Opolis: A Political Roleplay

[Zjaum]

It's 7 vs. 14, dude. Also, 6 places named Cary. None named Respite, as far as I know.

Lel, I'm just picking a bone at that Jefferson suggestion tho. Calling other name generic when its also generic.

True, true!

[Vienna Eliot]

Voting ends in five hours.

On a different note, what's a city without a map? Right now, I think we can have a map that we update either once or twice a month. I'll look into possible ways for people to make their own maps for their neighborhoods so that we'll have something uniform, but for right now, let me know a) a real life neighborhood or town that your neighborhood will copy and b) its general location in the city (far north, central, southwest, etc.), and I will use Adobe Illustrator to build a full map of the city as it stands right now.

edit: You can give me a real location, or you can use a program like Paint, GIMP, Powerpoint, Illustrator, etc. to make a map and I'll redo the style and put that in the map. If you make your own, don't worry about buildings — just things like roads, parks, etc.

[Zjaum]

Voting ends in five hours.

On a different note, what's a city without a map? Right now, I think we can have a map that we update either once or twice a month. I'll look into possible ways for people to make their own maps for their neighborhoods so that we'll have something uniform, but for right now, let me know a) a real life neighborhood or town that your neighborhood will copy and b) its general location in the city (far north, central, southwest, etc.), and I will use Adobe Illustrator to build a full map of the city as it stands right now.

edit: You can give me a real location, or you can use a program like Paint, GIMP, Powerpoint, Illustrator, etc. to make a map and I'll redo the style and put that in the map. If you make your own, don't worry about buildings — just things like roads, parks, etc.

I mean, we each probably have 500 people in a neighborhood at most so, shoot, why not do houses? I'll do houses.

[Kazarogkai]

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Nation: Kazarogkai
Neighborhood name: Black Step Mountain
Town Hall representative: Solomon Amon Day
Neighborhood description: Far to the west lies the semi-appropriately named Black Step Mountain whose namesake derives from the rather low lying Mesa the neighborhood lies atop. The "Mountain" in the name derives from it being the highest point in the city while the "Black Step" is a reference to the overall shape of the side of the "Mountain" facing the rest of the City. Historically in part it is also a reference to the residents living within the historically black neighborhood settled by former slaves in yonder past hoping to escape persecution in their previous residence. It came to be a sorta safe haven of sorts and up until recently was it's own independent village with the annexation being remembered in rather bitter tones especially by older residents.

Starting off as mentioned previously as a small village a bit aways from the main city in the distance heavily reliant due to the poor soils on ranching, mining(iron principally but also some coal), and logging and later on a steel mill. The oddest part comes in way that these industries along with much of the economy in general rather than being run by outside companies is instead run by cooperatives and small businesses for the most part, or in the case of the steel mill as a pubic company, by the locals. This was in part due to a lack of interest or investment by outside companies who in many cases deriving from the city scorned making use of "inferior negro labor"in part out of principle and on the other out of fear from the local unionized laborers who threatened strikes fearing that it would result in driving down of wages. Due in part to the nature of the economic structure this has resulted in some relative prosperity due to the maintaining of decent jobs with the town having a reputation for being a rather sleepy neighborhood consisting mostly of lower middle class to middle class blue collar workers with some odd quirks.

A few notable oddities of the Neighborhood:
- The neighborhood in question being a dry part of the city banning not only alcohol but also tobacco within it's bounds
- The total lack of any sky scrapers, in part due to aesthetics
- The use of a Land Value Tax rather than a Property Tax to fund the local government

[Kazarogkai]

Voting ends in five hours.

On a different note, what's a city without a map? Right now, I think we can have a map that we update either once or twice a month. I'll look into possible ways for people to make their own maps for their neighborhoods so that we'll have something uniform, but for right now, let me know a) a real life neighborhood or town that your neighborhood will copy and b) its general location in the city (far north, central, southwest, etc.), and I will use Adobe Illustrator to build a full map of the city as it stands right now.

edit: You can give me a real location, or you can use a program like Paint, GIMP, Powerpoint, Illustrator, etc. to make a map and I'll redo the style and put that in the map. If you make your own, don't worry about buildings — just things like roads, parks, etc.

Far West

It would vaguley look something like this more or less in terms of shape

With Architecture vaguley reminiscent of old Boston:

[The United Artherian Federation]

Seen this around, so I thought what the hell.

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Nation: Artheria
Neighborhood name: Winding Creek
Town Hall representative: Ethan Himeler
Neighborhood description: A predominately white neighborhood located closely to downtown, where most of the residents are employed. The neighborhood is predominantly residential, with a private high school within the boundaries of the neighborhood, in addition to a small mom-and-pop grocery store. While it is a relatively new development, it is fairly large, with around 900 residents. The residential units comprise mostly of single family homes, with a few mansions scattered throughout.

[Vienna Eliot]

OP updated with new towns and new name. Welcome to all the newcomers to our city!

