Dog
Radio Bob Approved
City Twenty Nine
STATUS: STABLE
(Mapping For Everything - Not Done)
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Singapore was not prepared for the possibility of an alien invasion from another dimension. All it could do was watch and see the Combine utterly destroy its neighbors of Malaysia and Indonesia. The Singapore Armed Forces observed the Battle of Johor and saw the Malaysian city be overtaken by sheer firepower within the matter of a single hour. Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, was also reportedly overtaken but in a shorter time frame of a mere thirty minutes. Fearing for the nation and unable to match the firepower presented by the Combine, Sellapan Ramanathan agreed to peace with the invaders. The Singapore Armed Forces stood down, and the Combine was allowed to enter into Singapore without a single shot ever fired. For its cooperation, Singapore found itself as the center of Combine civilization within Southeast Asia.
Singapore, having been unharmed in the Seven Hour War, presented great opportunities for the Combine. As with most cities that the Combine establishes, Singapore had to fit into the wider picture of purpose and production. The only issue was that Singapore had no neutral resources of any major significance. The Combine, in their planned establishment of City Twenty Nine, chose to exploit two things that Singapore had in vast abundance - labor and untouched infrastructure. Like in its past life, Singapore (now called City Twenty Nine) was to import raw materials and export finished goods. The so-called factory city of Twenty Nine was thus born.
In the current year, City Twenty Nine is the leading producer of electrical equipment and items, heavy industrial products, chemicals, and civil goods. For the purpose of ensuring continued production, citizens are forced into a strict regimen of work. Throughout the city, a network of telecoms wakes up citizens in the early morning of four o'clock. A timeframe of thirty minutes is afforded to everyone to prepare themselves for the work-day ahead. From there, citizens are expected to walk to their factory and work from four-thirty to twelve-thirty. After the mandatory work-hour is done, citizens can enjoy their free time as they like. If the Combine demands more quotes from the city, a special emergency work shift can be called in and work hours expanded.
At peak work hours, pollution blanks the whole city with a thick mist of smog. All workers are required to wear gas masks and protective gear as the pollution can greatly sicken anyone that is not wearing such gear. It is only when the work shift is done that people can take off their protective clothing and mask. In an attempt to increase morale and to stop citizens from thinking of rebelling from their grueling work, the city administration affords the cost of running cafeterias that provide decent meals for the masses of workers. As another extra reward, workers are also given one Soda Bob Energy per day. Such rewards are privileges and if city quotas are not met then they will be taken away by the city administration.
Life here is not as dreadful, but it is quite uncomfortable - just do not mind the smog.
HEAVY INDUSTRIAL AND CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING DISTRICT
The Heavy Industrial and Chemical Manufacturing District (HICMD) concerns itself with the production of metals, alloys, heavy industrial products, and various industrial chemical compounds. The first aspect of this district is the powering of the entire operation. Massive coal plants account for ninety percent of all electricity generation with the reminding ten percent being oil plants. The majority of the pollution originates from the energy sector as nearly all coal and oil plants run at peak capacity to satisfy monstrous electricity demands. Workers working within the energy sector, the ones most exposed to pollutants, ensure the smooth operation of power logistics. Since energy work is primarily done by the usage of heavy machines and equipment, energy workers are required to go through a course in heavy machine operation. The other half of the energy workforce is employed in signaling and low to medium-level logistical management. These workers are responsible for communications and organizational operations, which also needs a course - one more lengthy and detailed. Given the high volumes of carbon dioxide within this particular sector, workers are advised to bring extra refillers and know the locations of emergency oxygen tanks. Lung-related diseases and conditions are common killers. It is best to protect oneself for your own safety and for the Combine - dead people do not contribute to production quotas.
