San Lina

San Lina San Lina  (Spanish)
Federal capital
The City of San Lina
Motto(s):  "Dios está con el pueblo" (Spainish) "God is with the people"
Country	Puertego
Founded	812 AD
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Body	People's Council of San Lina
• Administrator	Luis Tudela (Puertegan White Flag Communist Party)
Area
• Federal capital	3,452.22 km2 (1,332.91 sq mi)
• Land	3,432.9 km2 (1,325.5 sq mi)
• Water	20.13 km2 (7.77 sq mi)
Elevation	2 m (7 ft)
Highest elevation	8 m (26 ft)
Lowest elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (2030)
• Federal capital	24,829,200
• Density	7,200/km2 (19,000/sq mi)
• Metro	16,829,150
Demonym	San Linan
Area code(s)	(+507) 2, 3
ISO 3166 code	PT-SL
Website	Official City Website

San Lina, officially the City of San Lina, is the capital city, largest city, and seat of government of Puertego. The city is located on the coast of the Natiserve Bay in Puertego's Cantero peninsula state. It was founded in 812, to serve as the capital of the ancient Nokotan empire. The city has been the national capital of all Puertegan governments that followed the country's independence from Caphiria and has become the nation's primate city and its economic, industrial, and cultural center.

As the seat of the Federal government of Puertego, San Lina is home to many important institutions of the federal government, national monuments, and museums. This includes the capitol building, the Puertegan Supreme Court, the presidents residence and the headquarters of numerous government agencies. The city is where the Puertegan People's army bases most its institutions out of, however most of its operations are centered in and in the states around the Natiserve bay as to not potentially damage any infrastructure in or around the city, San Lina is home to the largest number of soldiers anywhere in Puertego with almost half the nation's armed forced being stationed there at any time.

The 2030 population for the city proper was approximately 5,670,800 across a land area of 3,432.9 square kilometers (1,325.5 sq mi). According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of the National Metro area, is 24,829,200. In 2030 reports showed that San Lina generated close to 53% of Puertego's GDP and exported 75% of total exports along with being the recipient of 80% of Puertego's investment.

San Lina has long been a region that has desired greater autonomy that the federal government of Puertego didn't want to give it, however this changed with the creation of a new constitution under the Puertegan White Flag Communist party which turned San Lina from just the capital to a municipality in San Lina with its own special rights and privileges that are greater than those offered to states, however the city still has only a fraction of the rights afforded to many other municipalities in other countries and is just as politically repressed as the rest of Puertego with independent news outlets being shut down by the government often, people being charged with several things to keep them from criticizing the government or exposing corruption and much more.

Demographics

Population

The population of San Lina is currently sitting at 5,670,800 living in the city proper and 15,829,200 living in more metropolitan areas with a large chunk living in shanty towns. The population of San Lina is almost entirely ethnic Puertgans though small Pelaxian communities exist in the city as well. The city is primarily young and male with the average age across the city being 22 and the population being a little under 52% male. The cities growth rate is estimated to be around 3.90% yearly with urbanization in San Lina being rapid and the metropolitan area expected to continue expanding rapidly to accommodate the growing population and economy.

Languages

All documents in San Lina are in Spanish and all inhabitants are required to learn Spanish in schools, almost the entire population of San Lina is a native speaker of Spanish though there is a very small minority of native speakers of indigenous languages who also make up the small minority of ethnically indigenous Puertegans living in the city.

Religion

San Lina is like most of Puertego in that it is almost universally Catholic with around 95% of the city following this religion though there is also a sizable Jewish population in the city and a small minority of atheists though they make up only 0.5% of San Lina's population.

Quality of living

A small section of one of the largest slums in San Lina

San Lina has the lowest standard of living of any capital city on Sarpedon with around 32% of the population in the city living on $3.20 a day or less while income inequality remains some of the highest in the world. Slums and massive shanty towns are a large source of housing in San Lina with different shanty towns housing tens of thousands of people with the largest one in central San Lina estimated to have as many as 4 million residence living in it. There is often a lack of basic necessities in these areas with most lacking electricity and running water however the government has introduced programs to work with local communities to try and fix these shortages in the slums. Healthcare is also something severely lacking with there often being shortages of medicine, unsanitary and overcrowded conditions in hospitals, and long waiting lists, healthcare in San Lina is run entirely by the government and is supposedly free though many times patients have reported needing to bribe doctors to get prescriptions, private healthcare is banned by the Puertegan constitution which gives the government the sole right to provide healthcare. Average life expectancy in San Lina is 67 years old 5 years under the national average with the primary reasons attributed to this low expectancy being the heavy amount of pollution in the city and the high crime rate.

Economy

One of the larger SIZ industrial zones

San Lina is the country's industrial and financial center, home to many national companies and hotels. It accounts for more than two-thirds of Peru's industrial production and almost all of its service sector.

