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Hobson City is an independent city situated on the east coast of North America.
The Population of Hobson City: 10,228,000

It is a very diverse city with many nationalities, groups and cultures all living together. Though in recent years the city has been decaying with rampant crime and squalid living conditions.

Hobson city is made up of 7 Boroughs.

Carter Island
Population: 1,677,000
Carter Island is the southern most Borough on a small island.
It got its name from second in command of the colonists Sir Carter.
Its quite a rundown area. In its recent past it was mainly an island of suburbs but in the late 70's it saw the creation of the houseing projects which saw cramped living spaces and a general decline in the islands beuty and prosperity. The 80's and 90's saw huge unemployment, arson and other crimes which further crippled the borough. In the late 90's the last area of low residential housing was demolished to make way for more houseing projects which are still being built and expanded today. The Boroughs population has swelled from just 480,000 in 1970 to over 1.6 million now. Crime is dropping according to statistics but its still a dangerous part of Hobson City.
Landmarks
Holland Park
Potsmound Island Cemetary
Hemwick View Park


Hemwick
Population: 980,000
Hemwick is traditionally the industrial area of town filled with smockstacks and wharehouses, docks and factories. There is not much room for living and so the population of the Borough is quite small compared to the others. The borough president however does want to expand the population and plans the new South Hemwick and Central Hemwick projects. this has brought a lot of condemnation as the population fears it will promote crime and squalid living conditions and a decline in the boroughs prosperity as it has been the case in many of the other boroughs.
Landmarks
The Prison
Power Station
Hobson River Bank

North Hobson
Population: 798,000
North Hobson is the smallest borough of the seven with under one million people and it also has the smallest area. It is the suburban area and its also the furtherest north of the city. The further south you travel the more dense the population gets with some brick walkup neighborhoods in the south of the borough but its generally a green suburban area. Crime is the lowest in the entire city and its population are rated the wealthiest out of the whole city. Most residents in North Hobson work and commute to either Harpsworth of Hemwick.
Landmarks
Christine Hill and Lookout
The Markets


Inlington
Population: 1,743,000
Inlington is the most dangerious and poverty filled area of the city. It is inhabbited with the lowerclass and crime is everywhere. buildings are abandoned and nothing is working to revive the unfortunate Borough. it was once a suburban area but large scale construction and the creation of the projects and the Hobson Highway in the late 60's has led to the development of a large slum and ghetto. House prices are the cheapest in the city becuase of the crime and low desirability this has forced new arrivals and immigrants to live in this area becuase of its affordability. The borough President recently said that Inlington had hit rock bottom when he was addresing crime in that area.
Landmarks
Robinson Park
Brickton Factory Museum

Harpsworth
Population: 2,312,000
This is the city center and finacial district of the city. It is situated on a long penninsual inbetween Carter Island to the south, Kingsmith and Olsenburg on a large northern Penninsula across the Harpsworth River and a smaller Penninsula of Hemwick to the west. It has an extremely active day life and night life. Its teeming with businessmen and office towers. like the rest of the city crime is a problem but not as much as most of the other boroughs. The government of the city resides here.
Landmarks
Elizabeth University
City Museum
Monument Island
Veterans Plaza
Hobson Stadium
Harpsworth Park

Olsenburg
Population: 2,211,000
Olsenburg is a massive ghetto and meltingpot of many cultures. This area of the city is not so bad as it is rated as 3rd best borough after North Hobson and Harpsworth. its also the second most populous. Olsenburg sits across from Inlington divided by the small Inlington River. its the northern portion of a large penninsula with Kingsmith located to the southeast and Harpsworth penninsula located south across the Harpsworth River.
Landmarks
Peace Plaza
Olsen Bay Beach
China Town

Kingsmith
Population: 2,184,000
Kingsmith in the 1970's use to be suburbs and brick walkups but has been highly developed into another mass slum of brick block aparments, walkups and projects. It is a densly populated area of the city and some small businesses. Crime is quite a problem in the western area of the Borough mainly around Little Italy and near the bridges. The mafia has a strong hold in this area of the city and corrouption in the Borough government is everywhere. After Inlington and Carter Island, Kingsmith is the nest most dangerous and crime filled though crime related deaths is set to take over Carter Islands sad statistic and its predicted that after 2008 Kingsmith will be the next most crimefilled after Inlington.
Landmarks
Veterans Park
Kingsmith Boardwalk
Little Italy

