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The elevating of the status of an existing locale beyond its current stature in an Alternate Universe or Alternate History, or in a far-future Science Fiction setting. Cleveland becomes the US Capital, Tokyo becomes the World Capital, Toronto becomes capital of the largest polity in the known galaxy, that sort of thing. The city may of course be very important today, but the transition gives it official political power on a stage above its current influence. At the other end, it can be a sleepy village that suddenly gains much larger stature. The reasons for this vary. Sometimes, they just aren't given. Other times, other candidates for the position have been destroyed or invaded. Or perhaps they got lucky and economic conditions shifted their way. Compare and contrast Dying Town. |
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The Falcon Cannot Hear sees several examples of this after the Second American Civil War starts up: Juneau, Alaska effectively acts as the capital of the "Khaki" military government once they lose control of D.C. after MacArthur's death, but by that point, the faction's mostly dissolved to warlordism, so Juneau really only controls the forces in Alaska itself. Huey Long's fascist "White" government is established in and run from Montgomery, Alabama. When Montgomery is captured by the Red Oak Pact/Popular Front, the surviving White leadership flees to Tallahassee, which lasts until Florida surrenders wholesale. The American Soviet Republic is based in Chicago, which was the first city government to be overthrown by the Communist revolutionaries. When the ASR is facing final defeat, its government briefly relocates to Springfield, Illinois. After the East Coast soviets break away from the ASR and form the American Workers Collective, New York serves as their capital. The Provisional Government primarily operates out of St. Paul, Minnesota, though due to being cut off by the other factions, its West Coast territories are run from Sacramento. Post-war, with the Red Oak Pact victorious, St. Paul is briefly the capital of the entire United States, with President John Lewis even considering having it become the capital permanently due to it being the seat of his power. His successor Eisenhower, however, has it moved back to Washington, DC. The agrarian Continental Congress' capital is Oklahoma City. After declaring neutrality, and working out a deal with the Cuban government, Admirals Fletcher and Bloch use the Atlantic Squadron to turn Guantanamo Bay into the center of an American exile community, eventually evolving into a thriving city. After the war's conclusion, it becomes an autonomous city-state within the Third Republic. |
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The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham: In the third act, with sea levels rising and London under threat of being completely flooded, the British government is forced to relocate to Harrogate in Yorkshire as their "temporary" capital. It's a good choice, as it's well above sea-level and at no risk of being flooded out, and it's a popular spa town and tourist destination so it has numerous hotels that can be commandeered for living and working space. Its significance ends up being very temporary, as increasingly desperate resource shortages and Head-in-the-Sand Management at the top end in an ominous lack of contact. | |
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A more infamous example was the cocaine trade during the 1980s, thanks to Florida's proximity to Latin America. Although the drug money led to a massive development boom in Miami, it also led to a massive crime wave, which became the inspiration for Miami Vice. | |
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In the 1970s Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV revival, "New Chicago" was the capital of Earth and its colonies. | |
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Chicago becomes the capital of the Solarian League in Honor Harrington, the largest (by a couple exponents) human polity in the explored galaxy. The League was formed after a war that devastated Earth to the point that only stayed habitable due to major assistance from the more developed human colonies, and the city explicitly has even 20th-century architecture intact, so it can be inferred that it became capital because it was one of the few remaining cities capable of the role and all candidates above it were devastated. The Talbott cluster was an unimportant backwater, destined to be swallowed by the expansion of the Solarian League despite the efforts of some leading businesspeople to economically advance it and forestall that possibility, until a nearby terminus of the Manticore Wormhole Junction was found nearby, suddenly bringing massive investment and providing an opportune ground for outside forces to trigger conflict between Manticore and the Solarian League. |
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Earth's Alien History: The administrative capital of the Terran Treaty Organization (TeTO) is in Stockholm, one of the few cities on Earth that hasn't been destroyed and subsequently rebuilt at all during the numerous Alien Invasions. In the Mirror Universe, after the Civil War in which Hoshi Sato and her followers seize control of TeTO and transform it into the Terran Empire, she moves the capital to Tokyo as a homage to her ancestry. |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: All non-Iceland countries have a new capital: Norway has Aurland instead of Oslo. Sweden has Mora instead of Stockholm. Denmark has Rønne instead of Copenhagen. Finland has Saimaa instead of Helsinki. Iceland still has ReykjavÃk as its capital, but is now the most populated country in the Known World (yes, the Depopulation Bomb hit that hard in the other countries, and Iceland is still down to 60% of the population it had in real life when the comic started being published). |
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In Magic, Metahumans, Martians and Mushroom Clouds: An Alternate Cold War, Phnom Penh is nuked in order to kill Saloth Sar (Pol Pot never changed his name in this timeline) before he can complete his apotheosis ritual. Afterwards, the new (Vietnamese-backed) provisional government is set up in Krong Svay Rieng. | |
