Create your own Neighborhood in Xibara

**Neighborhoods in Xibara** are player-created neighborhoods in the Megacity of Xibara. They can be created by anyone with theming selected by the writer, with the approval of **9Eyes** so long as they follow the rules outlined on this page.

While Xibara is a massive city, it is not exactly the most diverse, being majority Trillic by far and demanding a certain level of homogeneity. So, while there are differences in parts of the city regarding upper and lower classes, regarding minority species their impact on the city is smaller. There will be certain cues that indicate you're entering a foreigner-dominated neighborhood, as an example, but at the end of the day one will still feel for certain that they are on Xibara.

## Rules

### Ownership and Agency

Neighborhoods as a whole will be played by 9Eyes, but individual characters and NPC's who live and work in neighborhoods can be played by players. They are intended to be used as settings for character roleplay, and neighborhood creators may furnish NPC characters and locations for that purpose. Neighborhoods are not intended to be used in power-play, except in cases mediated by the DM.

### Size

Neighborhoods are small sections of the city or its suburbs; typically, being the subcomponent of a larger sub-municipal area. Thusly, they span a couple of blocks or at most, perhaps a high-rise or two. Despite this smaller area though, it shouldn't be expected that it is sparse in population, due to the high population density of Xibara-- Unless it's positioned in a deep suburb near the magma level, which tend to drop off in population.

### Demographics

As stated before, Xibara is a majority Trillic city that highly values cultural homogeneity within its boundaries, with more lenience granted for other peoples within the Khaganate-- Such as Hasari, Abovati, Apati, Shabhyati, and Bordarians. These peoples are viewed as within the Khaganate's greater umbrella, and seeing them isn't an issue. However, complete foreigners will find that a higher level of integration is demanded, with some lenience for a few touches from home. So, to surmise, rather than being a Little Aratacia, it will be a Trillic neighborhood with an Aratacian cultural slant.

Trillic is the widely spoken language, and while Aoshanti is also widely understood, it is more a language of last resort-- Trillic is the true *lingua franca* of the city. People are free to speak their languages within homes or among themselves, of course, but knowledge of Trillic will go a long way.

Social class, economic class, and other factors such as whether its pluralistic or leaning towards one people or another should be mentioned as well.

### Government

Neighborhoods do not have their own government, and are beholden to the Xibara City Council, which in turn is beholden to the national government. Citizens can freely vote, and on paper, it is trivially easy for one to stand for a candidacy in the city council if they have citizenship-- However, there is an informal element and a formal element to the process.

Formally, candidates must pass a background check and must be from the Trillic sphere (Trillic, Hasari, Abovati, Apati, Bordarian, or Shabhyati). Informally, they must also ingratiate themselves to the political machines that run within the Xibarian city government, in-order to get much needed financing to run a competent campaign-- Otherwise they will get ignored by the populace, and likely outvoted during whatever district primary is run.

### Law and Crime

Neighborhoods can have elevated levels of crime, in-order to encourage gang roleplay, however it should be warned that there are a few things to consider when applying a higher crime rate to a neighborhood:

* The Xibara Municipal Police Department (XMPD) is a very large, very competent law enforcement body, that has centuries of experience having a much rougher focus on crime and social control under the pre-reform **Xibara Municipal Guard**.
* Absurdly high criminal activity will cause a moral panic in the city, due to the pack based nature of Trillic depending heavily on family bonds; which high crime inherently threatens. You will get the elders against you.
* Due to space requirements, the XMPD cannot afford to quarantine neighborhoods like other places can, due to the dysfunction even a slight hinderance in travel causes.

Therefore, if a neighborhood poses to be problematic or a place of repeated severe criminal activity, the XMPD will flood the neighborhood with police and initiate in support-base upending community policing to root out the criminal presence for a prolonged period of time. This will continue, and intensify in severity, until the crime rate is back to satisfactory levels. Extreme violence (ie. killed police) in response to this *will* cause the Royal Trillic Army to get involved.

Neighborhoods must follow all municipal and national laws. Police are the responsibility of the DM (9Eyes).

### Architecture

The architecture for Xibara, in-particular, could be considered "1990s Contemporary" in the more urban parts which then descends into "1980s Contemporary" for suburban/rural parts; and not in the flashy "radical 80s" way either. But, this will also coincide sometimes with very old, wooden/brick architecture, or even old buildings carved directly into the cave walls. That is to say, most parts of Xibara will look like a Trillic neighborhood, with road signage in Trillic and shop signage also in Trillic-- However a foreign language sign here and there wouldn't raise too many brows, as long as its accompanied by either an Aoshanti or Trillic sign.

Slight touches to buildings indicating their home culture are also acceptable.

### Format

Neighborhoods will have their own pages. They will not be subpages of the Xibara page, but will stand on their own. At the top of the page, the intro should specify that the district is located in Xibara, on Lanercledra. Neighborhods should have formal names which sound vaguely Trillic (Uzbek/Uyghur for reference). An informal name which the people living there use is also welcome alongside the formal name, (e.g. Little Aratacia), though this is not necessary.

Neighborhoods are encouraged to have have their own locations, special attractions, real estate, and shops to attract people to the district. If these are sufficiently important, they can also be posted on the Lanercledra page.

## Credit

* Thanks to Etzan for making this organization format; which this page uses heavily from the Create your own district on Lindinis page.