City of Bordulac

The City of Bordulac is a major city located in the State of Iroquois, in Great Lakes Region of the Midwestern United States.

Name
Bordulac is named similarly to Detroit (meaning "the strait" in French) as they are both French and related to bodies of water. Bordulac means "by (bordering) the lake" in broken French.

Influences
Bordulac mostly takes elements from Chicago and Philadelphia but also uses Detroit, Northern New Jersey, New York City, and Boston as influences as well as a few others for some districts.

Geography
Bordulac is surrounded by the Great Lakes and is mainly comprised of four islands with several smaller ones.

Districts
map for reference (listed from north to south, east to west) Bordulac district (real life counterpart)

North Bordulac

 * Newport North (based on Winnetka, IL)
 * Ste.-Antoine University (based on Columbia University, Manhattan, NY)
 * Empire Hill (based on River Vale, NJ)
 * Empire Park (based on Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY)
 * Uptown-Empire (based on Foxtown, Detroit, MI)

West Bordulac

 * Newport (based on North End, Boston, MA)
 * Middle West Side (based on Lower West Side, Chicago, IL)
 * Rustburg Village (based on Little Village, Chicago, IL and West Bronx, NY)
 * Portland Housing Projects (based on housing projects in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY) 

Downtown Bordulac

 * Upper Island (based on Roosevelt Island, NY)
 * Chinatown (based on Chinatown, Manhattan, NY)
 * Stadium Park (based on area around Comerica Park, Detroit, MI)
 * Lakeshore (based on Near North, Grant Park and Northerly Island, Chicago, IL)
 * Financial District (based on The Loop, Chicago, IL)
 * Heart of Bordulac (based on South Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, PA and Heart of Chicago, Chicago, IL)

South Bordulac

 * Port of Southwest Bordulac (based on Port of Newark, NJ and Michigan Central Train Depot, Detroit, MI)
 * Mt. Liberty (based on Camden, NJ, Gary, IN and East St. Louis, IL)
 * South Central (based on Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia, PA)
 * King's Field International Airport (based on Newark-Liberty International Airport, NJ and LaGuardia Airport, Queens, NY)
 * Trenchtown (based on Kingsessing, Philadelphia, PA)
 * Canterbury Gardens Housing Projects (based on housing projects in Castle Hill, The Bronx, NY)
 * Yankee Point (based on area southeast of Newark-Liberty International Airport, NJ)
 * The Brix (based on Hunts Point, The Bronx, NY)

Bordulac Keys

 * Bordulac Keys (based on the islands in Jamaica Bay, NY)


 * Sack Island (based on Zug Island, Detroit, MI and Fresh Kills, Staten Island, NY)
 * Majestic Island (based on Mystic Island, NJ)
 * Carcer Island (also known as Carcer Detention Center) (based on Rikers Island, NY)

Demographics
Bordulac is a very diverse city and many people of many different ethnicities live in the city, making it one of America's cultural "melting pots".

Chinatown, obviously, is home to many Chinese residents. Italians predominantly live in or around Newport, or the Middle West Side, which also has a large Irish population. Rustburg Village within itself is a very diverse district with a large population of African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Italian Americans and Eastern Europeans, a lot of which also live in the Portland Projects. The Heart of Bordulac is home to many Jews, Arabs, and Irish Americans. Mt. Liberty and South Central are predominantly African American, with South Central also having a large Hispanic population alongside Brix Point. Trenchtown and the Lower Canterbury Projects have a large population of Hispanics, Jamaicans and African Americans. Empire Park is home to many university students from the nearby St.-Antoine University.

Residents of Bordulac are called Bordulackers.

Crime
Criminal organizations in Bordulac

Bordulac is home to many active and former notorious crime syndicates such as the mafia, cartel and street gangs. Bordulac is home to three mafia families, the Attaglia's (also has operations in Tequesta [Florida] and Las Vivas), the Zoto's (also has operations in Las Vivas), and the Ricchese's. In the 1980s, Bordulac was home to a Colombian Cartel, but they stopped operations in Bordulac in the early 1990s. The Russian Mob headed by Vladimir Ubiytsov has operations across the city but mainly in Rustburg Village. Uptown-Empire is home to a Korean gang called the Uptown Gangsters, which also have small operations in Chinatown, where the Bordulac Triads own many businesses. South Bordulac (Mt. Liberty, South Central, Trenchtown, The Brix, etc.) is home to many African American and Hispanic street gangs, such as the Mt. Liberty Mob (aka the Kings) (formerly), the Vice Boys, the Puerto Rican gang, Los Latinos Locos (The Latin Locos) (also known as the L3), Trenchtown also is home to small Jamaican factions.