New Ideal City
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New Ideal City is the capital and largest city of the state of Lasgrane, in the western (Pacific) coast of SimNation. Its population is 867,768 residents and it is the financial, political and cultural center of the area.
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[edit] History
New Ideal City was developed in two stages throughout history. The first stage begins from the foundation of the city in the mid-15th century AD and end in the destruction of the city during World War II. The second stage begins from the reconstruction of the city after the war and continues to this day.
[edit] Early history
Initially, the city was founded in 1456 by the prominent politician Gina Auckland and a number of colonists from Ideal City, England, after the population growth that took place there and forced a large portion of the population to leave the city. New Ideal City was only one of the many settlements that were created and its populace was mainly consisted by enterpreneurs and members of the middle class that had had their fortunes ruined as a result of the riots which followed the sharp rise on the prices of bread and other essential products. The nature of the founders of New Ideal City was destined to shape its future forever: the settlement grew as a trading hub with many connections to other major centers across the country. The Crystal River offered an important advantage to transports and commerce and the city grew rapidly.
The area around New Ideal City was also abundant in wildlife inhabiting the lush surrounding forests. As a consequence, timber, furs and fish were sold to other more industrialized areas. The first industries were created around 1580 with machinery brought from across the newly-found SimNation with the Transim Railway and thus a new era of prosperity began. Twenty years later, New Ideal City was a rich city with a population of 120,000 residents and had a large number of industries processing metals and manufacturing everything from quills and baskets to prefabricated watermills and waterproof clothes. Especially important was the coach industry, as in New Ideal City was invented the first mass production line for coaches, which radically increased production and profits. The production line was a structure made of a series of workers strapped in a way that they could move nothing but their head and hands, so that they would constantly do the same task (every worker had a different one) and would not be distracted by anything outside their work. The production line greatly raised the number of workplaces in the city.
This economical prosperity triggered the institution of the first banks, insurance companies and currency exchange foundations, and after a few years was decided that a regulating authority was essential for the coordination of the financial activity in the area. That way was founded the Treasury of New Ideal City in 1740, controlled by the city authorities. The inability of the middle class to influence the policies of the Treasury, however, led to the dissolution of the Treasury and the transference of its powers to the then-constituted Bank of New Ideal City, which exercised wider financial control and was managed by a committee consisted by 12 members, half appointed by the authorities and half elected by the annual Convention of the Business and Trading Guilds. At the same year (1748) was also incorporated the New Ideal City Stock Exchange (N.I.C.S.E.).
The combined action of the two institutions led to an area of profound financial growth, followed by a series of political and social reforms. For the first time, citizens under 30 years old could vote for the appointment of the Mayor and the seven-member Board of Advisors. Bathing in the river was deemed acceptable, owning a pet dog of a different gender was allowed and the fashion of wearing peculiar hats at the theater was established, ridding people from having to feign paying attention to the play.
Great achievements were also achieved that age as a result of the brilliant educational system that had evolved, giving the same opportunities for learning to both the rich and the poor (who were, anyway, relatively few in the city). The first college opened in 1597 and the New Ideal City University was founded in 1643, providing knowledge in all fields without interference from the Pope (who had no jurisdiction over the city's theological manners - everyone had the right to have their own religious views). The invention of the printing press in 1700 by John Badenberg made possible the wide circulation of newspapers and magazines, the oldest newspaper still in existence being The New Ideal City Times, while The Fisherman's Weekly is the oldest magazine in the city, still being printed every Friday.
[edit] Later history
[edit] Geography
New Ideal City is located on a plain crossed by the Crystal River, bordering the Watergate in the west and Long Lake in the south. On the north of the city is a series of hills, going from northwest to southeast and effectively holding away the pollution from the industrial estate, which is situated in the north of that hills. At the center of that series of hill lies the Unnamed Mountain, which towers at the staggering height of 800 m. From the Unnamed Mountain begins another series of hills, lower than the other one, that is heading northwards and separates the agricultural estate (in the west) from the industrial estate (in the east). In the east of New Ideal City there are no physical obstacles, other than the Bald Hill (the culminating point of a small branch of the West-East hill series) and the area is consisted of green plains suitable for the expansion of the city towards that direction.
[edit] Government of New Ideal City
'TheGovernor is the highest officer in the city as well as the state. He or she has the power to do basically whatever is needed to keep society and life together. The city has recently impeached it's mayor leaving Gov. Miller as the city's leader.
[edit] Demographics
[edit] Transportations
After the war, there was almost no trace of the old city, and so the new settlement was planned almost from start. The main thoroughfares are Victory Avenue and Arlington Avenue (from north to south) and City Hall Avenue and Watergate Avenue (from west to east). Those four avenues form a cross (as they have in pairs a distance of only one block from each other), at the center of which is located the Central Square, the center of the city. Between the avenues of the cross are numerous parks and public buildings, so that they form a green cross which, on the one hand gives the ability of many areas to be close to the nature, and on the other hand it separated the city more easily into neighbourhoods.
Other major streets of New Ideal City are:
- From west to east
- Mountain Avenue (in the north)
- Liberty Avenue (beginning from Capitol Place and heading westwards)
- River Street (in its greatest part the southernmost road in the North Bank)
- Mansion Drive (the northernmost road in the South Bank, passes in front of the Mayoral Mansion)
- Crystal Drive (Mansion Drive changing name at a point south of the city center, continuing eastwards)
- Columbia Street (monumental street of the South Bank)
- From north to south
- Chambers Street (in the western areas, separates several neighborhoods)
- Peidis Avenue (Victory Avenue continuing southwards after crossing the river)
- Lake Avenue (Arlington Avenue continuing southwards after crossing the river)
[edit] Neighbourhoods
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