Holidays and Special dates in Hobson City

January 15th is Hobson City Foundation Day (it was founded in 1708)

April 16th Independence Day (in 1901 when it began to govern itself independently)

November 10th Veterans Day

July 5th Hobson Annual Marathon (thousands participate to run from Harpsworth Park all the way down to the Finacial disrict and tip of the penninsula)

August 10th Kingsmith Marathon (thousands run along the Kingsmith boardwalk around the southern protion of the borough with a great scene of Harpsworth across the river the whole time while running)

October 28th Labour Day (A holiday and appreciation for all workers. though some people still work they are paid time and a half)

Transportation in and around Hobson City

Hobson International Airport
Built in 1982 and expanded in 1992 it is the cities only airport servicing hundreds of thousands of people each year (980,000 estimate) It is an efficient airport made famous by a mass drug bust in December 1999 found all throughout a major plane. It is located on the south of Carter Island.

Hobson Bus Service
Orange bus's are seen everywhere in the city. It is the cities only bus service and it is very efficient. It was founded in April 1980 and has been a popular mode of transport for over 28 years.

Link Taxi's
Link Taxi's were founded by the city government in 1990 and eventually thorugh massive funding and expansion it eliminated most of the smaller private taxi companies and competition in the city. Link Taxi's are known for thier reliability in getting around the city.

Hobson Subway Network
The Subway system formes one big circuit around 4 boroughs of Inlington, Olsenburg, Kingsmith and Harpsworth. It begins in Harpsworth then makes its way up to Inlington and then east across the small river to Olsenburg then through Kingsmith and then it goes under the Harpsworth river and links back up with Harpsworth. The subway network was founded in 1963 servicing only Harpsworth but later spread into Inlington in 1976 and then into Olsenburg and Kingsmith. In 1995 a tunnel was made that linked up Kingsmith to Harpsworth. Carter Island, North Hobson and Hemwick do not have a subway system.

Hobson City Ferry System,
The Ferry was founded in 1949 and serviced the entire city with terminals on Carter Island to Hemwick, then to Harpsworth and then to Kingsmith and Olsenburg. There is also a Ferry to Monument Island from the Harpsworth Ferry Terminal.

East Hobson Raised Train Network
There is a system of raised train tracks that loop around Olsenburg and Kingsmith. It was built in 1929 and is a popular mode of transport for the locals.

The name of different neighborhoods in each Borough and a brief description

CARTER ISLAND
Hemwick View = The northern area of the island that looks over the Hobson River with a view of Hemwick

Holland = Is the central area of the island that surrounds Holland Park. It got its name from the large dutch populations during the early days of the cities creation

Carter Docklands = The Eastern lower section of the island. mainly just waterside wharehouses and some factories

Tracy = The south western part of the island where the newest Projects are nearing completion

East Point = The eastern most area of the island with a great view of the Harpsworth skyline and Monument Island

North Carter = The Northern most point of the island with another great view of Harpsworth.

Potsmound Island = Is a small island inbetween Hemwick and Carter island. it contains a cemetary and a highway and bridge connecting the two boroughs up.

HEMWICK
Industrial Park Docks = The south western area of the borough

Central Hemwick and South Hemwick = the only areas of the borough that contain residential buildings. plans have been made to begin construction on new projects

Oliver Parklands = Some more industrial area's

West Hobson = This area contains the power plant and more factories

NORTH HOBSON
Christine Hieghts = A lavish rich area with palatial home looking down on the rest of the city

Leon = A middle class area with modest homes all with lawns and most with thier own pools.

