Megalopolis


 * Country: Reunited States of America (RSA) majority, with some western extremities crossing into SOMA states.
 * Territory: A single, continuous urban sprawl reaching across the eastern North America from the Great Lakes to Louisiana Bay.
 * Government: Several. A patchwork of regional Mayors and Metropolitan Governors with Administrative Zones between. Administrative Zones are administrated by contract to the United Solutions Company.
 * Law Enforcement: Varies by region/Zone. The Administrative Zones and many of the RSA-controlled regions rely on a contract with CityGuard to provide security services. Other security companies, such as Yermak and Ghazi are also in use, as well as a few remnant city police forces (although those are increasingly rare), and the SOMA's 'NEPs' (National Emergency Police Force) on the western side of the River.

If taken as a single urban entity, the Megalopolis of North America would be considered the single largest city sprawl in the world. The largest and one of the poorest, having become a symbol of crippling poverty, urban decay and municipal mismanagement worldwide. The Megalopolis covers most of the Reunited States of America, which governs the eastern, more populated, half of the old United States.

The Megalopolis serves the corporate world by providing an area of low regulation and high expendability, a source of cheap labor and a dumping ground for faulty products. In its flaws is its profitability and every attempt by well-meaning philanthropists or the weak remnant of the RSA's government has met with corporate resistance and stonewalling, ensuring the Megalopolis' uninterrupted decline.

The origins of the Megalopolis, like so much of modern North America, lies in the Risings. While the rising sea levels and flooding of coastal cities was a worldwide problem, it hit particularly badly in North America, especially the territories of the old USA, which had already been wracked by generations of sectarian conflict (sometimes violence) between the conservative rural areas, largely in the middle of the continent and the culture of the largely coastal urban areas. When the vast masses of people rushed inland to escape the rising tides swallowing their homes, the already resentful and heavily-armed heartland struck back against these 'urbimmigrants', leading to a generation of bloody civil war, that led to the current state of affairs, with most of the population concentrated in the soggy lands of the Mississippi river valley and the sparse groups of savage wastelanders to the west.

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