Jonsborg Town

Jonsborg Town
City Sub-District
Country	Breheim
City	Storvik
District	Greater Jonsborg District
Population  (2012)
• Total	42,183

Jonsborg Town (Breheimian: Jonsborgstad) is a subdistrict of the city of Storvik in Breheim, located in the south-east of the city proper. It is part of the Greater Jonsborg District. It has become noted for its large sapient non-human minority (accounting for a quarter of the total sub-district population as of 2012), with roughly half of Breheim's total sapient non-human population.

History

Jonsborg, meaning Jon's Fortress, was a village incorporated into the city of Storvik during the 19th century, with the Jonsborg sub-district being the heart of the village proper. Jonsborg was founded in 1212, by Jon Haraldson, the youngest son of Jarl Harald of Storvik, who had been forbidden from entering Storvik proper after Jon killed his cousin, Bjørn Raveneye, after a drunken dispute. Despite being a kinslayer, Jon was allowed to live, but was exiled from the town of Storvik proper. Jon managed to convince hundreds of people to join him in establishing an outpost a few miles from the city, displacing one of the few remaining Runmi populations in the area in the process, in what is known as the Battle of Jonsborg. The village grew, ruled by Jon's successors who inherited Jon's ban from entering Storvik, and men from Jonsborg frequently allied with the Jarldom of Taranger and Just in their wars with Storvik as a result.

Jonsborg became one of the last areas in the Storvik area to be Christianized, until Chief Grim Torkildson of Jonsborg agreed to be baptized in 1412. A third of Jonsborg's population ended up moving eastwards and northwards as a result, with the majority of the displaced population moving to Odinsberg, which by then was considered a sacred city of traditional Breheimian Religion. The Jonsborg Church was built in 1416, and a catholic convent was established in 1483. During the Breheimian Reformation, Jonsborg proved highly resistant to adopting Breheimian Lutheranism, and when Oskar I died and anti-Catholic zeal subsided, Jonsborg retained a majority Catholic population.

During the Republican Revolution of 1792, Jonsborg was the second area in the Storvik area to side with the Republicans, with 72 sons of the village joining the revolutionary forces. One, Harald Birgerson, became a prominent officer following Johannes Sjøfarer's Second Revolution in 1797. The Church and Convent in Jonsborg were both expropriated in 1793, with the nuns stripped and beaten, while the resident priest hanged. While the convent was sacked and burned, the Church was restored to the Catholic Church in 1814, and remains the oldest Catholic Church in the City of Storvik.

Jonsborg was officially made part of the City of Storvik in 1872 following the capital's large growth in both population and area during the first wave of industrialization, although by then the village had already been a de facto enclave of the city for a decade. As a result, the farms around the village was burned, and new buildings, including a paper mulching factory, was built.

Starting in 1982, Jonsborg started to receive the first trickle of sapient non-human immigrants, establishing an ethnic enclave within the subdistrict known locally as Sirkuset (the Circus). Father Harald Haraldsen of the Jonsburg church, however, went harshly against violence and discrimination against 'Any of God's Children', and became considered one of the most prominent voices in the City of Storvik against speciesism and racism. Throughout the 80s, 90s and early 21st century, the number of non-humans in Jonsborg have steadily grown, due to local charities established by the Church in order to help non-human immigrants find both work and housing. Jonsborg came close to electing the first non-human parliamentarian in Breheim in 2014, as it represents the majority of the Jonsborg Constituency for the People's Assembly, when the Herdite immigrant Tri Color came second, representing the Republican Party of Breheim, with an overall share of 26.2% of the vote.

Demographics

Religion

Religion	Percentage
Roman Catholic Christianity	46.5%
Irreligious	32.9%
Lutheran-Evangelical Christianity (Eastern Church)	5.5%
Harmonism	2.2%
Old Paganism	1.6%
Other Faiths	11.3%

Economy

Jonsborg was hit hard, like most of the country, in the Great Contraction of 2013 when the local paper mulching plant (which employed a total of 3,200 of the subdistrict's workforce) went bankrupt. However, Jonsborg has been able to bounce back to a greater extent than the average in the capital, with an increased focus on tourism and recreationary activities. Jonsborg has more restaurants per capita than any other subdistrict of Storvik, with a steadily increasing number of shops and smaller workshops. Many restaurants and workshops are owned and run by the subdistrict's nonhuman population, selling food and artisan products common in their home countries, having found a niche within the city itself. The subdistrict still struggle with high unemployment, having reached 12.1% by 2014 (slightly less than the national average, and less than the average in Storvik). Having been one of the few areas in Storvik where privately own housing represented a majority of the housing, primarily owned by a local Church-led cooperative, the Housing Privatization of 2013 didn't harm Jonsborg as much as it did in most of Storvik either. Jonsborg is one of eight subdistricts of Storvik which reports a decrease in unemployment and an increase in economic productivity throughout 2014.