The economy of MonoTown is a highly developed free-market economy. Ranked by the World Economic Forum as the most open in the world, and MonoTown boasts an outsized economic impact far beyond most cities of its size. Despite being a small city-state with severely limited land and resources, it is the richest and most successful of the so-called “Searise Sharks” – cities and countries who benefited economically from “The Searise” – the global cataclysmic change wrought by rising sea levels and environmental change.