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Name: Lucilta

Code: Lambda Midnight LCD Insomnia

Brief Summary: Big city (Tokyo, New York, etc . . .) at night

Motto: “Uaposo ni Animitdo ni Elaaso” (Freedom and Passion and Life)

Anthem: N/A, although if there was one, it probably would involve techno.

Currency: Valtos, counted in a decimal system. Most people pay with credit cards, which have specific passwords by the user and require a DNA sample from the user to activate. Valtos are also found in ones, tens, hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands on coins with holes in the middle that are hung off of necklaces and belts; these are generally for show, but are acceptable currency, even if their use is becoming increasingly rare.

History: Lucilta’s ancient history is much hidden in the change of time; it is no new town. Even the city’s founder has been forgotten. Lucilta is the only city on an isolated island, which is self-governed and self-sufficient. They have few external dealings, and generally pay no attention international affairs. The city, however, did not close off its boarders, and immigration is easily possible, but immigrants are expected to move into the smaller towns or assimilate to Lucilta’s culture. As such, there are very few immigrants. The nation has also made efforts to preserve its wilderness and maintain the ‘utopian’ paradise created here.

Government: Lucilta is governed by the mayor Arietta Lotosono, and is voted in directly by the people. The mayor has a council of fifty members of parliament, each member voted in by an individual district according to population. There are no party affiliations, although it is easy to see the political stance of any group. All voting is done individually, and parliament is set up in a sort of semicircle, with the speaker at the opening of the circle and the mayor sitting behind him or her.

Geography: Lucilta is an island nation boasting a great deal of variety, but the most important thing to keep in mind about the place is that it is always, always night. And I will not get into the technical repercussion of never having sunlight and all that nonsense. I don’t want to; it doesn’t matter. Here it is always night, and all the city’s towers are invisible against the skyline, save that they’re lit up by thousand and thousands of lights. The city is alive, brilliant and beautiful with the deep darkness cut by the red lights of cars and LCD displays, by streetlights and the lights in front of clubs and room lights and the glow-in-the-dark graffiti that’s found all over town. Less than a half hour out of the edges of the metropolis are several mountains with roads practically made for drift racing, with slow curves and fast hairpins and all the unpredictability that a circuit can never manage. It also has a very nice harbour, always lit up, of course.

Culture: The two biggest things in this city are its nightclubs and its racing scene. The entire city is driven on as if by the incessant pulse of techno music, and just like one song slides into the next, so does one day into another. Time follows a large tower set at the centre of the city and visible from almost anywhere in it. The tower takes it’s cue from the moon, and time is measured in how long it takes for the ocean to go from low tide to high tide to low tide again. This is divided into ten ‘hours’ – so from low tide to high tide is ten hours, and from low to high to low is one day. These hours are divided into a hundred minutes, and these minutes into a hundred seconds. There is no consistent time for sleep, but everyone plans around the movement of the clock. The nightclubs are almost always open, and here there are all the highlights of the modern world - sex, drugs, and music. Alcohol and other drugs are not illegal, nor is any form of sexual relationship with someone’s consent, although it must be said that anyone who has not gone through puberty is not considered mature enough to consent. There are also several gangs owning various parts of the city, especially in the poorer areas, and the city is set up much like a modern one, with slums and suburbs and a downtown and all that. Additionally, there are numerous racing gangs that band together and go out racing on the mountains. While technically illegal, the police have set up a regulations to prevent two teams trying to race on the same mountain at once, and as long as no one gets hurt, they turn a blind eye to it. The various genders are treated equally, and transexuality, transgenderedness, two-spiritedness, etc, are considered acceptable and nothing noteworthy. Socially, the biggest issue in Lucilta is the difference between the classes (due to the cost of education and the necessity of education for many high-paying jobs, the rich get rich and the poor get poor). Because there are very few foreigners, there is little conflict of cultures, except in the cultures of the various social groups (punks vs goths, rich vs poor, pirates vs ninjas, etc). There is no religion.

Demographics: This isn’t as necessary in this one, since you all know how cities are. Rich people, poor people, the dying middle class, the intelligentsia, the rich idiots, the corporate leaders, etc etc.

Pictures: Look at all the pretty pictures! (Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong and San Fransisco, for the record)
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/nyc_night_sts59.gif
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/studentservices/photos/tokyo/Tokyo%20at%20night.jpg
http://www.uva.co.uk/wp/wp-content/projects/onTheRoad/tokyo/tokyo01.jpg
http://www.npointercos.jp/images/Tokyo2006ssIMG_2533.jpg
http://www.jevan.com/gallery/BBwtower.jpg
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-york/images/s/new-york-city.jpg
http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/uk/tr/tg/lp/26/500x500_26297b2b8e13c8e2ffc8b21496bacb91.jpg
http://www.expreference.com/uploaded_images/hong-kong-tower-web-759494.jpg
http://pictures.exploitz.com/Hong-Kong-15-thumbnail-Hong-Kong--_tngpx10001x14537x1fa4c1096.jpg




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