[Vienna Eliot]

Here's a general bill format for everyone. Not every bill will follow this exact model, of course, but it has some examples of what might appear. And the Charter might be structured a little differently from a normal bill. But here it is:

Code: Select all

[box][hr][/hr][align=center][size=150][b]Title[/b][/size][/align]
    [b]Sponsor[/b]:
    [b]Co-Sponsors[/b]:
    [i]Description or preambulatory clauses.[/i][hr][/hr]
    [b]Section 1: Definitions[/b]
    [blocktext][i]Term-[/i] definition
    [i]Term-[/i] definition[/blocktext]
    [b]Section 2:[/b]
    [blocktext]Text.[/blocktext]
    [b]Section 3:[/b]
    [blocktext]Text:[list]1)   who
    2)   is
    3)   john
    4)   galt[/list][/blocktext]
    [b]Section 4:[/b]
    [blocktext]Text.[/blocktext]
    [b]Section 5: Effective[/b]
    [blocktext]Text.[/blocktext][/box]

It looks like this:

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Title

Sponsor:
Co-Sponsors:
Description or preambulatory clauses.

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Section 1: Definitions

Term- definition
Term- definition

Section 2:

Text.

Section 3:

Text:

1) who
2) is
3) john
4) galt

Section 4:

Text.

Section 5: Effective

Text.

[Collatis]

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Nation: Collatis
Neighborhood name: Staaten Eylandt
Town Hall representative: Rudolph J. Grimm
Neighborhood description: Staaten Eylandt, located in the southwest of the city, is a predominantly suburban district characterized by its landfills, traffic, and conservative politics. It is known for its large Dutch population. The population of Staaten Eylandt considers itself culturally distinct from the rest of the city, and has attempted to secede multiple times in the past.

[Van Hool Islands]

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Nation: Van Hool Islands
Neighborhood name: Armitage
Town Hall representative: Victoria Garrett
Neighborhood description: Armitage, also known as Armitage Place, Old Armitage, and "the A", is a hip, trendy, gentrified neighbourhood in the north-central area of the city of Respite. Originally a small, primarily agricultural town, the discovery of coal deposits in the 1910s drove a mining boom. However, the Armitage Mine, as it was known, began to face severe financial setbacks in the 1940s after a lull in demand for coal. The mine closed in 1959, and left many townsfolk without jobs. This caused a mass exodus from Armitage, and by the close of the 1960s the town was facing a severe deficit, and the town council voted to amalgamate with the larger city of Respite in 1974. From the 70s until the 2000s, the area was known as a sleazy, economically depressed, and dangerous part of the city.

However, in 2002, things started to change. A neighbourhood revitalisation programme was started, and old decrepid buildlings were torn down, including the controversial Lane Park public housing development, and tax breaks were given to new businessses who opened up in Armitage. Historic buildings were renovated, most notably industrial lofts, which became hotspots for bohemians, artists, and "hipsters" looking for cheap and trendy housing. The changing demographics in the area caused property values to shoot up in price, and many of the neighbourhood's more low income residents were forced out into more economically unstable areas, widening the city's wealth gap.

[Vienna Eliot]

Welcome to both! OP has been updated.

I encourage people to start proposing sections of a charter. One person doesn't have to write the whole thing.

[Zjaum]

Now that the presidential RP... might?... be over, I can start working on something of that ilk. I have a new job tomorrow, so no promises.

Regardless, here is the general map of Flatgorge, without labels. I was really bored yesterday; please cut me some slack. I can work on labels sooner or later. I wanted to wait until the election was over so that cross-pollination didn't ensue, but you just had to screw that up! Just kidding, I'm having fun with everything.

[Kazarogkai]

Voting ends in five hours.

On a different note, what's a city without a map? Right now, I think we can have a map that we update either once or twice a month. I'll look into possible ways for people to make their own maps for their neighborhoods so that we'll have something uniform, but for right now, let me know a) a real life neighborhood or town that your neighborhood will copy and b) its general location in the city (far north, central, southwest, etc.), and I will use Adobe Illustrator to build a full map of the city as it stands right now.

edit: You can give me a real location, or you can use a program like Paint, GIMP, Powerpoint, Illustrator, etc. to make a map and I'll redo the style and put that in the map. If you make your own, don't worry about buildings — just things like roads, parks, etc.

I mean, we each probably have 500 people in a neighborhood at most so, shoot, why not do houses? I'll do houses.

Based on population it looks like we got more like 1000 people per neighborhood give or take. Some neighborhoods though(namely those which were once independent towns) might in fact have a bit more though.

Sorry I havent posted yet, life got in the way I plan on getting something late at night to early in the mourning at worst. Sorry for the wait.

[Kazarogkai]

Finally god dammit that took too long. uhh procrastination.

