North Oak (2020)

NorthOak is Night City's closest neighboring city and home to the NorCal Military Base.

Overview
This region of Coronado Bay is much smaller than Night City, NorthOak has towering structures and ship-superstructures can be seen from the East Marina. NorthOak's population is mainly filled with military personal and their families; because of this many of the shops and restaurants will often cater to them.

In the light of vast post-war funding cutbacks and the rise of the Free States, the Pentagon fell back to the concept of core bases: large, well-defended installations that would protect a regional area and support units from all four branches of the military. The North California Military Base was established as part of the deal that allowed independence from the Union as a Free State. The government of the State kept an opinion of neutrality towards the base, as it would also protect their natural water resource from being forcefully stolen from Southern California.

The facilities within NorCal includes: Military homeports Navy ships, a small Air Force squadron of F-36 fighters, and a U.S. Amy armored battalion with its own AV-7 and AV-4 support vehicles.

The city of NorthOak is almost entirely federally owned and operated. The "Mayor" is the commander of the base, and of the twelve city councilmen, eleven are now, or have been, in the military. NorthOak is no longer even considered a Californian city—M.P.'s patrol the streets instead of police, and all justice is handled in a military court under a military version of the Uniform Justice Code. The military runs NorthOak with an iron fist, acting as judge, jury, and executioner in all criminal cases, keeping its crime rate a mere percentage of Night City's.

The homes are pleasant, pastel-colored bungalows with identical numbered curbs. Schools are top of the line and the Base Hospital, Theatre, Officers and Enlisted man's Clubs. The Base Exchange shopping mall will provide almost anything a citizen might want..