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===City: Seattle===

Seattle is a territory of the United American and Canadian States, and the nation’s only remaining port on the west coast of North America. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans of the Duwamish tribe  for at least 10000 years before being colonized by Europeans in 1851. The city was retained by the USA, soon-to-be UCAS, following the Treaty of Denver in 2018. Since then, Seattle has existed as UCAS territory while completely enveloped by the Salish-Sidhe Council on all sides. Within the borders of the territory, Seattle expanded into and merged with several satellite cities, including Everett, Redmond, and Tacoma.
 
The city’s peculiar political position is the product of conflict avoidance, corporate convenience, and mutual benefit between the Salish-Sidhe Council, Tír Tairngire, and the UCAS. The city allows UCAS to maintain a presence on the west coast, gives corporations a port free of the NAN’s strict customs and environmental policies, supports Salish-Sidhe’s tourism industry, grants Tír Tairngire a trade window to the world without completely opening itself up, and gives all three nations around the Emerald City a way to exchange cultural and political dissidents. These competing interests, and the city’s premier placement near national borders by land and by sea, makes Seattle a haven for smugglers and shadowrunners.

The Emerald City is home to over 3,000,000 people in 2072. Seattle is home to a diverse and multifaceted culture, arising from the unique crossroads where people from the UCAS, NAN, Tír Tairngire, many Asian nations, and other international travelers and immigrants meet. Seattle’s original culture is strongly rooted in the old United States, but time, isolation from the main body of the UCAS, and elements from foreign cultures have led to many changes in Seattle’s social character. This social character is further granularized by the metroplex’s division into 1 consular and 11 municipal districts.