Gotham City

Gotham City is one of the oldest-established Eastern urban centers in the United States of America, located in the state of New Jersey.

It nestles at the mouth of the Gotham River upon islands once peopled by the vanished Miagani Tribe. Though it now resides in infamy for its rampant per capita crime rate, florid urban legends, and brooding Gothic spires, Gotham's 19th-century patrons once envisioned their community as a concrete and steel stronghold for pious righteousness and booming industrial growth.

Bolstered for generations by the business ventures of the wealthy Wayne Family, Gotham's economy helped the city to flourish as a technological hub, but one founded upon the swampy soils of slow and inexorable moral decay, despite the best of intentions. After the Cataclysm event that leveled the city, Gotham City was rebuilt in what would be called the "Billion Dollar Build-Up", the largest Federal Works Project for fifty years. New Gotham's skyline is an amalgam of yesterdays and tomorrows; with newly-erected towers of glass standing side-by-side with granite Gothic citadels preserved from the old city. This dichotomy of architecture appeals to both native Gothamites and the city's teeming newcomers.