Polaris Capitol District

Polaris Capitol District
Outline of the district
Key details
Type	Capitol
Location	City of Polaris
Inhabitants	See below

Polaris Capitol District is a government district located western tip of Polaris Island, and encompasses a man-made peninsula of 23.4 sq. miles. There are 14 buildings located in the district, all of which play host to federal, military, state and municipal government offices. The Capitol District remains one of the largest government complexes in Antarctica. The buildings at the CD are at least 41 stories high, and reach a minimum of only 620 ft. tall. The largest building at the complex is the Polaris Harborfront Center, which has a height of 888 feet, and 65 floors and has a total floor space of 5,197,855.

History

In the years following the toppling and disposal of the tyrant Kingfish, the Polaris City Council ordained a resolution stating that Connery Square Hall was becoming increasingly crowded, and solely one building for use by City government was exceedingly miniscule. Countless desks were lined up against hallways due to lack of space in Connery Square Hall, posing a great risk for fire damage. The Art-Deco, 721-foot building, however, was architecturally renowned, and remains a symbol of Polaris today. The City of Polaris began construction of the Polaris City Services Building, now the home of the Polarian Times, which would transfer all City service departments, Committees and Policing departments to the adgjacent building. The City Services Building relieved the Connery Square Hall from high traffic and cramped space.

As the capital of the Water Kingdom District, the Governor of the district in 1956, Wilssen Alistair Wells, the construction of the Governor's Island complex on the Barron River. The island was oblong, located 2 miles north of the main island of Polaris City. Located at the site of Fort Hacherbhury, a historically significant military garrison decommissioned in 1941, the architecture of the complex indeed reflected the social conventions of Polarian society--with the introduction of a Beaux-Arts Revival movement. The complex comprised of seven medium-rise buildings, the Governor's Hall, standing as the centerpiece of the newly formed Polarian district, serving as the meeting place for the district's legislature. The grounds were adorned with exquisite gardens, maintained still to this day with the highest attention. After the dissolution of Older Antarctica, usage of the Governor's Island complex had shifted between hands, serving primarily as the provisional capital for occupying Puffish military forces.

While the Governor's Island has served as the provisional capital of the newly founded Polarian capital, the Governor's Hall serves as the Supreme Court of the Polarian Republic. The Governor's Manor, located 0.65 miles directly opposite from the Governor's Hall, serves as the home of the current President of the Federal Republic of Polaris, as well as his office.

In 2001, the newly found Republic had outgrown the hallowed halls on Governor's Island, and had moved to construct what would be the largest construction project in Polarian history, before the Polarian Federal Highway System. The Polaris Capitol District was constructed on what was once the Puffish quarter of Polaris, and had built a customs house, Mercantile Manor, where the Polaris Harborfront Center currently stands. Over 57 billion Polarian Dollars had been placed into the project, the cost of which was scrutinized by some members of the public. The first project to be completed was the Polaris Harborfront Center, arguably the largest office building in all of the continent. Soon to follow were offices of other agencies, including the Polaris National Intelligence Bureau, which is located off-site. On the inauguration of the buildings in 2006, then-President of the EAC Michael Bergen-Jackson had proclaimed the complex as "one for, and by the people,". The complex is interconnected by a series of pedestrian tunnels, and a closed-circuit subway system as well.

