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Concordia, Capital City of the Commonwealth (WIP)
Capital city and metropolitan commune
(WIP)
Country: Commonwealth
Region: Midwest
State: Concordia
Founded: c. 1780
Incorporated: 1833
Declared capital: 1920
Demonym: Concordian
Area: 1,265 kmē
Population: 7,746,388
Demonym: Concordian
Concordia, formerly known as Chicago, is the capital city of the Commonwealth of America and Oceania. With a population of almost 8 million people, it is the fourth-largest city in the country after New York City, Mexico City, and Tianhai. The city is governed as a metropolitan commune, and is located in Midwest on the shores of Lake Michigan, bordered by the states of Illinois and Indiana.
First incorporated as the city of Chicago in 1837, the city grew rapidly throughout the mid-19th century. Though devastated by the 
Great Chicago Fire in 1871, Chicago recovered quickly, becoming one of the largest cities in the world by 1900. After the start of the American Anarchy, the city would be the site of heavy fighting between units of the United States Army and militias led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The fighting would heavily damage the city, and in the end, the IWW would win out, forming an anarcho-syndicalist government that would control Chicago up until the Second Pan-American Socialist Congress in 1920. At the Congress, it was decided that Chicago - now renamed Concordia - would be the capital of the newly formed Commonwealth of America, owing to its central location relative to the continent, and its preexisting and extensive railroad links.
