Artemis City

Artemis City is the name of the complex that grew from the international Artemis missions into the largest habitation on the Moon. Located around Shackleton Crater on the southern polar region, the city is home to over half of the people permanently inhabiting the Lunar surface.

Government

Government at Artemis City is a hybrid government under charter in accord with the International Lunar Cooperation Treaty of 2054, and also parts of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and 1979 Moon Treaty. Joint regulatory authority is shared among several Earth political entities including the United States, the European Union, the Commonwealth, the Scandinavian Union, and other Earth governments through the New United Nations, such as Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and South Africa.
This oversight works in conjunction with a local democratically elected executive council lead by a council chair. The council works with the Treaty Governor on a variety of issues, local and political.

Industry & Trade

Mining and Industry

The main industry here is the mining and extraction of lunar ice and the processing of that into water, oxygen, and hydrogen. But being the first city on the Moon, other mining companies have a presence here in the form of adminsitrative centers.
The following is a list of all U.S., E.U., Commonwealth, S.U., and other international mining companies*:

Private Mining Companies

Shackleton Energy Company

Deep Space Industries

Planetoid Mines

Golden Spike Company

Planetary Resources

Astrobotic Technology

Moon Express

Agriculture, Services and Light Manufacturing

In addition to water mining and processing, Artemis City is the leading producer on the Moon of agricultural products. It also has the largest variety of lunar services, and there are a few small factories capable of producing manufactured goods.

Infrastructure

Power Generation

Large, extremely efficient solar arrays, two fusion reactors, and one experimental Helium-3 reactor provide ample power to the base. Some of this power is also exported to other locations across the Moon.

Geography

The city is located in the southern polar region of the moon, primarily around Shackleton Crater where the original Artemis Base was created in the early-to-mid Twenty-First Century.

Natural Resources

Water Ice

Large amounts of water ice were discovered in the vicinity of Shackleton Crater and the surrounding craters of the southern polar region. So water, hydrogen and oxygen are the top resources extracted here for in situ use, for export to other lunar colonies and space stations in Earth orbit, and for fuel for transports to other locations in the solar system—Mars for the time being.

Metals

Most other resources, such as metals, are actually mined, processed, and sent to mass drivers for delivery into lower Earth orbits at different locations across the Moon. However, because there are administrative centers at Artemis City, these resources are often counted as exports here. Resources include:

titanium: Hanwi (popl. 971) and Armstrong Base (popl. 123) at Mare Tranquillitatis

iron: various Artemis Outposts and byproducts from titanium production

aluminum & calcium: Artemis outposts near sites rich in anorthite

silicon & magnesium: Artemis outposts near sites rich in pyroxene and olivine.

rare-earth elements:

helium-3: Aldrin Base (popl. 47) on the far side of the Moon

carbon: rare on the Moon, but found in ices at the polar regions (often along with mined water ices)

nitrogen: only found in trace amounts in the regolith, any fixed nitrogen from agriculture is probably more valuable than the produce itself

Moon-crete: a concrete-like building material produced from lunar regolith (also called Lunarcrete or Astrocrete) is exported to other building sites across the Moon, and even to Earth orbitals.

Type

Arcology

Population

150,830

Inhabitant Demonym

Artemisian