Empire Ramparts

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> “The 'palpable' dream of every sucker in this city is to get enough money to have two pimp pads: one right here for easy access to city-rat pussy, and one in Empire Ramparts to try and hit the hard-to-get middle-class cunny.”
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> — *Otis Byrne, leader of the Hyperian borough of the Harborne Boys*
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## Empire Ramparts

Two homes in Maplegrove, with Dark Nouveau Galactique (foreground) and Neo-2K (background) styles

## General information

### Nickname(s)

Jade City Suburbs
Corpo Suburbia

## Location information

### Counties

Abernathy
Imperial Acres
Jubilation
Las Alba
Maplegrove

## History information

### Named for

Relative location and purpose to nearby Hyperian cities

## Miscellaneous information

### Website

empireramparts.gov.hyp

**Empire Ramparts** is a master-planned municipality that constitutes a portion of the eastern half of the Eastern Albion Megasprawl, which in turn lies in the continent of Albion upon the world of Hyperion. Bordered to the south by Jade City, to the southwest by Outland Gate, to the northeast by the Finance District, to the northwest by Goodcharm, and to the east by Anchon, Empire Ramparts sits upon the confluence of the Southern and Northern Albion megasprawls in addition to in between the coast and the interior of the continent.

The city began development as a suburban extension of both the Finance District and Jade City, whose sprawls began to intertwine near to the city of Anchon by the 2300s. Due to its location between the two massive Hyperian monetary centers, many middle and upper class Hyperians vocalized their desires to have residences outside of the massive hustle and bustle of urban zones. With encouragement from lobbying by real estate megacorporations such as Lyana & Maple, which had acquired nearly 10.3 trillion notes worth of undeveloped land in the area, the Planetary Republic of Hyperion approved the motion to create a new municipality in this zone.

In 2350, Empire Ramparts was officially delineated from the Finance District and Jade City, with its new municipal government having deep connections to Lyana & Maple in addition to other corporations with interest in the region, such as Chen Wu. Millions began flocking to the area as massive, carefully-planned residential projects were undertaken, with a vision of the planned city becoming a "clean, bio-respective, and friendly" environment that was juxtaposed against the crowded, dirty residential zones all across the planet. The first major waves of immigration came from rich citizens in nearby Jade City and the Finance District, followed by a massive surge of Destino middle class service workers. This was followed by further immigrations from Earth and Tellus, attracting their upper and middle-class through aggressive advertisement campaigns overstars.

For the next three hundred years, the city would see constant expansions within its delineated city limits, reaching the border with the interior cities of Goodcharm and Outland Gate by 2430. By the 2600s, the population would easily reach upwards of 1 billion due to over 90% of its entire sprawl being dedicated to low-height residences.

Since the city was always intended to be a majority low-density residential metrozone, its municipal government established vital transportation networks to other cities only years after its founding. It is now a major stop along the Albion Speedline and the Grand Albion Freeway, and is innervated by numerous smaller train and highway systems to surrounding cities where the bulk of its population works. Empire Ramparts is also considered to be one of the richest municipalities on the planet in the terms of the per-capita wealth of its residents, only rivalled by Port Bremerton.

## Etymology

The name of Empire Ramparts came about as a draft of name proposals from Lyana & Maple in 2344, who had decided upon it due to having "opulence" while also referencing being a "rampart" community to the major commercial centers of the Finance District and Jade City. Before this, the Empire Ramparts were commonly called the "Jade City Suburbs" or "Corpo Suburbia", two names that exist in the modern day as colloquialisms.

## Geography

### Architecture

Due to significant lobbying in Port Bremerton for the Hyperian government to issue Empire Ramparts special zoning rights, the municipality has been granted the ability to use single-use zoning as a means to ensure architectural continuity and the prevention of construction of buildings such as affordable housing or high-rises.

*Work in progress.*

## Government and politics

### Government

The current government of Empire Ramparts is designated as a *community development district*, or CDD. In compliance with Hyperian law, this type of government framework confers the bulk of administration responsibilities to landowners within the community. A board of supervisors are then elected by these landowners, who in turn elect a chairperson, treasurer, secretary, and a district manager.

In theory, the CDD should over time cede power from landowners to direct residents, but due to corporate loopholes, Empire Ramparts remains under the control of the real estate corporation Lyana & Maple. This means that no executive is elected by the population of Empire Ramparts; rather, they are all in some way appointed by the megacorporation.

## Human resources

### Public health

Empire Ramparts has one of the lowest amounts of public hospitals and medical centers for a non-urban zone on Hyperion; the bulk of its medical services are offered by private corporate hospitals that were leased their land from the city government. As such, healthcare offered within the city is often high-rate, with discounts only being conferred to any degree on residents that have associated insurance plans.

### Public safety

#### Police and law enforcement

Like all Hyperian municipalities, Empire Ramparts falls under the jurisdiction of the Hyperion Police Department and its **Empire Ramparts Precinct**. Despite having lesser officers than in urban precincts such as Jade City, the Empire Ramparts precinct sports a larger concentration of high-quality officers, vehicles, and equipment—while the municipal government claims that this is simply due to better resource allocation, civil critics believe that this is as a result of the HYPD and municipal government both increasing their funding due to the region's higher resident per-capita value.