Overpacked Suburbs

The Overpacked Suburbs were the neighborhoods around Night City that became overpopulated after taking in the refugees from the city during the Time of the Red.

History
The Fourth Corporate War fights razed a large part the housing areas of Night City. Then, the 2023 Holocaust happened, destroying much of the central downtown. The areas most affected were named as the Hot Zone, the lethally radioactive remains of the Corporate Center. Much of the destroyed central city surrounding the Hot Zone became uninhabitable too, not because of residual radiation, but from the loss of power, sewer, and water services.

Fleeing the radioactive ruins, roughly 2 million people in the greater Night City region had become homeless from direct effects of the bomb, and with the flooding by the liquefaction of the city's foundations - which had been built on fill and sand. These refugees were forced to move over to either the adjacent towns or further out. Survivors fled into overcrowded tent cities in the surrounding suburbs of North Oak, Westbrook, Pacifica, Heywood, and South Night City. But it was soon obvious that something needed to be done fast.

In the aftermath of the War, the suburbs became host to a huge number of tent cities and unregulated refugee camps smacked in the middle of what had previously been the safe suburban corporate beavervilles, and the surrounding foothills. In the meantime, huge megabuildings were under construction to house all these refugees, which had made the NC suburbs a region crowded, crime-ridden, and on the edge of disaster all the time.

The NCPD in this area was overworked, and had to devote more than half of its forces to deal with gangs of scavvers. They also had come to rely on Zhirafa drones to patrol the vast expanse of the Overpacked Suburbs.

A new trend popped up around the suburbs of Night City: the Street Theaters. Entertainers affiliated with Julliard Performers Guild had begun doing shows on street corners and they managed to gain in popularity. There was no cost to attend the shows, but the performers still took in donations. In some cases, these thespians were bringing in almost 500eb a night. The more elaborate the production the more people would come to watch. This draw in techies looking to make a little eb on the side. Eric Wells, thespian, explained it this way: "People are tired of spending hard earned creds on crappy reruns. They want real emotion and stories. The street theatre phenom is delivering just that."

The City Council considered this area to have a threat level of "Moderate/Combat", which meant that the people who were outside of the most dangerous zones lived in relative peace, as long as the dangers of the Combat Zones didn't leak out, being these last areas one of the worst places in the city, where people died, and no one cleaned it up afterwards.

Major

 * Heywood-Santo Domingo
 * New Westbrook
 * Rancho Coronado

Minor

 * Heywood Industrial Zone