Southowilson
Southowilson is the industrial capital of the NorCal Republic (unofficially called the Bear Republic), located on Suisun Bay, north of the ruins of San Francisco. Southowilson is a city of approximately 6.2 million people. It is an overcrowded metropolis; but unlike many cities around the world, Southowilson is not part of a larger sprawl.
Its population, partly composed of refugees from the devastated continental interiors, huddle together in the crowded inner city. Large parts of the city are ethnic enclaves, brought over piecemeal by Megacorps in the past. In many ways, it is similar to prewar Chicago, in that Southowilson is crowded, polluted, industrial, and vigorous. It has a strong corporate presence; several megacorporations are headquartered here, and many have manufacturing facilities in the Industriplex. The city reels under its own success - formerly a small city with a harbor, Southowilson has exploded in the last half century, long ago outstripping its infrastructure's ability to function. Southowilson remains one of the greatest industrial cities in the postwar world, and its economy manages to barely support the population.
Regionally, Southowilson is sandwiched between several interesting features; the irradiated ruins of the Greater San Francisco Bay Metroplex to the west and southwest, the marauder-infested marshlands of the Sacra-Joaq Delta to the east, the agricorp leases and estates of Napa to the north and northwest, the abandoned ruins of Sacramento to the Northeast, and the villages and ghost towns of the Central Valley to the south. These features separate the Southowilson Sprawl from neighboring metroplexes by dozens of miles of empty roads... rail remains the fastest and safest means of travel.
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