Boneyard (Reverse Fallout)

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**Boneyard** (Simplified: 博内亚德 Traditional: 博內亞德), **Shanghai Boneyard** or just **Shanghai** is a city built in the remains of Shanghai. The Boneyard is also the capital of the New Chinese Republic's state of Shanghai, the center of maritme trade in the East China Sea, cultural interchange between the NCR and the Japanese Islands and the largest populated and finacial cities in the NCR. It is also the leading centers in the NCR for finance, economics, education, science, culture, art, manufacturing and trade. The name Boneyard stems from the metal skeletons of buildings and the actual skeletons of people that dominated the early post-war environment of the city, hence the name, Boneyard.

## Background

Before the war, the Boneyard was commonly referred to as Shanghai and was one of the biggest financial centers in the world and the largest in the United States of China. During the Sino-American War, the city saw rationing, food riots and outbreaks of the New Plague. The city also served as a naval base for the USC naval operations in the Pacific. On October 23rd, 2077, the city was strucked by numerous nuclear bombs launced from the American Ghost fleet. People who survived did so either in Vaults or pure luck.

After the war, the Vault dwelers exited their vault to settle on the nearby rice fields. This settlement later became known as Tain (天), named after the Chinese mythological term for 'heaven'. After support for unification with other settlements, the Boneyard and Tain united together with others to form the New Chinese Republic (NCR) with the city becoming the capital of the new state, Taihu.

Under NCR leadership, large parts of the city were rebuilt with electricity being supplied to newly built apartments. The Shanghai Pudong International Airport was intially a military base but after some years it became public, allowing air travel between cities, though only reserved for high classed citizens. Building supplies generated from bulldozed buildings allowed for the fist post-war skyscrapper to be built, neigbouring renovated pre-war skyscappers. By 2287, the city is a cultural hub for trade and sharing of culture between the NCR and tribes habiting the Japanese islands. Money generated by the many buisinesses such as the Gun Runners (Simplified: 枪械奔跑者 Traditional: 槍械奔跑者) have been recently diverted from the Shanghai 2290 intiative to the Yangtze campaign. This itself has made the campaign unpopular in the city with the amount of money diverted being lowerd as local representatives face an election in 2288.

## Politics

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Like most major cities in the NCR, Shanghai tends to vote Democratic on the mayoral and state levels but nationalist on the government level. This may be due to the city being a founding member and the strong patrioticism only comparable to the capital. The Democrats have remained un-opposed by other parties due to their extensive infrastructure works and the Shanghai 2090 intiative which aims to completely modenise the city. Other Democratic policies are their pro-Ghoul stance when compared to the other big parties - Republican, Federalist and Nationalist. The Boneyard's Ghoul neighbourhoods have found economic growth under the Democratic party. This itself have diverted already reduced funds from the Downtown and richer neighbourhoods, making the party undisirable to the upper class and some disapproval from the middle class who find that too much money is being used on the shrinking Lower class and Ghoul populations while the middle class experience a population boom. This gave rise to the Communist party but have remained small from the beginning.

## Economy

The Boneyard has often been called the center of the booming NCR economy as it enters the 24th century. It is the country's center for fiance, holding the nation's centeral bank - Bank of New China. The nation's largest port - Port of Shanghai - deals with trade coming from overseas, particurly the Japanese islands. Other than trade, the Boneyard's economy is also made up of an automobile industry, banking, investments, machine manufacturing and military manufacturing. It holds the country's largest stock exchange built in the pre-war one. The gun manufacturer, Gun Runners, as their head quarters and their main factories located in and around the city. Due to new taxes imposed in 2286 by the state to pay more for the Yangtze campaign, it has been found cheeper to manufacture outside of the citie's boundary. In July of 2287, the mayor and the city representative to the state argued to increase the citie's boundary, but later dropped these hopes in favour of re-election in the 2288 elections.

## Demographics

As of 2287, the Boneyard had a total population of 600,000 people. The 2280 census found that the amount of people living in urban areas was 10% more than those living in rural parts. A quarter of people living in the Boneyard were foreigners with the largest foreign group being those from the Japanese islands. It also holds the largest amount of domestic immigrants, who usually come to the city for work in the factories.

### Religion

Due to the Boneyard's role as a central hub, it has became a multi-religious city. Most of the population or around 80% are atheist or non-religious. The largest religion in the city are Buddists and Chinese folk religion, followed by the Followers of Atom. The Boneyard Church of Atom is the largest church built by the Followers of Atom, though the religion itself has been prosecuted for its radiation hazards with both the Republican, Nationalist and a portion of the Democratic parties advocating for the religion's complete ban to protect the Ghoul population from going feral and keeping the human population from becoming Ghouls or getting radiation sickness.