Hobson Markets = A large area with an artistic populationw with the famous city markets and the beginning of brick walkups entering the borough

Morewell = A densly populated area for North Hobson holding mostly small brick walkups

INLINGTON
Brickton = an industrial area boardering Hemwick. some historical factories have been protected by the government as they are historical sights

Robinson = an area around Robinson park. its a disgusting park of town with boarded decaying buildings and graffetti everywhere

Inlington Docks = more rundown factories, prostitution and a redlight district here by the water front near Inlington Harbour

Backman = The northern area of the borough with the projects, crimes just like the rest of Inlington

Mattner = Another sick part of town but this is the main MAIN redlight district of Hobson City, sleazy brothels, sex and strip clubs. Human trafficking has thrived here in recent years

HARPSWORTH
Central Harpsworth = Holding some of the skyline. administrational buildings and seat of government

Docklands = the southern area of the penninsula

Elizabeth = mainly a university area with Elizabeth university on the western side of the penninsula near Carter Bridge

Mason = A ponsy rich area where the top 5% of the population onw penthouses rising high above the entire city

River View = Located on eastern side of penninsula with a view of Kingsmith and Olsenbugr across the river

Middleton = The central area of the penninsula around the Harpsworth Park

Jackson = A northern area containing the stadium and apartment blocks

Lenton = A dangerous area bordering Inlington

Elonqua = An old area of the city with a unique name (The natives called the whole penninsula of Harpsworth Elonqua before it was renamed by the colonists)

OLSENBURG
Julius = containing docks on the Inlington Harbour area

China Town = A colourful area of Hobson City.

Olsen Bay = A nice beach in here with a view of Harold Cliff

North Olsen = Contains the boroughs industry and factories with lots of migrant workers

Armour, Duncan, Harold and Forest = containing more apartments and mixed cultures with unique stores reflecting the different owners cultural backgrounds

KINGSMITH
Little Italy = very italian, this area of the town it also has large mafia presence

Harpsworth View = Great views of the central city skyline

Arrow, Ebbington and Anver = Large stretch of brick walkups and apartments

Veteran Point = Contains Veterans park with a view of the atlantic ocean

Cliff view = directly north is Olsen Harbour and Harold Cliff

NAME OF ALL BRIDGES CONNECTING ALL THE BOROUGHS TOGETHER

Potsmound Bridge goes from Carter Island over Potsmound Island the connects up with south Hemwick (1952)

Carter Bridge goes from the northern tip of the island and connects with with the mid section of the Harpsworth Penninsula (Built in 1967)

Kingsmith Birdge connects Kingsmith up with Harpsworth. a spectacular bridge built in 1898

Castle Bridge was built in 1870 connecting up the north of Kingsmith to Harpsworth. it got its name from an old fort that was located near it at the time it was built

Olsen Bridge connects up the south of Olsenburg with Harpsworth (Built in 1910)

Julius Bridge connects up Olsenburg and Harpsworth (built in 1948)

Steam Bridge is an old bridge connecting up Inlington to Olsenburg. It got its name becuase it use to be a bridge for trains (mainly steam strains) but it was converted into a normal car bridge in 1930 (Built in 1804)

Bolger Birdge. Marcus Bolger was the first Borough President of Inlington and this brige was named after him. it was built after he died as another connection to Olsenburg and Inlington (Built 1806)

North Inlington Bridge is the northern most bridge as another connection across the Inlington River. Traffic increased dramatically between the two boroughs and so this bridge was built for added relief to the problem
(Built in1963)

Demographs and enthic statistics and other statistics

HOBSON CITY
POPULATION: 10,228,000

Black = 14.57% (1,490,215)

White = 30.57% (3,126,700)

Hispanic = 16.14% (1,650,800)

Asian = 18% (1,841,040)

Italian = 3.57% (365,140)

Eastern European = 16.71% (1,709,100)

Other = 0.44% (45,005)


Average yearly income for a person: $32,000

Percentage under the poverty line: 34%

Average Life Span
Female: 83
Male: 77

Boroughs ranked most dangerous
#1 Inlington
#2 Carter Island
#3 Kingsmith
#4 Hemwick
#5 Olsenburg
#6 Harpsworth
#7 North Hobson

Year the Boroughs were settled
Hobson City was officially founded in January 1708

Harpsworth was settled in 1708
Hemwick was settled in 1712
Kingsmith was settled in 1723
Carter Island was settled in 1728
Inlington was settled in 1730
North Hobson was settled in 1734

GOVERNMENT OF HOBSON CITY

Hobson city is a 2 party, multi party democracy
The 2 parties are the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party

Currently the Conservatives are in power. The Party leader then becomes the Mayor who leads the entire city and government.

