Zion City

Painting of Zion in Butterfly Cafe.

**Zion City**, formerly known as **New Zion City**, is the capital city of the Empire of Zion and its main urban area, found in the Imperial Coast, and close to the coast of the Main Continent. Zion City was founded as a humble fishing port back in the First Dynasty. The port city grew to be a powerful trading empire that hosted the Empire of Zion. Zion is often regarded as the "most powerful" city in the 12 Realms.

Zion's main defense system comes with it's natural mountainous system as well as a series of highly defended walls. he walls are often regarded by all types of people as "Impenetrable". Zion is divided into various districts within its city walls. Some districts include Desert Square, Snowville, Rainforest District, Canal Community, Beach Community, and various others. These districts are all separated from each other with unique walls. The only way past these walls is through the Zion Metro System.

As the capital of the Empire of Zion, the Dragon Emperor is automatically the ruler of Zion City. However, each district has their own individual "representative" and highly-respected individuals who govern the district.

## Districts

### Desert Square (description)

A large and hot segment, Desert Square is a sweltering desert oasis and resort district, designed for leisure, recreation and other activities for people of Zion. Its architecture is composed of intricate clay and rock, mixed with lights and glass textures. It has extremely high temperatures, reaching up to 102°F in one day. Some noticeable locations in Desert Square include the 10,000 Yard Marathon, a large track in the desert for runners, and the Palm Resort, a tall skyscraper mirroring a large palm tree.

### Snowville (description)

Built on the opposite side of Desert Square’s climate wall, Snowville generates cold weather to people who choose to live in such. Due to the entire district (including the buildings) being made of ice, transportation vehicles are designed with skis or tracks to maneuver the slippery landscape. Snowville also enables access to winter sports, including skiing, snowboarding or ski doo, and is covered in frozen lakes that double as mobile transport for people via floating ice caps.

### Rainforest District (description)

The Rainforest District is filled with waterfalls, lush floral life, and varying elevations, residents live in places as high as the canopy or as low as the district's river. The tops of the trees feature a sprinkler system to simulate constant rainfall, which also helps water the plants below. Because of the district's spacious interior, transport comes in the form of highways and gondolas stretching across the forest while aerial vehicles such as blimps travel in the spaces between these lanes. Many amusement parks are also based in the Rainforest District, such as the Slip-in-Slide Waterpark, even though it’s almost always closed due to the constant “rain”.

### Canal Community (description)

The Canal Community is one of the smallest zones in the City. A mere breakaway segment of the Rainforest District, the Canal Community consists of hundreds of canals and islands criss-crossing each other, forming a wet labyrinth. Aside from the various water gondolas that maneuver through the canals, the sky gondola system also runs through the Canal Community, forming a criss-cross of hundreds of sky gondolas above the canals.

### Beach Community (description)

The Beach is another one of the smallest zones in the city, stretching across the coast of the Western peninsula. Made up of dozens of different beaches and coves, the Beach is a summer vacation destination with hundreds of beachside resorts.

### Kiddie Kiddie Town (description)

The smallest segment in the city is Kiddie Kiddie Town, a little town just for kids below 12 years old. Situated in the middle of the Central Park, Kiddie Kiddie Town is made entirely of small buildings catering to people 5 feet or below. Often a day-trip for kids, guardians would pick the children up at night. Some kids stay at Kiddie Kiddie Town, either residing in one of the apartments or a hotel.

### Agrarian Zone (description)

The biggest segment is the Agrarian Zone, which lies between the Outer Wall and the Inner Wall of the city. It is a large underdeveloped area that consists of wide open plains of land, used mainly for agricultural purposes. Along with its vital wildlife and crop resources, the Agrarian Zone functions as a massive land buffer between the Outer Wall and the Inner Wall widening the gap between invaders and citizens if perchance the Outer Wall was ever breached. This area in the city houses many farms belonging to citizens, who live behind the Inner Wall and travel outside to tend to the land every day.

## Hierarchy

The main Hierarchy of Zion City is composed of three sections: Bùyī (lower class), Dìzhǔ (middle class), and Gāoguì (upper class). Each different class differ from each other, although each varies. For example, Bùyī tend to wear blue and gray clothing, Dìzhǔ tend to wear green clothing, and Gāoguì tend to wear red, black, and gold clothing. According to Bryan, Bùyī live closer to the Agrarian Zone and the Walls, specifically the Canal Community and the Rainforest District, Dìzhǔ live closer to the center of Zion, inhabiting most of Snowville, Desert Square, and the Beach Community, and Gāoguì live in the center of Zion City. Although the three classes tend to live in seperate sections, there are no restrictions on where a person is to go, so a Gāoguì can travel to the Canal Community and a Bùyī can travel to Desert Square.

### Bùyī

Bùyī are the lower class citizens of Zion, typically having lower income and living in the poorer areas of the city. Members of the Bùyī typically live in apartments and small homes, some even homeless. Some Bùyī own and work in low-key shops and restaurants in the Bùyī zones, mostly in the Canal Community. Many people living in the Canal Community tend to fall into debt and rely on deals and sometimes robbing to get enough food or money. This results in the high crime level in the Bùyī living areas.

Members of the Bùyī class wear different shades of blue and gray coloring, similar to those of the South Pole. People of the Bùyī class typically wear small top-knots, queues, or sometimes ponytails.