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SETTING INFORMATION
City Name: Laranis City
Classification: Metropolis
Location: Laranis III, Laranis System, Seswenna Sector - Outer Rim Territories
Affiliation: Laranis System Protectorate
Population: Heavy; 1.2 Billion
Demographics: Sullustans (34%), Human (33%), Wookie (6%), Rodian (8%), Other (19%)
Wealth: Wealthy. Home to the headquarters of the system's wealthiest and most powerful corporations, banking, and government significant wealth has become concentrated in Laranis City, making it the economic epicenter of the system.
Stability: High. With government leaders, CEOs, and other important citizenry concentrated here, as well as a full 86% of the system's upper classes, security is high and crime is virtually non-existent in all but the poorest areas. The population is highly educated overall, with high-income professions, and derives great benefits for themselves and their families from the Laranis System Protectorate and its policies. Dissent is low, crime is low, and the city is as fine - with a few exceptions - as the most affluent districts on Coruscant.
Freedom & Oppression: On the surface, life in Laranis City seems pleasant, and much of the city shines with clean streets, luxurious hotels and office complexes, lush green parks, and every imaginable amenity. Most travelers visiting the city are – at the least – impressed, if not deeply so, by the quality and safety of its many delights. But, beneath the surface, the tremendous inequity of its ruling classes – formed among the executives and directors of the powerful corporations that mark the entire system – and the daily struggles of workers together with the squalor and hardships of life among the poor. Great precautions have historically been made by the Laranis System Protectorate to conceal this contrast, restricting access to areas and funneling visitors towards the more upscale quarters of the city. LSP System Security Forces maintain strict patrols, and help to create the illusion of universal prosperity and comfort, though within the domains of the poor and downtrodden, security patrols are seldom, if ever, seen. Life there is hard, and only when crime and squalor begin to ruin the façade are they addressed. A thriving black market exploits these conditions, backed by local gangs – many of which are suspected to be in the employ of LSP rulers.
Description:
A sprawling metropolis, teeming with everyday life and home to over a billion residents, Laranis City is a visual testament to the wealth and development brought to Laranis System through centuries of trade and commerce. From towering skyscrapers, home to the system’s most prominent corporations and crowned by the monolithic capital of the Laranis System Protectorate, to densely-crowded residential neighborhoods, markets and bazaars, parks and universities, the city is a vibrant, thriving modern city, the lights of which can be seen from orbit overhead.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Protectorate Tower - The seat of government for the Laranis System Protectorate is the highest spire in the city. With administrative offices, meeting rooms, Protectorate Security headquarters, and more, the Tower is the capital within the capital.
SECURITY - High
The Laranis System Protectorate’s Protectorate Security is a well-armed, well-equipped, and well-funded force, headquartered in Laranis City. As the city is the Protectorate’s shining jewel, Security patrols are frequent and its laws are strictly enforced. Planetary shields, orbital defenses, and regular patrols through the system by Security ships are all present and notable. Visitation is strongly monitored, and Security is quick for inspections and credentials checks, ensuring against smuggling – that is, smuggling which they haven’t allowed per virtue of a bribe.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Laranis City was built in the early days of the Protectorate, a testimony to the wealth and success of the corporations which control this system. Architects from across the galaxy were hired and paid extravagant fees to design and build marvels of engineering ‘light-years’ ahead of their time. Soon the city grew, as immigrants flooded into the system in hopes of cashing in on the system’s wealth. For a few, success was easy, and in time, their corporations’ towers would rise in the city alongside the first. For most, middle-management in the corporate structures was all they found, or else they were shunted off to the city’s crowded slums, home to the workers and laborers upon whose backs and shoulders the entire system is built.
For centuries, Laranis City has thrived and grown. In the aftermath of the isolation of the Gulag Plague, thousands after thousands of immigrants came, reinvigorating it once more. In affluent areas, shopping and entertainment are found. Symphonies and theaters, posh nightclubs with exorbitant cover charges, fine restaurants, schools, hospitals, and more seemed to grow up overnight. In the poorer districts, carts of street vendors and small shops line the narrow streets beside dive bars and seedy clubs, while crammed into crowded flats above live the working classes.
