Metamora

Megalopolis of Metamora
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Motto: "Breakneck pace unto daybreak."
Capital and largest city	Metamora
Official languages	Tratorian
Ethnic groups	Humans (100%)
Religion	State-Endorsed Atheism
Government	Technocratic Unitary State
• Chair of the Economy	Sarah Wise
• Chair of the Sciences	Theodore Warren
• Chair of the Deputies	Brandon Kaur
Legislature	The Collegiate
Independence  from a forgotten nation
• Grand Revolt	Date Placeholder
Area
• Total	13,000 km2 (5,000 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate	8,280,000
• Density	636.9/km2 (1,649.6/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$264.96 billion
• Per capita	$32,000
Currency	Merit (MRT)

Metamora, officially known as the Megalopolis of Metamora, is a Sparkalian nation housed on the western coast of the continent Pelia. It borders no other nation, being forced to pursue an autarkic and self-contained existence; however, it still contains a link to the outside world through the Cobalt Bay, the endpoint of the Mora River that the nation gets its name from. There are no other effective routes to connect it to other nations due to the Estethan Desert to its southeast, and the heavily wooded lands to its north. Despite the varied climates around it, Metamora itself enjoys a warm and sunny climate.

One of the last entirely sovereign city-states left in Sparkalia, Metamora defends its independence and governmental system jealously. The population of 8.28 million people are governed by a Technocratic Unitary State, established in the wake of the Grand Revolt against a forgotten origin nation. The government operates off of a fully planned economy, with private industry being entirely illegalized. This extreme economic system has produced a gradual but efficient industrialization of the city, with much of the economic development being centered around the Cobalt Bay.

History

Metamora is a relatively young nation, the very city itself only having archived records that date back to (PLACEHOLDER) at the earliest. Its architectural style varies throughout the city, with the oldest construction styles being found a stretch upriver from the existing city. This suggests that, over time, Metamora has moved further away from the river to attach itself to the coastline, which brought increased immigration from nearby towns and started its progress from a simple riverside town to a very large city.

Pre-Revolt City Era

See Also: Brookhaven
The records and history around this time are fuzzy and generally not well understood, as few copies available to the public still remain. Most pieces are considered to either be lost in various undiscovered archives throughout the city or are heavily classified and carefully preserved. What is well-known, however, is that Metamora did not develop organically as a city-state. It was originally a normal city under the control of what scholars call "The Origin State", or what is more popularly known as "The Founders".

Metamora grew sizably within a couple decades after its original establishment on the banks of the Mora River, attracting young locals from the surrounding countryside with the promise of prosperity. Labor was in high demand, and much of that need was satisfied by the people moving downriver towards Metamora. To facilitate this, two main avenues for expansion presented themselves: to grow eastwards and upriver, or westwards towards the bay and Brookhaven. The east provided greater short-term benefits for the city but would encounter a major logistic and construction problem with the floodplains. And besides, it would antagonize and encroach on productive agricultural lands, so the westwards expansion plan was decided on.

Metamora, after integrating Brookhaven, was allegedly given a greater degree of autonomy. From this autonomy the first parallel (albeit, wildly corrupt and inefficient) Metamoran courts system was established. What would follow is a period of increasing ideological, cultural, and social distance from the Founders, causing widespread dissatisfaction and discontent in the extremely politically active and ideologically varied populace. This led to pro-independence movements springing up; alongside socialists, communists, transhumanists, pacifists, ecologists, and essentially the entire political spectrum of the Origin States all gaining some sort of foothold in the city.

Grand Revolt

Main Article: The Grand Revolt
A popular theory is that Metamora became one of the largest cities in the Origin State, and the government's unwillingness to

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