Seashilet

The city of **Seashilet** (/si’ʃaɪ:lɛt/) (Chamayan: **Sēa’shilēt**)  is a major city along the south coast of Chamayo located along the south coast of the Chē’anoē province of the country. As the most populous city in the province, the 2018 census recorded 732,202 residents within the city proper, and a total of 3,027,673 residing in the Greater Seashilet Area, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Chamayo, behind Ajax and Prince Nelsono. Seashilet has the second-largest population density in the country, with around 5,400 people per square kilometre. Seashilet is the most ethnically and linguistically diverse city in Chamayo, with 39% of Seashilet residents having neither Namuian or English as a native tongue.

Seashilet is one of the most livable cities in the world. Seashiletism, or Preservationism, is the city's urban planning design philosophy. The Port of Seashilet is the second-largest port in Chamayo, with the first being Port Haida’a in Prince Nelsono.

### History

#### Pre-Settlement

Before the creation of a permanent settlement in the area, the region comprising of modern day Seashilet contained temperate rainforest which was and is still home to millions of plants, fungi, and animals.

#### Early Settlement

Seashilet was incorporated as a city in 1817, at the time directly south of the city of Royal Oak (incorporated as a city in 1722). Its population only consisted of a slowly growing 5,000 residents, mainly Chamayo natives and a small population of Estanans and others. The small downtown block consisted of shops, small apartments, and the Old Seashilet Mayors Office, now a museum in present-day uptown on Aqtaq Street. Seashilet’s first mayor went by the name of Lonni Nyaqn’saq, born in Royal Oak and raised in Seashilet.

#### Today

In the 21st century, Seashilet has been one of the fastest growing cities in the country, filled with modern pop culture and art. Seashilet is a worldwide hub for vacation and nature enthusiasts, with parks surrounding the cityscape dominated by rainforest pine and cedar trees. The endangered Arbutus tree can be found along coastlines along with countless other forms of plant life.

### Geography

#### Location

Seashilet is located at the northern edge of the Cascadēq Plate on the Cascadēq Bay, which is fed by two rivers, the Hēlsakē River and Kēynajyēq River sourced by the Chēnēok Mountains and the South Coast Mountains.

#### Ecology

The vegetation in the Seashilet area was originally temperate rainforest, consisting of conifers with scattered pockets of maple and alder and large areas of swampland, even in upland areas, due to poor drainage. The conifers were a typical coastal Chamayan mix of Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock. The area is thought to have had the largest trees of these species on the Chamayan Coast. Only in areas around Hoʔlo National Park, did the size of trees rival those of Cascade Bay and Atla Bay. The largest trees in Seashilet's old-growth forest were in the Hēlnaqoq area, where the first logging occurred and on the southern slopes of Atla Bay and Cascade Bay, especially around Napsēn Beach; and despite many protests at the time, forest in Lociēko Park was logged between the 1860s and 1880s and evidence of old-fashioned logging techniques such as springboard notches can still be seen there.

#### Climate

Seashilet’s climate is temperate by Chamayan standards and is classified as oceanic or marine southwest coast, (Köppen climate classification Cfb) that borders on a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb). While during summer months the inland temperatures are significantly higher, Seashilet has the coolest summer average high of all major Chamayan metropolitan areas. The summer months are typically dry, with an average of only one in five days during July and August receiving precipitation. In contrast, the majority of days from November through March record some type of precipitation.

Seashilet is also one of the wettest Chamayan cities. However, precipitation varies throughout the metropolitan area. Annual precipitation as measured at Seashilet International Airport in the Intercity neighbourhood averages 1,189 mm (46.8 in), compared with 1,588 mm (62.5 in) in the downtown area and 2,044 mm in Celestia Town Centre. The daily maximum averages 22 °C in July and August, with highs rarely reaching 30 °C.

The highest temperature ever recorded at the airport was 34.4 °C set on July 30, 2009, and the highest temperature ever recorded within the city of Seashilet was 35.0 °C occurring first on July 31, 1965, again on August 8, 1981, and finally on May 29, 1983. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the city was −17.8 °C on January 14, 1950 and again on December 29, 1968.

