Winnipeg

* **Population:**2,055,500 (2070)
* **Government:**The City Manager (currently Ari Goel) is selected by the Region 1 UCAS  and Oceti Sakowin Commissioners (currently Constance Takeshi and Maurice Dumont), advised by the Exovedate, a City Council made up of representatives of important corporations, religious institutions and akichita societies that operate in Winnipeg.  Under terms of the Alexandria Accords Winnipeg is designated as a Semi-Autonomous Statistical Region (Region 1) within the Red River Disputed Military Zone and entitled to elected representation under the authority of, and with the final approval of, the military authorities of the RRDMZ.
* **Territoriality:**Statistical Region 1 of the RRDMZ is part of a jointly-administered territory of the UCAS and the Sioux Nation. It lies under the direct administration of the Winnipeg City Administration and contains several major extraterritorial tracts including: (1) The Richard Neil Cabela Arcology, owned by Cabela's Outfitting, a subsidiary of the AAA Prime Corporation Ares Macrotechnology , (2) The lands of the Cargill-Monsanto Reservation, an agricorp under the ownership of AAA Prime Corporation Aztechnology, (3) The Dynasty Block, which covers all of Winnipeg's old Chinatown, now owned by the Dynasty Building Group, a division of the AAA Prime Corporation Wuxing Inc (4) the Ubisims Tower, center of Ubisims North American operations (5) University of Manitoba Campus, a campus of the University of the Canadas, a UCAS-based educational consortium, (6) The 2nd Border Band of the Sioux Defense Forces and the 1st Winnipeg Defense Band of the SDF maintains a base at the SDF Base Winnipeg, treated under Council Fire law as identical to extraterritorial, ceded to the Screaming Bird, Muddy Water and North Wind societies, the officer societies of the 2nd Border and 1st Winnipeg Bands (7) The Symington Yard, one of the largest trainyards in North America, a part the Big Loop conglomerate.
* **Law Enforcement:**Military law is enforced in public territory in the RRDMZ by Joint Enforcement Group of Zone Administration, made up of UCAS Military Police and Sioux Warrior Society personnel. Within Region 1, all non-extraterritorial spaces are under direct Zone Patrol jurisdiction. Among corporate and extraterritorial areas, the primary security provider is Eagle Security.
* **Transportation:**Winnipeg is on the Big Loop railway and is served internally by Winnipeg Transit, a private corporation funded and administered by the City Commission.
* **Demographics (by Metatype):**57% Human, 19% Elf, 12% Ork, 6% Dwarf, 5% Troll, 1% Other
* **Demographics (by Citizenship):** [of SIN-holding population] 51% UCAS National Citizens, 16% Citizens of a Oceti Sakowin-recognized member Tribe, 12 % Algonkian-Manitou Council Citizens, 11% Corporate Citizens 10% Other (\*SIN-holding citizens are estimated to encompass 92% of actual population).

Sitting at the place where the Red River merges with the Assiniboine, Winnipeg is by far the largest city, and the de facto administrative center in the Zone. It is twice the size of the next largest city (Fargo  in Region 3) and lies at a critical junction at the border between three nations: the UCAS, the Oceti Sakowin and the Niswi-mishkodewinan. It is heavily influenced, politically and economically and culturally, by the Oceti Sakowin and serves as the seat of the Lakotah Governor of the Zone, Mariah Screaming Bird .

On the shadow-side of things, Winnipeg is currently in a bit of balancing act between factions. This was near the smuggling routes where a lot of the local action in the Tempo-Drug War, which in this area manifested as a nasty three-way fight between the Heathens, the 1323 and the Winter Cartel, escalated to the point where it gained the attention of the Oceti Sakowin, and only stern efforts to bring the violence to an end and an enforced peace by both the Tiospaye and the Mafia avoided a full military intervention. Now the streets belong to the 1323 and outside of town is Winter Cartel turf, dividing smuggling and distribution, and routing most of the smuggling down through the Underberg-held Fargo. However, this stasis has never been anything but delicate, and with new players, like the Lake Devils and the Chinook nosing around, especially the Chinook, who's top man Taylor West (owner of the Club Regent Casino) looks to be making inroads in city politics, gaining a seat on the Council through their front "The North Wind Cooperative", and it's only a matter of time before somebody strikes the match that sets off this whole powderkeg...

## Winnipeg Hotspots

* The Club Regent Casino and Funplex
* Burton Cummings Theater
* The Toad-in-the-Hole
* Thursty's
* The Timmy's on Graham
* The Bulldog
* Knick Knack Club
* WAG (Winnipeg Art Gallery)

## Architectural Sites

* Cabela's Arcology
* Prosperity Spire
* Dynasty Block
* Ubisims Tower

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