Whitecliffe
Introduction
The Impossible City, This Snowy Oasis in the middle of one the harshest wastelands in Solitas in all of the Kingdom. Whitecliffe was where Mantle's king exiled His Kingdom's dissidents but they never expected Whitecliffe to not only rise but found a series of new Cities. The City is huge and the most well developed spot in the world with giant sky scrapers, shining neon lights and expansive and impressive defence system.
Demographics
The city has a lot of young people and thanks to Gene Therapy doesn't suffer the lag experienced by aging populaces. The City while big is more tall then wide, with most living in high rises that have automated defense systems that protect from Grimm. The City has Millions upon millions of people within it and many are Faunus, Androids robots and what not.
The City doesn't separate based on race or identity, meaning you can find anyone just about anywhere, with pockets of communities organize the spread out cultures of the city.
Government
Most cities have Councils and Mayors but City Hall in Whitecliffe is a modern place of governance with fully developed local departments that handle finances, infrastructure, construction & development as well as law enforcement and general city policy. The Government also has various offices that ensure City wide management is easier, these are call District Halls where citizens can appeal to and talk to their actual representatives and officials.
Every year there is elections for seats but every 5 years the Mayor is elected, the Current is Kalia Dawnrise, a Faunus from Menagerie who climbed the political ladder as a immigrant representative and is currently on her 2nd term as Mayor, Mayors tend serve a maximum of 5 years due to term limits that last 50 years each ensuring a rotation of candidates even the popular ones but never fully removing them from the ballot unless they commit crimes.
Law Enforcement
Courts and Police Departments enforce the laws but enforcement isn't purely hard faced, There is the Community Police which is the passive version of the police designed specifically for community service. While Police officers can provide these services, the removal of firearms for Community police enables a more balanced interaction with communities. Community Police like Normal Police are recruited from their local communities but have different training. A Police Officer is the Hero with a gun, sworn to protect you even from the government where as the Community Officer is the social worker with body armour and appropriate training to handle fragile Non-escalated situations. As for City police they are the guys who protect people from threats and handle criminal. The Special Tactics teams are dedicated officers with more militarized training and carry the super heavy duty equipment and automatic weapons. Average City police carry Side arms and shotguns with body armour and aura training to tank gun shots and still be able to fight back without being any more armed then the average citizen. All police have the Slogan "Protect & Serve" with their entire training ethos centered around this idea rather then strictly enforcement. All officers get 18 weeks training. Courts, Courts are the regulatory and deciding factor in cases and these court sessions look like ours. Judges can be impeached by their communities if the community feels unrepresented by their Judge. Judges interpret the Law and are selected from a pool of legal experts via yearly elections. For instance This city's Corut circuits were the first in the world to ever have Faunus in legal positions of power.Defences
The City is protected by multiple walls and defenses upon defenses, with enough automated turrets to make Atlas blush. The City has giant forcefields like Atlas that was independently developed and recently has PRISM which creates a giant Psionic field that disrupts the Grimm Hivemind. The land is also engineered to control the advance of Grimm with the city's defenses being well tested and constantly updated and reviewed for inefficiencies.
Seen as the world's safest City, they also have the world's safest skies with the Sentinel Defense Program ,the Sentinel program is a set of Ground to air missiles that work in tandem with the Illuminance Radar System that detects incoming Bandits and Grimm allowing the city to shoot down hostile Air assets and keep the skies as safe as they can be in this world.
Under water is the Aqua Pura System, a system of water water autoamted defenses that shoot and damage Grimm, with Sea barriers preventing entry. These are in the form of Lasers and Torpedos, that are capale of killing smaller scale Sea Grimm and providing a lot of hurt for larger Sea Grim and provide early warning for the City.
Infrastructure
Whitecliffe has a less is more approach to Infrastructure, rather then building hundreds of roads, Whitecliffe builds giant roads and highways with Monorails ,subway systems and lots of pedestrian access where all side roads can work off. These Central roads are wide 4 Lane roads with dozens of well connected side roads to get around the city. These Dedicated Travel ways are also accompanied by the city's trainways and Monorails.
This organized approach allows Whitecliffe to better control it's infrastructure and protect it as well as maintaining it. Roads are durable and are designed to not chew up lots of resources and funding to exist. Metro Systems also work under this idea allowing the creation of well connected massive Underground complexes where people can live, eat and work.
The idea is to make Infrastructure Tall and not wide, the existence of airships also simplifies this and Sky docks are everywhere and fly along designated Sky ways aobve towers or at least as high above it as that day's safety limit will permit since Grimm can still come from above. The City also has sea access and thusly has giant dedicated docks for storage and trade.
Thanks to artificial management of their bay's sea floor, they can house 100's of Cargo freighters and challenge Atlas' trading capability even if they're meant to be a part of Atlas.
Districts
For simplified Governance the city is broken up into a few Districts that holds 100's of prescient's with District Halls in each district but not the Beacon District as that is where City Hall is located.
1. Beacon District
The first District of the City, this contains Beacon Hill where the prime Minister and the government resides and where the Pseudo Country rules it's self. Beacon Hill is a hill with a giant obelisk at the center with all of the structures wrapped around a circular wide road and dozens of statues of Humans and Faunus as well as Androids and bots who've served the country's with distinction. The City's tallest towers are also found here as well as the Beacon Hill Museum which is the world's largest museum ever built.2.Snowfall District
The Upper living area with luxury hotels, resorts, giant theme parks and massive aquariums are. Horizon City is located here which is a giant shopping complex that is it's own city in it's own respect just because of all the hotels , motels and shops all linked together. Millions of people pass through here and come from all over the world from all walks of life. The Temple of Freedom is also located here where the Egalitarian society is headquartered and is a giant hub for dozens of social justice movements. A Statue of Atreus Snowfall is located in Central Park which is a Habitat dome that serves as a giant park where people can experience warm weather and forest like environments.3. Worker's District
While other districts have their own sites, this is where the big offices, factories, power plants, and water treatment plants are located as well as the giant living complexes and dozens of Union Halls. The Worker's Square is where civil rights heroes are celebrated and memorialized with the largest Union halls near by and the Sociology Museum that contains the history of civil and Sapient rights and is highly visited by people from all over the world.4. Sentinel District
The large hub of Military and technological innovation, all of the big labs and bases are located here with the Katner's Naval Force base, a giant Military port that fields Whitecliffe's fleets. This is where much of the research is done and where the military trains it's soldiers in large bases and where Military focused factories produce al lof the arms and equipment. Atlas also produces some equipment here but this has seen a decline.
Founding Date
20-5 BGW
Founders
Alternative Name(s)
The Rising Power | The Unofficial Capital of Atlas | Home of Freedom and Progress | The Impossible City | Defiance City
Type
Capital
Population
204,231,321
Related Ethnicities
Inhabitant Demonym
Cliffers
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