Opolis: A Political Roleplay

[Vienna Eliot]

Opolis
A Political Roleplay
Population: 46,223

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Town Hall | General IC

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Welcome to the City of Respite.

Opolis is a municipal politics roleplay. Everyone has full autonomy over their neighborhood in the City of Respite. Assuming you meet the minimal requirements, you will instantly be a member of the Town Hall. This is our OOC and sign-ups thread.

The Latest
Vivian Cherry has just been elected Mayor of Respite. The City Hall is convening to get to work on the business that will let the city run as a single, unified, functioning entity.

Neighborhoods
Neighborhood
Player (OOC)
Town Hall Representative (IC)

Canton
Vienna Eliot
Vienna Eliot

Scarrige
The Miaphysite Church of Coptic Archism
Wyatt Combs

Likari Congo
Likar
Mohammad Akbir

Redwood
Sriker
Zachary Reed

Flatgorge
Zjaum
Ernest Everett

Montgomery Hill
Klomania
Jacobus Conlard

Lower Anderson
Helowi
Amy Kander

Carriesburg
Bruke
Donald Gilchrist

De Vries
Ilnovryst
Sigmund Odell

Testament
Greater Arab State
Montgomery Drubman

Port Pantaleon
Danceria
Fyodor "Feo" Petrovich Sevelev

Acreborough
Alozia
Joseph Caldwell III

Fergaland
Adab
Desmond Fitzconnor Fergal IV

Black Step Mountain
Kazarogkai
Solomon Amon Day

Winding Creek
Artheria
Ethan Himeler

Staaten Eylandt
Collatis
Rudolph J. Grimm

Armitage
Van Hool Islands
Victoria Garrett

Cherry Hill
White Bluff
Vivian Cherry

Los Fidels
North Dajao
Alejandro Garcia

Canary Park
Duestchstien
Grover Denton

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[Vienna Eliot]

Here's my app:

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Nation: Vienna Eliot
Neighborhood name: Canton
Town Hall representative: Vienna Eliot
Neighborhood description: Located on the southern side of the city, Canton is a suburban community consisting largely of middle class folks, with some wealthier families owning riverside homes. The neighborhood is home to two former plantations that many residents use as parks. Most residents work elsewhere in the city.

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[The Miaphysite Church of Coptic Archism]

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Nation: The Miaphysite Church of Coptic Archism
Neighborhood name: Scarrige
Town Hall representative: Wyatt Combs
Neighborhood description: Scarrige, originally an independent municipality, has been annexed into the wider city. It features Cherry Street, a large and successful red-light district which also contains small gambling houses and other less reputable businesses, along with theaters, bowling alleys and a small local grocer's. There is a small population of young middle-class, primarily students, who have moved into Scarrige due to low housing/rent prices, but the majority of the population are working poor living in densely packed townhouses and squat apartment blocks. The neighborhood includes a waste management facility, a slowly dying steel mill, and other primary industries that employ most of the neighborhood's population.

[Likar]

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Nation: Likar
Neighborhood name: Likari Congo
Town Hall representative: Mohammad Akbir
Neighborhood description: It is a district in the far east of Tatan, a popular city. Made up of Low-Income citizens, it is the border district of the Middle Class South. It has a generally high crime rate, and is made up of industrial factories.

[Vienna Eliot]

Welcome, both of you! We'll open up the Town Hall IC after a few more join.

[New Sriker]

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Nation: Sriker
Neighborhood name: Redwood
Town Hall representative: Zachary Reed
Neighborhood description: Redwood is known to be the home to the working and lower class and of many minority groups the in the city. The Neighborhood is not as bad as people in higher class parts of the city say but a rivalry between two gangs The Redwood hornets and The Los Bandidos de la secoya has caused fear in Redwood.

