Chapter 225: Purplehaze city (1/2)
Rudra called up the status pannel for the city
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City name : Purplehaze city
City Area : 464 km^2
Total population : 12 million
Security index : 45/100 ( Neutral)
Culture : 30/100 ( Poor )
Public order : 35/100 ( Poor )
Military : 0 enlisted
Education : 72% literacy ( good )
Unemployment rate : 33% ( very high )
Public sentiment : 25% ( very poor)
Tax income : 0 gold
Overall evaluation : The city is yet to fully recover from the beast tide , the citizens have lost faith in the administration in the wake of the destruction left behind in the city.
The citizens are yet to fully accept a necromancer as an emperor , hence the public sentiment is at a all time low .
NOTE : If the public sentiment value drops below 20% there will be riots!
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To say that Rudra inherited the city in a good state would be extremely wrong. The city was in a mess , and he had to clean the mess up.
The unemployment rate was very high , hence leading to crime , crime lead to a poor public order and a low public order translated to a low public sentiment value.
It was a vicious cycle , and improving on one or two parameters would not work , one needed to work on all the parameters to make the city a better place.
To handle the unemployment , Rudra immediately took two important measures.
1) He started the citywide wall building project , with a fixed salary of 30 coppers a day.
There were currently about 8 million people in the total population that were in the working age group of 25-55
Out of these about 33% were unemployed , meaning 2.64 million , unemployed youths.
Rudra wanted to build a citywide wall , about 30 meters in height , and double layered with space in between two walls all across the perimeter of the entire city.
This project would help the city twofold , one it would provide employment and work for the unemployed , and two it would create a good denfense around the city. The city could then hold off against any major attacks.
Rudra planned to make the entire city walls with reinforced concrete bricks , to have extra strength and durability.