The unrest in the Upper City had ended, yet it was far from truly over.
On the first day Gotham State was established, the State Legislature amended the state tax code under the Pale Rider's leadership. Wayne Enterprises was the first to respond. Whether others did so willingly or not, they had no choice but to follow.
How should one put the "new tax code"? If you took that thing to Mount Rushmore and read it aloud, only one statue would not spit at you. That statue was named Roosevelt, because his nephew had done the same thing back then.
At the governor's inauguration, the Pale Rider, Jack Napier, quoted that president's famous words.
His remarks caused an uproar and drew criticism from countless mainstream media outlets. They claimed the Pale Rider was turning back the wheel of history and trying to drag the world back into the Cold War era.
But that hot topic was soon buried beneath even more explosive news—renowned reporter Clark Kent exposed Ordin Company for deliberately causing cancer.
This did not merely blow up public opinion in the United States; it blew up public opinion across the entire world. Ordin was practically one of the world's best medical equipment manufacturers, and hospitals everywhere had purchased its equipment to varying degrees.
Now that it had been revealed they used their equipment to create cancer patients, it would spark panic among nearly every patient who had undergone examinations using those machines. For any country, it was a huge problem.
Now the United States government had no time to trouble the Pale Rider, because governments all over the world were troubling them.
Some might ask, Ordin was a British company, so why was everyone blaming the United States? The truth was that most national governments did not care