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==Republican Era== | ==Republican Era== | ||
=Administration= | =Administration= | ||
The city of Mirzak as the capital of the nation is governed differently from other cities. Mirzak is ruled by the specially appointed [[Prefect of Mirzak]], an appointee of the [[Chancellor of the Republic]]. The Prefect does not answer politically to any legislative body nor to the citizens of the capital but solely to the office of the Chancellor. The Prefect has complete discretion to manage the cyclopean budget allocation the city receives and is usually considered to be the second most powerful post in [[Daxia]]]. | |||
==Districts== | ==Districts== | ||
===Shangri-La district=== | ===Shangri-La district=== | ||
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[[File:CCTV.jpg|thumb|Ministry of Information inside the Government Quarter]] | [[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. | 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. | ||
===Little Abaza=== | |||
'''Little Abaza''' also known as '''Kakunia''' is a suburb populated by the city's [[Sugondese people|Sugondese]], an ethnic group originally native to north [[Crona]]. After the destruction of the Kingdom of Abaza in the 18th century, the surviving Sugondese population was brought over to [[Daxia]] by slavers. The Sugondese were use as laborers in nearly every large public construction project commissioned by the Qian authorities from the 18th century onwards be it palaces, administrative buildings, roads, canals and fortifications. Association in the Daxian psyche of Sugondese and manual labor became so intrinsically linked that even today foreign manual laborers are referred to as ''Kakun'', which is a [[Daxia]]n slur for dark skinned peoples. Naturally over time this Sugondese people had to be housed somewhere that was conveniently close to the never ending construction sites in the capital. Authorities designated a site south of the city to settle the Sugondese under official supervision. The Sugondese called their makeshift neighborhood Little Abaza in honor of their lost homeland. As the urban sprawl spread in all directions Little Abaza was eventually swallowed by the city and by design or due to a bureaucratic oversight, Little Abaza was not destroyed. Today the suburb is home to several hundred thousand Sugondese and is the heart of the community in the country, Sugondese are recognized as entrepreneurial and hard workers. Little Abaza is host to many small businesses such as hair salons, flea markets, small eateries of Sugondese food and repair shops; on the main authorities do not interfere with these self employed people. | |||
=Demographics= | =Demographics= | ||
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Being a global city, Mirzak is ethnically more diverse than other [[Daxia]]n cities both for its position as a place of trade and economic activity and for its past as an imperial center. Some twenty percent (roughly equivalent to some 5.2 million) of the city's inhabitants are non-[[Daxian people|Daxian]], with important communities of Muslims from [[Rusana]], imported north [[Crona]]ns indentured servants, Jews, abducted [[Coscivian]]s and more recent migrants from [[Polynesia]]. Mixing between ethnic groups is societally frowned upon so every group tends to live apart in its own separate ethnic clusters. While the [[Daxian people|Daxian]] population of the capital is reputed to be more open to foreign cultures, there are still powerful undercurrents of historical xenophobia. Previous foreign-born communities such as the [[Caphiria]]ns and [[Pelaxia]]ns were forced out in the late 18th century after the [[Pogrom of the Caphirians]] and that historic distrust of outsiders moving in remains strong in many sectors of the capital. Public demands for the forced acculturation of minorities continue to surface periodically. Neighborhoods populated by [[Crona]]n or [[Polynesia]]n peoples are more akin to underclass ghettos neglected by the city and often with only intermittent access to public services. The [[Zorfashazi|Jews]] and the [[Rusana|Rusani]] do fare better in great part thanks to their long association and interaction with [[Daxia]], "as long as they remember their place" a proper Daxian would say. | The latest census gives Mirzak a population of 25,674,154 of which 12,323,593 are male and 13,350,560 are female. The average age of Mirzak residents is 42.3. The current birth rate in Castra Mirzak is 5.29 births per 1,000 inhabitants. Being a global city, Mirzak is ethnically more diverse than other [[Daxia]]n cities both for its position as a place of trade and economic activity and for its past as an imperial center. Some twenty percent (roughly equivalent to some 5.2 million) of the city's inhabitants are of non-[[Daxian people|Daxian]] origin, with important communities of Muslims from [[Rusana]], imported north [[Crona]]ns indentured servants, Jews, abducted [[Coscivian]]s and more recent economic migrants from [[Polynesia]]. The most recent census distributes the different ethnic groups as follows: Daxian (79.5%), Rusani (6.6%), Jews (4.5%), Cronan (4.1%), Coscivian (2.7%) and Polynesian (2.6%). Mixing between ethnic groups is societally frowned upon so every group tends to live apart in its own separate ethnic clusters. | ||
