Columbia Initiative
| Columbia Initiative | ||
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| Logo, featuring the American star and flaming torch of enlightenment and hope | ||
| Arcology | ||
| Government: | Federal Democratic Republic | |
| Congress-Director: | Prelli Yacob | |
| Demonym: | Columbia Initiative, Columbian, Collie (colloquial) | |
| Colours: | Commonwealth standard: | |
| Geography | ||
| Located: | Western North America | |
| Planet: | Earth | |
| System: | Solar system | |
| Demographics | ||
| Population: | ~402,944,000 | |
| Notable inhabitants: | Adrian Lakett, Mikkel Elain | |
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The Columbia Initiative is one of the arcologies of the Commonwealth of Earth, containing the descendants of many of the inhabitants of the former western United States of America. Once socially and economically indistinguishable from its old eastern twin of New Manhattan, decades of economic boom and significant civil rights movements have allowed and latterly forced the Columbian state to prop up a welfare state, including a small universal basic income, free primary and secondary and regulated tertiary education, and public healthcare. However, its police state and domestic surveillance system is just as - if not more - intrusive into the personal lives of its citizens, all justified in the name of combatting a real but highly artificially inflated threat of terrorism.
Appearance[edit | edit source]
The arcology portion of the Columbia Initiative appears like a vast, flat, light grey concrete pentagon marked by a starfish pattern of dozens of immense, dark blue, glass-panelled pyramids. Between them lies various spaceports and great, vertical solar panels. Within the pyramids lie most of the residential districts, built as so to receive the most natural sunlight possible, with the underground portion of the arcology housing the commercial and light industrial sectors of its economy.
Its west is encroached upon by the engorged Pacific Ocean, and extending inland from three of its eastern sides are gridded districts, two for farming and one for heavy industry, each of which has expanded to great lengths over the centuries. Nestled against the arcology, paved on top of dead farmland and sandwiched between the south industrial and north farming strip, there also stands a vast network of concrete template dwellings, built to accommodate a large population of working poor and undocumenteds.