The cities various SIZ's contain an estimated 12,000 factories set up by private companies in order to boost the economy from private investment serve as the nations primary source of industry, some of the most produced products include refined metals, refined petroleum, textiles, various consumer goods, and chemicals with the cities financial center being one particularly large SIZ in the center of the city while the nations industry mainly takes place in SIZ's dotted around the city though primarily concentrated around the southern parts of the city close to the Torres International Airport. Industrialization began primarily in the late 2000's with the creation of the SIZ's and increased rapidly making manufacturing account for over half of GNP with the Rodriguez sea port being the countries primary fishing and shipment hub with the port exporting over 31 metric tons of goods in the last year manufactured in San Lina.

San Lina generates around 33% of the Puertegan governments budget and accounts for over half the countries GDP at 53%. Foreign investment in San Lins remains on the increase with the government planning to create 15 new SIZs around the city in order to keep up with the growing demand. The San Lina stock exchange is one of the fastest growing on the continent and has been since 2012. There has been frustration in San Lina over the massive income inequality in the country due to the subsides and tax breaks given to private companies and lack of regulations meaning they can get rich while their workers often stay barely above the poverty line.

Tourism

Some of the new hotels built to accommodate foreign tourists

Tourism in San Lina is a steadily growing industry with many luxury buildings being built in the city to accommodate foreign tourists primarily high ranking Caphirians. While the government has officially been building things to accommodate these tourists such as many historical and cultural sites there is also a large industry of sex tourism among the tourists with an estimated 15% of money tourists spend in Puertego going to that industry, though prostitution remains officially illegal in Puertego multiple brothels remain allowed to exist due to the corruption in the police force which make a large amount of money by catering to foreign tourists.

Politics

Crime

San Lina has long been a center for various different criminal enterprises in Puertego with the city being known to possess dozens of small scale drug labs that export cheap heroin, flaka, and spice among other things to Caphirian, Cartadinian, and Pelaxian markets additionally this trade has allowed several gangs to come to power in the city and begin fighting with each other in the cities slums and poorer regions making the cities murder rate having been on the steady increase for most of its history with the current murder rate being 43 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, every year there is an estimated 1,850 murders is San Lina concentrated almost entirely in the slums. The city has also long been a hotspot of street crime like armed robbery, kidnapping, and burglary due to the widespread poverty among the population with it consistently ranking among the top 4 cities in the world for rates of those crimes and many others like rape and battery. Corruption is also a major problem in the city with the police force and administration being almost completely corruption and bribery, embezzlement, nepotism, and abuses of power being daily occurrences in the government.

Education

Primary education

Primary education in Puertego is provided by the state with it servicing almost the entire student population of San Lina, private schooling is illegal in all Puertegan cities however it is common practice for high ranking officials in the Puertegan government to send their children out of the country for their primary schooling due to the often poor conditions of Puertgan schools. Attendance is mandatory in all schools but students are given the option to drop out once they hit 6th grade with many doing so in order to help in supporting their family by working.

Post-secondary education

Exterior of San Lina university

Post secondary education in Puertego is fairly limited with the city only having one university in the University of San Lina which is the oldest in the country. The university is regarded as being of fairly good quality and is free however due to many citizens dropping out the number of citizens who attend is remarkably low with only around 20,000 students, though the university does have programs abroad to try and encourage foreign students to go there. The university has a more limited pool of majors compared to many others with the main ones offered being in medical fields, engineering, business, and architecture.

Infrastructure

Highways

Highways in San Lina are surprisingly well maintained compared to the rest of the country with almost all the roads in the city being paved and regularly maintained, however there is a good deal of traffic congestion primarily made by drivers in the state taxi service with the average San Linan spending 48 hours a year in traffic and the average commute to work being 30.5 minutes. The government has made plans to reduce travel times by building additional roads through the cities slums to try and allow the residence shorter travel times to their jobs and has also been working on road systems out of the city limits to more easily allow for travel between San Lina and other cities but road conditions outside the city still remain poor.

Transit systems

The metro in San Lina has been operational since 1999 with it being price fixed in 2003 to accommodate the average Puertegan salary. The metro has 5 lines and 32 stations with an additional 8 being planned to be built in the near future, the metro covers a large part of the city with the central region of the city entirely covered and coverage being expanded further out to the eastern and western parts as well, all major sites in the city are covered and large settlements formal and informal also have easy access to the metro. The metro uses an integrated ticket system to combine the bus and taxi systems into one payment system.

San Lina also has a taxi service known as the San Linan Universal Taxi Service (SLUTS) ran by the government, the system started in 2010 in order to make safer ways of above ground transportation, the system has over 20,000 Standard People's Compact Vehicle ordered from Daxia to start the program which now includes over 300 transit routes, though they are cheap but feature poor driving habits. Fares are agreed upon before the passenger enters the taxi. the system has garnered a fair bit of controversy for the government using it as an excuse to ban ride sharing apps from Puertegan cities.

Airports

San Lina has the largest airport in the country in the Torres International Airport with the port reviving the majority of the cities domestic and international passengers. The city has five other airports around the city with an additional international airport currently under construction and expected to be operational in the next 3 years, the city has many additional runways in the areas around the city.