Penguin City

Penguin City is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pengin. It is about 30,500 square kilometres of land and shaped like a giant walled circle.

### Economy

The annual GDP of Penguin City is 1.6 trillion Kin, which is the Penguin Currency. One Kin is worth about $0.001. Since they are in a state of semi-total war, they don’t trade with the outside and the economy is extremely centralized. The Penguins are exemplary at keeping balance out of necessity, as no money will flow in or out of their economy. The primary industry of Penguin City is ambiguous, but all spheres of trade are generally covered. The Igloo of Commons, the government of the Penguin Tribe; has chosen to be a democratic sovereignty with minimum meddling in industry, leading to a free-market economy that has broken up the city into chunks of “mini-provinces”, each with specific industries and specialties. When it comes to individual industry in Penguin City, it can be said that one cannot say they are a citizen of simply Penguin City, for Penguin City is a country unto itself. Well-off Penguins sometimes choose to travel all around the city, simply to experience culture. Individual, small-time business is typically encouraged with many businesses being family-run. Of course, this has given some particularly smart Penguins the chance to form huge mega-corporations that span the entire city, although the larger a company, the more tax they pay. Tax in Penguin City is relatively high, about 15%, given that most funds are returned to the Penguin Agents. In terms of poverty, there is a 0.001% poverty rate, given that homes are in strategic locations and incredibly cheap.

### The Wall

Penguin City is surrounded by a large metal black wall, around a kilometer thick, which serves as a border defense. This wall is approximately 25 meters high, which to Penguins would seem like the human equivalent of 50 meters. Border patrol is frequent on this wall and it is lined with laser cannons. In fact, while there is room on the wall to house individuals, the Penguin Agency technically owns the entire top of the wall and has used it as a second military base.

### Transportation

The typical blue-collar Penguin does not need to travel far from their home to go to work. They typical mode of transportation is actually by flipper. The Igloo of Commons frowns upon individual vehicles as costly and ineffective, but 20% of Penguins still own a Hover-Pod. Penguin City has two places for personal vehicles to operate: On streets in the ground, and in the air, with specialized lanes formed by lines of drones. The air functions as a sort of highway, with the ground being considered regular streets. Of course, both places share space with buses. Note that the vehicles, being hover-craft with futuristic technology do not give off emissions. However, for the Penguins seeking to travel across the city for leisure purposes or to get to a far-off office building may choose to take the more popular public monorail system, which can move at a speed of 6000 km per second, making it about as fast as Mach 25. The only reason why this monorail outright kill people is because of the incredible engineering of the Penguin Agency, which designed the system. The interior of the monorail uses something called a “Gravity Pocket”, which is essentially a chamber designed to regulate the internal physics of the monorail and keep the passengers firmly seated. However, Gravity Pockets only work with railed vehicles, so the move to militarize this technology was over-ruled.

### The Glass Roof

The most defining landmark of Penguin City is a giant sheet of dura-glass spread above the entire city about 12 meters above the ground, approximately 50 centimeters thick. A fleet of cleaning bots, also owned by the Penguin Agents, have been installed on the surface to keep it clean. These tiny bots spend all day shoveling snow from the glass. This special type of glass, make with finely ground rock laced with metal and other synthetic strengtheners is bulletproof and blast-proof. It mainly serves to keep the snow off the streets but it also insulates the city.

### Architecture/Municipal Planning

Every 20 meters or so, there is a giant heater which mitigates the Penguin’s instinct to huddle. As for the actual city itself, it is mostly skyscrapers shaped like elongated igloos, with houses being regular-sized igloos. Almost every building has a basement that is about 1.2x the size of the actual property to maximize storage space. Advertisements dot the sides of buildings on giant billboards and holograms and the streets are filled with overhang signs and food carts. Large dark red and sand green storage containers are suspended on crane arms. In the docs, giant cranes process hundreds of containers holding food and other supplies. The Penguin Agent have a coast guard service to make sure nobody sneaks out of the boundaries of the city lest they are killed by the Guardians. Public parks dot the inside of the city, some of which have a rare type of plant called a tree, which is engineered and grown in a lab. Schools are also in the shape of igloos, only larger and with 3 stories.

### Education System

All Penguin schoolchildren are required a minimum of 9 years of education, starting at age 2, given that they have increased their lifespan from 20 years to 60. They are indoctrinated into the war and taught basic skills, upon which they have the chance to go into another 2 years of higher education where they either attend a vocational school or an intellectual school. Their placement into these schools is decided by a standardized test that places creativity and critical thinking above route memorization, although many students stress about this test regardless. A benefit of the Young Agents Program is that this test is bypassed.

### Healthcare

Free. Supported by the Penguin Agents. Many hospitals dot the streets.

### Trivia

* Penguin City's shape might be best described as a reference to Amestris from Fullmetal Alchemist. This is plausible given that Alpha Yu has stated the desire to draw inspiration from the worldbuilding of Fullmetal Alchemist.
* Penguin City is a parallel to Pengin-Shi, a "city" (Read: Small cluster of tiny buildings) in Ice & Scales, and has much of the same architecture.
* The red and green crates dotted around the city are a reference to the school playground where Penguins was created as it also had said red and green crates.
* Penguin City's architecture consists of many elongated igloos.