Liberty City's history nearly parallel's New York City's history. Liberty City used to be a remote Dutch trading post called New Rotterdam. On September 4, , Horatio Humboldt , an English explorer hired by the Dutch to find a new place to sell weed, steered his ship into the mouth of a river coincidentally named the Humboldt by the local natives based on Humboldt's writings. The river was already polluted by the natives expelling waste into the river.
This justified the genocide and larceny on the natives. New Rotterdam was founded by the Dutch, who preached about liberal values but really cared about pimping women and getting high and were probably the first rappers. They wanted to find a place where they could party and kill people. Unlike other cities in the New World that were founded to promote religious intolerance, New Rotterdam was founded so Europeans can get rich off of other people's work.
The natives were savages, wearing little clothes, but they were dealt with. New Rotterdam quickly expanded its ego and learned to hate everyone else. It proclaimed itself the capital of the world. Advertisements were sent to Europe promising settlers a new life in a new city that has hour convenience stores, roller coasters, and entertaining nightly hangings. Europe wanted to come to see what freedom is really like. When they arrived they were aghast in America's new pastime of "Watching animals fuck and betting on it".
The city spread and chose an island in the bay which they called Algonquin. In the first ships of slaves arrived to give the Americans, from the tyranny of Europe, to focus on the important things in life. The economy boomed. The slave craze was huge; people would wait in line for days to own their very own person. Some dissenters wondered about the moral consequences of the nation founded on genocide, slavery, and theft, but they were quickly imprisoned as unpatriotic.
That year all the local indigenous tribes were brought together and paid for the greatest real estate deal in the history of the world. The Dutch had plentiful resources. They traded beaver skins, a 17th century version of wife swapping.
