Germantown, Pinnason

## Role

Germantown is the capital city and the largest in terms of population in Pinnason state and is where Steve and Friends takes place. Germantown's population as of the 2021 census was 613,945 and its metropolis has a population of just over 2 million consisting of nearby cities, villages, and towns such as Holveen, Village Island, Beakley, Spencer, Westdale, Holveen Gardens, Southdale, Angietong, and many other places. Germantown consists of seven boroughs which are Germantown Central, Germantown Hills, Rougtar, New Amsterdam, Majestat, Katon River Valley, and Mephone. Germantown is known for its huge punk rock or alternative rock music scene, multiple skateboarding parks, debatably the best public transit in the United States, and its amazing halal food chain known as "White Sauce Palace" which is a direct competitor to NYC's Shah's. It was made into the capital city of Pinnason on January 1st, 2003 and has also had the largest concert ever held in history; Independence Day Concert, which bands such as Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, Pennywise, Linkin Park, Alien Ant Farm, Kid Rock, and many other bands from all over the USA. This concert held 15 million people which is more than the entire population of Pinnason State which is 6.5 million people. The current mayor of the city is Joseph Bartonne Gustafoston.

## History

Germantown was founded on June 27th, 1662 by the Dutch and Prussian settlers with the Prussian settlers along the Germantown River on a peninsula in the eastern section of what would later be modern day Skyline. It was originally called "Tal des Flusses" or Valley of the River in Prussian which was what German was in 1662. The Dutch would settle on the east side and named their settlement Houlveen which was named after William Houlveen who settled in what would become modern day Germantown Hills. However, there were many disputes about modern day Rougtar which was originally called Roughentar which was named after Klein von Roughentar. This was because of the Dutch entering this prussian territory on accident as they did not know that they were crossing the Germantown River. The Dutch also took land from the southern portion of the peninsula of what would become modern day New Amsterdam, with the Prussians taking over Houlveen. This led to many battles such as the Battle of Roughentar, the northern territory battle, and a few other battles. On May 3rd, 1669, a local native american chief named "Pinnason" and his tribesmen called the Anataq decided to cross the Anataq River to enter Germantown to stop the violent battles from continuing. They convinced them to stop by whistling and communicating in sign language as he did not know how to speak Dutch or German. Instead, he communicated in sign language and intended for everyone to stop fighting and make peace. Pinnason intended to understand the settlers language better so he can talk to them better. The settlers and the Anataq tribe decided to teach each other how to speak and Pinnason became very fluent in Dutch and German. He explained that he would let the settlers sty in the area and give them supplies to build up, but at one cost: Pinnason would become the leader and would be trading with the settlers. They made a colony named "The Colony of Pinnason" and Pinnason is considered to be the first technical governor in Pinnason's history. Pinnason State was named after the brave chief who made peace with the settlers and made the colony of Pinnason and had done a lot of great things such as making a system similar to democracy where everyone was treated equally and where something similar to freedom of speech was in place, called Anataqism. He married a beautiful wife named Anashou and had a son named Pinnason II. Once Pinnaosn II was 21, he became the governor of the lands but also wanted to explore the lands so he can talk to the locals in those places and to get a better visualization of outside the Pinnason colony. He would go to many places along with his father to many places that would become towns today. When Pinnason was about to die, he told Pinnason II to make sure the land was taken care of and to maintain the peace with everyone he visited and ruled. Pinnason II listened to his ad and did everything he could to make Pinnason better, until his son had killed him for demanding that he give up his power to the Mephone Princess. Pinnason III decided to shut everything down with the people of the Pinnason colony and had massive arguments. While this was happening, many italians decided to settle into Germantown in the early 1700s as it was considered to be a very nice place to live in, but were restricted into a few places because of them being so late to enter Germantown. In 1731 after the Mephone Princess had turned 21, Pinnason III forbade her from ruling as he did not want to give up power like said earlier. The disputes got so bad that the colonists did not even care where the Italians were going to. The colonists saw how abusive Pinnason III was to the Mephone Princess which they were extremely upset. The colonists decided to build routes so she could escape from Pinnason III and she managed to escape the lands many times, but got captured by the Anataq soldiers who punished the Mephone Princess harsher and harsher. Despite this, the Mephone Princess was super brave and continued to be until a tragedy that happened on a hot summer day in 1735. On Juy 7th, 1735, the Mephone Princess was nowhere to be found, so they decided to invade Pinnason III's land and crossed onto the west side of the Anataq River. There were many casualties and fatalities but discovered the horrifying thing that would traumatize all the soldiers. They saw the Mephone Princess who was barley alive, with an arm cut off, her kidneys taken out, and her having burn marks. Her last words were "Do not lose hope, this is just the beginning for us, I will miss you all" in Prussian. When she died, all the soldiers ran to Pinnason III's house and raided it and arrested him. He was executed the next day and a memorial service was held for the Mephone Princess. Everyone from the village showed up and gave their respects to her, but some say that her spirit came to the distraught people and comforted them with encouraging words and respect. he Mephone Princess is considered to be the eternal governor of Pinnason State due to her heroism and bravery despite the fact that her father and the soldiers had tortured her and done horrible things to her. That is why Pinnason is referred as "The Land of the Mephone Princess." and the license plates as well as many signs and driver licenses saying "Long Live the Princess". After this horrible event, the peninsula was built up and the people expanded all directions, with Roughentar doubling in size ten years after the Mephone War in 1735, New Amsterdam building a lot of cottages along the Roughentar Creek on the eastern side of the Germantown Peninsula. Majestat(Majesty in German) was founded in 1763 when it was used as Germantown's agricultural land but there was a factory that was built there in the 1840s for the crops to be distributed all over Germantown when the Industrial Revolution was entering Germantown. Lots of renovations happened throughout Germantown's central area like building up the Germantown/Hopanchosah Railroad in the 1850s. Germantown Union Station was completed in 1878 which was actually above ground until the 1950s when interstate highways were being built. However, the infrastructure projects would come crashing down on November 1st, 1861 when a massive flood ravaged the upper Germantown peninsula and killed a few dozen people. Ever since, Germantown has installed better flooding systems so it will not cause as much damage. (to be continued to be worked on)

