Saitama

Saitama (さいたま大都市, Saitama Metropolis) is the capital and most populous city of the Inarian superstate of Uzume and the southeastern Ōmiya prefecture. Saitama is situated in the Midori bay area of Uzume's southeast coast.

Overview
Saitama is the oldest city on Inari, and the most populous, with a total metropolitan area population numbering in the near-billions. Saitama has nine districts, each of them former cities of their own annexed by Saitama as it grew.

Saitama is a heavily urbanized city, sporting towering office complexes and apartment towers. The Chiryū district hosts most of the residential population, and is famous for its massive apartment complexes that often hold up to 500,000 residents per complex. The Chiryū needles complex, a group of three 302-story towers, has a capacity of over 1,000,000. Saitama's commercial-industrial development is mostly concentrated in the Saitama, Aichi and Okazaki districts, which host most of Uzume's technical development sector.

Saitama also has heavy suburban development in the Hitomi, Miyoshi, Ichinomiya and Gamagōri districts, which encase the urban centers on all sides.

Districts
Saitama is organized into nine districts, each formed as Saitama grew and successfully annexed its surrounding neighbors.

Saitama
The Saitama district was the location of the original settlement by Inari's first human inhabitants. It occupies a small strip of Midori bay coastline, and is mostly commercial development. Because of the high commercial density, Saitama is the second smallest district by population.

Tanaka
The village of Tanaka was the first settlement to annexed by Saitama in the 2230s as it began to rapidly expand. As of 2557, Tanaka is mostly a sea of low/mid-rise middle-class apartments that straddle the northern coast of Midori bay.

Ichinomiya
A large suburban district of Saitama annexed in the 2240s, Ichinomiya's population of over 8 million permanent residents makes it Saitama's largest suburban area by population. Single-family houses and low-rise apartment buildings compose most of Ichinomiya's outlying development, while high-density retail service occupies the regions near the city center.

Gamagōri
Saitama's smallest district by population and also the only district not created from the remnants of an annexed village, Gamagōri was separated from the Saitama district by petition in order to gain more autonomy. Gamagōri is a wealthy suburban district along the southern Midori bay coast where most of Saitama's high-income residents who chose not to live in lavish Chiryū apartment complexes chose to live their lives in comfort and peace.

Aichi
Aichi is Saitama's second largest district, and is mostly commercial and apartment development. It's population of over 25 million is made possible by massive apartment complexes stretching into the hundreds of stories in height. Aichi's world financial signifcance is second only to the Fūjinese capital of Matsuura, where its power trails behind only by a slim margin.

Okazaki
Okazaki is the industrial center of not only Saitama, but the entirety of Uzume. Okazaki was annexed early on in Saitama's history, and contributed to much of the Inarian industrial revolution that allowed for such quick technological advancement despite the obvious setbacks that come from being far away from the technological centers of Earth. Okazaki was the birthplace of the 2230s automotive boom that re-sparked industrial activity in the Inarian settlers and even three hundred years later still advances Inarian society at a seemingly unstoppable rate.

Chiryū
Saitama's largest district by a huge margin, <span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">Chiryū is the residential powerhouse of Saitama, with over 41 million permanent residents. The massive population and high demand for space and real estate has pushed terrestrial construction to incomprehensible extremes, with <span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">Chiryū's average building height at an astronomical 172 stories.

<span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">Miyoshi
<span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">Miyoshi is a northern suburban district of Saitama. Its development is almost exclusively residential, except for some commercial service industry located along major arterial roadways. Few Miyoshi residents actually work in Saitama, and instead supply the workforce of the neighboring metropolitan districts of Nishi and Nirasaki.

<span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">Hitomi
<span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">The epitomal suburban center of Saitama. Even though its population numbers in the millions, most of the development is suburban sprawl only enlarged by apartment complexes on the <span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">Chiryū <span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; "> border. Hitomi marks the westernmost edge of the Saitama M.D. and is the most commonly traveled district in the city due to hits links to the surrounding metropolitan districts.

<span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">Uzume Capital District (UZ-CD)
<span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">A small district located in the center of Saitama, UZ-CD is both the administrative capital of the superstate of Uzume and the Inari world state. The district is considered its own autonomous entity; carved from the districts of Aichi and <span style="background-color: rgb(66, 65, 65); font-style: normal; ">Chiryū when the world state was founded. Development is centered around the administrative building, which was built from the wreckage of the JAXA Inari in 2367.