Dominion City

Canada’s most recent, and perhaps most unusual, feature is an entire city from another reality. Designed and built by scientists in a parallel universe, the floating city became that world’s sole surviving haven after a global nuclear holocaust. The city’s security chief, a nanotech-infused cyborg named Dominion, attempted to raid our universe in order to conquer and resettle his charges. He “anchored” Dominion City near the city of Nanaimo on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Thanks to the collaborative efforts of heroes from America and Team Canada, Dominion’s plans quickly came to naught. The city’s governor, a female artificial intelligence named Regina, surrendered and, after a brief negotiation with the provincial and federal government, Dominion City disappeared—but not for long.
The city reappeared, days later, floating above Halifax, Nova Scotia, remaining there for just over a week before disappearing again. Since that time, Dominion City has appeared in places all over Canada, always north of the 49th parallel, but on the Canadian side of the North Pole, and always over land. Experts have a number of theories involving the city’s initial dimensional shift, quantum instabilities, and magnetic fields (to say nothing of unknown variables like Pawagan in Manitoba). Whatever the case, Dominion City appears in a location, remains there for anywhere from a day to nearly a month (at most, so far) then vanishes, reappearing somewhere else anywhere from seconds to as much as a month (the longest disappearance) later. To the inhabitants of the city, no time appears to pass during their “jumps.”
Dominion City’s technology—and its A.I. governor—relies on huge “nano-furnaces” to produce swarms of “nanogens,” microscopic machines released into the air. This technology supports self-driving cars, flying vehicles for police and emergency services, and hospitals with regeneration capabilities for those who have spent years exposed to the nanotech; outsiders, with a few interesting exceptions, are unaffected by the city’s nanotechnology.