New Commonwealth City

City of the New Commonwealth had been built near the Capital City of the planet Republic. It was under the planet’s largest atmospheric dome . Its carefully planned buildings had been designed by the planet’s most honored urban architects (which meant that most of them looked like giant, half-melted, kitchen appliances).
In the center of the city was a huge tower that looked like an array of gigantic beer-cans strapped up-and-down a thousand-meter pole that overlooked a gargantuan dome dimpled like a colossal golf ball; The Great Tower of the New Commonwealth and the Amphitheater of Galactic Democracy. The City had been intended to be the capital of the New Commonwealth, and the Amphitheater and Tower were to have been its capitol building.
However, the worlds of the New Commonwealth had different ideas and instead decided to centralize their political, military, and administrative functions on Chapultepec Starlock.
So, the City of the New Commonwealth… built for 10,000,000 inhabitants… housed barely a million. The two-thirds empty Great Tower of the New Commonwealth housed only the Ministry of Diplomacy of Republic’s Government, as well as the Space Exploration Ministry Annex and the Sub-Ministry of Literature for Children as well as the local administrative bureaucracies for the City of the New Commonwealth. Bernadette Keeler had bid to build a theme park on some of the unused land under the Dome, but she was denied the many, many permits required. 
Republic’s elites had once envisioned much of the planet covered in an enormous city from which the whole of the Quadrant – perhaps the galaxy – would be administered. For now, though, there was only an additional ring of planetary embassies around the City of Alexander to mark Republic’s status as an important… but not hegemonic… world of the New Commonwealth.
[Worlds Apart Book 11 - Charlemagne]
Category:Cities