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On the Dream SMP, over the course of just several months, the faction Las Nevadas has turned from a mountain range terraformed into blank desert far from the main hub of the SMP, to a hustle-and-bustle hub for entertainment... and more importantly, lore and plot. | |
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In the Galactic Milieu series, the Remillard family somehow managed to successfully get Concord, NH to be designated as the capital of Earth. No explanation is given as to how they pulled that off, but it probably had something to do with Unifex remembering that this was the case when he first entered the Stable Time Loop that created the Milieu in the first place. | |
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In Jericho (2006), Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Columbus, Ohio become the capitals of what remains of the United States. Earlier contenders for the title included Sacramento, California; San Antonio, Texas; Cleveland, Ohio; Albany, New York; and Montgomery, Alabama. Most of the other major cities were destroyed in the series premiere. | |
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In FTL Newsfeed, Chicago becomes the capital of the North American Union. | |
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In the Terra Ignota series, nation-states have been replaced by Hives, large voluntary non-geographic governments, due to the ease of transportation. Two of their capitals are in Ingolstadt, Germany, and Alexandria, Egypt. The tiny village of La Trimouille, France, is also home to an important politician, and hosts many influential parties. | |
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The Last Ship: In the Season 2 finale, due to its surviving infrastructure and centralized location, St. Louis is declared the new capital of the United States. Season 3 reveals that Hong Kong is now the capital of China. Also in Season 3, as part of the division of America into semi-autonomous regions reporting to St. Louis, we see that New York, Des Moines, Texarkana, and Los Angeles become the regional capitals of the Northeast, Midwest, South, and Southwest, respectfully. (The capital of the Northwest is never mentioned.) |
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While New York is hardly insignificant, in Defiance it becomes the capital of the Earth Republic, one of the two surviving nations on the planet (and the only human-dominated one). | |
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After Tokyo gets destroyed, the Japanese capital is moved to Fukuoka in Ghost in the Shell. While a major Japanese city in its own right, it doesn't have any of the fame of Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka. | |
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In Worldwar the invading aliens destroy Washington DC with a nuclear bomb causing the US to shift its capital permanently to Little Rock, Arkansas. They also wipe out Berlin, and after the war Germany's capital is Nuremberg. | |
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Black Tide Rising: When the federal government is officially reestablished at the end of Strands of Sorrow, it's decided that DC is still too overrun by zombies to be able to function as a capital, so for the time being they'll relocate to the more secure Jacksonville, Florida. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Duckburg was originally a small farming hamlet that had sprung up around the decaying ruins of colonial Fort Drakeborough, built by Sir Francis Drake about 200 years earlier. The small community had been founded by a man named Cornelius Coot, who had been given the fort (that he rebuilt as Fort Duckburg) by the retreating British troops in 1818, and the deed to parts of the land was sold to Scrooge by Coot's grandson Casey when they met during the Klondike gold rush. Scrooge decided to base his business empire there, and Duckburg quickly ballooned into a massive city, though the city still honors Cornelius as their founder rather than Scrooge. Before Scrooge's arrival, Duckburg experienced a brief period of importance during The American Civil War, when, owing to its harbor and its easily defended fort, became a major Confederate position on the West Coast... At least until Donald's great-grandfather namesake blew up the fort, allowing the Union to take the town and return it to its previous unimportant state until Scrooge's arrival. The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: Dawson City was originally just a settlement at the delta of the Klondike and Yukon rivers consisting of a logging camp and a saloon catering to the workers. Then gold was discovered in the area, and it became the center of the Yukon Gold Rush, one of the last great gold rushes, and the population ballooned from 500 to 30.000... Including a prospector named Scrooge McDuck. Paperinik New Adventures: In the 23rd century Earth is shown to have been unified, with the capital at Megadelhi, the future union of Delhi, New Delhi, and the rest of the metropolitan area in a single city. |
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Fallout: Shady Sands was a small wasteland settlement originally founded by some of the people from Vault 15, but ended up becoming the birthplace of the New California Republic thanks to the actions of the Vault Dweller. Decades later, it's the capital of the NCR and one of the biggest cities in the post-apocalyptic world. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine gives us a Suddenly Significant Planet, in the form of the titular station's nearby planet Bajor. Before, it was just a provincial backwater recently freed from a forced occupation. With the discovery of the nearby Bajoran Wormhole, it suddenly becomes one of the most rare and important areas in the entire galaxy. Suddenly, Bajor is the forefront of deep-space exploration, copious traffic, high-end research, and the first thing Dominion cruisers see as they enter the system to invade. | |