## Boroughs

**Germantown(Downtown)Borough**

ESTD-1735

Population-78,433

Germantown Central or what is referred as the Downtown Borough is the main borough of Germantown and the main entertainment center for the City of Germantown. Being the oldest borough, it is no surprise that it has the most history and was established in 1735 when Germantown became a designated city. This is where the Germantown Union Station is and the borough with the best transit in Germantown. Germantown usually sees around 100-200 trains a day on average, as there were multiple rail lines that merge into the Union Station. Downtown has many cool things to do like Skyline where most of the skyscrapers are, Bro Hymn which is home to two amazing skateparks, Kilmarnock for its amazing history, Corridor Heights for the Crossboro Hospital and train watching, and many beautiful parks. Most of the Central Borough is flat with bedrock underground for stability of the skyscrapers in this growing city. It has the Germantown Arena which is the home of the basketball team named the Anataq Valley Rescue. This borough also has a lot of festivals and parties as they love to party and have fun with great culture, cuisine, and much more. This borough has a population (to be continued to be worked on)

Characters who live there:

Darrel Peckings-74 Buckeye Blvdt, Corridor Heights

Gum-16 Praterie, Corridor Heights

Logan Underwood-404 N Quincy St, Ryan Dunn Square(Skyline)

Cassie Lewis-404 N Quincy St, Ryan Dunn Square (Skyline)

Leopold Slikk 68 W 10th St, Birdseye View

Seena-6 Hill St, Industrial Section

Neighborhoods:

**Germantown Hills**

ESTD-1737

Population-39,857

Germantown Hills, originally being called Houlveen was established in 1737. When Houlveen moved further east into southern Hopanchosah County in 1929, Houlveen changed its name to Germantown Hills while Houlveen renamed itself to Holveen because it was easier to pronounce for the people in the area. Germantown Hills is the rich part of Germantown and has Germantown's "millionaires and businessmen." However the southwest corner of this borough is where the Rebbian Corridor and the Metro Pinnason Main Line merge together to go into Germantown Union Station just west of this rail junction. The neighborhood in question is East Germantown which is not the nicest part of Germantown. However, they do have some good places to go to like the Washington Street Plaza, many trails along the Germantown River, and of course... you can't forget about their huge skatepark along the Germantown River.(to be continued to be worked on)