The Current mayor is Kenny Grey a 54 yearold who is so far in his second term in power. Elected in 2002 at the age of 48 with the promise of eliminating crime and corruption and restoring the city and all its boroughs to thier former prosperity though little has changed. He has become corrupted being blackmailed by the mafia and doing deals to enrich his own pockets so turn a blind eye to crime.

The Borough Presidents are

Carter Island: Barry Crumpton, 63 years old

Hemwick: Joseph Pitcon, 55 year old

North Hobson: Liam Nelson, 72 yearold

Inlington: Egnacio Gonzales, 46 yearold

Harpsworth: Phillip Wilson, 67 yearsold

Olsenburg: Betty Wong, 56 years old

Kingsmith: Andrew Merewood, 42 yearold

Elections are held every 4 years the last one was held in 2006 with the next election to take place in 2010

HISTORY OF HOBSON CITY

It was a time of colonization in America. the new world was where everything was happening. Under the command of General Hobson a ship full of 450 colonists set sail for the east coast of America.

In January 1708 General Hobson's ship sailed down a river in between a large penninsula and an island. The River was named Hobson River. The Colonists landed and unloaded on the middle Penninsula which was named Harpsworth for the comment Sir Carter made (Second in Command) to General Hobson when he said "This land is worth the greatest song a Harp could produce"

The city expanded quickly. more and more people swelled into the city. industry was created, farms were made and more construction occured.
Slavery was allowed and they were brought from Africa. Then came America's war of independence. Because of a lot of profitable deals the city had with britain it was not keen to leave Britains influence and so it remained a birtish colony after a couple of unsucessful invasions from the American forces.

It kept out of the American civil war but it did ban slavery at around about the same time. Finally in 1901 it declared full independence and was allowed to govern itself.

Its most proserous time was during World War 1 and the 1920's. During the war is sold armaments to the allies making it lots of money and then after the war the city made money from american tourists fleeing from Prohibition. it was around about this time the Mafia became extremely active smugling booze from Hobson City to the USA. crime flourished during the 30's, 40's but by the 50's a new style of crime emerged with unorganized drugs, murders and it grew from there.

The 1970's and 1980's were the worst period in the cities history with extreme crime, unemployment, decay, gang warfare and drugs. Murders and shootings were rated the cities bigest killer

Currently the city is still stagnating but the situation has improved since the 70's and 80's

City Organizations

HPD = Hobson Police Department
Corruption has made the policeforce basically useless. the only crimes the police actually pursue are small time drug busts and traffic crimes. most notably in Inlington the police have refused to help in anyway for fear of thier lives which worsens the problem for that Borough

Hobson Generals
The Hobson Generals are the local Baseball Team. They are quite popular with thier games always maxing out the stadium seats. The stadium use to always be over full but one tragiz stampead in 1988 causing 94 deaths resulted in tighter controls and rules on stadium capacity.

Veterans Association (VA)
An organization created to appreciate the soldiers who gave thier lives and faught in wars. They hold a parade and memorial ceremony every year on November 10th as it was the day some Hobson City soldiers died in a horrific blood bath in WW1 and that day has forever been known as Veterans Day in Hobson City

Organization for the Beutification of Hobson City (OBHC)
A government created project to clean up the streets. starting with the elimination of graffiti act. though all of the projects have failed and the city is just as dirty as its always been the spirit is there. They even had a radical plan in the 80's of putting up fake windows and pot plants in Inlingtons abandoned buildings to make the borough seem less disgusting

Hobson Security Services HSS
Like the FBI but for Hobson City

CRIME CHART FOR HOBSON CITY

Ranking of the Crimes in Hobson City

#1 Drug dealing (Coke, Marajuana, and Meth are easily passed around the streets of the city)

#2 Street Theft and shop robberies (Bags are robbed and pockets are picks hundreds of times a day reportedly)

#3 Assualt (People are bashed up, beaten and pushed around daily)

#4 Human Traffiking (The new immigrants are easily targetted and mainly from the eastern european immigrants. Whore houses are mainly in Olsenburg and Inlington

#5 Car Theft (Most people carry a weapon on some king and keep it close to them when driving. People are in danger all the time of being pulled out of thier cars)

