Population

Renewed Detroit has a population of around 23,000 (2440 census). While most of them are scattered in farming villages and towns, Renewed Detroit does have two large population centers: Detroit and Toledo. Overall, for every three Humanoids living in Renewed Detroit, there's roughly one Pure Strain Human and one Mutated Animal living here as well. Nearly all of our Mutated Animal citizens are New Canids.

Detroit

Detroit is the capital and largest city. It boasts a population of over 6,500 people. About 4,500 of them are Humanoids; 1,500 are Pure Strain Humans -- the largest group in the nation -- and the remaining 500 or so are Mutated Animals, mostly New Canids, but also a number of other rare types.

Toledo

Toledo is our second city, with a population of about 3,900 people. Over 2,500 of them are Humanoids, and the rest are roughly split between New Canids and Pure Strain Humans.

Noteworthy Towns

Several towns are worth mentioning. They're listed in order of population.

Bay City

Bay City is the base of our Lake Huron fishing fleet, and contains almost 1,900 people. They're split about 2:1 Humanoids to Pure Strain Humans, with some New Canids as well.

Flint has our largest population of New Canids. They make up 900 or so of the town's 1,400 residents. The remainder are mostly Humanoids, though there are a hundred or so Pure Strain Humans and a smaller number of rare Mutated Animals. Flint remains an industrial center, being the site of several metalsmiths, our two largest sawmills, both of our rayon works, and our main paper mill.

Ann Arbor has a floating population of about 300 people, all Humanoids or Mutated Animals. Before being devastated by rioting and bioweapon attacks, Ann Arbor was home to the University of Michigan, and the 300 or so brave people living here constantly sift the ruins for fragments of High Technology or Great Knowlege.

The four garrison towns -- Sanford, Ovid, Jackson, and Defiance -- make a rough line running north-south along our western border. (Our eastern counties are populous enough that local regular and militia forces provide adequate defense.) Each garrison town has a civilian population of 300-400, and a military population of at least 80 (a regular army or militia company) and sometimes more. Since they make up our part of our first line of defense, each town is heavily fortified and has supplies laid in case of siege.

The garrison towns define the edge of civilized rule, so they're popular jumping-off points for traders, Recoverers, and others seeking profit in the wild lands. Usually, there's at least a handful of them in each town, preparing to go out, recovering after returning, or simply swapping rumors and war stories with the garrison and each other.

Lansing isn't a town, as there are no permanent residents, and rarely are there more than ten people there. Lansing is a crumbing ruin, blasted and irradiated by a cobalt-laced neutron bomb during the Death of the Capitals, a brutal spasm of violence near the end of the Final war. Even getting within a mile of the ruins requires radiation protection.

However, since Lansing is the former capital of Michigan, Recoverers and scavengers often search the rubble for lost valuables, especially Great Knowledge concerning our history and legal system. Despite the damage done to Lansing, they are occasionally rewarded.

Most recently, in 2446, a Recoverer team found a working tablet computer in the basement of a former government building, and its memory system held a partially-readable copy of the 2319 Michigan Commercial Code along with several entertainment programs, an amazing find. Three skeletons were found near the computer, and their IDs say they were Franklin Marsh, Sandra Sanchez, and Europo Tremont, all members of the Michigan government. As their deaths have granted us this historical boon, they've been buried with honors in Detroit Memorial Cemetary.