On average, snow falls on twenty days per year, with seven days receiving 25 cm or more. Average yearly snowfall is 78.1 cm but typically does not remain on the ground for long in most areas.

#### Natural Disaster Frequency

Because of Seashilet’s unique location on the Cascadēq Plate, it is subject to small micro-quakes on an average of twice a year. These micro-quakes can range from 0-2.0 magnitude earthquakes, causing minimal damage to the area.

Major earthquakes (7-9 magnitude) have historically happened both in science and legend due to the Cascadēq Subduction Zone and have caused catastrophic damage to coastal areas around the province before the era of white colonization.

Seashilet is near several dormant volcanoes, mainly along the Seashilet Ranges and Chēnēok Mountains. They are not a current threat to the area, and are monitored daily.

### Cityscape

#### Urban Planning

Seashilet’s urban planning is often referred to as “preservationism” or as most call it, Seashiletism. This method of urban planning takes historical buildings and ecology into consideration, forming green neighbourhoods. Seashilet is famous for having the most city parks per capita, and has the “Seashilet Adopt-a-Park” program, in which community members take care of the parks in their neighbourhood.

#### Architecture

Seashilet is famous for modernizing the Tilasti Sod Roof design, which grows into vegitiative areas and prairie flower beds for birds, wildflowers and etcetera on the tops of houses. It helps improve insulation, heating, and air conditioning seasonally.

### Demographics

#### Diversity

While Seashilet is mainly dominated by Chamayan Namuian peoples being 79.4% of the population, Chamayan Takuian culture has strong influence in the area, with around 11.9% of the Seashiletite population being of Chamayan Takuian descent. Certain neighborhoods are dominated by different ethnic groups due to sudden influxes of immigration from overseas countries.

#### Multiculturalism

Seashilet has many cultural districts due to mass immigration in waves. Different people stuck together due to having similar backgrounds. Today these places are mostly bustling commercial and mixed use areas such as Baojitown, Ceynãs Village, and Greektown.

#### Homelessness

Homelessness in Seashilet is extremely low, with a census in 2018 of 96 unhoused individuals known in the city, down from 132 in 2016. Many efforts are in place to combat against homelessness, such as paid community service jobs for the unhoused, drug abuse rehabilitation facilities, recovery groups and community centres, and accommodation housing. Housing in Chamayo is free for everyone, so most homeless cases are due to mental health issues.

### Education

#### School Board

Each city municipality in the Greater Seashilet Area has its own school district, except with the City of Seashilet being split into two. North Seashilet District 38, and Seashilet Centre District 39 are the two school districts of the City of Seashilet.

Seashilet, of course, follows the rest of the country’s school curriculum and system. Children attend school 3 times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Elementary School begins usually at 5 years old until around 12 years old. Secondary School usually goes from ages 12-13 to 17-18.

Schools are architecturally designed similarly to houses, and do not resemble that of its boxy and grey school neighbours in Kerosia or Estana. Many elementary schools are smaller in size compared to secondary schools as well, which puts into effect a large population gap between the two.

Schools offer you to choose courses if you desire as early as fifth grade. You can choose specifics in environmental, scientific, art, and writing courses.

#### College and University

The Greater Seashilet Area has multiple Universities and many Colleges. Some notable ones include Capilanaq University, Celestia College, Cypress Mountain University, Cascadēq  University, and of course the notable University of Seashilet, which both President Nēlsono Braavērd and President Kēsta Kēnoʔapiq attended before their presidencies.

### Arts and Culture

#### Public Arts

The Greater Seashilet Area has countless public art displays, from statues and murals to street graffiti and natural sculpting. There are a total of 187 public art statues in the Greater Seashilet urban area.

#### Music

Seashilet was the centre of the 1980’s-90’s Musical Revolution in Chamayo. Many sub-genres were born in Chamayan street music and artists, such as Nam-Rock (traditional Chamayo sounds mixed with modern rock sound) and Slaghlaqi (traditional Namuian throat singing with a modern heavy metal influence).

#### Nightlife

Seashilet is known for its buzzing nightlife throughout the city, notable neighbourhoods for sprawling nightlife include Burrērd, Uptown, and Royal Oak.

