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Adrift in undisclosed circuits round Oceania's seas are the cities of Colobus, Vervet, Rhesus, Tamarin, and Mandrill, mighty constructs of metal atop concrete discs. Among these cycles the seat of power for the South-West Asia Group. Hundreds-of-millions of souls dwell on each but, while nigh identical in function and scale, the five boast distinct and vibrant cultures. 

Take Tamarin, a metropolis reflective of the mystique that predated the Indian subcontinent's flooded coastlines and deluged river valleys. From its perimeter of marinas and artificial beaches, a scallop-paved avenue, flecked with rich ultramarine and blotched with crimson, spirals dozens of kilometers round the city to a climatic apex where, a kilometer-and-a-third above the waterline, the Lotus Incarnate meditates, a masterful and enormous recreation of Delhi's long abandoned Lotus Temple. That magnum opus, bedecked in pristine alabaster and highlighted with lapis lazuli, instructs the towers and condos that whorl outward from its lofty dais. 

To combat the relentless equatorial sun, vast cerulean awnings extend from transluminum poles angled like entrenched pikes over the numerous and interwoven alleys and thoroughfares.

However, no depressing unlit nether city taints Tamarin's core; rather, chasms delve into the cityscape in bridge-stitched crescents, the canyonesque walls scaled in diffusive mirror-glass that gently guides natural light down to the city's submerged bowels. Eventually, the layers terminate beyond the concrete buoy on which the whole rests afloat, pierced by clear crystal columns encrusted in trillions of dinoflagellates, microorganisms with radiant auras that exposed the sprawl of life attracted to the behemoth structure's underbelly. 

As with architecture, so too has culture been preserved in the city's caste system, yet without the ugliness of poverty and want. Instead, the city is kept immaculate and crime averted through the meticulous and practically omniscient efforts of the drone surveillance and compliance apparatus. Order and hierarchy mandates a strict code of behavior, idleness is frowned upon, and very rarely will one see vagabonds at idle in the streets.