Sé Autonomous Region

The Sé Autonomous Region (Spanish: Región Autónoma de Sé, Portuguese: Região Autônoma da Sé) is a Ryanby super-metropolis located on Lake Adimoore, on the New Adimoore provincial border. The Sé Autonomous Region has a population of over 50 million, and is part of the Lake Adimoore Extended Metropolitan Area (LAEMA), which has over 180 million residents, making it the second largest metropolitan area in Delongo and the world.

The rapid growth of Matewood during the 20th century was accompanied by the development of both impoverished illegal constructions and opulent high end housing developments on the periphery of the city in Rosécia. The urban area of the Sé Autonomous Region is highly restricted due to the Parque Provincial de las Montañas Balatazana to the west and the Adimoore Desert National Park extending to the east of the region from the south. Barzeh is essentially the last remaining undeveloped area of the region, and it is undergoing development at the moment. The Adimoore Desert National Park area adjacent to the region is controlled by Aberdeen County, which has been resistant to development (there aren't even any highways connecting Aberdeen County to the SAR, only poorly maintained roads). The Ryanby Government has historically been quite sympathetic with the requests of Aberdeen County to remain rural and undeveloped. While the People's Ministry under Katie Lee has expressed a willingness to redraw the boundaries of the national park, without Aberdeen County's consent, changes to the SAR boundaries are unlikely.

In the 1950s it was decided by the Ryanby Government, headquartered in Oilman, that Sé would become an autonomous region. Ryanby had extremely limited powers in Sé, as it was a small government and Sé was a large city. At the time, Sé benefitted from its proximity to Matewood, but was mostly growing independently. In the 1990s, racism in New Adimoore was on the rise, spurring major developments on the New Adimoore border of Latin American immigrants who did not want to live in Matewood, but wanted to work in the area. Sé was too far from Matewood to make the commute reasonably possible, so Rosécia developed. Rosécia was mostly controlled by organized criminals who smuggled drugs from Latin America to Sé to the UMA. As such, the city grew around this industry, with organized crime being the city's dominant force. Ryanby was unable to intervene in the development due to Sé autonomy. New Adimoore began the construction of a border wall, with few points of entry. This was declared illegal, but was never dismantled. More points of entry were created to make the border wall less controversial. Due to the widespread support of Sé autonomy, which has enable Sé to develop into a global megacity, it is extremely unlikely that Ryanby will be able to repeal this part of their constitution. Sé is likely to keep its reputation as the most dangerous and interesting region of the PDRD. Rosécia has been growing because the costs of living in Matewood are rising exponentially. Most of its population is made of Spanish-speaking Latin American immigrants, while most of Chiclayo is composed of Portuguese-speaking Latin American immigrants.

New Adimoore also has much more difficult residency requirements than Ryanby, so many residents of Rosécia, Chiclayo, and Sé have a difficult time obtaining New Adimoore residency. While it is not illegal to settle in New Adimoore without residency, it does mean you won't have access to provincial social services, and Ryanby residents lose access to Ryanby social services if they live outside the province. Most immigrants to the Adimoore Peninsula choose to settle in Sé, Rosécia, or Chiclayo while processing, and then plan to move. Ryanby, along with Greater New London, New Rupertland, Quad Blix, and Vue Baie, participates in the accelerated immigration program, allowing immigration much more quickly than typical immigration processes. However, Immigration processing facilities are only located in Sé and Beauvoir for Ryanby, forcing immigrants to settle in these two areas during processing.

In January 2018, President Katie Lee announced plans to expand Express services between the Sé Region and the UMA. She also announced funding for more public transportation in the Sé region. There is not currently a metro service in the city for example. Bus services are extensive but inadequate. Until the Express opened in 2012, there were no public transportation options to travel between New Adimoore and Ryanby. By order of President Lee, all Express trains were required to have clearance to pass the New Adimoore border. All luggage is subject to inspection by New Adimoore officials, but this must be done at the station of origin. In March 2020 construction began on the People's Metropolitan of Sé (Metro Popular de Sé/Metro Popular da Sé [MPS]).

Plans began for a new city in the SAR for a predominantly Arabic-speaking population in 2017. The city was decided to be called Barzeh, and would be located on the Northern periphery of Chiclayo, along the New Adimoore provincial border. KOTA began construction on the city in March 2019, and first residents began moving in on March 1, 2020.