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Radiator Springs in Cars. Goes from Dying Town to hot tourist spot after Lightning McQueen moves in. | |
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In Things to Come, Basra, Iraq is mentioned as the home base of the Airmen - and implied to be the new capital of the rebuilt united Earth. | |
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In Star Trek, San Francisco is the headquarters of Starfleet and Paris is the capital of the Federation (in Enterprise, which takes place prior to the establishment of the Federation, San Francisco is the headquarters of the Earth Starfleet, and Paris the capital of the United Earth). Star Trek: Deep Space Nine gives us a Suddenly Significant Planet, in the form of the titular station's nearby planet Bajor. Before, it was just a provincial backwater recently freed from a forced occupation. With the discovery of the nearby Bajoran Wormhole, it suddenly becomes one of the most rare and important areas in the entire galaxy. Suddenly, Bajor is the forefront of deep-space exploration, copious traffic, high-end research, and the first thing Dominion cruisers see as they enter the system to invade. |
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: Dawson City was originally just a settlement at the delta of the Klondike and Yukon rivers consisting of a logging camp and a saloon catering to the workers. Then gold was discovered in the area, and it became the center of the Yukon Gold Rush, one of the last great gold rushes, and the population ballooned from 500 to 30.000... Including a prospector named Scrooge McDuck. | |
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The Wheel of Time: The village of Emond's Field begins as a tiny Arcadian backwater significant only for being The Chosen One Rand's birthplace. Refugees from the West give it a huge population boom and a massive influx of talented tradespeople; Rand's childhood friend is elevated to local Lord by popular vote in defiance of royal authority; and, by the end of the series, it's poised to become the new capital of an independent nation. | |
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Sam Hui's "Bauhinia" (洋紫�) alludes to Hong Kong's status as this in its first stanza, going from a tiny fishing port to a bustling Neon City and "Shopper's Paradise". | |
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In Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne, the seaside town of Kamogawa suddenly becomes the most important city on Earth after aliens (well, extraterrestrial humans) make first contact there. Lampshaded in the second season, where a minor character notes that Kamogawa is now more important than Tokyo in the eyes of Japan. | |
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In New Deal Coalition Retained, China's capital is moved from Beijing to Nanking following the successful Military Coup against the Communist Party regime. | |
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In Rahxephon. Apparently between 2012 and 2024 North Korea comes out of its shell and the Olympics are held in Pyongyang. Kabul hosts the 2028 games. Oh, and skateboarding is finally an Olympic sport.What actually happenedParis is scheduled to hold the 2024 Olympics, Los Angeles 2028's, and skateboarding has already made its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020. Well, one out of three. | |
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Parodied in The Twelve Chairs: Ostap Bender proposes to organize an international chess competition in the small town of Vasyuki, which would attract famous chessmasters and revitalize the city. Eventually it would become the center of Europe, the whole world, and the universe. Of course the whole scenario is just a plot to swindle some money from the residents. | |
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In The Stand, Mother Abagail and Randall Flagg respectively choose Boulder, Colorado, and Las Vegas as the places from which they intend to rebuild post-apocalyptic society as they see fit. | |
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In Kenneth Oppel's Airborn series, Vancouver (or "Lionsgate City") has become the airship center of the world. | |
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In the Starfist series, the capital of the Confederation of Human Worlds is in Fargo, North Dakota, which apparently had previously been made the new capital of the United States after DC was destroyed in the Second American Civil War. | |
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An article in the Journal of Irreproducible Results hypothesized that accumulated issues of National Geographic could depress the North American crust enough to put many U.S. cities underwater, though some towns would actually prosper in this nightmare scenario: "Yazoo, Mississippi would become a major seaport; certainly a possibility that has not been dreamed of by town officials, even in their wildest imagination." | |
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In Heinlein's The Door into Summer, Denver becomes the capital of the US after a nuclear war that leaves most of the East Coast uninhabitable. | |
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In Gadsby, Branton Hills' population rises from two thousand to sixty thousand, and it becomes a full-fledged city rather than a town. | |
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Shadowrun: When the game first started, Seattle was chosen as its central city because it was somewhat obscure; obviously, real life caught up with it. In-game, the reason Seattle is significant is that, after the US completely fell apart between plagues, Internet failures, and an indigenous insurgency after the return of magic, Seattle ended up the only West Coast port city(-state) in the United and Canadian States. | |
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The New Earth Government and a lot of its industry is headquartered in Chicago in CthulhuTech. With the Deep Ones threatening coastal areas, the Migou moving in from the poles, and the Rapine Storm trampling over Eurasia it's probably the safest major city on the planet, too. | |
