New Torleans

Torlen Grand Premi
The Torlen Grand Premi (Burg: Torlen Gran Premi) is a Formula One motor race held each year on the streets of New Torleans since 1954. It is considered to have a rising importance to the Formula One circuit since the 1990s and has become known for its "exceptional grandeur, technicality, and growing prestige."

The race is held on a narrow course with many elevation changes and harrowing hairpin turns. This tends to lead to a "slower race overall" but both the difficulty and stunning views lend to a rather dramatic effect on racegoers, regardless. It is also considered one of the deadliest circuits, claiming over 20 lives in its short tenure.

The race is known for drawing an elite crowd including members of most of the world's cadet royal branches and many business magnates. It has been termed the "Après-ski" of the racing world, with a focus of the crowd being more on whose-whose rather than whose racing. The most prestigious viewing boxes for the race are situated on the bandstand set up at the entrance to the Casino Imperiau.

Working In New Torleans
New Torleans' working life is divided into two distinct groups, Metropolitan and Harborport.

Metropolitan
Those who aren't working in the dockyards and shipping industries are considered to have "metropolitan" jobs. These consist primarily of tourism, retail, government, and service sector jobs. The largest employers are the Grand Torleans Hotel and Casino (6,549 employees), the offices of the City of New Torleans (5,836 employees), the Levantine Ocean Island Authority (5,631 employees), and du Herreng Custodial and Management Company (4,237 employees). The remainder of the employers are smaller but more diverse and bring a vibrancy to the city.

Recently, the Levantine Ocean Island Authority's bill to reduce corporate taxes on Torlen and was passed and a burgeoning technology startup sector has begun to emerge. Between 2025 and 2029, 24 new tech startups have been incorporated in New Torleans, employing 184 people. One of the major speed bumps to the continued growth of these companies is the lack of local technological capacity. This has led to an influx of technologically savvy youth from the Ile Burgundie, Notrestran, and around the world to start to consider New Torleans as an option. To meet this demand a lot of construction has been undertaken to create work and living space that is enticing and inviting for the "foreign" youth. This has been accompanied by plans to introduce a public transit system to the city and to redesign the roadways with more pedestrian and bicycle friendly routes.

Harborport
A view of the cityscape and anchored ships from New Torleans' outer harbor. In contrast to the variety of "metropolitan" jobs, "harborport" jobs are only those relating to the running of the harbor and employ the majority of those living on Torlen. The port's massive facility and service needs employee around 1 million people. The port is decidedly underdeveloped but this that is an intentional decision by the Levantine Ocean Island Authority in order to keep the islanders employed. This means that of all of the Burgoignesc port facilities the port of New Torleans maintains the lowest profit margin.

Despite its generally underdeveloped status, much of the harbor automation research for other Burgoignesc ports occurs in the Experimental Future Port Terminal on the extreme eastern side of the port's campus. This terminal sees very little actual trade and was scheduled for demolition and sale to the Revenue Guard in 1997 when a small division of the Burgoignesc North Levantine Trading Company proposed the creation of a proving ground for new technology that they were developing in port automation. Their bid was accepted, and they rebuilt the terminal to be completely modular and easily modifiable for their needs. The project employed 15,000 and prompted the creation of a small urban and civil engineering academy that the company still hosts. The terminal currently employs 637, mostly engineers from the Ile Burgundie, but in the last 4 years, an increasing number of locals have taken advantage of an educational scholarship offered by the company and are returning with relevant degrees to work for the terminal.