While the [[Daxian people|Daxian]] population of the capital is reputed to be more open to foreign cultures, there are still powerful undercurrents of historical xenophobia. Previous foreign-born communities such as the [[Caphiria]]ns and [[Pelaxia]]ns were forced out in the late 18th century after the [[Pogrom of the Caphirians]] and that historic distrust of outsiders moving in remains strong in many sectors of the capital. Public demands for the forced acculturation of minorities continue to surface periodically. Neighborhoods populated by [[Crona]]n or [[Polynesia]]n peoples are more akin to underclass ghettos neglected by the city and often with only intermittent access to public services. The [[Zorfashazi|Jews]] and the [[Rusana|Rusani]] do fare better in great part thanks to their long association and interaction with [[Daxia]], "''as long as they remember their place''" a proper Daxian would say. Despite some public protests, the city administration has long mulled over the prospect of petitioning to the central government for a loosening of the restriction on foreigners residing in the country to boost economic growth by attracting highly educated or wealthy individuals to Mirzak. Currently qualifying aliens can only reside in the country continuously for a period of up to six months, the city's proposal would see that period extended to a ceiling of five years if a foreigner has made significant investments in the city(the amounts required to qualify as 'significant' have not been publicly disclosed). | |||
==Education== | ==Education== | ||
==Crime== | ==Crime== | ||
Being the largest and wealthiest city in [[Audonia]], the capital city is beset by all manner of criminal elements despite being also the most surveilled city in the planet. The sheer size of the city makes it impossible to cover every meter or safeguard every citizen. Mirzak is home to a bustling and sophisticated criminal underworld that engages in myriad illegal activities. The National Opium Syndicate is known to maintain a large presence in the city, using it as a central hub for [[Drug trade in Daxia|production]] and distribution of narcotics. They also are suspected of owning large stakes in casinos in the Shangri-La district with associated loan sharking and violent enforcement operations. Mirzak is also a center of white collar crime given its status as a large financial center. The Zheng He financial district has been the focus by authorities of several high profile investigations on large ponzi schemes and investor fraud. | |||
=Economy= | =Economy= | ||
=Infrastructure= | =Infrastructure= | ||
==Transportation== | ==Transportation== | ||
===[[Mirzak Automated Monorail System]]=== | ===[[Mirzak Automated Monorail System]]=== | ||
== | ==Quality of life== | ||
===[[Mirzak Cheese Vaults]]=== | ===[[Mirzak Cheese Vaults]]=== | ||
===Screaming booths=== | |||
After a near epidemic of stabbings, road rage incidents and fights at convenience stores and fast food joints the city administration began the installation of 'screaming booths' as part of a campaign to help people decompress in a non violent way. The screaming booth consists of a repurposed telephone booth in which the glass panes have been replaced by dark panels to obscure vision and the interior is cushioned. Citizens at risk of mentally breaking at the seams can enter any publicly available booth and simply release themselves through screaming and banging at the walls. Public officials credit screaming booths with a reduction of 7.4% in the incidence of public rampages and violent non-lethal fights. | |||
=Culture= | =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. | |||
Mirzak is home to a treasure trove of museums, performing arts venues and historical buildings | |||
==Cuisine== | ==Cuisine== | ||
[[File:Mirzak Blue Milk.jpg|thumb|Mirzak's famous blue milk]] | [[File:Mirzak Blue Milk.jpg|thumb|Mirzak's famous blue milk]] | ||
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. | ||
Another culinary practice of Mirzak is the consumption of the common green crab which is widely considered to be an invasive species. Green crab is common in [[Daxia]]'s eastern shores where it is thought to have arrived from after migrating from western [[Crona]]; the species is not as popular there due to its depletion of the local mollusk population. Mirzak's green crabs are used extensively in soups and sauces, buttered green crab legs are a popular and inexpensive street food that can be found literally every few blocks. The decadent upper crust of the city enjoy green crab meat with flakes of gold and seasoned with expensive spices. Another staple of the lower class diet is the [[Daxian Aspic|aspic]] which was invented in Mirzak's very own Central state penitentiary. It is very common for low income families to have vats to make the gelatinous treats in their backyards of bathrooms, a practice that [[Agario]]'s vast legal team is constantly on the lookout for and combats wherever it is detected. | |||
==Tourism== | ==Tourism== | ||
==Landmarks== | ==Landmarks== | ||
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