Editing Paradise City:Urban Geography (section)

===Uptown===

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The uptown district is the northern end of “the city” and is the business hub of Paradise.  The offices of the major corporations are here, as are the most expensive and exclusive stores.

Checkpoints:  Cars must pass through checkpoints in order to enter the uptown area from midtown.  Many buildings here scan everyone who passes through the door.

Transport:  Uptown is served by the highline.  It has a well-funded public transport system for the workers and a wide variety of shuttle fleets run by individual malls and shopping centers.  Taxis are clean, safe and plentiful.

Police:  Central CityPol presence is heavy and the officers are well-supplied, well-paid and highly professional.  However, there is also a heavy presence of corporate police, often licensed to carry weapons in the street.  Both city and corporate police are liable to be issued with weapons of LR 2 or above, typically submachine guns. Corporate police are unlikely to attempt to interfere with crimes that do not take place on corporate property, but are quite likely to let the city police know what is going on.

Gangs:  The police have a zero tolerance policy towards gangs so gangs here are rare and usually don’t last for long.  The gangers must blend in to the crowd, which means that they must look fairly affluent and cannot adopt dress that too clearly marks them as a unit.  Since being caught with a weapon is likely to lead to jail time, gangers here usually carry none.  When they do carry weapons, they are liable to be improvised and easily concealed, such as knives and razors.  These gangers are rarely dangerous unless they catch you alone and mug you.

Organized Crime:  Organized crime is mainly under the control of whichever factions have influence in the Downtown area.  Professionals go to extreme lengths to appear to be respectable citizens and are paranoid about secrecy and security, even for organized criminals. 

Points of Interest:  The malls and shopping centers of Uptown can extend for miles and include thousands of businesses.  The prices may be outrageous, but you can get almost any legal thing you want here.

Weapons:  If you are carrying a weapon but not wearing a uniform, then both city and corporate police will assume that you intend to commit crimes and need to be taken off the street.