[Illegal Planets]

I may join, this looks fun

[The Mighty Datlofian Empire]

Nation:
Neighborhood name: New Stalingrad
Town Hall representative: Vladislav Vassilev
Neighborhood description: New Stalingrad, originally known as Greenbriar, recently underwent a referendum by the majority Slavic population to rename the city to New Stalingrad after the neighborhoods founder, Alexander Stalin, after learning that there was already a Stalingrad, they named it New Stalingrad. The neighborhood composes of a large, uniform state built housing bloc known as Vasiley Road, of which it is all uniform brick apartment buildings, interspersed with few small family owned stores. There is one state owned casino in the neighborhood in the main commercial district, known as The Boisterous Bourgeois Gambling House.It is mainly populated by Slavic peoples, the majority of which are of a Russian variety. The majority of jobs are in the large manufacturing district, known as the Vladislav Industrial Complex, in which the pollution is being pumped out almost as fast as the goods leaving the district.

and as far as location goes, northern part of the city

[The Mighty Datlofian Empire]

Communism isnt banned right?

[White Bluff]

Nation: White Bluff
Neighborhood name: Cherry Hill
Town Hall representative: Vivian Cherry
Neighborhood description: Cherry Hill is is made up of the vieux riche, with their Victorian and Georgian style manors they look down from their windows at the town below. The community is a bit more shut in then the others, mainly looking down on the other groups seeing them as dirty and only useful to a point. The Cherry family dominants the community and is nearly always in charge of the others, the current family matriarch being Vivian Cherry, and therefore was elected to be the community's representive.

They have their own private schools so their children wouldn't mingle with those of the nouveau riche and other lesser groups, they even have their own grocery store and other convenient stores. The layout of the community is even divided more with the poorer families at the bottom of the hill and the farther up you go the more wealthy the family, with the large, dark cherrywood Victorian style manor of the Cherry Family at the top of the hill.

[Vienna Eliot]

Went for another (very long) drive. New York, Washington, Chicago, Washington, New York. Talk about cities. But we're back, and let's get the ball rolling again!

[Zjaum]

Went for another (very long) drive. New York, Washington, Chicago, Washington, New York. Talk about cities. But we're back, and let's get the ball rolling again!

We are a chicken with its head cut off right now. Please help restore order, oh old, wizardly one.

[Vienna Eliot]

Went for another (very long) drive. New York, Washington, Chicago, Washington, New York. Talk about cities. But we're back, and let's get the ball rolling again!

We are a chicken with its head cut off right now. Please help restore order, oh old, wizardly one.

If we don't receive any proposals, I'll suggest one based on what people have talked about (mayor-council, etc).

[Vienna Eliot]

Nation:
Neighborhood name: New Stalingrad
Town Hall representative: Vladislav Vassilev
Neighborhood description: New Stalingrad, originally known as Greenbriar, recently underwent a referendum by the majority Slavic population to rename the city to New Stalingrad after the neighborhoods founder, Alexander Stalin, after learning that there was already a Stalingrad, they named it New Stalingrad. The neighborhood composes of a large, uniform state built housing bloc known as Vasiley Road, of which it is all uniform brick apartment buildings, interspersed with few small family owned stores. There is one state owned casino in the neighborhood in the main commercial district, known as The Boisterous Bourgeois Gambling House.It is mainly populated by Slavic peoples, the majority of which are of a Russian variety. The majority of jobs are in the large manufacturing district, known as the Vladislav Industrial Complex, in which the pollution is being pumped out almost as fast as the goods leaving the district.

and as far as location goes, northern part of the city

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[Zjaum]

We are a chicken with its head cut off right now. Please help restore order, oh old, wizardly one.

If we don't receive any proposals, I'll suggest one based on what people have talked about (mayor-council, etc).

sigh I'll whip something up. Just need one more poster before I present.

[Kazarogkai]

We are a chicken with its head cut off right now. Please help restore order, oh old, wizardly one.

If we don't receive any proposals, I'll suggest one based on what people have talked about (mayor-council, etc).

That is what I was trying to do with my post. He's going to more or less introduce a sorta kinda federal parliamentary system with inspiration in part from the new jersey plan for the us constitution and the Iriquous confederacy

Each Neighborhood would have 2 or more delegates, depending on their personal choice, but who would vote as a block and in consequence have a single vote. They will operate as the legislative body known as the Big Council. Executive power will be operated via a speaker, sorta like a PM chosen by the Big Council, alongside Consuls, also chosen by the Big Council, who shall be charged with carrying out control of various tasks and heading over various bureaucracy carrying out the will of the Big Council. This will be known as the Small Council.

I'll explain further when I get back. I gotta take a shower and get something to eat.

[Vienna Eliot]

We're now debating and voting on Zjaum's proposal. If it fails, then tomorrow we'll debate and vote on Kazarogkai's proposal. This is because the latter proposal contradicts Zjaum's, so we can't pass them both. But if anyone proposes something that doesn't contradict something that's been passed (or might be passed), then it will get debate and a vote.

Hopefully this makes sense. Let me know if you're at all confused by anything.