Hamilton (Scenario: The World's Liferaft)

Hamilton is the fifth largest city in New Zealand and is home to the one of the countries largest student populations at the University of Waikato. Previously a service town for the surrounding Waikato farmlands it is today a city in it's own right with world leading agriresearch, bioscience and New Zealand's main rural medicine school. The population is 385,000 and it's population is 43% European, 31% Maori, 20% Asian, 5% Pasifika and 1% other. Its current mayor is Matiu Ponohao of the National Party elected in 2043