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West City is a major metropolis of Cardinal, home to 9.2 million people. It acts as the country's technological capital. The newest inventions can always be found first in West City before anywhere else in the country (and sometimes the world!). With the largest amount of government grants and contracts given out to technology and high-tech firms of all of the directional cities, West City is home to most of the country's bleeding-edge scientific advances, of every design.

Vital Statistics

Official Name

The City of West

Universal Location

On the planet Earth, on the continent of Cardinal.

National Allegiance

Cardinal

Population

9.2 million sentients

Population Makeup

Under construction.

Notable Inhabitants

Damien Vrylar

Points of Interest

Capsule Corporation Headquarters

Though in this reformed world, the famous Capsule Corporation survived the devastating destruction of its headquarters facility by power wielders, it has lost the technological edge and government backing it once enjoyed for such lucrative research and development fields as aerospace and military technology, and has thus fallen behind the newer Empirical Industries. It is no longer considered a serious rival. However, with the headquarters recently rebuilt, CC still manages to stay alive, drawing funding from high-risk investors and long-term contracts that it established before its fall. It still makes steady progress in the fields of gravitronics and encapsulization, and capsules from Capsule Corp are still readily seen throughout the world, especially wherever there is a need to store many large objects in a small space. The company is currently owned by the last in the Briefs family line, Boxer Briefs, whose lineage has somehow managed to completely dodge most of the major Briefs family characters from DBZ. His father was Bulma's brother.

West City Technoloseum

Perhaps one of the major characterizing institutions of West City is its Technoloseum. It attracts crowds from around the continent to marvel and even interact with hundreds of exhibits, allowing the young and old alike to monitor the functions of their own brains, float around in simulated anti-gravity rooms, and watch from just 20 feet away as a demonstrator punches an arm-thick hole through 75 feet of titanium with the latest in weapons technology. Many prestigious organizations such as Empirical Industries and Capsule Corporation have donated many of the exhibits, and in turn, the profits gained each year from the museum goes directly toward a board-voted field of actual research.

The Western Wharf of Jarod

Sometimes just called Jarod's Wharf, the official port of West City is the largest port in all of Cardinal, supplying a significant portion of the nation's GNP. Because of this and the general atmosphere of high technology in West City, many powerful businesses choose to locate their headquarters in this city. Jarod's Wharf was named after a man known only as Jarod who, after allegedly single-handedly slaying a thousand invading demon sea dragons, went on to rule a historically resonant empire with a capital in the same place as West City, until he died of old age.