Born as a product of European colonialism, the people of Léopoldville merely exchanged one tyrant for another when German troopers and collaborators marched across the former Belgian colony of Congo. What started as the possession of a playboy king transformed throughout the past decades from one oppressive hierarchy to another.

Before Léopoldville, the region was a collection of river settlements seized by the International Congo Society's expedition, led by Henry Stanley, to establish a transport headquarters for Leopold II's Congo Free State. Its position as an open port provided a stream of industry with abundant materials like rubber and ivory. This growth came at the cost of local tribes and villages, as well as the enslavement of many natives. Around 1910, during the transition from Leopold II's fiefdom to the Belgian colony of Congo, Léopoldville experienced an investment surge, elevating the trade hub to a planned city. The city's population and infrastructure grew to fit the status of capital, leading to its succession of Boma as the Governor General's seat in 1926.

Throughout this history, Léopoldville was always a heavily stratified place where European settlers freely discriminated against and exploited African citizens, with an intentionally segregated design and forced labor sustaining the growth of extraction bases. Since the transition to German rule, life has become even more miserable as the Congo Lake abomination brought diseases and ecological damage to the city's vicinity. It has become clear that Müller's men are simply staying to strip the land of its remaining resources for the greed of mainland investors. Hope may still exist, but none remains in this wretched place.