Alakina



Alakina is the capital and largest city of Taatiklatar, and is the largest city on the planet Cyprus as a whole, with almost 2.5 million people residing within its borders according to the C.Y. 250 census.

The city's iconic skyline is anchored by the Rainbow Tower, which stands at 506m (1660 ft) tall, which makes it the tallest building in both Taatiklatar and the entire planet of Cyprus. The city is located on the west shore of the Pua Channel, a narrow salt-water estuary seperating the island of Pua from the Taatiklarian mainland.

The city is one of the two anchoring cities (the other being Aqaina across the Pua Channel) that form the Alakina-Aqaina metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in Taatiklatar and across all of Cyprus. Alakina is the center of much of general Cypriot and Taatiklarian culture, politics, finance and history.

History
Alakina was founded in C.Y. 6, by a group of about 20 former inhabitants of Colony. It was founded as an oceanic port city to be connected to Colony, by far the largest city on Cyprus at that time. It was named for Sammy Alakina, the first leader of Colony (the precursor to the President of Taatiklatar.) The city grew rapidly into the C.Y. 20's, and officially became the capital of Taatiklatar in C.Y. 23. Alakina became the largest city in Taatiklatar and all of Cyprus after the C.Y. 60 census, a status it has maintained since.

Income
25.2% of Alakina's population was low-income (per capita income of under $10,000 dollars / year) according to the C.Y. 250 census.

Gender, Sexuality
According to the C.Y. 250 census, Alakina was 53.7% men, 45.2% women, and 1.1% other (non-binary, questioning, etc.)

Racial demographics
The city was 43.6% White, 24.7% Latin American, 10.3% East Asian, 9.6% Black, 7.2% Arab, 4.1% South Asian, 0.5% Indigenous American and <0.1% Indigenous Oceanian according to the C.Y. 250 census. 36.0% of the city's population said they had mixed racial ancestry.

Language
According to the C.Y. 250 census, 88% of the city's population were proficient in English, 54% were proficient in Taatiklarian, and 31% were proficient in Spanish. Notable minority languages included French (6% proficiency,) Romanikan (2% proficiency,) Italian (2% proficiency) and Russian (1% proficiency.)