Air
Unusually for a city of this size, there are no airports in the Sé autonomous region. All those wishing to fly to Sé had to go through one of the airports in the UMA. Kondor is used for International destinations, and Lake South or Studio Hills airports for domestic destinations.

In October 2014, President Katie Lee announced that an international airport would be opened in Sé, just south of Rosécia. The airport will open in 2019.

Primary and Secondary
Due to Sé autonomy, Ryanby cannot run schools in the Sé region, so all schools are run by the People's Ministry. Since 2000, these schools have received high funding levels, and have developed excellent cutting-edge curricula. Sé schools are internationally renowned.

Post-Secondary
Sé has four universities, the Universidade de Chiclayo, Universidad de Sé, the National University of Sé, and the National University of Rosécia.

Healthcare
Again, due to Sé autonomy, Ryanby does not manage healthcare services, it only regulates healthcare services. As such, the Sé region's healthcare facilities are owned by the People's Ministry, but regulated by Ryanby. There are also some private healthcare facilities in Sé region.

Besides the major national hospital, el Hospital nacional del pueblo - Península de Adimoore, other major public hospitals in the region are el Hospital de Rosécia, Hospital Obera (Rosécia), Hospital de Gonrosa, Hospital del Rosécia occidental, Hospital do Sul da Chiclayo, and Hospital do Norte da Chiclayo. In Summer 2020 the Mustashfaa Barzeh Aleam (Barzeh General Hospital) will open.

El Hospital nacional del pueblo - Penínusla de Adimoore
Sé is home to the world's largest hospital el Hospital nacional del pueblo - Península de Adimoore, which has over 250,000 beds and over 350,000 staff. This hospital serves the specialised healthcare needs of the entire Adimoore Peninsula and the general needs of the Sé Autonomous Region. It is the most advanced hospital in Eastern Delongo by far, with only the South Matewood St. Mary's Hospital coming close to the research capabilities of the HNP-PA. The HNP-PA is a research and teaching hospital affiliated with three universities: Universidad de Sé, the National University of Sé, and the National University of Rosécia. There are plans for the proposed National University of Barzeh to also be affiliated with the hospital and offer Arabic-language services in partnership with the Barzeh General Hospital. All medical teaching staff are affiliated with all universities, meaning that all of these SAR universities receive comparable clinical educations (only classroom education will vary), and each of these universities have very highly ranked medical schools. The HNP-PA also offers training programs with Eastern University for students who are able to speak Spanish and/or Portuguese, in addition to English.

HNP-PA began construction in 2002 and was opened in 2006. It is located on a former massive railyard operated by CN Rail, located on the Sé waterfront in Centro--prime Sé real estate. The Sé CN Rail Depot was closed in 2000, so the adjacent Palacio Yves Train Station was reconfigured in order to minimize land usage on the waterfront. This was a project known as "Revitaliza la costa" which began in the late 1990s and continues to this day, with marine port activities moved from Centro, Iberia, and Lagos, to Dora on a newly man-built port/peninsula. Legacy passenger trains were moved to tunnels underneath the hospital, while Express services would be moved to two lines along the waterfront beside Calle Balatazana Ext., with tunnels under the hospital used during peak hours. This was part of a project to promote tourism to Sé by providing Express with prime, beautiful routes through the Sé Autonomous Region.

The "Revitaliza la costa" project additionally included the reconstruction of Palacio Yves to accommodate Express, but also the Metro Popular de Sé project. A new beach called Playa del Hospital was developed, making The HNP-PA is one of the few hospitals in the world with its own beach, frequently populated by longer-term patients, particularly during the summer months.

The hospital is structured to have 11 towers (torres), named A1-4, B1-4, C2-4. Each of these massive towers are dedicated to providing different health services. Thus each room is named TT-FFRRR, where TT is the tower code, FF is the floor number, and RRRR is the room number (e.g. a room in Torre B3, Floor 13, Room 134 will be known as B3-13134.

Sé Independence
The Sé region has a strong attitude in favour of autonomy and independence. Sé has repeatedly called to separate from Ryanby to become its own province but has failed. Over 86% of the region supports Sé autonomy, 32% would support a Sé province, and 4% support Sé sovereignty. Today very few people call for Sé to exit the PDRD, but in the past there has been a larger sovereignty movement.