Seventeen Manufacturing is a giant electric vehicle and bicycle manufacturing company headquartered in Ingny. It's headquarters are located on Revolution Parkway, which is a manufacturing and big business hotspot located in the heart of Ingny.
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Maxwell Friedman was born poor to Leon Samuell Friedman, a steelworker in the Humphrey Steelworks Company and Mallia Enbourg Friedman, a cleaner for The Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Ingny during a period of rapid industrialization across the country. His father taught him the basics of welding and steelworking at a young age. Maxwell showed to be prolific, creating his own bicycle at the age of 12. His interest in bikes were sparked by the sense of freedom he got riding his father's old bike from his childhood along the dusty, smoggy streets of the manufacturing areas of Ingny, where his father worked and he and his family lived. He eventually settled in a quiet, Victorian style housing neighborhood near where he and Margarette opened Seventeen's first shop. Margarette lived in a more affluent part of town, with her father working at The Roosevelt in a higher managing position. Mallia Friedman and Margarette's father became friends, and eventually Margarette and Maxwell met and were friends for years, bonding over their shared love of riding bikes before realizing their attraction to one another. They married at 25, and had Edmund a few years after. At the time of their marriage, Maxwell was working in the steel plant his father had worked at for years and Margarette had been coasting on her father's money for years before they both realized they wanted a new job. Nothing on the market they felt suited their skill or interests, as Maxwell had had enough of the endless grind of the steel factory and Margarette wanted to work more with bicycles, seen to be a frivolous pursuit at the time. They found a cozy little storefront just blocks away from their home and decided to use some of their remaining money to purchase the building.
Then, in 1917 they founded Seventeen Manufacturing. With a few hundred dollars, they invested in their necessary equipment and started producing their bikes. Business was slow at first, as many struggled in the heavily industrial times, but then they found a market in the rich and moderately wealthy who could afford such a luxury as a bicycle. Their handmade bikes and splendid designs were attractive to the affluent populace of Ingny, who were desperate to show their wealth and status in any way possible. With money flowing in, they decided to hire two employees to assist with the assembly of the bikes, as that was where Margarette was weaker, however, she designed and painted each and every bike made. As the months turned into years, their bikes became more affordable to poorer citizens, and bikes even became a staple of commutes for poorer people in Ingny, as the city was so large and cars so expensive it was too difficult to walk to each of their destinations.
When Margarette and Maxwell retired, they left a note to their sole child, Edmund, who was set to take over the company. Essentially, it advised him not to give in to greed or excessive need for expansion. With his parents excess money from the company, he abruptly bought a factory and began an assembly line for the bikes, essentially ruining what set Seventeen apart from its competitors. The new bikes were no longer the high quality metal bikes like before, now it was cheap aluminum bikes that were all painted by being dunked in a vat of paint. All of the originality and creativity had been seeped out of the company, and sales stagnated and dropped, even with the high amount being made. As all seemed lost, Edmund was about to close the company's doors forever, when Marcel Anthasiu, world famous bike racer showed up outside of the original company location and asked to try a few bikes. Desperate, Edmund pulled out his bike, an original Maxwell and Margarette bike for him to try. He rode around the cobbled streets to a paved road, and sped down the street quicker than the cars. Nearly out of breath, Anthasiu came panting back after his impromptu 20 mile hour long ride and asked to purchase three. However, Edmund had none in stock, so he stumbled over his words and said "Yes, yes you'll have them in a few days.". He would not, in fact, have them in a few days. Edmund went begging back to his parents to make just three more bikes for him or teach him how to make them in the original way. They obliged, and in twelve days, Marcel was rewarded with three premium striped Seventeen bikes. Then, then came the boom.
Edmund was overwhelmed by the hundreds of orders coming in from all across the country, from the Capital, all the way in the upper reaches of the Far North, calls came pouring in. His factory reopened, this time with quality as the main ingredient, and every single order was served. He expanded countrywide, with several stores popping up in Burton, in Dreamcliff and in and around the Lake Region, as well as the West. 29 stores were opened in the span of a year as Seventeen's popularity skyrocketed due to Marcel's fanfare around the company.
Business was booming for years and years, and in 1980 Edmund stepped down as CEO of Seventeen, replaced by his daughter, Stella. Stella was an advocate for clean energy, and desperately wanted to clean up the pollution around Seventeen's factories, and did so quite successfully as well, lowering emissions 94% in the span of 10 years. Seventeen set a precedent and example for how change could work even for giant companies. With the electric car in many's mind as the turn of the century rolled around, Stella Friedman decided to invest millions in developing the best tech possible to get ahead of the field as early as possible. In 2001, they released the Conductor, the first completely battery-electric car in Huron League. Sales went through the roof, and more iterations and designs of electric cars came and went, including the Circadia EV, in 2007, the Anthracite EV, in 2012, and the Montembault EV, in 2014. The most recent car, the Avenue, was released in early 2022. Bicycle models include the Seventeen Matriarch, rolled out in 2019, and the Aspen, which came out late 2021. The Aspen, a top-of-the-line racing bike sold a record 391,000 units in the first month of availability.
To order cars, bikes, or request stores or sales for or in your nation, copy the code here. As a thank you, on any order we donate 1% of our profits to a charity of your choice, or on orders over 20 million dollars, we donate 2% of our profits to charities of your choice, or our choice if being bought by a national government. On orders over 100 million dollars, we donate and additional 5%, bringing it up to a 7% donation.
Stores: Depends on size, approximately 1,000,000 NSD per 100 square meters.
Bicycles:
- Matriarch: 6,000 NSD per bike - high-end racer - 2 years old
- Aspen: 12,000 NSD per bike - top-of-the-line racer - brand new
- Steamer: 5,000 NSD per bike - cargo bike - brand new
- Geyser: 1,000 NSD per bike - city cruiser - 5 years old
- Birch 2,000 NSD per bike - city cruiser - brand new
Electric Vehicles
- Circadia: 20,000 NSD per car - sedan - 15 years old
- Anthracite: 30,000 NSD per car - SUV - 10 years old
- Montembault - 35,000 NSD per car - sportwagon - 8 years old
- Circadia 2.0 35,000 NSD per car - sedan - 6 years old
- Fissure 150,000 NSD per truck - 18 Wheeler - 3 years old
- Carbon 40,000 NSD per car- SUV - 2 years old
- Tigre 55,000 NSD per truck - truck - 1 year old
- Volt 40,000 NSD per car - sportwagon - brand new
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