome doomsday Global Seed Vault so that humanity (or at least Norway) will have some plants available in case Monsanto accidentally kills everything with their awesome Terminator seed technology which could theoretically render all plants sterile.

Note: That second part is actually not very awesome.

But for now, the sparsely populated frontier of Fjurthermore could use your tourism. Visit today!