The next sector of concern is metal processing. The entirety of the HICMD requires metals and alloys of many kinds for its mass-production lines. It is the responsibility of the metallurgical sector to keep pumping out high volumes of metal and metallic alloys. Without it, production is halted and city quotas drastically drop. If city quotas drop then the Benfectors will not be so happy about it, and someone is to blame. City administration is not keen on letting such events happen. Metallurgical workers are accountable for the transportation and full production of metals from ore to blast furnaces. Transportation of supply to smelting factories and end-product to different production sectors is where most of the workers are employed. The actual production of metal and alloy is largely automated with only a few workers needed to oversee the whole process. Once all ore has been turned into metal and alloy then most of these products are moved by fleets of trucks or train towards the heavy industrial sector.
Known to be the largest sector in the HICMD, the heavy industrial sector employs seventy percent of the city's labor force to man factories and workshops. Job specifics are various, often very physically demanding and grueling. Laborers play a vital role in the industrial sector, serving as the operators in the production lines for everything from metal sheets to engine components. Workers are given highly repetitive and specialized tasks with their sole duty being to perform their singular assignment (ex. screwing a bolt to an engine). The product moves along the belt to the next worker and you do your assigned task over and over and over again for eight hours straight. The speed at which production flows is wholly decided by management, and management decides the speed by the quota number. If quotas are low then speed is increased and the worker has to keep pace or risk losing his tokens, rations, and entry into the cafeteria.
Lastly, the chemical processing sector involves the production of industrial chemicals from Sulfuric acid, Nitric acid, Phosphoric acid, etc. Chemical engineers stationed here oversee the automated processes, ensuring the mass-production of vital chemicals used in various industries. This sector produces the third-largest source of pollution and acts as the number one source for chemical waste pollutants (Sulfur Dioxide and Volatile Organic Compounds to name a few). Most of these chemical pollutants are send through a recycling unit to create solvents for the district to use in its processing. For the rest of the waste, it is stored in a mass-warehouse and its fate decided later. Fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides are the most produced end-chemical-product in the whole sector (aside from plastics). East Asian agri-zones heavily rely on the agri-chemicals manufactured here to secure continued food production.
ELECTRICAL AND CIVIL GOODS MANUFACTURING DISTRICT
The Electrical Manufacturing and Civil Goods District contain all the factories and facilities vital for the manufacturing of all things electrical components and consumer products. The electrical sector, not to be confused with the energy sector back in HICMD, concerns itself with the manufacturing of circuits, transistors, and other high-tech components. Work is mainly done by the process of automation with robotic machines. Workers within this district are largely used for assembly work of the finished product. Rows upon rows of workers will sit at their station and focus on their singular task of whatever that might be - fitting in a nut, attaching a frame to a radio, soldering wires together, etc - before passing on the product for further assembly onto the next worker just a few inches away. Engineers assigned to automated factories are the maintenance workers and overseers of the production line. If any of the machines or robotic arms break down then said engineers will troubleshoot the issue and repair the damages to get manufacturing back online.
The Civil Goods sector is wholly responsible for the production of everyday goods required by the average citizenry. Pens, toothbrushes, razors, toothpaste, and more are made and assembled by your lowly factory laborer. Plastic packaging items like jars, plastic cans, plastic ration bags, and more are manufactured in the hundreds of thousands per hour. These items are normally shipped out to food-producing cities that use these plastic packaging things for food packaging. More recently, there been an increase in the production of plastic packaging for sustenance bars and calorie paste. Mint-flavored toothpaste is also made here, accounting for sixty percent of world production. Willard Industries, the producer of Soda Bob and its many flavors, is also here. Factories belonging to Willard Industries mainly produce Soda Bob and Soda Bob Energy, with Soda Bob Energy being largely consumed by the citizens of the city.
CENTRAL HOUSING BLOCK
High-rise and high-density flats dominate the landscape of housing in the central housing block. Given the land constraints, Singapore was forced to build large and towering apartments to house its many citizens. Today, the Combine has maintained the same old infrastructure of the past. The only real change was the Combine decision to make usage of empty land that belonged to supermarkets and malls between the flats, which were fully transformed into civil protection stations and armories. As for everything else, the schools, community hospitals, clinics, food courts, and sports and recreational facilities, still hold onto their old purpose. Schools now mainly educate laborers on various courses vital to their work in the city. Clinics and community hospitals were simply just given a new coat of paint with the words, CMU, added on top of their entries and exits - no real change there. Food courts were handed over to various vendors and business owners, and sports and recreational facilities are still open to the masses to enjoy - only after work hours.
