Decrepit Detroit

In the year 476, a crazed German warlord named Odoacer lead an army of equally insane German warriors into battle against a skilled and highly trained Roman outfit. Odoacer brutally dispatched the Romans before reportedly castrating and expelling Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
The spiritual and cultural epicenter of humanity, which had spent the better part of the last century imploding with hedonistic rituals and mass violence, had fallen.

As the calendar clicks through 2010 Detroit faces its own financial crisis, social upheavals and environmental meltdown. It has being suggested that (that like the great Roman Empire) Detroit has past its prime.
Once known as the “Paris of the West” the city had a golden age during the late 1800s and early 1900. Due to its strategic location on the Great Lakes the city became a major transport hub. In 1904 Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. Ford's manufacturing (and those of automotive pioneers William C. Durant, the Dodge brothers, Packard, and Walter Chrysler) reinforced Detroit's status as the world's automotive capital.
“D-Town” or “The D” was also an important source of popular music. Originating in Detroit, Motown and its soul-based subsidiaries were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as The Motown Sound, a style of soul music with a distinct pop influence.
However, a lethal cocktail of union strife, social and racial tensions, corruption, drugs and recession have since castrated the city and expelled its wealth.

Detroit now has numerous neighborhoods suffering urban decay. Vacant properties rotting to the ground. Remnants of the once proud empire of Detroit.

It is almost as bad as Flint, Michigan.