Map Guide

• 1: ‘’’Federation House’’’
• 2: ‘’’Federation House Visitors Center’’’
• 3: ‘’’Old Council Building’’’
• 4: ‘’’Embassy of Snowzerland’’’
• 5: ‘’’Embassy of Castilla‘’’
• 6: ‘’’Embassy of the United States of Antarctica’’’
• 7: ‘’’National Press Complex’’’
• 8: ‘’’Embassy of the United Terra’’’
• 9: ‘’’Central Post Office of the Polarian Republic’’’
• 10: ‘’’Embassy of Frankterre’’’
• 11: ‘’’Embassy of Zhou’’’
• 12: ‘’’Embassy of Calada’’’
• 13: ‘’’Embassy of Liguira’’’
• 14: ‘’’Embassy of Dorkugal’’’
• 15: ‘’’Embassy of Shops Island’’’
• 16: ‘’’Embassy of Freezeland’’’
• 17: ‘’’Embassy of Batavia’’’
• 18: ‘’’Embassy of The Culldrome Isles’’’
• 19: ‘’’Embassy of Margate’’’
• 20: ‘’’Polarian Museum of Nature’’’
• 21: ‘’’Polarian Museum of Computer Technology’’’
• 22: ‘’’Polarian Museum of Law’’
• 23: ‘’’Polarian Museum of Architecture’’’
• 24: ‘’’Antarctic Criminal Courts Building’’
• 25: ‘’’Supreme Court of the Polarian Republic’’’
• 26: ‘’’Department of Justice Offices’’’
• 27: ‘’’International Trade and Commerce Building’’’
• 28: ‘’’Thurrmann Tower (Continental Health and Medicine Organization)’’’
• 29: ‘’’Polaris Harborfront Center’’’
• 30: ‘’’Library and Archives of the Polarian Republic’’’
• 31: ‘’’Hotel Polarianas’’’
• 32: ‘’’Polaris Harborfront Center/J.M. Dellas Annex Building’’’
• 33: ‘’’Continental Commission Building (Commission on Fundamental Rights, Commission on Peace and Conflict Resolution)’’’
• 34: ‘’’United Antarctic Nations Central Office in Polaris’’’
• 35: ‘’’Latitude Plaza’’’
• 36: ‘’’Antarctic Center (Antarctic Economic Development Commission)’’’
• 37: ‘’’Baker-Hutt Plaza (Antarctic Trade Union)’’’
• 38 ‘’’Polaris Harbor Commission’’’
• 39 ‘’’Galto Building (Antarctic Internet and Telecommunications Council)’’’
• 40: ‘’’Quartz Tower’’’
• 41: ‘’’Flint Tower’’’
• 42: ‘’’Antarctic Council on the Environment Headquarters’’’
• 43: ‘’’Continental Circle’’’

Buildings

Polaris Harborfront Center

Main article:Polaris Harborfront Center

The Polaris Harborfront Center is the most prominent structure of all fourteen buildings in the PCD. The Harborfront Center is currently the city hall of Polaris, and stands at 888 feet, with seventy floors and over 5.1 million sq. feet of floor space. The Polaris Harborfront Center is home to both chambers of the Legislative Congress of Polaris. The building has three wings, the East Wing, the West Wing and the North Wing. At the hub of it all is the Penguin's Atrium, a grand atrium, reaching up over 60 stories to a large skylight.

The Polaris City Council is divided into the East and West Wings, with the West Wing reserved for the Municipal Assembly and the East Wing reserved for the Executive Board. The East and West Wings are only 310 feet in height, and have only 27 stories. The 27 stories are home to the offices of the majority of the Council-penguins and their aides. However, the Central Wing, also referred to as the North Wing is much more expansive and features offices for numerous city departments, city services and military offices are located in the building. A hotel is also located in the building, as well as a three-story luxury shopping mall and department store on Floors 3-8

Monte Captio Museum and Art Gallery

Monte Captio Museum and Art Gallery is one the nine museums of the Polaris Art and Culture Department. The Polaris At and Culture Deoartment is in full behestof the administration of the museum, though the deoartment is based in the Polaris Harborfront Center. The Museum houses a copy of every professional painting made in Antarctic in the past 450 years, with all of them currently on display. The Museum has a total floornspace of 1,672,172 sq. feet, over a height of 590 feet. The building was completed in 2001, along with many other buildings in the tower.

Monte Captio Museum is namesake of the founder of the city of Polaris, and is also dedicated to the hard work and perserverance of the Polarian political and business family. It is split into the Jacob Monte Captio Children's Museum which occupy 3 floors, the Sancho Monte Captio Polaris City History Museum, which occupies 5 floors, the Katy Spitz National Music Museum, which occupies 4 floors, the Polaris Natural History Museum, which occupies 8 floors, the Polaris Civilzation Museum, occupying 7 floors, the Antarctic Linguistics and Literature Museum, occupying 2 floors and the Observatiion Deck, 3 1/2 floor Department Store and Gift Shop and finally the Polaris Skyscraper Informational Gallery on the two topmost floors.

National Press Building

The National Press Building is appropiated for utilization by the the media and press of Antarctica.Eighty percent of the Polarian offices for all the press in Antarctica are located in this building. There are three magazines based at the National Press Building, all of whom have more than 1,200,000 subscribers per annum. The building has 61 floors, 55 tenants, most notably CBN News, which occupies 10 floors, Penguin TV, which possesses 5 1/2 floors.The National Press Building was constructed in 2003, as a part of the PCD project, and has 2,562,141 sq. feet of total floor space and is 755 feet in height.