Another boon to both Combine and citizenry is the public transit system. Trains are the main way of transport within City Twenty Nine, followed by busses and then walking. At the start of the workday, the masses of workers will board the trains to their workplace and come back home by boarding the trains once again. Once the work hour is over, the average citizen is able to use the trains to get around the central housing blocks. If the city is in lockdown or likewise, the train system will be unavailable for everyone but city administration and protection units.
PORT TWENTY-NINE
Port Twenty-Nine is instrumental to the functioning of the city's industries. The number of raw goods required to keep the cogs of production running is immense and multiple transport fleets are always inbound to supply the city with such raw materials. Likewise, fleets of transports will always be seen exporting the industrial products of the city to other cities and places of importance. Aside from the constant supplement of raw goods and the export of finished goods, Port Twenty-Nine also serves plenty of other transports of other cities not related to the running of city industry - be it refueling, repairs, etc. Dockworkers are rotated often since the port never stops working. The lights are on every day of the week, every week of the month, and every month of the year.
ADMIN HUB TWENTY-NINE
City administration is all located here. The running of the city is all done by various offices and departments within the confines of the buildings in the admin hub. The city's production quota is the most important statistic, for the Benefactors expect City Twenty-Nine to deliver on its products. If production is not met then global supply chains are affected and production numbers across cities are lowered. Public displays of failures and incompetence are not things that the Combine will tolerate. Even so fearful of being removed from their positions of power, city administration always ensures that the city delivers its fully demanded goods on time. The administration will detail and plan out months worth of inputs and outputs, material balances, allocation of resources, and likewise. The majority of the administrative capacity is fully devoted to the pursuit of keeping production quotas stable and ever-increasing. Failure to deliver is not an option.
STATUS: STABLE
(Mapping For Everything - Not Done)
(Click on Headings for Images)
Singapore was not prepared for the possibility of an alien invasion from another dimension. All it could do was watch and see the Combine utterly destroy its neighbors of Malaysia and Indonesia. The Singapore Armed Forces observed the Battle of Johor and saw the Malaysian city be overtaken by sheer firepower within the matter of a single hour. Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, was also reportedly overtaken but in a shorter time frame of a mere thirty minutes. Fearing for the nation and unable to match the firepower presented by the Combine, Sellapan Ramanathan agreed to peace with the invaders. The Singapore Armed Forces stood down, and the Combine was allowed to enter into Singapore without a single shot ever fired. For its cooperation, Singapore found itself as the center of Combine civilization within Southeast Asia.
Singapore, having been unharmed in the Seven Hour War, presented great opportunities for the Combine. As with most cities that the Combine establishes, Singapore had to fit into the wider picture of purpose and production. The only issue was that Singapore had no neutral resources of any major significance. The Combine, in their planned establishment of City Twenty Nine, chose to exploit two things that Singapore had in vast abundance - labor and untouched infrastructure. Like in its past life, Singapore (now called City Twenty Nine) was to import raw materials and export finished goods. The so-called factory city of Twenty Nine was thus born.
In the current year, City Twenty Nine is the leading producer of electrical equipment and items, heavy industrial products, chemicals, and civil goods. For the purpose of ensuring continued production, citizens are forced into a strict regimen of work. Throughout the city, a network of telecoms wakes up citizens in the early morning of four o'clock. A timeframe of thirty minutes is afforded to everyone to prepare themselves for the work-day ahead. From there, citizens are expected to walk to their factory and work from four-thirty to twelve-thirty. After the mandatory work-hour is done, citizens can enjoy their free time as they like. If the Combine demands more quotes from the city, a special emergency work shift can be called in and work hours expanded.