[Zjaum]

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Nation: Zjaum
Neighborhood name: Flatgorge
Town Hall representative: Ernest Everett
Neighborhood description: In the center of this northern hinterland lies a gated community, filled with the town's upper crust. However, small industries at its western periphery have attracted new builders and ambitious residents, both well-off ex-students and families looking to get a good deal in the housing market. The views across what was once grassland is now prime real estate. The delegate is himself an anomaly, coming from an Old Guard background with a wife from the Nouveau Riche.

[Klomania 2]

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Nation: Klomania 2
Neighborhood name: Montgomery Hill
Town Hall representative: Jacobus Conlard
Neighborhood description:
The neighborhood was named after Francis Montgomery, a former railroad tycoon who once established a train station and a maintenance yard in this town, boosting the town's population and economy. Montgomery was the owner of the Montgomery & Sons Railroad Company, establishing railways all across the nation and progressing the technology of train-powered transportation over the last 100 years. Now the company is in decline due to the advent of highways, but it has left its mark on the city, and especially the neighborhood of Montgomery Hill.
Today, this neighborhood's train station serves as a hub where goods are packaged and transferred between the railways and the motorways. The rest of the neighborhood is heavy industry, with some high-density yet low-quality housing and businesses scattered close to the factories. This neighborhood has the lowest quality of life, due to the populace consisting of low-income industrial workers and recent migrants working in heavy polluting industry. However it is also the industrial capital of the city and one of the city's largest sources of income, due to the trade as a result of the presence of the railways and the industry.
The majority of this neighborhood's populace are industrial workers, and are thus highly left-leaning politically.

[Helowi]

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Nation: Helowi
Neighborhood name: Lower Anderson
Town Hall representative: Amy Kander
Neighborhood description: Lower Anderson is a neighborhood filled with mostly older, wealthier, retired people, along with some suburban families. The neighborhood has a relatively low crime rate and has 2 parks, a fancy restaurant, and a local Catholic Church. The population is majority white and a majority of the population is retired. The few working people in the neighborhood often work outside of the neighborhood.

[Vienna Eliot]

Great to see so many people interested! The Town Hall is now open, so we can get to work on discussing and writing a city charter.

[Zjaum]

I guess everyone's just accepted, then?

[Vienna Eliot]

I guess everyone's just accepted, then?

Yes, acceptance is automatic unless otherwise stated.

[Forest State]

Is there any more info somewhere on this, like how it runs, what the overarching elements of the RP are, etc?

You would probably get better results and more players if you made the OP a bit less bare bones. Still interested, however.

[Bruke]

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Nation: Bruke
Neighborhood name: Carriesburg
Town Hall representative: Donald Gilchrist
Neighborhood description:
Carriesburg was named after Giles Carrie, who settled here because the rocky, low-lying cliffs reminded him of the rocky coast of his hometown in the mother country. Ever since, the mainstay of the community has been the deepwater port, the city's largest. The port has made Carriesburg the center of fishing, shipbuilding, and associated industries. However, years of fierce competition from overseas have brought the neighborhood's only industries to the verge of collapse. The population is overwhelmingly white, and now mainly composed of middle-aged and elderly people, the latter of whom are mostly retirees. Young people are fleeing the neighborhood in droves, leading to resentment from long-time residents over how other areas of the city are "tempting our kids to leave and never come back". The main street, Cannery Row, is home to the canning factories and not much else besides a few small shops selling bait, tackle, and other fishing gear. Harbor Street is home to a community health center and rehabilitation clinic, and Mariners' Church, a Presbyterian church whose establishment dates back to the founding of the settlement. The harbor area itself consists of the port, and the crumbling but historic coastal fortification of Fort Campbell.

[Zjaum]

Hey, Bruke! Nice to see you, old friend!

[Ilnovryst]

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Nation: Ilnovryst
Neighborhood name: De Vries
Town Hall representative: Sigmund Odell
Neighborhood description:
De Vries is a historic little neighborhood, filled with chic cafes, boutiques, and restaurants with European ambiance and old art-deco buildings. The area attracts a lot of rich west European immigrant back the early twentieth century because of an important promenade street, and most of their legacy still left intact even as the time progressed. Nowadays, the neighborhood mostly acts as a business and tourism center of the city, though few apartments blocks housed no less significant amount of household residents.

