Northern California

The Free State of Northern California also known as NORCAL is an autonomous region in the USA. It is located in North California. One of the largest cities in the region is Night City.

History
Free States are still part of the Union (of the USA), but are very much independent. They can declare federal laws invalid and make up their own.

The first state to declare itself a free state was Texas in 1999 (renamed itself The Republic of Texas), after the government tried to control its weapons. Texas was followed by Alaska (2000), California (2002), Nevada (2003), and Utah (2014). The Free State of Northern California then ceded from the rest of California (subsequently named Southern California) in 2012. Here's a map USA in 2020

In 2077, Night City has emerged as an independent city-state after a war between the New United States and several secessionist states. Arasaka is in control of the new Night City.

Location


The border between the Free State of Northern California and the Free State of Southern California is just south of Night City.

Night City occupies the space corresponding with former Morro Bay, but has since seen landfill alterations. Night City’s original name was going to be Coronado City, but the name was changed after the death of its founder, Richard Night.

Night City has no connection to Coronado, California which was incorporated in 1890.

Integrates
Integrates are parts of the city that correspond to general geographic regions of the old California Free State. Large cities are arranged in central hubs of a million or more people, with outlying city cores and span cities linking in. For example, SanFran Integrate has massive hubs around Old San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, with megastructures and span cities crossing the Bay and arching over the Coastal range to the Pacific.

NorCal Integrate
This region covers the area north of San Francisco all the way north to Portland, Oregon. Since this area is covered by mountainous forests, it is not as dense as the Integrates to the south.

SanFran Integrate
This is the region that encompasses the former city of San Francisco, as well as the surrounding cites of Oakland, Berkeley, San Mateo, and San Jose.

MidCoast Integrate
This covers the region from Santa Cruz to Monterey, with out runners over the San Gabriel Mountains to link to the Central Valley. Many small towns have been replaced with city cores linked to larger townships by tunnels, bridges and flyways.

Central Valley Integrate
This area is a web of outlying city cores and agricultural fields, with several large urban zones acting as the hub for the region.

Night City Integrate
This is the original core of Night City, extending north to the Mid Coast Integrate and merging south into the Los Angeles hub. Night City is one of the new cultural centers of the United States next to New York, LA, Orlando, and so on.

Los Angeles Integrate
This zone covers all of the former Los Angeles basin, from the San Gabriels to the ocean. Much of this region is underwater, flooded in the aftermath of the 1998 earthquake, or later subsumed when the ice-caps were melted by the Orbital Mirrors. As a result, much of Los Angeles is made up of older ruins that jut out of the water like broken teeth, capped by swathes of new construction where the water isn’t too deep.

Santa Diego-Tijuana Integrate
This region sprawls from the Mexican-U.S border town that was once Tijuana, over the desert to San Diego, then north up the coast to Long Beach. SDT is one of the fastest growing regions in Northern California; lots of open land, raw materials(sand), and desert heat made a perfect environment for the nano builders.