Years into the future, Ponyville is a changing place from how we know it, engulfed by increasing industrialization and organized crime and populated by the grotesques of the Great Gallop Forward Generation. It allows for some seriously bucked up stories to unfurl.

A turf war turning the streets into a battleground.
A contest that brings the worst out of fillies.
A hostage situation involving chickens.
And a mother trying to control her brat of a daughter.

These, my friend, are mere examples of Ponyville's bucked up future.