New Summerset
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New Summerset is a city in Ihazon, and the capital of New Summerset. It is the second largest city in Ihazon and the nationwide largest industrial sector. The rapid growth of the city has seen it rivalling Langenthal in areal size, but the city has a much lower residential density due to its many large landmarks and industrial complexes with substantial footprint.
History
The founding of New Summerset was a result of a series of large events taking place in 2015. Its name comes from Summerset, which up until 2015 was an agricultural city north of Gruvania and south of current New Summerset.
It began in the late summer of 2015 when Borisdotpercy, mayor of Summerset, tragically died of cancer after spending too much time on 5chan. The city council was left in complete disarray as they scrambled to find a temporary mayor.
However, before any decision could be made, on September 11th, 2015, female activists hijacked commercial flight FR1311 - direct from Langenthal International Airport (LIX) to Tinville Central Airport (TVC). After overpowering the pilots and crew with bottles of vodka, the hijackers lost control of the plane. It started veering to the left and eventually took a sharp nosedive from 420,000ft, plummeting into the barn of Summersetsbury and killing everyone onboard. One of the confirmed casualties was Metteliten, President of Ihazon, rest in peace.
Thankfully, nobody on the ground suffered fatal injuries, however, Betsy the Cow got pretty scared and received medical attention from the local vet.
In light of this tragedy, the Parliament passed the Aerial Self-Defence Act, allowing and encouraging civilians to carry armaments onboard all transportation methods, including planes.
After these two terrible occurrences, renowned businesshorse HyperDuck shared interest in taking part of the Summerset Emergency Committee. Not before long, the board came to an unanimous agreement of giving HyperDuck temporary emergency powers to act as mayor until the next election would be held.
HyperDuck's very first act as mayor was to order Summerset to be razed to the ground. This sparked immediate controversy, but HyperDuck presented a detailed plan of a new city north of the existing Summerset, directly south of Slouthceister. This was also unanimously agreed upon by the committee, but after locals objected the legality of this move, the committee suggested presenting the matter to the Parliament. Despite great resistance, the technoliberal coalition under leadership by Togfan agreed to let HyperDuck carry out his plan as long as original Summerset citizens would be properly compensated for expropriation.
After a mere week of negotiations, HyperDuck managed to secure federal funding for a massive subsidisation policy, giving grants to all who would establish in New Summerset within the next year (when the next election was due), with previous Summerset citizens given 'dibs' on New Summerset property.
This act, albeit one of the most expensive state policies ever conceived in Ihazon, could be considered nothing less than a great success as New Summerset within a single year rose to many times the original size of Summerset, and today is Ihazon's second largest city.
The old Summerset was completely demolished by the end of 2015, and the existing land would be converted to farmlands and nature conservation. The crash site in Summersetsbury was kept indefinitely.
The 2016 elections of New Summerset were never held.
Demographics
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household population averages at 2.4
roughly 75% of homes are occupied
median income is 780/y
Boroughs
New Summerset has 12 boroughs that are officially recognised by the LGA. These are, in alphabetical order, City of New Summerset, Eating, East Eating, Eastern West Flecksington, Ecks on Sett, Nortsham, Park, Rewley, Slouthceister, St. Borishire in the North, St Borishire in the South, and West Flecksington.
Despite this, many people have their own opinions on how many boroughs there actually are. Since the City of New Summerset is split into 2 parts (The main borough and the plaza), some also split this into 2 seperate boroughs - both retaining the same name. Others insist that this borough does not even exist at all and is simply just New Summerset. These disagreements have often led to fights and brawls. While most of these altercations are simply verbal or quickly broken up by the local pollis, there have also been some serious crimes commited.
In 2016, Claire Less, a local Setter, was fatally wounded in her Eastern West Flecksington townhouse. While no motive for the attack was ever released, Less was known to speak her controversial opinions about the New Summerset boroughs openly in Park, sometimes even going door-to-door asking people to sign a petition to officially change the number of boroughs to 8 - Eating, Eastern West Flecksington, Nortsham, Park, Rewley, Slouthceister, St. Borishire, and West Flecksington. Less' petition has harboured over 7 signatures, many of which were signed after her death - likely due to the extreme amount of media attention and coverage surrounding it.
Landmarks
well there's:
- a cathedral
- a football stadiu,
- a big park
- a pub named the tit faced tavern
- an airport
- lesko's HQ
- a dick (not spotted)
- a petting zoo
- magnus stolt's penthous
- the fbi HQ (isnt actually built yet)
- literally any lesko store
that's about it
Infrastructure
Due to New Summerset being constructed in recent times, a greater attention has been paid to infrastructure than other, older cities that has to deal with existing structures that often complicate new projects. As a result, infrastructure in New Summerset is of a modern standard.
Rail
New Summerset has two passenger railway stations, Eating Broadway Station in Eating and Nortsham Terminal in Nortsham. Both of these stations allow for high traffic, with passing tracks for freight and express trains. Most of the rail line in New Summerset is submerged, and Nortsham Terminal is the only station in Ihazon that is entirely underground. The tunnel emerges in Slouthceister, where IRATE's main rail yard is located, New Summerset Freight Yard. Trains are stored and maintained here. NS Yard also has a freight terminal from where Lesko Freyt Reyl ships goods to Thoiria.
Air
East Eating holds New Summerset Domestic Airport, a large and modern commuter airport currently under construction.
Road
New Summerset have no in-city motorways, but has wide broadways to lead major traffic through the denser parts of the city. The main road connection out of New Summerset is via SV4, a motorway leading into Eating. SV4 can be travelled to get to SV1, leading into Langenthal or to Tinville.