At peak work hours, pollution blanks the whole city with a thick mist of smog. All workers are required to wear gas masks and protective gear as the pollution can greatly sicken anyone that is not wearing such gear. It is only when the work shift is done that people can take off their protective clothing and mask. In an attempt to increase morale and to stop citizens from thinking of rebelling from their grueling work, the city administration affords the cost of running cafeterias that provide decent meals for the masses of workers. As another extra reward, workers are also given one Soda Bob Energy per day. Such rewards are privileges and if city quotas are not met then they will be taken away by the city administration.
Life here is not as dreadful, but it is quite uncomfortable - just do not mind the smog.
HEAVY INDUSTRIAL AND CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING DISTRICT
The Heavy Industrial and Chemical Manufacturing District (HICMD) concerns itself with the production of metals, alloys, heavy industrial products, and various industrial chemical compounds. The first aspect of this district is the powering of the entire operation. Massive coal plants account for ninety percent of all electricity generation with the reminding ten percent being oil plants. The majority of the pollution originates from the energy sector as nearly all coal and oil plants run at peak capacity to satisfy monstrous electricity demands. Workers working within the energy sector, the ones most exposed to pollutants, ensure the smooth operation of power logistics. Since energy work is primarily done by the usage of heavy machines and equipment, energy workers are required to go through a course in heavy machine operation. The other half of the energy workforce is employed in signaling and low to medium-level logistical management. These workers are responsible for communications and organizational operations, which also needs a course - one more lengthy and detailed. Given the high volumes of carbon dioxide within this particular sector, workers are advised to bring extra refillers and know the locations of emergency oxygen tanks. Lung-related diseases and conditions are common killers. It is best to protect oneself for your own safety and for the Combine - dead people do not contribute to production quotas.
The next sector of concern is metal processing. The entirety of the HICMD requires metals and alloys of many kinds for its mass-production lines. It is the responsibility of the metallurgical sector to keep pumping out high volumes of metal and metallic alloys. Without it, production is halted and city quotas drastically drop. If city quotas drop then the Benfectors will not be so happy about it, and someone is to blame. City administration is not keen on letting such events happen. Metallurgical workers are accountable for the transportation and full production of metals from ore to blast furnaces. Transportation of supply to smelting factories and end-product to different production sectors is where most of the workers are employed. The actual production of metal and alloy is largely automated with only a few workers needed to oversee the whole process. Once all ore has been turned into metal and alloy then most of these products are moved by fleets of trucks or train towards the heavy industrial sector.
Known to be the largest sector in the HICMD, the heavy industrial sector employs seventy percent of the city's labor force to man factories and workshops. Job specifics are various, often very physically demanding and grueling. Laborers play a vital role in the industrial sector, serving as the operators in the production lines for everything from metal sheets to engine components. Workers are given highly repetitive and specialized tasks with their sole duty being to perform their singular assignment (ex. screwing a bolt to an engine). The product moves along the belt to the next worker and you do your assigned task over and over and over again for eight hours straight. The speed at which production flows is wholly decided by management, and management decides the speed by the quota number. If quotas are low then speed is increased and the worker has to keep pace or risk losing his tokens, rations, and entry into the cafeteria.
Lastly, the chemical processing sector involves the production of industrial chemicals from Sulfuric acid, Nitric acid, Phosphoric acid, etc. Chemical engineers stationed here oversee the automated processes, ensuring the mass-production of vital chemicals used in various industries. This sector produces the third-largest source of pollution and acts as the number one source for chemical waste pollutants (Sulfur Dioxide and Volatile Organic Compounds to name a few). Most of these chemical pollutants are send through a recycling unit to create solvents for the district to use in its processing. For the rest of the waste, it is stored in a mass-warehouse and its fate decided later. Fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides are the most produced end-chemical-product in the whole sector (aside from plastics). East Asian agri-zones heavily rely on the agri-chemicals manufactured here to secure continued food production.
