In the OOC thread for my new roleplay, Life in the Big City...State, I said that I'd essentially dump all the facts on the setting in my blog, so as to keep clutter in the OOC thread down. Here's the first of a series of posts on what Port Impala is, and what it's like.
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Basic Information*

Official name: Commonwealth of Port Impala

Demonym: Port Impalan

Languages: Equestrian is the sole official language, and is spoken by 88% of residents in the city-state. Due to the unusually large zebra population, Zebrican is considered a "recognized language" and has its own public media. Government documents are written in both languages, but almost all business is done in Equestrian.

Population: 4,903,779
- Density: 16,130/mi² (10,024/km²)
- Racial breakdown: 41% earth pony, 20% pegasus, 25% unicorn, 13% zebra, 0.9% other

Land size: 304.1 mi² (489.4 km²)

Type of government: Constitutional parliamentary republic
- Mayor: Bright Idea (UCP)
- Opposition Leader: Pic R. Perfect (NA)
- Chief Magistrate: Golden Gavel

Legislature: Commonwealth Assembly (60 seats)
- Governing party: Unity and Cooperation Party (UCP - 36 seats)
- Opposition party: National Alliance (NA - 15 seats)
- Other parties: Impalan Freedom Party (IFP - 6 seats), Green Association (GA - 3 seats)

Currency: Port Impalan leva (=L=). For comparison with Equestria's national currency, the bit, 1 leva = 3.74 bits.

Nominal GDP: B200.98 billion
- Per capita: B41,257 (very high)

Cost-of-living adjusted GDP: B198.89 billion
- Per capita: B40,551 (very high)
- Differential: B2.09 billion

Right-hand or left-hand driving? Right-hand driving

This is an overview, of course. A more detailed look at the city-state will be coming in future posts.

* All financial information will be given in Equestrian bits (B)