Elikaelia

Known as the Capital of the Eagrok Nation. Elikaelia is a massive tree city that inhabits four perpendicular branches of one of the tallest Raliok trees in the south-central portion of the Raliok forest of Vera. It consists of rings, where each ring is made of four sectors. The innermost ring circles the Siteakin that is the hub of the town and built atop ancient Dragios ruins.
Due to being built within the Raliok canopy, the city experiences heavy pollen seasons, where masking is required for any outdoor activities. All facilities are equipped with the air filtration systems, that are often upgraded every two to five years. Festivals are held to start the pollen season with mask design contests, with the winner receiving a grant to use the manufacturing districts machines to mass make their masks for the populace to wear. Often people will personalize their masks to add a sense of their personality. The pollen season lasts 1/3 of a Eliveran year.
Festivals to mark the start of other seasons are regularly held in the central district, and sometimes city council will host special festivals or events per community request - requests are petitions signed by community members to request a hearing, a new event or festival, and other changes to city structures.

Government

Participatory Democracy. The main city council has 12 people; of the 12, 9 govern their specific district, and the final 3 are representative of the city at-large. Called the Aluse-Vukasin, this council has the following responsibilities:

• evaluate, remove, or add city regulations,
• manage city finances
• evaluate city departments and verify they are run by the code of ethics and/or are still needed
• appoints an independent council to oversee city elections,
• determines taxes,
• evaluates building permits - verifies accessibility of designs
• works with community leaders to create plans to implement community engagement, accessibility improvements, and assistance programs,
• upkeeps infrastructure

Elections are held yearly -- though what office is on the voting ticket depends on what cycle. Most city officials stay in office a max of three years. To avoid having a long list in the yearly elections, the offices up for election are staggered so that the voting tickets do not exceed a list of 4 local offices up for voting at one time. National elections occur on a different cycle and are hosted on a day separate than city elections.
Community protection and support is handled by the Ivutohan council. Ivutohan council is elected in a separate election and engage in assisting the public with minor infractions or troubles, and investigate local crime. All elected council members must be trained in conflict resolution, de-escalation, and transformative justice techniques. They advise the judiciary branch of the city government, which is a council of judges.  If there is a mystery too difficult for the council to solve, then specialists specifically trained in investigative work will be employed by the council. Over time, the Ivutohan has created a small department of individuals that are regularly employed in training investigators and assigning work to teams of two. If the trained investigators are too few for the caseload, then the council will hire from other cities or even other nations to assist.

The council of judges is a rotating group of trained professionals randomly selected by the central processing network; they serve a term of ten years. Some can end up randomly selected for two consecutive terms if the pool of professionals is relatively small, but this is rare in large cities.

Defences

Located 2/3rds of a kilometer above ground in one of the larger Raliok trees within the south-central region of Vera, the defence system exists mostly to shield the city from any aerial projectiles. A network of stations built on the surrounding canopies monitors for aerial threats and neutralizes them if they are targeting the city. Very little threats come from below due to the immense height of the Raliok and its thick bark. There are monitoring stations situated around the trunk of the tree, but the stations rarely detect anything other than local fauna.
There is an emergency militia unit that can be called up by city officials in the midst of an attack, and although the militia meets for training practice of de-escalation and defense every two seasons, they have only been called into service once in the past three hundred years. Once the Elivera Federation became the world-wide alliance, threats have been relatively scarce and mostly relegated to small terrorist sects. The Tohanavi of the Federation are the ones that seek these terrorist cells to capture and log them into rehabilitation.

Industry & Trade

Elikaelia is a powerhouse in manufacturing that involves ingredients sourced from Raliok trees and the flora that grows on these massive trees. Large manufacturing seed facilities exist in the manufacturing sector, and a good 1/3 of the populace works in this sector.
The city is also a hub of academia with several sub-houses of its Siteakin, where students from across the solar system come to participate in programs and research opportunities. As the Siteakin is funded by the nation, any additional trade comes from the technology the sub-houses of Siteakin will engineer -- much of it is experimental and has to go through a series of tests before the tech is allowed to be included in the lists for the public to procure, but the trade of these tech items is extremely beneficial for the city.
Artists also frequent the city and work in programs within the Siteakin, and their art is on proud display within many a building and/or outdoor courtyard within the central circles of the city's sectors. Trade of art with the Cirtearians, with citizens, and/or organizations is a lucrative market as well.

