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Aluminum is common, refining it was hard, though. Yeah, but the supply chains they needed to produce finished goods are gone.Penicilin and some other, early to mid-century drugs might be doable, and might be very profitable, the rest though, I doubt it. Does the place have a chemical or pharma...

Not familiar with the area's climate, tbh, aside from "very, very hot". Nor am I familiar with tobacco and sugar cane production, sadly.

Yeah, from your comment I assumed they might have aluminum smelters up and running already. As to coinage, well, I believe that some of your coins were in part sliver up to a few decades ago, that can probably be used for international trade, too. What about the old cash crops of the area...

If there is a greenback, don't forget, it was something that got created during and as a direct result of the Civil War. Also, I imagine that neither the downtimers, nor a lot of uptimers, will want to go to FIAT money. You need lots of energy and aluminum ore to make Aluminum, will they be...

Yeah, but there might be companies that produce seeds there, or hippies/survivalists that keep stockpiles of quality seeds that breed true, rust resistance will probably be a big thing.

Non-GMO seeds can spread pretty rapidly, IMHO. What about their immediate food needs, are there any emergency stockpiles of canned beans in case of wars and other emergencies?

Synthetic fertilizers weren't a thing until the early 20th century, IIRC, before that they shipped bat guano around. If Alabama has factories for that stuff, as well as some more modern, non-GMO seeds, then they can make a lot of money and make a lot of farmers very happy. Stuff like weed rust...

Probably, although it will be extremely hard for some businesses, imagine running a massive superstore purely on pen and paper, for example. Most of the tech would still be around though, so some forms of electronic payment could be jury-rigged, personal devices will still work, and internet...

I think external trade was mostly done in gold and to a far lesser degree silver, IIRC. Question is, do they have any? Individual people might have decent amounts, since that area is pretty libertarian/survivalist-minded from what I've heard. They can probably trade guns and ammo. More...

Most of the web will be gone since the TLDs and everything below would have evaporated, if those get restored, sites that were hosted in datacenters in Alabama might be back, no idea if a TLD is hosted in Alabama, maybe at some university or something. It will be fairly easy to build a new web...

Interesting TL.