San Angeles

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**San Angeles**, often referred to as its initials **SA**, officially the **City of San Angeles**, is the most populous city in the United States with an urban population of around 2.3 million and a metropolitan population of around 10.1 million (both estimated as of 2088). It has been considered the financial and cultural center of the United States since the nuclear attacks on Los Angeles and New York conducted during the Third World War, with an ethnically and culturally diverse population and a sprawling metropolitan area.

The majority of the city proper lies on the coastline between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Lucia Range as well as throughout the San Angeles Valley, cutting through sprawling hills and mountains to Lake San Antonio and Lake Nacimiento further inland. It covers around thirty square miles and is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County. San Angeles is the second-most visited city in the United States with an estimated six million visitors in 2088 alone, behind only New Vegas in Nevada.

The site that would become San Angeles first became inhabited around 11,000 years ago by the Chumash Native American tribe. The site would become home to a small town named San Simeon in 1797, when it was established as a sub-mission by the Mission San Miguel Arcángel. After two centuries of inhabitation - mostly by European sailors and American settlers - San Simeon began to become abandoned, however. It was not until the purchase of the land in 2001 by K-Industries that prospects at a larger settlement began to be discussed. San Angeles was imagined as an important hub of transportation and shipping between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Fresno, and as such, K-Industries sought corporate partners interested in developing the city alongside them. Such partners included larger pre-war companies like SEKO Logistics, Shipco Transport, and National Retail Systems. By 2012, this corporate project was largely complete, with all new harbors, warehouses, factories, and container yards constructed on the site, alongside housing and offices for workers brought in from throughout the state. San Angeles' population grew exponentially from there on, with a reported 15,917 residents living in the city in 2020. The city's growth remained steady up until the 2050s, when it was home to around 100,000 residents. Growth did not become exorbitant until the Third World War, however, upon which several of California's most important cities were struck by nuclear warheads and destroyed. As one of the the largest port cities left in the state - only superseded by San Diego - San Angeles quickly became the destination of millions of refugees, who flooded into the city and lived throughout the suburbs in massive shantytowns. It took a further decade of corporate and state investment into the city to begin to house and support the hundreds of thousands of homeless residents, and as of 2088, almost a third of the city still lives below the poverty line and around a tenth live without a home.

Despite rampant issues of poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and crime, San Angeles remains one of California's most economically important and productive cities, with a diverse economy ran through Port San Angeles, the third-busiest port in the United States (behind Seattle and Savannah). San Angeles is also home to the most megacorporate branches of any city in the world, with almost all of the top fifty corporations by revenue possessing some form of an office in the city.