Alambre del Mar

Alambre del Mar is a city in Rio Bogota, Taatiklatar. It is the poorest major city in Taatiklatar, and is notorious for its long-standing tension with the neighboring, predominantly English-speaking city Sekopetown.

Name
Alambre del Mar means "wire by the sea" in Spanish. This name is derived from the arbitrary border it lies on, at first between Taatiklatar and Nueva España and now between Rio Bogota and Sekope.

Income
78.6% of Alambre del Mar's residents were low-income (per capita income of <$10,000 / year) according to the C.Y. 250 census, by far the highest figure in a major city in Taatiklatar. (For comparison, in the second poorest city, Connuctiapolis, this figure stood at 42.5%.)

Gender, Sexuality
At the time of the C.Y. 250 census, Alambre del Mar was 56.8% female, 40.2% male, and 3.0% other (non-binary, questioning, etc.) 54% of the city's population were non-heterosexual, and 8.1% were transgender; the extremely high LGBT population indicated the discrimination they face in the country.

Racial demographics
The city was 66.3% Latin American, 11.4% White, 8.7% Black, 5.1% South Asian, 4.2% East Asian, 3.3% Arab, 0.8% Indigenous American and 0.2% Indigenous Oceanian, according to the C.Y. 250 census. 27.4% of the city's population said they had mixed racial ancestry.

Language
92% of the city's population were proficient in Spanish, 71% were proficient in English, and 20% were proficient in Taatiklarian according to the C.Y. 250 census.

History
Alambre del Mar was founded in C.Y. 31, when the area it was located in was part of Nueva España. At this time, it was a border city, bordering the much larger Sekopetown in Taatiklatar. Despite their geographic proximity to each other, the two cities were very different; according to the C.Y. 40 Taatiklarian census, 87% of Sekopetown's population spoke English natively, and according to the C.Y. 40 Nueva Españan census, just 11% of Alambre del Mar's population spoke English natively and a whopping 92% of the city's population spoke Spanish natively.

After Rio Bogota and Yume voted to become part of Taatiklatar in C.Y. 42, Alambre del Mar became part of the country. Despite Sekopetown and Alambre del Mar now being in the same country, the differences between the two meant that citizens of each, but especially Sekopetown, worked to keep the border fence up and eventually expanded it into a gigantic stone wall. While Sekopetown has been booming in recent years, Alambre del Mar has become the poorest and fastest declining city in Taatiklatar.