Paradoxical:Hoping City

Hoping City is an independent city state on Vancouver Island. It became independent following the local trend of secessionist, leftist cities, but took a specifically technocratic approach to it's brand of leftism.

Government Structure

Inspired by the American government in structure, it is run bicamerally with chambers named the Senate and House of Representatives after the American government but crafted very differently. Inspired by the original American idea of a technocratic senate and a populist House, Hoping City takes this idea to new extreme. Representatives are elected in a vote where votes from people below a certain income count as double, while Senators are nominated and elected from among registered scholars. Legislation must of course be confirmed in both chambers to pass into law, ensuring both intelligent and helpful policy favoring the disadvantaged, at least in theory. In practice, partisanship can occasionally get in the way. There are of course Judicial and Executive branches of government as well, which very closely resemble that of the United States except, seeing the mistakes of the American Executive design, the limits on the Mayor's power are incredibly specific, written as a whitelist in the Hoping City Constitution.

Politics

There are three major parties, the City Liberal Party (CLP), the Hoping Communist Party (HCP), and the Hoping Democratic Party (HDP), roughly representing LibLeft, Authleft, and LibRight respectively, although the Hoping City Overton Window is skewed in that it is all more authoritarian than most other Western countries, resembling China in terms of governmental power. It is common for one of these parties to fall behind the other two and have a series of losses in a row, but the two battling parties will usually hurt each other enough to bring the third power back into the rivalry.

The current Mayor as of 2089 is Heinz Bentham, a City Liberal. The Senate is also Liberal-controlled but the House is communist. The Supreme Court is generally neutral, a fortunate success.

Treasury:

current value as of last edit: 44 paradoxical dollars ($)

income: $2.50 /hr

railroad, naval trade network