Bajos {charm, to persuade, to tempt} or Baja (colloquially) is the first city the Sugai Dai Ichizoku planned and the second they built. The city is about 330 sq. km, at an elevation of seven meters above sea level laid out as a star heptagon, it is approximately twenty four kilometers from the sea (Pearl Bay). Baja is the epitome of laid back, calm, easygoing, and serene. The people are languid, relaxed and absolutely in no hurry. The city population is steady at about seventy eight thousand but may jump to over a hundred thousand from tourists and visitors seasonally and during festivals. Baja is a magical, exuberant, colorful journey at any time of year, our art galleries and diverse visual arts span ancient traditional art to the most contemporary making it one of the largest and most important art markets on Nejiro. Bajos has an elected City Council from ten wards that appoints a city manager {Arjun Batra} for executive administrative duties and appoints a mayor {Jozef Han} as a spokesperson and for ceremonial duties. The city also has the Bajos Advisory Council a Trustee Board appointed by the Sugai Dai Ichizoku Hierarchy and the Baja Guildhall Syndic. The Bajos Constubulary are led by Chief Constable Amila Carnavon in all community police matters. Emergency services are provided by the Bajos Fire Rescue Service led by Chief Beni Sidjilmasa. The Baja Magistrate Court is led by the Honorable Judge Koen Koa, JD. The NPO Tower is led by Inspector Teofana Soldan who oversees the usual complement of Constables, a K9 unit, a resident unit of CIB agents, a strategic response unit, and a NPO Sea Patrol marine services river and canal patrol and pursuit unit. The Nejiro Fire brigade has assigned a Heavy Rescue and Towing unit with a search and rescue attachment to the area led by Fire Captain Almar Hafldason. The Baja Chronicle - 'the first the only' - is an independent daily broadsheet newspaper with an accompanying digital site and a wide distribution throughout the Eastern Desert province. It has been in business since the City Charter was officially drawn up and covered breaking ground for the city's construction. The Bajos Reporter is a daily digital newspaper reporting exclusively on Baja and its metro area. The city has a mediterranean type climate featuring very hot dry sumers with average temperatures of 35 degrees celsius and mild winters with light rainfall. Baja was chartered (2798) to take advantage of the nearby resources of limestone, chalk, silica, feldspar, quartz, pyrite, marble, clay, and salt while staying close to both the Pearl Bay coastal area and its beautiful soft white sand beaches and to the Waikato River {flowing water} for access to the canals and the sea. The mineral deposits originate in the local sandstone formations which frequently occur as spectacular cliffs, cuestas, domes, and bluffs rising from the desert floor. The wide range of colors exhibited by the sandstone reflect a long history of alteration by groundwater and other subsurface fluids over the eons. The different colors are caused by the presence of hematite, goethite, and limonite filling the pore spaces within the quartz sand comprising the sandstone. The iron in these strata originally arrived via the erosion of iron bearing silicate minerals. The precipitation of iron oxide also formed laminae, corrugated layers, and pipes of ironstone within the sandstone. Being harder and more resistant to erosion than the surrounding sandstone the ironstone weathered out as ledges, walls, fins, flags, towers and other minor features which stick out and above the local landscape in unusual shapes layered in colors and fossils, all of which attracts tourists, hikers, and photographers from across the globe and stellar system. The Dako Unga {serpentine canal} (built as artificial tributaries of the Waikato {flowing water} and Kanawha Rivers {white rock}) makes its way through much of the Eastern Desert province with significant stops in Baja by the Nuska Eki {deity of fire and light railway station}, in Hilo by the Menrva Eki, by the Haken Eki {hegemony railway station} in Camp Haken, and by the Wahaten Eki {oasis railway station} in Madina. Baja has both a continental railway station Nuska Eki and a regional aeroport Thea Aerofield {wide shining goddess of sight and brilliance}. The city roadways are all wide avenues or boulevards and the residential streets all have meridians with productive trees (olives, apricots, almonds, walnuts), local greenery and desert flowers, Baja allows only electric vehicles inside the city limits and there is a road station and a service plaza outside the city limits with warehouses, logistic and transport services and an inland port facility. The city maglev subway is connected to a system of stops that serves the 'metro' area, the beaches, and local resorts. Hogo Bei {protective bay} south and east of Baja and part of the metro area has three desalination plants that along with salt produce minerals, metals, and micro-proteins used in a variety of industrial compounds