[Greater Arab State]

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Nation: Greater Arab State
Neighborhood name: Testament
Town Hall representative: Montgomery Drubman
Neighborhood description:
Testament is located in the suburbs of the city and has strong Evangelical identity attached to it. As a result of the Neighbourhood's identity it has been ranked as one of the most Conservative Neighbourhoods in the city. It is a mostly residential area but has some non-residential buildings namely the Testament Country Club, local church and also a small family run firearms store.

[Bruke]

Hey hey hey GA, good to see you again.

[Greater Arab State]

Hey hey hey GA, good to see you again.

Thank you. It's also good to see you here as well.

[Zjaum]

Boy, for a population of 5,263, we have quite the massive neighborhoods!

[Bruke]

Boy, for a population of 5,263, we have quite the massive neighborhoods!

that's part of the fun, silly. There was an apocalypse, that's why there's no higher government institutions.

[Klomania 2]

I am surprised that this supposedly highly-populated metro area wasn't one large city or a few medium-sized cities as it is in America, but just a Holy Roman Empire of neighborhoods...

[Zjaum]

I am surprised that this supposedly highly-populated metro area wasn't one large city or a few medium-sized cities as it is in America, but just a Holy Roman Empire of neighborhoods...

That is a PERFECT metaphor for this...

But aren't you Zootopia? Everyone's waiting for you in the ISOT RP.

[Likar]

I am surprised that this supposedly highly-populated metro area wasn't one large city or a few medium-sized cities as it is in America, but just a Holy Roman Empire of neighborhoods...

That is a PERFECT metaphor for this...

But aren't you Zootopia? Everyone's waiting for you in the ISOT RP.

Ey there, old friend. Your church RP, how did that go? Did it die?

[Danceria]

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Nation:
Neighborhood name: Port Pantaleon, or referred to by locals as "Panty-town", or more politely "Patty-town" or "Patty's Port".
Town Hall representative: Fyodor "Feo" Petrovich Sevelev
Neighborhood description: Named after the selfsame Saint Pantaleon, it is one of the older municipalities. Adjacent to Scarrige, it holds a wide diversity of Eastern European and Irish decedents, predominantly divided between the Presbyterians near Carriesburg and Polish/Baltic Protestants near Testament, the Catholics of Upper Anderson and near Montgomery Hill, and many Orthodox who resided in Pantaleon proper. It had once been a source of immense crime, with migrant workers settling down and forming gangs during the Prohibition Era and Depression, accumulating into horrendous acts of violence during the late 1930s and much of the early cold war, due to many fleeing the former USSR. To this day, there is a noticeably Eastern European flavor to the city, and crime has shifted to Likari Congo. Due to continuous and steady immigration from the USSR, especially during the tumultuous 90s, Pantaleon also boasts the largest bilingual group in Opolis, and many proudly trace their lineages back to aristocrats of Poland and Russia.

As for the actual goods produced in the city, it's proximity to both the port and Montgomery Hills meant that many plied their trade in various factories, and still boasts a large automobile manufacturing sector. The St. Constantine's College, is the intellectual heart and soul of the city, having originally been founded by in-exile Russian nobles and renovated during the Cold War, boasts cutting edge technology, and an ambitious engineer named Sevelev seeks to change the manufacturing industry with the advent of 3-D Printers. But it isn't just science that put Pantaleon on the map, it was the source of many films documenting the gritty life of a railroad worker, and the various gangs of the 30s and 40s. Indeed, it attempted to retain an "old European" and postwar aesthetic that made it famous in many doccudramas. Other noteworthy businesses is the Six-Shooter, a restaurant chain local to Opolis, along with the bus-hub, the Ramanos Theatere, and Textile Trail, where blend of old-world open-air markets meets modern day conveniences.

Apologies for taking liberties on the outlay of the city, and history in general.