#6 Prostitution (This crime if so common it cant be controlled but the police will occasionally raid suspected brothels)

#7 Home invasions (Mainly in Kingsmith, Carter Island and Inlington and most resolve in injury for the victims and sometimes death)

#8 Smuggling (becuase of the inefficient law force and corrupt government its extremely easy for gangs and the mafia to smuggle in drugs, weapons or humans at anytime

#9 Arson (During the 70's and 80's arson was in the top 5 but this crime is not as bad as it use to be. its common in Inlington and some areas of Carter Island

#10 Vandalism (Graffiti, window smashing, wrecking cars and anything else that causes destruction its extremely common)

Geography of Hobson City

#Hobson city is on the east coast of America. To the east is the Atlantic Ocean and to the West is the USA.

#Hobson City consists of Carter Island to the south. just north is a small island called Potsmound.

#It also made up of 3 penninsula's and 3 rivers.
Hemwick is a small tiny peninsula to the west. The central, long and thing penninsula is Harpsworth and center of the city. The other wide penninsula to the North East holds Kingsmith and Olsenburg.

#The three rivers are
Hobson River which divides Carter Island from Hemwick and Harpsworth

#Harpsworth River which divides Kingsmith and Olsenburg from Harpsworth.

#The Inlington River seperates Inlington from Olsenburg.

Hobson Herald

The Hobson Herald was founded in 1740 to be the newspaper of the city.
Its been supplying the people of Hobson with news for over 268 years.

The Hobson herald has a habit of being quite right leaning and so it never tries to paint the conservative party negatively but its a different story for the opposition liberals. The Left leaning journalists stories are always put in the back pages or cut down to onw paragraph. The Editor is also a strong conservative

TV Stations

Hobson News Channel: 24/7 of news programs from around the world and for Hobson Vity

Hobson Community Events Channel: A Channel dedicated to everything thats happening in Hobson. mainly real life story's of its citizens. coverage of the Annual marathons, community work from dedicated good citizens. school gala's the Hobson markets etc

Cartoon Channel: A channel with all the cartoons

General Channel: Tv programs, drama's, documentaries etc

Hobson Music Channel: Music from Hobson city and from around the world

Sports Channel: A channel of all sports. mostly coverage of the Hobson Generals

There is a map of Hobson City

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Some important and special landmarks

The Triple Disk Tower. Located in Northern Harpsworth it has 3 revolving restaurant plates making it look like 3 disks stuck on a spike.
(Built 1998)

Hobson Financial Tower. This building deals with the cities finances. an extremely tall tower the 3rd tallest building in Hobson located in southern Harpsworth (Built 1975)

Clouds Tower. Hobson Cities tallest building located in central Harpsworth. it has an observation deck. (Built 1959)

Foundation Monument: A tall spire standing alone on Monument Island just off the Harpsworth Penninsula and Carter Island. Written vertically down the monument is "Our City". (Built 1758)

Peace Plaza. A plaza in Olsenburg which has 200 poles with the national flag of countries on them. Because there is so many nations one flag is displayed for a day and other flags take its place until it gets through every country in the world. (Built 1983)

Veterans Plaza. A large public square in central Harpsworth where there is a monument to the "Hobson Soldier" standing in the middle. A new wreath is layed at the feet of the statue ever week and large memorial parades and gatherings are on this square on November 10th (Built 1919)

The Hobson Dream Tower. located in Southern Harpsworth it contains a modelling agency, talent agency, film studio's and other off branches to the fame career

The Eternity Tower. This building is currently in construction and is set to become the largest building in the city overtaking the Clouds Tower. It was proposed in 2003 and construction began in 2005. Its a large concrete and glass tower with unique curves and sharp edges, a work of art

The New Plans Center. Located on the west coast of Harpsworth Penninsula facing Carter Island is a unique shaped building "Inspired by smoothe waves" said the architect. Its dedicated future architecture plans and projects for Hobson City in the future and holds scale models.
(Built 2007)

The Merit Center. HQ of Merit Bank. This is an extremely important and huge finacial institution and a leading bank in Hobson city. Its HQ is in Southern Harpsworth and on the entrace floor owns a number of upmarket shops as well as all the administrational offices in the upper floors of the tower
(Built 1992)