and processes. There is a dedicated high speed freight rail tunnel to Hilo that may also carry a few passenger coaches. Houses and buildings generally generate their own power via built in solar cells and/or vertical wind turbines, and additional power to industrial processes in the area is provided via solar furnaces, solar farms, and wind farms. The major percentage of Baja's economy comes from its glass and ceramic factories (industrial, commercial, artisan) but mining, agriculture, textiles, and tourism also contribute. The city industry is well known and respected for its production of ceramic alloys and compounds as well as its inks, dyes, and paints. But Baja is renowned for their ceramic tiles and glass. Baja's most prominent business aside from their regular concerns is Anesidora {sender of gifts} that creates astounding lab grown hexagonal diamonds in shades of chocolat, blush, azu, vert, and cereza; Baja Gardens is a cooperative of many urban farmers (from rooftop apiaries and gardens to vertical farms and pastures) that produces thousands of kilos of fresh food annually that ensures city food security (and hundreds of kilos of fresh food for export); Araneae creates robust security algorithms using unique spider web, lace, and knitting patterns expressed mathematically; Coin-assure is a digital bank created as a secure payment processor that expanded into donations, recurring donations and subscriptions, go-funds, crowdfunding, exclusive content, and standard consumer and commercial banking; Vanaja {forest born of the blue lotus} manufactures photovoltaic technology, solar energy storage, solar tiles for residential, commercial, and industrial roofs, space-worthy solar cell construction, and solar heating and cooling systems; Flare designs and manufactures electric passenger vehicles for street and off-road; Chatterbox a hyper secure and super encrypted chat program; Sandia Laboratories was founded to research complex systems in the physical, biological, economic, and political sciences and has expanded into a wide variety of research including computational biology, millenium mathematics, materials science, pyschology, cognitive science, mechatronics, and micro-electrical systems and sponsors many internships and graduate student studies; Gotham Enterprises which creates and manufactures inexpensive and open patented medicines, farm equipment, repairable small power generation, renewable power generation, machine parts and components, tools, all terrain vehicles, water treatment, bolstered and protected crops balanced to not overwrite their environment, street worthy and off-road vehicle kits of antique, vintage, and classic auto designs. Gotham Enterprises is a long standing company with an excellent reputation due to the fact that they make things that are tough and hardy and designed to last, they make things that are designed to survive with minimal and readily available parts and input, that they deal fairly, and that they value and offer sustainability the breadth of their coverage, their reputation for reliability stands them in good stead in the community. Baja evolved early in its existence as an art enclave due to the popularity of the arts within the Sugai whose Hierarchy, as well as that of Fukuda, were and still are extravagant patrons of the arts. An artist colony and an art commune soon developed as the city did. There are now many famous and infamous artists in residence at the Baja Arts Colony - potters, glassblowers, lace makers, and also wood workers, metal workers, dancers, photographers, and painters. Some of the best quality artist tools are crafted and manufactured in Baja from brushes to camera lenses. Baja's most prominent artistic enterprises are Baiyu {white jade} from which artisans and crafters produce exquisite translucent white jade bone china tableware. And Kutahya Balian from which artisans craft hand painted decorative ceramic and glass tiles in delft, iznik, azulejo, Islamic, talavera, zellij, ming porcelain, kosiv, mosaic, lusterware, and the majolica styles; they also produce hand painted pottery and fine stoneware, murals and mosaics, decorated swimming pool and fountain tile liners, and custom tile designs. The Baja University of Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, History, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and Design, Traditional Crafts, Photography, Music, Dance, Calligraphy, Performance Art, Language and Literature, Business Design, Fashion Design, Marketing Communications, Digital Media, Applied Science and Math, Advanced Manufacturing) is one of the best independent public schools on Nejiro and stands as a pillar of creativity and innovation. The school is acclaimed for its comprehensive curriculum and distinguished faculty attracting artists from around the globe and across the stellar system. From traditional techniques to contemporary explorations students undergo holistic artistic development and get excellent career opportunities after graduation. The city is located almost directly