Characters: None

Neighborhoods:

**Katon River Valley**

ESTD-1925

Population-147,108

Katon River Valley is the second newest borough, made in the 1920s after separating from Rougtar. This is where the Katon "Universe" is considered to be at, but the word Universe is used because Katon River Valley is completely different from the rest of Germantown. This is because of the culture stemming from many middle eastern and Indian sub continent residents moving to the area back when residents moved into different neighborhoods with their own race as they wanted to build up a strong community in southern Germantown. This created many communities such as Bellion Village, New Stuttgart, New Munich, Brussels, and Katon City. The name Katon comes from a Japanese term of fire release, as many Japanese people moved to Katon River Valley and made a lot of campfires for everyone to relax around and have some great fun. Katon River Valley has arguably the best food cuisine of the seven boroughs, with many great options and the Katon Food Market with amazing and exotic food, but its most famous food is plums! They love their plum recipes such as plum pie, plum donuts, yakisoba, with dried plum flakes, and most importantly, plum soda. They are also known for their love of anime and for high school football as Germantown High School South, one of the four schools in the Germantown Central School District is in Bellion Village at the heart of Katon River Valley. There is also an urban legend that it is a Katon Universe Colony. The Katon Universe is a different dimension that has more hostile animals and with arguably better plums than Pinnason’s plums.

Characters who live there:

Abel-568 S Daramill Ave, New Stuttgart

Abel(Katoni cousin)-1 Germantown St, Katon City

Nathan Quote-130 Yardes Rd, Bellion Village

Jade(Katoni cousin)-17 Five Mile St, Katon City

Eric-2257 Katon River Pkwy, Brussels

Jason-20 Charger's Run-Brussels

Lucida-27 Charger's Run-Brussels

Jusko-1008 Barnes Rd-Bellion Village

Dazzk-63A Newbury Ave, Bellion Village

Jeremy, Dante, Travis

Neighborhoods:

**Majestat**

ESTD-1983

Population-80,136

Majestat is the newest borough of Germantown, splitting from Germantown Hills in 1983 after long border disputes within Germantown. However, the land was used as early as the 1830s when Majestat was used for Germantown's agriculture.

Characters who live there:

Zoey-1707 McKinley St, Northwest Division

Skully-1147 Plankton Ave, Uppertown

Tessa-33 New York Ave, Riverside

Neighborhoods:

**Mephone**

ESTD-1862

Population-105,600After flooding that happened in 1861 to the growing city, the city of Tal des Flusses was taken over by the United States and renamed to "Germantown." After this in 1862, Germantown extended further west taking over the land the Mephone Princess used to live in and named it after her. Mephone is the home of the largest high school in Pinnason state which is Germantown High School North. This school has the most kids of all the Germantown High Schools with approximately 30,000 kids that go there every year and is also where the original AGK series that PSF made takes place. Mephone is also home to the beloved Westdale University. Their college football team is considered to be one of the best in the nation and very oftenly its arena, Newbury Gardens sees around 70K fans each game. Mephone is also home to Meadowbrook Arena which is home to the NHL team the "Pinnason Army." Ever since 2003, it has packed the arena but also sees many punk and hard rock concerts. Mephone is also home to Meadowbrook, which houses multiple trains for the Metro Pinnason Railroad and also is infamous for their street fights as people who live there usually have it pretty rough here.

Characters who live there: Logan(until 2018)-8 Mahwah Ave, Meadowbrook

Andy Jackson-48 Dawn St, Meadowbrook

Billy-238 Judge Rd, Meadowbrook

Mitchell-130 Meadowbrook Ave, Meadowbrook

Draco-88 Thurstonville Rd, Thurstonville

Neighborhoods:

**New Amsterdam**

ESTD-1756

Population-71,557

New Amsterdam is considered the most boring borough of the seven as it looks just like a typical suburb except for Black Rock despite being super close to Germantown's skyline. New Amsterdam was created as Dutch territory which there are still many Dutch aspects to New Amsterdam to this day. Northern New Amsterdam is where the protagonist or Steve Demir lives in his comfy suburban two floor house which many houses are very similarly built as most of northern New Amsterdam's newer buildings were built around the same time in the 1960s to the 1980s. However, Northern New Amsterdam was really meant to be for working class families. Southern New Amsterdam has more upper class families and also have better restaurants while Northern New Amsterdam has mostly convienent stores and gas stations. However, North Amsterdam is a lot more walkable as there is less busy roads and there is more sidewalks as the Germantown Parkway no longer divides the middle of Northern Amsterdam. New Amsterdam is the smallest borough in landsize as it really does not have anything significant to do there besides its history and its plethora of fancy restaurants that lie in Black Rock near the Black Rock Parkway or Pinnason State Route 100.