The National Press Building, also features fourteen news television bureaus from news agencies from around the continent. The Press Building does not have any printing facilities for newspapers, but rather only offices. This is one of the reasons why countless newspapers in Polaris occupy other buildings in Polaris, as printers are not accessible from the offices. The tower is home to international newspapers, like La Tierra, Snoss newspapers, the South Pole Times, the Fishwow Comrade, the Maverick Messenger, the Continent and Post of Calada as well. The city of Polaris surely embraces the addition of foreign newspapers to the city's National Press Building, in an attempt to increase immigration to the city itself.

Polaris Central Library and Archives

The Polaris Central Library and Archives are one of the largest library and archive collections in all of Antarctica, and houses an extensively prodigious number of books, manuscripts, documents, and video archives. There are more than 2,457,650 books, 540,500 video archives and 1,005,000 paper manuscripts. The city of Polaris owns a copy of all books published in Antarctica, the laws of all the countries in the continent, and a video document of many classic movies, musicals, political meetings and news broadcasting.The PCLA is managed by the Polaris Department of Education, with support from Polaris University. The City of Polaris constructed the building in 2003, and has 69 floors, divided into 8 sectors.

The PCLA is divided into the Polaris-Robert Lee Public Library, which encompasses the first eight floors, the JenniferKatherine Mapleton Archives Center housing a copy of almost every book published in Antarctica since 1755.This sector occupies the most space, with 55 floors of storage space. The books can be suseptible to destruction should the building fail, or be destroyed, so the city of Polaris put special indestructible titanium cases, which are also vacum sealed and bullet-proof. The archives are very secure and are monitored 24 hours per day with up to 126 security guards at any time. The final sector is the Governor's Archive, which occupies 8 floors, and contains a documentation of every single law created in the USA and Polaris.

Latitude Plaza

Latitude Plaza is the home of all the consulates and consulate-generals in Polaris, and conatins a consulate from every nation in Antarctica. Latitude Plaza has 65 consuls, with some of them occupying more than two floors and one consulate that only occupies a small 25 x 25 chamber on the first floor. The largest consulate at the Plaza is the Castillan Consulate, occupying 2 1/2 floors in Latitude Plaza. The Plaza is currently the largest building in Antarctica dedicated solely to diplomatic consulates. Latitude Plaza, oddly enough, has an embassy from the USA, occupying 2 floors. The building was completed in 2004, and has 66 floors, and a total floor space of 2,435,600 sq. feet.

Latitude Plaza is split into four stratums, Boreas Stratum,Auster Stratum,Zephyr Stratum, and finally the Eurus Stratum. The sectors are named after the north, south, west and east winds, where countries in North Antarctica are placed in the Boreas Stratum, the South Antarctic Nations in the Auster Stratum, the ones in the West placed in the Zephyr Stratum and all of the others in Eurus Stratum. The atrium of Latitude Plaza is immensely prodigious, and possesses a large sanguine marble compass at the center. The Latitude Plaza also has a heliport on it's roof, and is one of three buildings in the entirety of the district who have such feature. There is also a small shopping area on the first floor, as well as a food court.

Polarcom Congress Center

The Polarcom Congress Center is a multi-purpose convention center, which has 87 floors, 17 of them used as the Polarcom Congress Center, while the skyscraper, known as the Polarcom Complex is the national headquarters of the internet and communications conglomerate Polarcom. The Polarcom Congress Center is the home of many ethnic gatherings, world-class military and financial summits. The City of Polaris allowed the creation of the building, after the planned Capitol Archives West Building was cancelled. The building was built in 2006, and has a height of 998 feet, and 87 floors in total, and 3,177,900 sq. feet of total floor space.

The TelePolar Congress Center has 3 auditoriums, which both house 1,000 penguins, 2 large trade-show floors with an area of 19,000 sq. feet each. There are also numerous meeting rooms and smaller congregation rooms within the TelePolar Congress Center, making it one of the largest convention center in the Antarctic. Every year, the Polaris Fashion Week Show is held in the Congress Center, as well as the Polaris Antarctic Automobile show is also located in the Congress Center. The building also is home to the Polaris Capitol District's main internet and communication servers, located 340 feet below ground. The Congress Center is also the host of many political rallies, including Polaris' own Polaris Democratic Party rally, which lasts over 2 weeks. The meeting of many inter-government organizations, along with NATO were held in the Congress Center countless times.

