Editing Baroque Blue (section)

==Baroque City==

With a population of rougly twenty million, an annual gross product larger than the rest of the state doubled and the worlds fastest-growing crime rate, Baroque is almost like a medieval city got plonked in the 1940s and then Japanese zaibatsus spent 6 months updating it before fleeing in disgust.

===Carravagio Quarter===

The Catholic Church has always been big in Baroque. After the vaticans return to global influence in 1947, the Carravagio Quarter has reflected this odd mixture of incense, gold, faith, authority and decadence. The vast array of gothic cathedrals, New English chapels and a smattering of churches, synagogues and mosques, this quarter has more religious buildings that other city in America.

Interspersed, black skyscrapers and highrises rake the sky, counting among their number the Bernini Building, fifth tallest building in the world, the Frohmire Hotel, where the Ghoulgate scandal broke and shocked the nation and the Raith Building, heart of the Raith commercial empire. This district is free from nearly all obvious crime, and even the Masks seem wary of breaking its gloomy peace.

===Alighieri Quarter=== 

Commonly referred to as the Inferno. This is the Badlands, stretching for cheap warehouses near the docks and morphing into a Third World slum at the city outskirts. Disease is rampant- not only has the Promethian Virus not entierly died out, but even smallpox, syphilus and Mk I RTP can be found in some of the inhabitants.

Here, the Masks reign. The Chesire Cat enacts his mistress' bidding from the Kitty Kat Klub. Mister Skitz holes up in an abandoned warehouse, running his scarred goons into the ground. The vigilantes OneShot and the aging mystic, Professor Phylos, both call this area home.

===The Raith Estates===

Mansions, mansions and sprawling estates crowned with mansions. Parks with policemen doing their jobs, most of the time, and demanding very heavy bribes to look away. Even where there eyes don't fall, Justice Security Services serve their employers interest. The gossip in these houss make and break presidents and senators, and international trade is the game of choice.

===Barroci District===

Also called the Big Barrio. This is where the now closing middle class live out of suburban brownstones, with regulated backyards. There's a vague feel of forced precision, like a painting of suburbia, rather than real thing. Importantly, hundreds of new townhouses have sprung up, maunfactured en masse from a single architectural plan.

===Chiaroscuro District===

Immigrants and serpentine streets are the hallmarks of this district. Only 46% of the population speak English, the rest being divided between Lebanese, Russian, Turkish and Greek.

===Maraviglia District===

The home of the avante garde. Although widely regarded as the home of poseurs and dropkicks, this is actually home to the libertines, artists and writers on the cutting edge of social trend. The lifestyle varies wildly between rich and poor, but most houses are dominated by a French-Colonial feel, with Ivy lattices and old stonework. Coffee houses, art galleries and bars abound but whilst it's a trendy tourist hotspot, the real backrooms and hidden clubs hide a multitude of unsung activities.

The lakeside section of the district has been coverted by recent immigrants into Little Asia, where Chinese and Korean immigrants wait the tables, serve the food and deliver the art supplies for those above. Criminals know this as the lair of the Jade Dragon, Emperor of America.

===Hawksmoor District===

Named after the man who inspired its architecture (built from some of Hawksmoors unused plans for metropolitan London), but commonly called the Vespers or Hawkers Paradise. It's the reddest of Red Light districts. Drug dens, bordellos, brothels, strip clubs, flophouses and underground fight clubs. The antithesis of the Carravagio Quarter, here is where the rich and poor meet, each providing what they always offer each other. Anything goes here, and cops know better than to set foot here. However, some of the establishments are quietly watched over by either JSS or the Brujah.

===Messandre===

Better known as 'the West End'. It is the heart of the lower end CBD, not the central highrises of big business, but the hundreds of mid-sized businesses focused on services and retail. Middle management central - lots of law firms, accountants and outlet stores.

===Cabrotti===

Factories, factories, factories. Black smoke is belched out by old style funnels and waste pours into the local resevoir ("unknown" to local counsellors, of course). It's also home to Baroque's local nuclear power plant.

===The Scarlatti Demillitarized Zone===

Formerly the heart of traditional New English suburbia, at the edges of the area, it could pass as its old self fairly easily. However, this area was badly hit by the Promethian Virus. At the heart of the area lies the Sallieri Institute for the Criminally Perturbed (known as Bedlams Barrio) and Fort Judgement, the US millitary base and operational center of the Council of Science.

===Anapchen Hills===

Known to mobsters as the Unhappy Hunting Ground, this is where the bodies are buried. This largely rural area contains the national parks, the Indian reserve- known for its casinos and money laundering operations- and the few desperate stragling farms.

===Bernini District===

A scattered selection of derelict buildings and edifices focusing around the Bernini Bridge. People tend to think of this as 'minor economic downturn' but what most people don't realise is that the sealed off area is over 36 blocks. No-one seems aware of exactly how far this City of the Dead extends, or why it remains despite widespread campaigns of economic refurbishment.

===Santa Therissa=== 

This area has its own elected government and police force, and is not technically part of Baroque, being on the opposite side of the Lake. A last holdout for the Big Five Families, where they reign supreme over a working class untouched by Masks and other invaders.