Characters who live there:

Steve-4 Sony Pl, North Amsterdam

Martha-4 Sony Pl, North Amsterdam

Krissy-4 Sony Pl, North Amsterdam

Nicole-4 Sony Pl, North Amsterdam

John-4 Sony Pl, North Amsterdam

Justin-6 E Peaks St, Hystale Landing

Melissa-10 Bulldog St, Black Rock

Jesse-130 Jericho Ave, Black Rock

Neighborhoods:

**Rougtar**

ESTD-1740

Population-91,254

Rougtar has a significant amount of history like the downtown, however this history is more because of the constant wars before Pinnason I intervened with the wars. Rougtar is very densely populated with lots of apartments and also looks like it can be its own village as it has lots of pretty and old fashioned infrastructure with lots of colonial buildings and also having very pretty scenery. Rougtar has some of the worst paved and the most dangerous roads as well, however there was a huge renovation done on Mountain Avenue to make Rougtar more pedestrian friendly which they planned to reduce usage of the road by cars by as much as 60%. There are also very low speed limits on this stretch of road with multiple stop signs with even a blue median for better sight at night. They also lit up the median so it is easier to see the pedestrians that are walking on the road at night. Rougtar residents want this done on many other dangerous streets which is predicted to benefit Rougtar significantly. Mountain Avenue is a great example of how making the streets more pedestrian friendly makes Rougtar much more desirable,

Characters who live there:

Jade-108 7th St, West Rougtar

Ruby-38 Espil La, Rougtar Zentral

Zeeke-18 Haven Ave, Pypersville

Raven-5 Justen Dr, Raye Town

Adam-20 Regional St, Sheephyr

Shade-Parkway Hills, PN

Chris-Vice, PN

Swagmaster69-Vice, PN

**Public Transit**

GT Subway is the subway that runs through the punk rock city. It is owned half by the MTA and half by the Pinnason State Government and is famous for how clean it is compared to other subways in the United States. The trains used are actually very interesting as they are the same trains used on the Metro Pinnason's Newbury and Earl Lines; The Kawasaki M8. This train is also used on the Metro North on the New Haven Line going from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, NY to New Haven, CT. This was actually intentional as they dis not want to waste money on new subway cars that would not be as powerful and reliable as the M8 fleet. The Pinnason State Government also made it that you do not have to transfer on a different train and sometimes you can have a one seat ride on the M8s. GT Subway uses overhead lines as in case any closures on the other lines happen, there can be a backup plan to go onto different branches when necessary. While many people think nobody rides the Germantown Subway, that is completely untrue as around 65% of the city's population use the subway to get around the city every year. Of that percent, 70% use it for a daily occurence. However, 85% of tourists who go there actually use the subway to get around as the subway is extremely cheap. Germantown is also known for being the most walkable city in the US as it has many streets that don't even allow cars on it. As a matter of fact, there have been many projects to reduce traffic on some busy roads so there is more usage of trains and and sidewalks which makes less car accidents.

Instances of characters using the GT Subway:

Steve sometimes uses the main line from stops Ludwig Avenue to Veterans Park Plaza to get to his job at Stefano's when his car does not work or just feels like taking the subway. For example, in UncleRexyBoi's fanmade SAF intro, Steve's car breaks down therefore he has to run to his local station.

Fanmade SAF Intro>

https://youtu.be/L0ap5d7N2ng

Abel takes the GT subway to downtown every few days from his northern Katon River Valley house as he cannot drive. He walks around southern Germantown regularly and is not in the nicest area of Germantown, but lives in an okay house on Daramill Avenue.

Fares for GT Subway:

$1.00 for five stops

+$1.00 for every stop past the fifth stop of your destination