Quartz Tower

The Quartz Tower, the smaller of the two Mason Towers, the supplementary one being the Flint Tower is the headquarters for the Continental Hotel Union, which occupies over half of the building. The Continental Hotel Union is presently a federation of hotel chains and independent hotels that set standards for the quality and rating for hotels across the continent. The National Food and Nutrition Authority, which is a private firm that is currently hired by the city of Polaris to conduct health inspections is basedin the building as well. The Quartz Tower has a total height of 670 feet, and has 59 floors. It also has a total square area of 2,340,530 sq. feet.

The Quartz Tower is also the sight of an alleged plot to hack into the Polaris City Council's servers, during the construction and refurbishment of the TelePolar Congress Center. The old servers were inflitrated by a force of hackers known as the "Libby Party". However, in 2003, the entire electronic systems of the Polaris City Council went down as a result, costing the Council more than 23.1 million Fish in damage. To this day, the perpetrators have not been found yet, as the case regarding the attack was closed in 2005.

Flint Tower

The Flint Tower is the more expansive of the two Mason Towers, and is currently the main headquarters of the Antarctic Cities and Municipalities Association, that conducts bi-weekly sessions in the Flint Tower year-round. The Flint Tower is occupied by 155 different representatives from various cities across Antarctica.The tower has 70 stories, and has a total area of 2,985,710 sq. ft, and has a large central courtyard, a green-roof and a subterrainian concourse food court and shopping mall located beneath the building itself.

The ACMA purchased the Flint Tower from it's former proprietor, the City of Polaris, as a large enough headquarters could not be found in any other city in Antarctica. The ACMA's Assembly Chambers are located at the center occupies 3 stories worth of ceiling space and floor space, having 34.5 ft high ceilings. The ACMA Chambers are manifested in the same configuration and design as that of the Polaris City Council's Municipal Assembly chamber. The Flint Tower additionally has an observation deck on the 69th floor, and two gift shops open for visiting tourists and the local public.

Police and Fire Headquaretrs

The Police and Fire Headquarters are the main base of the Polaris Department of Police and the Polaris Fire Service Deoartment, inclusive of the Polaris Department of Security, the Emergency Call Center and numerous other departments. The Polaris Department of Police also has a police car garage, housing 205 police cruisers, 40 tanks, 77 SWAT team Enforcers, 19 Police Survaillance Vehicles and many other vehicles.The Forsenics, Dispatch, Investigation, Reconnaissance and Administrative Divisions are based inside the building as well.Fire Dispatching and the Fire Marshall's Office is located on the 1st through 17th floors. The tower was completed in 2001, and was one of the first buildings in the entirety of the Complex to be built. The Police and Fire Headquarters, has three heliports on the rooftop, and two anti-aircraft guns and 1 anti-aircraft missile launcher. The height of the building is 73 floors, with a total height of 965 ft. and a floor space of 3,333,910 sq. feet.

The Polaris Police and Fire Headquarters is noted as one of the most defended buildings in the entirety of all Polaris, as many secret files, documents and manuscripts belonging to the police forces are kept here. The Police Headquarters occupies the majority of the building, while the Fire Department only encompasses 17 floors. Five floors separate the two departments and is used for emergency calls, radio dispatching and air traffic monitoring. The Polaris Police and Fire Headquarters is also very exquisite, according to many architectural authorities. However, the

Eastshield Trade Tower

The Eastshield Trade Tower possesses the Polaris Economic Development Council headquarters, which oversees Polarian investment within Antarctica. The Eastshield Trade Tower also has offices for numerous stock brokers and Eastshieldan banks which operate independent of Polarian banking laws. Countless penguins utilize Eastshieldan banks over Polarian banks, over financial woes. The Antarctic Trade and Commerce Directorate, a federal agency which governs trade tariffs and taxes is also based here, The building is 605 feet high and has 51 stories.There is 1,967,231 sq. feet of space in the tower, and also has many vaults in it's basement additionally.

International Trade and Commerce Tower

The International Trade and Commerce Tower is a city-owned banking and trade center, offering services such as international stock brokering, and access to international banking institution, which have regional banking branches and facilities in the International Commerce and Trade Tower. The ITCT also houses countless auxiliary funds for many politicians and loans to many penguins as well. The ICTC's main tenants are the Snoss Imperial Bank, the Castillan Royal Bank, National Bank of the MAI, Bank of the Islands, TC Calada, Southern Ocean Fund, Alamagnated Investors and Polaribank. The ITCT was built in 2004, and has 2,721,738 sq. feet of floor space, 66 floors and is 735 feet high.