D-Town, The Machine City, City of Flags.
Population (Historical): 8.5 Million
Population (Current): 0
Detronia was an expansive city, covering around 950 square miles of land. The majority of this land was covered by factories, warehouses, offices, data centers, and depots in the West and North sectors, also referred to as the Heart and Brain of the city.
The East sector is the home of the majority of the population, where people live in large brutalist styled apartment blocks with as many as 800 homes occasionally broken up by small parks or equally massive shopping centers and all divided by the enormous grid of narrow streets.
The South sector is by far the smallest in both size and population, housing the white collar class of the city. This area is much more open, with wide streets for the car owning wealthy, parking garages, and either lavish single family houses or 15 unit high rises to hold the staff of the much fancier office buildings that form the border against the rest of the city. This area also contains the places where legislature is made, politics are done, and broadcasts are recorded.
Just north of the city is what some may have called a “festering blister upon the land”. But nearly 50% of employed Detronians just called it work. The dump that neighbors Detronia covered nearly 30 square miles on it's own, and was the most lucrative form of honest employment in the city for good reason. Due to the varied and almost completely unregulated waste that called the area home, many of it's workers fell victim to something the locals called “The Scrapper's Curse”. In reality, it wasn't any one thing, but a culmination of dozens of harmful substances seeping into a person's skin and lungs over the years, eventually resulting in a range of symptoms and ending in an early death.
The West and North sectors lay in utter ruin, few buildings having partially survived the extensive bombing campaigns. The East and South sectors sit empty and silent, only the wind left to whistle between the colossal buildings. The Dump was burned to a crisp with napalm and phosphorus in an attempt to stay at the pace of robot production, but they had long found other sources of material.
Culture: With a population as large as Detronia, it's almost necessary that it be a cultural melting pot. Over the years, groups tended to filter themselves out and coalesce in their own apartment blocks and neighborhoods, which was a large part in keeping cultural backgrounds and traditions alive. In fact, 2 out of 5 buildings operated almost entirely in languages other than English. You could buy a cornetto and espresso from an Italian bakery for breakfast, walk 4 hours down the street, count a few dozen different flags along the way, and buy a gyro off of a street cart for lunch.
But across all demographics, there was one mentality that all of the working class residents shared. “This is our city, and we'll be damned if we let the machines take it from us.”
Infrastructure and Transit: Billions of gallons of water were processed on the coast every day for use in the city. Waste water was processed at the dump and found its home in an area of the dump known as The Sinkhole. Where it went after that is anyone's guess.
The streets of the East sector were narrow, only really suitable for bikes or foot traffic. Cars and trucks were mostly reserved for business, crime, or street racing. Most personal travel was done via the intricate network of underground metro tunnels, with trains averaging 85% efficiency.
Electricity was provided by a large nuclear plant 20 miles east of the city, as well as about 200 smaller geothermal power plants under the city. Despite the large population and enormous power demands, blackouts were very rare.
Law and order in the industrial sectors was regulated largely by automated security systems that weren't known for drawing a line between criminals and passers by. The citizens tended to avoid those areas altogether, especially after dark.
The South sector had a heavy police presence, but due to the relatively uneventful atmosphere, it was considered a cushy assignment for officers nearing retirement and people with connections.