ELECTRICAL AND CIVIL GOODS MANUFACTURING DISTRICT
The Electrical Manufacturing and Civil Goods District contain all the factories and facilities vital for the manufacturing of all things electrical components and consumer products. The electrical sector, not to be confused with the energy sector back in HICMD, concerns itself with the manufacturing of circuits, transistors, and other high-tech components. Work is mainly done by the process of automation with robotic machines. Workers within this district are largely used for assembly work of the finished product. Rows upon rows of workers will sit at their station and focus on their singular task of whatever that might be - fitting in a nut, attaching a frame to a radio, soldering wires together, etc - before passing on the product for further assembly onto the next worker just a few inches away. Engineers assigned to automated factories are the maintenance workers and overseers of the production line. If any of the machines or robotic arms break down then said engineers will troubleshoot the issue and repair the damages to get manufacturing back online.
The Civil Goods sector is wholly responsible for the production of everyday goods required by the average citizenry. Pens, toothbrushes, razors, toothpaste, and more are made and assembled by your lowly factory laborer. Plastic packaging items like jars, plastic cans, plastic ration bags, and more are manufactured in the hundreds of thousands per hour. These items are normally shipped out to food-producing cities that use these plastic packaging things for food packaging. More recently, there been an increase in the production of plastic packaging for sustenance bars and calorie paste. Mint-flavored toothpaste is also made here, accounting for sixty percent of world production. Willard Industries, the producer of Soda Bob and its many flavors, is also here. Factories belonging to Willard Industries mainly produce Soda Bob and Soda Bob Energy, with Soda Bob Energy being largely consumed by the citizens of the city.
CENTRAL HOUSING BLOCK
High-rise and high-density flats dominate the landscape of housing in the central housing block. Given the land constraints, Singapore was forced to build large and towering apartments to house its many citizens. Today, the Combine has maintained the same old infrastructure of the past. The only real change was the Combine decision to make usage of empty land that belonged to supermarkets and malls between the flats, which were fully transformed into civil protection stations and armories. As for everything else, the schools, community hospitals, clinics, food courts, and sports and recreational facilities, still hold onto their old purpose. Schools now mainly educate laborers on various courses vital to their work in the city. Clinics and community hospitals were simply just given a new coat of paint with the words, CMU, added on top of their entries and exits - no real change there. Food courts were handed over to various vendors and business owners, and sports and recreational facilities are still open to the masses to enjoy - only after work hours.
Another boon to both Combine and citizenry is the public transit system. Trains are the main way of transport within City Twenty Nine, followed by busses and then walking. At the start of the workday, the masses of workers will board the trains to their workplace and come back home by boarding the trains once again. Once the work hour is over, the average citizen is able to use the trains to get around the central housing blocks. If the city is in lockdown or likewise, the train system will be unavailable for everyone but city administration and protection units.
PORT TWENTY-NINE
Port Twenty-Nine is instrumental to the functioning of the city's industries. The number of raw goods required to keep the cogs of production running is immense and multiple transport fleets are always inbound to supply the city with such raw materials. Likewise, fleets of transports will always be seen exporting the industrial products of the city to other cities and places of importance. Aside from the constant supplement of raw goods and the export of finished goods, Port Twenty-Nine also serves plenty of other transports of other cities not related to the running of city industry - be it refueling, repairs, etc. Dockworkers are rotated often since the port never stops working. The lights are on every day of the week, every week of the month, and every month of the year.
ADMIN HUB TWENTY-NINE
City administration is all located here. The running of the city is all done by various offices and departments within the confines of the buildings in the admin hub. The city's production quota is the most important statistic, for the Benefactors expect City Twenty-Nine to deliver on its products. If production is not met then global supply chains are affected and production numbers across cities are lowered. Public displays of failures and incompetence are not things that the Combine will tolerate. Even so fearful of being removed from their positions of power, city administration always ensures that the city delivers its fully demanded goods on time. The administration will detail and plan out months worth of inputs and outputs, material balances, allocation of resources, and likewise. The majority of the administrative capacity is fully devoted to the pursuit of keeping production quotas stable and ever-increasing. Failure to deliver is not an option.
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