Harvardville is known to have fallen into economic stagnation in the early 1990s. This changed thanks to the arrival of WilPharma into the town. Though the pharmaceutical corporation greatly revived the town, it effectively transformed it into a closed community where citizens were reluctant to question company actions. In the years after the Raccoon City Destruction Incident, WilPharma designed the Air Dome Laboratory, a state-of-the-art facility designed to conduct vaccination research on dangerous microbes such as the t-Virus. Though its safety measures were made clear, the people of Harvardville became increasingly concerned with accusations of unethical research in India, resulting in an increase in policing in the city should protestors become more aggressive. In November 2005, Harva