across Pearl Bay from Sugai Castle on the Sugoi Peninsula {wow, awesome, amazing} and was architecturally designed to have a beautiful presentation, to provide a spectacular panoramic view of the city from Sugai Castle on Taebaksan {great white mountain} (2744 masl tall), a dormant stratovolcano in the Baekdu-daegan {backbone mountain range} of the Sugoi Peninsula. The overall architectural style of Baja - what has developed 'locally' into the Baja style - is a mix of byzantine, sukiya-zukuri, baroque, spanish mission, and mediterranean revival. Traditional urban houses and buildings are constructed with shared walls to minimize exposure to high exterior temperatures (summer highs may reach 43 degrees celsius) and solid exterior walls are painted with lime to minimize the heating effects of the sun. The roofs frequently are terraces or tiled in the roman imbrex and tegula style. One of the most characteristic elements are the interior patios, takhtabush {a covered outdoor sitting area opening into a rear garden court designed to capture cross drafts in aid of night flushing}, and garden courtyards, even on industrial and civic buildings. Other elements include wrought iron gratings, azulejo tiles, and balconies, there are also many malqaf {wind catcher towers}. Most of the brick and stone buildings are either whitewashed, clad in white marble, or covered in tile mosaics and frescoes of numerous styles from portraiture to abstracts. Stained glass is also a popular medium used for windows, doors, street lanterns, public sculptures, and other decor with styles including bohemian, art deco, art noveau, Islamic floral and geometric patterns, calligraphy, japanese aesthetics, luminist landscapes, mingei {japanese folk arts and crafts}, medieval, romantic, and folk. Baja also has a profusion of gardens and parks both for the artistic view of nature as well as the cooling and calming effect of nature on a city. There is a strict limit placed to keep buildings at no more than thirty stories. Like other chartered cities Baja has an extensive 'underground' which was built first like sub-basements and then the city itself built over top it - there are utilidors, cisterns (that are also used in heating and cooling the city's buildings), yakchal {underground refrigeration structures and ice boxes}, qanats {underground irrigation system}, shabestan {public and private night rooms with lounge areas and fountain pools for night flushing and evaporative cooling}, storage areas, bunkers, disaster shelters, walipini greenhouses and solariums, and a maglev subway system carrying both freight and passengers. But there are also extensive pedestrian walkays and bicycle paths that reach every destination of the city, sizable public playing fields and parks, a profusion of roman style baths and sento, several olympic sized indoor public pools and water parks, a great many lounge and siesta areas, and numerous cafes and pubs all used extensively especially during the heat of the day. Siesta is a firm tradition in the Eastern Desert, begun during the construction of Baja, observed during the midday hours between two and five, most people enjoy a long break from the hottest part of the day and pursue a long unhurried relaxing meal, perhaps a short nap or some leisure time. Siesta Lounges are an original Baja concept that have become a popular addition to the juice bar and coffee house crowds of the Eastern Desert and much of northern Tairiku, with comfy recliners, chaise and other loungers and ottomans suitable for naps that serve aquafresca, fresh fruit, tacos, churros, conchas {sweet bread}, horchata {rice and nut milk beverage}, pita, boba {bubble tea}, paletas {fruit ice pops}, and sopaipillas {stuffed fry bread}. The Baja metro area is sparse and spreads south and eastward into the Woy Woy Peninsula {much water, big lagoon}, there are two small seaports - the farthest one on the southern coast of the Woy Woy Peninsula where the Waikato River empties into the Sulu Sea {dynamic flowing water}, and the other in Hogo Bei, there are a few suburban villages, several guard-gated communities and resorts closer to the coast, almost a dozen fishing villages {like Mouse-hole a small village on the banks of the Waikato River east of Baja, a charming place of narrow streets and granite cottages huddled around a bend in the river that provides a natural working harbor for fishing boats and barges}, over a score of small villages that primarily work mines and quarries or farm, and one permanent combined paleontology, geology, and astronomy base field camp affiliated with Raissonne Daigaku - Hilo {reason university}, the Nejiro Natural History Museum and Planetarium - Yousai, Yabai Technology Institute - Hilo, Southeastern University - Hilo, Rose Polytechnic Institute - Hilo, STEM Polytechnic - Leyte, Quezon Institute of Science - Quezon, Imperial College Yousai, the SanGun Geoscience Society - Moro, and the Nejiro Guild Halls that all sponsor scientific field studies and expeditions throughout the Eastern Desert province.
