I'd like NY if that one guy's idea (sorry i forgot your name, cool guy) with the Talon Company in charge of the Stock Exchange?
You mean the New New Amsterdam where everything can be bought idea, I don't see why Talon Company can't use the Stock Exchange s their HQ. Maybe the government or Talon Company (or both) could use West Point for training. And there could be a slave liberating faction operating from the Statue of Liberty (Sons of Liberty?) or some Federals demanding Regulations operate from Union Square (Children of the Union?). Possibly the ECBOS can interfere and force people to accept their morals, obviously they can be destroyed, who needs morals when there's caps to be made? Maybe the New England Monarchy can try to take New Amsterdam to use as one of their key cities (renaming it New New York). I guess some streets would have to be taken out in order to size down the city, keeping only the landmarks.
Agreed on the South as an interesting place to set it. I'm working on a novel set in my hometown post-apocalypse. However, at least as far as Tennessee is concerned, there is a [censored]ton of atomic energy and ordinance developed here, and the likelihood of post-nuclear survival is virtually nil. That's what I'm working on
It's nuclear history might just make it interesting.
Watts bar Wattz bar IMO should be used as a weapon factory or something R&D related. It would hopefully be enough to reintroduce the Wattz series Energy Weapons, they look much better anyway, more like normal guns. Maybe it could house a ghoul society.
Come to think of it, I have designed a ghoul/mutant/robot/android killing Confederacy, and they use all SW laser weapons that are based upon German weapons (as well as some other German guns), I bet they'd be very interested in the facility, as would the MWBOS, and going with the Barnaky ending, I suppose the MLA wouldn't want either to end up taking the facility.
I also plan to do something with Sparta, Tennessee and the ancient Spartans, but unlike CL they would use modern weapons named or renamed after Greek mythology (like a miniphalanx, a minigun named after the Navy's Phalanx defense system), in addition to similarly named Poseidon Projects.