Stafford, about 25 miles south of Washington, was a wealthy county in Malin's era. The residents here benefited from jobs at major U.S. corporations and government institutions, with a median household income close to one hundred thousand U.S. dollars.
On the eve of the Great Destruction, it had already become a satellite city of the Washington metropolis. Of course, unlike the metropolis, it still had an elegant environment, no skyscrapers, no dark corners, but beautiful villas, compact buildings, wide streets, and a leisurely lifestyle.
After all, everyone was decently middle-class, unlike the tragic Hamilton encountered earlier in Tappahannock.
