Konton

"Hey man, I didn't pick the name, you feel? At least people will pay attention when you say you're from this place." — Konton resident to local news reporters
Konton (or more infamously and commonly known as Coon Town) is a major underdeveloped city on the planet of Hyperion, north of the continent of Destino and lying on the most southerly of the Bernard Isles. Under the administration of the Bernard and Zenith Islands sub-government within the northern Destino island chain, Konton has been historically impoverished due to the corporate dominance of Saint Bernard and Zenithport, with the former being the chief settlement of the Bernard Isles and the latter serving as the state's capital. With the island settled in 2191 by African-American colonists from Earth under the purview of an explorer by the name of Elijah Konton, it briefly became a central hub of maritime commerce between Northern Destino and the western continents until the arrival of colonists in the Zenith Isles and the flight of white and Asian colonists to the burgeoning city of Saint Bernard from increasing ethnic tensions in the novel colony. 
The city received its controversial modern name from smear campaigns waged upon Konton by the State Governor of the Bernard and Zenith Islands in 2546, Michael Lorenhart, who called the city a "coon town filled with nothing but social parasites and ingrates" after breaking off political relations with the current mayor of Konton at the time, Jayeson Valencio, due to the latter's exposed plans to undercut Lorenhart in future gubernatorial elections. More specifically, Coon Town also is a play on the original name of the city, invoking reference to both its founder and its majority-black population. The residents of Konton took the name with surprising gratitude, and utilized it as a social rallying call against Lorenhart's increasingly hostile administration in support of Valencio. However, Lorenhart's deployment of the Hyperion Police Department in force in Konton led to the massive 2546 Bernard Island Riots that gripped the entire half of the state, and had also led to the city's effective destruction from mass fires, lootings, vandalism, and sabotage of critical infrastructure such as power plants and transportation systems. The entire island was bought by a state corporation set up by the Hyperion planetary government, Konton Municipals, in 2547, which soon fell into bankruptcy from internal mismanagement by 2555. Konton Municipals was then bought by the Chen Wu Corporation within the same year for 350 billion notes, thus effectively transferring control of the island's entire infrastructure and government to the megacorporation.
Currently, Konton remains destitute due to little investment from Chen Wu other than for its drydocks and harbors that service the many sea-based superfreighters and supertankers that traverse Hyperion's global ocean. The city suffers also from a massive crime issue, with influence from planetary criminal syndicates siphoning what little revenue is generating from its maritime industry. Even so, it maintains a rich cultural heritage from the multitude of immigrants that found their way to the shores of its island, with a dialect distinct from even that of other Bernard Islanders.
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