Metropole
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Metrópole (also known as Rio Paulo) is the biggest sprawl in the known world, with an estimated population of 20,000,000 located within Amazonia.
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[edit] History
When the state of Amazonia was created by Huapla's coup d'etat in 2034, all the non-awakened population living in the interior was forced out towards the coast. Instead of occupying other major cities like Fortaleza or Bahia, most of that population moved over to the Rio-São Paulo axis.
So much people in a space (relatively) made both cities sprawl towards each other, making the Metrópole as we know.
[edit] Politics
Metrópole is a 'free enclave'; basically, Amazonia lets anything go in there business-wise, as long as it stays within city limits. Little of its internal politics have been explored, but it can be assumed it's not that different from other city-states like Seattle or Berlin. It IS of note said city limits doesn' grows to the sides.
[edit] Geography
[edit] Economy
[edit] Trivia Bits
- Its a known fact that, even if forced together, the people of the sprawl tend to identify themselves either as cariocas (hailing from the old Rio de Janeiro) or paulistas (hailing from the São Paulo side). That's mostly an expression of the old rivalry the cities always had, and which is taken by different people with different degrees of seriousness.
- You can only get to the Metrópole by plane or boat. The highway network that criss-crossed the old Brazil is now useless, thanks to the forests' regrowth.
- The population bit may need to be updated. Rio de Janeiro currently holds over 7.100.000+ people, 14.000.000+ including the whole metropolitan area; São Paulo's municipality alone holds 11.000.000+ inhabitants, 23.000.000+ in its whole metropolitan zone. Given the amount of space between both cities, 20 million people can't crowd it.
[edit] References
State of the Art 2063, pp 123, 125.
Sprawl Survival Guide, pp 79.
Dragons of the Sixth World, pp 83-93.
[edit] External Links
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