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[[File:CCTV.jpg|thumb|Ministry of Information inside the Government Quarter]]

The '''Government Quarter''' also called the '''Central Fortress''' and the '''Grey Zone''' is the heavily fortified district housing all of the central installations of the [[Daxia]]n government, it is also the seat of power of the [[Party of Daxian Democrats]]. It covers an area of fifty square kilometers, it is surrounded by three separate rings of 8-meter high walls of reinforced, blast proof concrete equipped with fortified watchtowers, barbed wire, sensors, thermal cameras, drone surveillance round the clock and remote controlled machine gun nests. Entry points are few and are all guarded by members of the [[Bureau of State Protection]], these forces also have access to anti-air batteries, anti-tank weaponry and anti personnel vehicles. There are vast underground tunnel complexes with reinforced bunkers, warrens and redoubts that may extend as much as one kilometer underground; none of which are accessible to the public but are for the exclusive use of the country's leadership. A majority of the administrative and security staff of the Quarter live within its walls, it is designed to be a city within a city with its own separate metro and monorail lines, emergency energy reactors and autonomous food supply. [[Daxia]]'s ultra rich pay exorbitant prices to be able to live in the Central Fortress, not to mention extremely hard to pass security clearances.

=Demographics=

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=Culture=

Life in modern Mirzak has been variously described by locals and visitors as 'hellish', 'fast paced' and 'extremely unforgiving'. Exiled human rights advocate Chang De-Wong described the city as 'Daxia's heart of darkness, both a relic of a brutal imperial past and a nightmarish vision of a future where freedom, virtue and human dignity are snuffed out by an ever growing police state'. The city's sheer scale and terrible wealth inequality seems to activate what many sociologists have called the 'callous gene', in which the inhabitants of a large metropolis intent on surviving their daily lives grow ever more selfish and cold towards other people. The capital of [[Daxia]]is a city of great contrast, from gratuitous displays of obscene wealth separated from cramped shanty towns by as little as two city blocks to racist harangues against foreigners broadcast from makeshift megaphones competing for the ears of passerby with the call to prayer of a mosque; the city is a great laboratory of what the rest of [[Daxia]] might look in the following decades if it continues to open up.

==Cuisine==

[[File:Mirzak Blue Milk.jpg|thumb|Mirzak's famous blue milk]]

Mirzak is renowned for its wide range of culinary offers ranging from what is termed 'High Daxian' cuisine to the most vile foods such as quasi edible corpse starch and worm gruel. The middle and high income classes have access to imported produce and international fast food brands while the vast underclasses survive on recycled food and [[Agario]] staples such as the mud cookie and aspic. One of the city's most eclectic offerings is its 'Blue Milk'. The creation of blue milk harkens back to a marketing campaign by [[Mirzak Dairy]] to transform cow milk into a luxury food, the first idea was to give it a 'classier' hue such as light blue. To achieve this without colorants the company undertook in genetic tampering of batches of cows until a creamier and more importantly blue milk was produced. Blue milk has the same uses as regular milk but is many times more expensive and is only seen in upscale restaurants.  

==Tourism==