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In F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, a discovery of pure titanium had caused Bianca City to change from a small village to replacing Mute City as the center of galactic activity. All this in less than 40 years. | |
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The city of Texarkana ends up the center of a major empire following a nuclear war in A Canticle for Leibowitz. | |
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In the backstory of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Brisbane, Australia became the capital of the United Earth Government which was established after almost a century of warfare that left much of the world devastated and practically all major cities destroyed. | |
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In Gold Digger, the Diggers family members aren't really weirdness magnets per se, but nonetheless, after their adventures, lots of weird cosmic entities tend to follow them home. Home is Atlanta, Georgia. | |
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Escape from L.A.: After a President Evil rises to power in post-World War III and post-California Collapse America, he moves the capital to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia. | |
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In Season 3 of Z Nation, after Murphy goes full Dark Messiah, he sets up shop in Spokane, Washington, populating it with his growing following of brainwashed zombie-human "blends" and using its natural resources and surviving infrastructure as a stepping stone towards rebuilding society. | |
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The Fire Never Dies: When the tide of the Second American Revolution turns irrevocably against the Whites and it starts looking like DC itself might be threatened, President Wilson reluctantly compromises with Congress' desire to evacuate the city (which he views as ceding what little legitimacy the Whites have left to the Reds) by designating Augusta, Georgia as a "backup capital" that the federal government will relocate to in case staying in DC ceases to be feasible. This plan is never implemented, however, as General Simmons' coup of the White government accelerates the Reds' desire to end the war, leading to a full assault on DC that overwhelms it before what's left of the government can flee. In a case of already significant cities becoming even more significant, Chicago serves as the Reds' capital during the war, and after the war when they restructure the United States into the American Socialist Union, New York City (excluding Staten Island, which is ceded to New Jersey, but including Long Island and Westchester County) becomes the new federal capital. |
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In Star Carrier, after most of the coastal cities were flooded, the capital was moved to Columbus, Ohio (now known as Columbus, D.C.). After Columbus was obliterated by a Grey Goo weapon, it's rebuilt, but so is Washington, so the latter is made the capital again. | |
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Decades of Darkness: After Washington gets burned down by the British (twice), the USA relocates the District of Columbia to Knoxville, Tennessee (which actually gets renamed Columbia). Meanwhile, Hartford, Connecticut becomes the capital of the Republic of New England. | |
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District variant: in Space Patrol Luluco, Ogikubo (a district of Tokyo) became the most important place on Earth when it was made an immigration port for aliens. Justified, as every known planet turns out to have their own Ogikubo. | |
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Paperinik New Adventures: In the 23rd century Earth is shown to have been unified, with the capital at Megadelhi, the future union of Delhi, New Delhi, and the rest of the metropolitan area in a single city. | |
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In Wolfish Nature, Siberia has split off from Russia at some point, and Krasnoyarsk becomes its capital. In addition, the main plot of the novel has all the governments of the world send agents to a small town in Siberia called Alzamay. | |
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Avenue 5: At some point in the near future, the US capital was moved to Buffalo, New York. | |
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In the 1632 series, Grantville, West Virginia, USA becomes the technological center of Europe after Alien Space Bats teleport it to 17th century Germany. Later in the series, Grantville remains significant as Europe's primary center for research and education, as well as a state capital, but proves impractical for major infrastructure due to surrounding geography. The town of Magdeburg, Germany — rebuilt after a horrible sack of the citynote which actually happened in real life and gave rise to a verb "magdeburgisieren" which means just what you think it means - even in an era of unspeakable horrors such as the Thirty Years war, both sides regarded the sack of Magdeburg as unspeakably heinous leaves it in ashes and rubble — becomes the capital of the new United States of Europe. Note that in real life, Magdeburg was a quite important city prior to the sack, but it never quite recovered from the attack which not only decreased the population from 30,000 to basically 0 overnight, it also all but ended its century-long role as an independent city-state that could openly flaunt the emperor and get away with it. 1632 seems to love this trope with other cities that in real life would go on to become rather important being knocked down a peg (such as Hamburg which is shelled in a Curb-Stomp Battle) or cities which by then had their best days behind them getting promoted to suddenly important (such as Lübeck, where the naval yard gets relocated to or Bamberg, which becomes capital of the State of Thuringia-Franconia) | |
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Likewise in Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon. | |
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