#### Traditional Art and Culture

Traditional Namuian art has a unique nature-esque style, and is similar to indigenous tribes located in western Kerosia. Many cultural artifacts from Namu rest in historical museums in cultural site areas. Some artifacts that could not be retrieved for cultural reasons have been attempted to be recreated via paint or sculpting.

### Media

#### Local Media

The area around Seashilet has historically presented as many different communities slowly becoming urbanely connected, this resulted in being more knit together to your local area in Seashilet.

A lingering feature from this history is how Seashilet distributes their newspapers. Usually, you will receive two main newspapers weekly at your doorstep: one for local news in your neighbourhood and another that covers everything else. You can always change this for your particular address however, but the default will always be the same two newspapers depending on your neighbourhood.

Local, or neighbourhood newspapers tend to cover the things you probably wouldn’t seem to care about if you lived on the other end of the city. A neighbourhood newspaper in Atla would not be recognizable to that of a newspaper in Eagalaq.

#### Film

Seashilet is a hub for filming Chamayan, Kerosian, and Estanan movies, it's known as the “Hollywood of Chamayo” to most.

### Transportation

#### Road Network

Seashilet’s road network is not as extensive as most metropolis road networks. Many of the high-density areas have minimal roads, and house-front roads do not regularly appear until the sprawling dense suburbs. Trams and Metro lines are the dominating transportation network used by most Seashilites, as well as walking and biking.

#### Metro System

The Seashilet metro system (Sēa’shilēt Mētro) is the third largest metro system in the country, after the Ajax Mētropēlētaq and Prince Nelsono metro systems. Sēa’shilēt Mētro has 42 stations served on 4 lines: the Kēynajyēq Line, the Hēlsakēe Line, the Chē’anoē Line, and the Aisēnaq Line. The daily ridership was 2 million people on average in 2018, with 165 million people on an annual average. A majority of the stations are underground subway stations, with few stations being on elevated tracks on the Chē’anoē Line from Upper Lēnsēn to Kanaka Station, and the Aisēnaq Line from Atla Station until the line’s terminus, with the exception of Tchēqporēq, as it is the only at-grade (on ground) metro station in the system.

#### Train Network

Seashilet is served by multiple train stations on different passenger rail lines that lead outside of the metropolitan limits and province. Inter-city passenger rail service is operated from Waterfront Station by Artēk Rail to points east via Cariboo Express to Ajax, west via South Coast Express to Hanēy, and North via Chē’anoē Mountaineer to Lēnok.

#### Bus System

The Seashilet bus system is the largest public transit service in the city. Most buses terminate at Metro stations after circling the area they are in. Some buses go from a location inside of Seashilet city proper to an outside location, such as the 316 Bus from Kanana to Celestiaq.

### Parks and Recreation

#### City Parks

The mild climate of the city and its proximity to the ocean, rivers, and mountains make Seashilet a popular destination for outdoor recreation. Within the city limits of Seashilet, there are 1,298ha of parkland, of which the largest is Chilotēn Canyon; which is a massive forested area that contains the West Bank of the Kēynajyēq River as it passes through Seashilet. The Chilotēn Creek merges into the Kēynajyēq River on the banks of the north end of the park.

#### Tourism

Seashilet welcomes around 11 million tourists on average annually. Many attractions in the area appeal to tourists, especially tourists from Kerosia and Estana, shocked by cultural differences such as the massive use of public transport and nature-linked culture.

#### Natural Preservation

Seashilet has many nature parks which are no-forage zones on the outskirts of the city’s urban areas. Some include the entirety of Swishswash National Park.

#### Seashilite Metropolitan Parksboard

The Seashilite Metropolitan Parksboard (SMP) is the political body that represents and oversees urban parks in metropolitan Seashilet. It has 10 members: 3 for Seashilet, 3 for Capilanaq, 2 for Royal Oak, 1 for Celestiaq, and 1 for Cypress.

#### Wildlife

Seashilet has most of the animals found in western temperate rainforest environments.

### Sister Cities

* Danstin Dam, Estana
* Irvan, Kerosia

* As of 2016, Seashilet has a friendship alliance with Baoji City.