Infrastructure

Transportation infrastructure

Road system exists for the automated truck rails that enter the various inhabited sectors to remove waste. The rest of the road is made of highly durable clear plastic and solar cells are embedded under the plastic to take in as much sunlight as possible despite the semi-translucent Raliok leaves that hang over parts of the city. The automated truck rails are on both sides of the road in the otokoi (translation: sideline), while the center of the road consists of either two lanes going in opposite directions or four lanes in opposite directions. Mostly transports use these roads. Very few people own their own vehicles, and there are lanes specific to katj and bicycles. Since the city was grown over five Raliok branches situated at ninety degree angles from the Raliok trunk, there isn't bridges except for those that serve as pathways to the undercity network.
essor_trains station exists on the north and south ends of the city, and are a long tube that goes down the side of the Raliok trunk to the underground pathways. These stations serve for travel to other cities within the Eagrok Nation.
Pedestrian walkways exist next to the otokoi, and in the central circles for government and entertainment districts, the majority of the central section of that district is a maze of pedestrian walkways and katj trails. There are katj trails that follow the roads, but there are also trails that go to the undercity network, and down to the lower levels of the Raliok. Once a trail leaves the undercity, it is enclosed in a cylindrical barrier, to prevent attacks from fauna that lurk in the lower levels of the Raliok. These trails wander all over the Raliok forest in hundreds of kilometers of exploratory trails.
Flight Hall exists on East side of the city, and is a hub for space flight as well as local flight to nearby cities or other nations. There is a rocket platform on the outer edge of the Flight Hall specifically for travel to the space stations, Lunar facilities, and other intersystem stations and way points.
Any movement of cargo or manufactured goods happen below the city, in the undercity network. Each carton of goods is lowered below through trapdoors, and then a rail system hooks to the rectangular carton to zip it from one location to the next. Once it reaches its location, it is pushed up through the trapdoor to be unloaded at the new location. If the cartons are to be sent out of the city to other locations, the rail undercity system sends them to the essor_trains facility, where the undercity portion of the train system loads them up onto the end of passenger trains to the same destination or to cargo-only trains that go to specific locations. If the cargo must be sent across the ocean, the rails send to the Flight Hall instead.

Energy

Numerous windmills dot the canopy layer of the Raliok that houses the city, most windmills placed on the highest branches, above the line of canopy leaves. These were the earliest forms of energy the city used. Solar panels were introduced not long after, and burning of waste plants were introduced around the same time as solar panels. In modern times (900 E or after), large plants run by fusion cores are set in the undercity of the Energy sector near the north-east side of the city. The electricity is then run through wires and tubes beneath the city to each of the transformers, that shuttle the electricity down for individual use in the buildings within that transformer district. Each transformer district has large batteries that can house large amounts of energy in case of blackouts in other parts of the energy system, the batteries then keep individual homes, buildings, and other above-city infrastructure lit until the batteries run out (approximately 3 to 4 days of continuous use). However, most black-outs have never lasted longer than 3 days, so the batteries haven't been upgraded to new models in several decades.
There are also above-city stations located at the intersections of major roadways, where vehicles or katj can stop to recharge their batteries. Most homes are also equipped with a smaller and less powerful version of these recharging stations.

Water management

Water is collected from the upper canopy and pumped to the water filter stations situated along the trunk of the Raliok. Pipes then run this down into the city to distribute it to the various sectors and individual buildings. A pipe system also runs along the Raliok trunk to the surface, where a water filter plant is automated to pull from underground reservoirs to add to the water management system of the city.
Liquid Sewage is pumped into a separate system of pipes that are then treated at water treatment stations situated in the undercity. Each sector of the city has at least one if not two water treatment stations. Once treated and restored to a "clean" state, the water is pumped back into the main water system. Any sewage that cannot be restored to a "clean" state is pumped into the hazardous waste system for disposal.
During rain and thunderstorms, the drains located along the otokoi of roads opens to drain the water into the water treatment stations. If the water exceeds a threshold, the water treatment stations will open floodgates to allow the waters to plummet to the lower levels of the Raliok -- most of this water is filtered.

Communications

• Hub stations exist in the center of each sector and are located in the undercity, where the fiber lines for online networks are sent to individual buildings. Hub stations also have broadcast frequencies, and have antennas that exist above-city to broadcast frequencies for radio networks and/or mobile-online networks.
• Postal Service (distribution of mail, transport of mail, ect.)
• Sefir networks
• Radio transmitters and networks
• Internet (server farms, routers, buildings with accessible networks)
• Communication satellites such as UPS

Solid Waste

All waste products are taken to the recycling centers to be sorted into bins for reprocessing. Most will end up in the Nanine vats to be remade into various seeds, but some will end up in the energy sector for burning of fuel. All waste is picked up every six days by automated trucks that run on rails alongside the main roads, and on all side streets. Every household is expected to play their waste disposal unit in the groove at the edge of their lawn, and the automated truck goes by, picks it up, dumps the waste into its compartments, and returns the unit to its groove.
All hazardous waste from chemical manufacturing goes through a special processing plant that is underneath the city, on the lower branches of the Raliok tree. The plant is made up of several walls of shielding, and a long heavily shielded and thick pipe sends the hazardous waste down along the Raliok's trunk to a containment facility buried 300 feet underground. The facility is also shielded with several layers of walls.

Type

Capital

Population

9 million

Location under

Vera

Owning Organization

Eagrok Nation