Tin Factory

Now the city has to subsist without the supply by Poseidon, so it decides to trade with other lands. New Atlantis is good at making tins. (Metaphorize into Intermodal container) It’s easy to catch fish or shrimps around it and make them into fish tins. But that’s not enough. For earning more money, peoples package their house in tins, cut trees to made wood tins, fill sea water into tins, even more, they package themselves into tins to sell to the world. For the inexpensive price and huge quantity of tins, gradually, Atlantis becomes the biggest factory which producing different kinds of tins in the world. At the same time, some of the other lands become to rely on the cheap products of Atlantis. Using these tins, Atlantis exchanges a lot of things that comes from other lands. They barter their fish and shrimp with fish oil and shrimp paste; barter their house with concrete and sand, barter their trees with foreign sapling and seed.