Vitena (city)

**Vitena** is the capital of the state of the same name. With a population of almost 2,129,320, it is the 3rd most populous city in Nareemia and the most populous in Vitena. The city sits on the massive and grand Vitena Sea which has many other port-cities including those of Bayland, Nocaliana, and Southport. It is, however, the most prominent, populous and northern city in the sea's area. The city is known for having many medieval and renaissance-styled architecture especially in its bedroom community of Angeline.

## History

The city was found in 1747 by Leonardo Esposito who docked on the land the city is on which, at the time, was not inhabited by any Indigenous peoples, likely due to the scarcity of resources present at the area at the time such as the lack of many hardwood trees, white-tailed deer, and many nutritious berries. The area was incorporated into a settlement by 1750, housed around 31 people, and over the span of 30 years, attracted more and more visitors who came to live in the settlement. By the end of the 18th century, the settlement had almost 2,000 people residing there, a large 1,969 population jump. The city was known as a settlement of the Royal Kingdom of Orirbella and the entire state of Vitena was known as "Insedia" at the time by Orirbellans meaning settlement. As the population skyrocketed over the years, many people from Orirbella, Silegre, Nalvano, Bilva and The Abramos Republic were invited to stay at the settlement and were given free resources while the others had to pay florins in order to use resources. The settlement then was suggested to only be open to those of Southern Paranian descent and those who weren't southern Paranian were sent to live in a side-settlement west of Vitena called Yuberta. The city, up until around 1848, was also-known as Insedia. By the mid 19th century, a treaty was signed by the Royal Queen of Orirbella, Vitena Augorido, to change the settlement's name under honor of her name, Vitena, and by August 1848, the settlement was then changed from "Insedia" to "Vitena".

## Geography

The city of Vitena is located on an city island which also comprises of Yuberta, Angeline, and many other metropolitan areas making up the entirety of Vitena City. When driving to the mainland, the first place people make it to is known as Callery Valley, due to the abundance of callery pears. Vitena City is surrounded by large bodies of water apart of the insanely large and grand Vitena Sea, and because of being surrounded by rather warm waters, it is a very humid city. Vitena City has about 70 days of rain and 295 days of sun, making it a rather sunny city, 51 percent of daylight hours are sunny. Snow is awfully rare in the city and Vitena has only a 21% chance of recieving snow per year and most snowfalls occur in the month of February and stay on the ground on a average of eight days before melting and never appearing again. Vitena, however, has around 57 days of fog which occurs between March 26th and May 21st, making the months between early February and mid May the least sunniest time of the year. Vitena is most sunniest during the summertime and autumn. Due to the city being in a odd-place for weather, it is practically a hub for natural disasters, over fifteen floodings happened in a span of eleven years in Vitena City (Including seven in 2011, one in 2013, two in 2016, four in 2017, and one in 2019), most flooding incidents happened in March, but two occured in August.

The city is predominantly northern compared to most other major cities of Nareemia and is located in northwestern Vitena in temperate swampland mainly consisting of reintroduced hardwood trees such as live oaks, sugar maples, and cherry-plums as well as callery berry trees, but softwood trees dominate the hardwood trees strongly with an extreme abundance of slash pines, white pines, and larchs in the city and surrounding it. The city is also green year-round due to the high humidity rates and its convenience to the ocean and has a unique range of wildlife including the raccoon (Procyon lotor), coyote (Canis latrans), Seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata), Carrion beetle (Necrophila americana), Brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), Gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), and red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Outside the city, feral populations of pigs, cattle, goats, chickens and other livestock are common due to many farms being abandoned in the Callery Valley due to flooding and earthquake incidents.

## Demographics

The city of Vitena, as of 2021, is extremely diverse. Immigrants beside the Orirbellans and southern Paranians arrived after 1848 but most (94%) were from Parania at the time, but as the 1970s begun, an extreme skyrocket of ethnic groups began to rise in the city. About 532,330 people of Asian descent are present in the city today, with about 20% of the total population being of Chinese descent, 2% being of Indian descent, and 2% being other Asians (Mostly Japanese or Filipino). About 9-10% of the total population identifies as African with the southern portion of the city having a sizable African population (26% of southern Vitena City is African). Vitena City also has the highest population of Indigenous peoples in Nareemia with about 234,335 people being Indigenous in the city (11% of the total city population, Indigenous peoples comprise about 17% of southern Vitena City's population). 5% of the city is Latino. This makes a total of about 51% of the city being POC as of 2021, with many cultural neighbourhoods being present - Chinatown, located directly east of Vitena City, is home to Chinese-styled homes, restaurants, and a sizable Asian population (72%). The southern portion of Vitena City is a minority-majority section of the city with about 56% of the population identifying as not white (26% African, 17% Indigenous, 12% Hispanic, 1% Asian). The city also has an ongoing homeless problem with about 0.3% of the population being homeless, that is 6,387 peoples, likely due to warmer climate.

Religion is extremely varied within the city and can't be determined by just one poll, though the religion of Downtown Vitena City are as followed, 51% Christianity (28% Protestantism, 23% Catholicism in total), 29% Unaffilated (26% Unaffilated, 3% Agnosticsm in total), and 20% Other religions (Buddhism, Shinto, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Indigenous Beliefs). Most of the Christians are nominal (42% in total, while 9% are actually practicing Christians) Making about 71% of the population not really practicing a religion, though most Buddhists aren't that religious either and Buddhists make up 6-7% of the population making around 77-78% of the total population not really practicing anything (Practically 78% nonreligious). 12-13% of the population follow Islamic, Hinduistic, Shinto, Indigenous, or Jainist beliefs. Southern Vitena City is much more religious then other portions of the city with about 76% of the population following the Christian religion compared to 51% in downtown Vitena City. Yuberta, the city directly west of Vitena's metropolitan area, is extremely religious (88% Christian with about 84% of the 88% being Roman Catholics) likely due to the high percentage of southern Paranians that now live there and they are known to be quite religious. Most of the unaffilated peoples in Vitena City are either of northern or western Paranian descent or Asian descent while the southern Paranian, African, Hispanic, and Indigenous community tends to be more religious. Vitena City also has a high vegetarian and vegan population with about 12.1% of the population stating they are one of the two, most of them are vegetarian or vegan for their religious beliefs with a fair proportion of the vegans and vegetarians being adherents of Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism. Residents also enjoy being closed to untouched nature of the city and 39.5% of the population agree and support the idea of banning plastic bags, plastic bottles, and plastic straws and replacing them with paper straws, this is a high percentage compared to other cities in Nareemia with the closest percentages being in Nayla (33.0%) and Marima City (29.7%). About 6.1% of the population identifies as gay, lesbian or bisexual and 23.3% stated they felt some attraction towards to same gender at least once but still identified as straight.