City Thirty Five

City Thirty-Five - located in Copenhagen, Denmark - acts as one of the major centres for the Union's Geo-Prospecting Division (GPD). With bountiful lands stretching far into the untouched North, it was found necessary to establish a large, production-based cityscape to refine the countless rare-Earth elements and bulk-process the masses of carbon-based plant life found there, leading to the allocation and creation of City Thirty-Five.

Due to this incredibly heavy industrialisation, the atmosphere surrounding the City has grown incredibly toxic; to ensure the longevity of the working populace, gas-masks, and hazard-protection suits are widely distributed to the citizens relocated there. Naturally, it is utterly undesirable to be forced to work under these miserable conditions, but - as ever - this is not a factor that the City Administration forgot to balance. Battling the colossal bureaucracy of the new Earth order, the Administration seeks to 'order' low-class workers with poor socio-credibility from the Citizen Relocation Division to be relocated to their city and act as the main working force.

Following the 'fall' of City Thirty-Six, the idea of having an entire city of disgruntled labourers has grown widely unpopular amongst the members of the Global Union Administration, but heavy lobbying from members of the GPD, and subsequently the Product Manufacturing Division, has allowed the local administration to have some bargaining power amongst the Combine Government; thus, a semi-constant stream of damned undesirables are shipped up North to the bitter cold.

To ensure socio-stability, the local Administration offers a variety of benefits to would-be newcomers to the City - should they comply with the gruelling labour of the factories and workhouses, an opportunity to climb the local Loyalist 'tiers' into a better social position is offered; across the City, banners flaunt the opportunity for dedicated loyalists to eventually leave for greener pastures - more specifically, for City Eighteen. This work-for-status custom has spawned an incredibly toxic and duplicitous culture amongst the working class, who would rather out their neighbour to the Civil Protection than live in their squalor for another day; this has lent a consistently stable status within the Cities walls, as subservience is willingly adopted.

Whether this city-state will withstand the test of time is unsure, but - for the moment - it is beginning to set a new standard for production-efficiency amongst the median circles of the Global Union Administration. Adoption is apprehensive for the time being, but many councilman's eyes peer curiously towards this smouldering North Star.