Sudbury

Sudbury is the largest city and capital of Timiskrane by population, with 17 591 597 residents at the last census. The city is so large it is given its own electoral region for federal elections, though for regional elections it shares an amalgamated regional government with Greater Sudbury. The metropolitan core of Sudbury, officially called "Sudbury District" but often refered to as "Old Sudbury", houses around 12 million residents.

While the area was historically under the control of The Brotherhood the city itself was founded as a mining settlement when nickel and copper were discovered in the surrounding mountains, duing the Locotimian Colonisation, after the settlement of the North-West War. The city grew when it became a rail hub due to it's central location, in the heart of much of the profitable mining opperations of Angrosia. Thanks to the increase of both population and traffic the city was able to move past a resource based economy and develop thriving manufacturing, retail, health, education, and service industries sectors. During the anarchy period the city was the capital of an unrecognized government claiming to be the sucessor of the Angrosian government which controled much of what is now central Timiskrane. When the Act of Federation was signed on January 21st 2019, founding the nation of Timiskrane, Sudbury was designated as its capital, with the seat of government to be located in the historic building of the Angrosian Government.

Geography

Sudbury contains Ramsey Lake, one of the largest lakes contained within a single municipality. The lake is large enough to support comercial vessels, and is acessible via the ocean thanks to a project in the 1950s that built a series of cannals and locks to bypass the non-naviguable sections of the Vermillion River. Sudbury sits at the border of two watersheds, while Ramsey Lake and the Vermillion river flow east towards Victoria's Bay, the Nordesian River to the west flows north-west towards Manatoulin Island.

While the city limits are vaguley rectangular in shape, the inhabited areas mostly snake along valleys in between medium sized mountains made of igneous rock. The area of Subury was heavily logged not only to clear way for the settlment, but to provide wood for the developpment of the colony as a whole. This, combined with the smelting methods of the time, which caused acid rains, resulted in heavy erosion taking place in the region. In many areas of the city, bare bedrock is visible. This made digging incredibly expensive and difficult, and is a major reason why buildings were built with shallow or no basement, and why an above ground light rail system was chosen for the city's public transit.

Neighbhourhoods

The area commonly refered to as the downtown is located to the west of Ramsey Lake. It includes Windsor Park, the oldest neighbhourhood in Sudbury, named after the royal family of Locotima, the University Disctrict, Lakeshore North, the most affluent neighbhourhood in the downtown, Robinson, Lockberry, the most dense neighbhourhood, and Ellenburg, as well as the comercial districts of Little Locotima, Memorial Park, where the Legislature is located, and Gatchell.

Just outside of the downtown there are the inner-city communities that spread in 3 rather distinct directions due to geographic obstacles. To the south, these include Rousseau and Vermillion. To the west, there is Livley, which includes the Sudbury Laurier Airport, and Vale. But the city by far dispoportionatley north-east, with Dale, Timberwolf, Bancroft, and Downie being some notable communities.

Outside of these the city continues to spread both east and north along the north shore of Ramsey Lake, in an area which consitis of many neighbhourhoods but is collectivley known as Valley East.

Many of Sudbury's outlying communities were at one point distinct settlments that were amalgamated by Sudbury as it continued to grow. These include Dowling, Hanmer, Glenmore, and Naughton.

Sudbury District is usually deffined as being any area within the S-Train system. The specifics however, are frequently up for debate and some communities, like Naughton, have their status disputed. District contains around two thirds of the population, with 12 to 13 million residents depending on where exactly the line is drawn. Areas outside of this but still under the municipal administration of Sudbury are collectivley refered to as Suburban Sudbury. This includes communities such as Creighton, Cod Lake, Hull, Larchwood, Levack, and more.

Politics

Federal

The city of Sudbury is it's own electoral region federally, with 29 riding seats and 29 at-large seats for a total of 58. Most heavily favour the Liberal Party, though some of the suburbs skew towards the National Government. The Progress Party was also able to make some gains in the city in 2025 thanks to the collapse of the Liberals in that election.

Infrastructure

Transport

Light Rail

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Map of the Sudbury S-Train light rail system

The city opperates a significant above ground light rail network with 4 train lines and 28 stations, refered to locally as the "S-Trains". For certain sections the tracks are elevated due to space constraints, however for most of the journey they are ground level. The Red Line was also modified to go breifly underground near the city center to avoid traffic congestion cause by train crossings. The S-Trains carry almost 4.6 million people on average every weekday, nearly half of all people working in downtown sudbury report taking the train to work.

Air

The city has two airports, Sudbury Laurier and Sudbury Northland. Both are international airports serviced by major carriers with nonstop destinations throughout north and south Laurentia and across Telrova. Sudbury Laurier is the oldest and traditionally busiest, it has a single terminal and 2 runways, one 1900m and one 2400m. The airport has however found itself unable to expand due to it's geographic location, and it's flightpath through the valley along with it's shorter runways have made it difficult for larger modern aircraft to land at it. Consequently Sudbury Northland was constructed, with 4 aditional runways, 3 3800m runways and one 4500m extra reinforced runway specially designed for extremley large and heavy aircraft. The two airports are on opposite sides of the city, but are connected via the Green S-Train. Collectivley, they see 36 Million visitors a year, many of whom are connecting onwards to the various resorts and parks in the surounding region. They are the seccond most popular port of entry for tourists and immigrants after Port Manatoulin and ahead of Kirkland.

Roads and Highways

Sudbury is an extremley important road-hub, with two major highways meeting in Sudbury and snaking through the city. Highway 202 is Timiskrane's longest and allows travel north and east to a variety of other major cities, and south towards Erin and Vaughan and the border. Running nearly perpendicular to it is Highway 201, which connects the city north-west towards Port Manatoulin and south-east towards Suderland. The section of highway from Sudbury to Port Manatoulin is Timiskrane's busiest.