City of Bustleburg

Bustleburg, the county seat of co-extensive Bustle County, is the largest city in the U.S. State of Arkanois. It was also the state capital until 1946 when the state government sneaked off to Greenswift in the middle of the night.

Bustleburg's population is 300,002 according to the most recent census. It is about 100 to 130 square miles in area, depending on whom you ask, and no one knows how much of that is water.

Early History
(This section is contested.)

The original settlement that became Bustleburg was named Yuckamud (a moniker also given to the nearby semi-manmade river) and established in 1802. "Yuckamud" is said to translate from a local Native American dialect to "Please, by all means, white people, you are welcome to these disease-filled swamps". Yuckamud Settlement was destroyed by an earthquake in 1811, rebuilt in 1816, but then repeatedly destroyed by fires in 1817, 1819, and 1821. After the arrival of innovatve slash-and-burn farm matron, Jacaranda Bustle, in 1825, the settlement was renamed Bustleburg.

Bustleburg's next disaster was the Wheat Blight of 1827. Calamities occured like clockwork until the city was again completely burned in the American Civil War.

The City Refounded
Bustleburg was refounded in 1866, but recurring fires and unpleasant opposums left large areas of Bustleburg uninhabited. The city was reduced to ash yet again by the infamous Mikey the Mischievous Goat Fire of 1899.

The City Refounded Again
Bustleburg was refounded again in 1900. The construction of a river port followed by the establishment of Transnational Banana Corporation sparked an immigration boom. Shortly after the influx of labor, the city created the Bustleburg Caste System, and by 1905, the Bustleburg Bridge was completed and the precursor of Toxaco Chemicals, Highchrist DrudgeWorks, was founded.

Bustleburg grew rapidly until approximately 1945 and the election of Mayor Bromley Kakisto. However, after the de-funding of the Bustleburg Fire Department and its subsequent replacement with the for-profit Dellaflame Fire Safety Corporation, a mass exodus occurred. Of Bustleburg's five original quadrants, three (Greyfields, Bachelorsville, and The Damsels) lost the majority of their residents while the "quadrant of the establishment," Burnsvale, became the largest private gated community on Earth. The fifth quadrant, Crudbucket, was renamed by the mayor in the hope of attracting new residents. However, "Better Crudbucket" fared just as poorly, so the area was again re-named as Nations' Loop. The "Y.I.M.B.Y." environmentalist policies attracted companies such as Happy Tailings Mining Waste, McSplotch Paper, and Hexavalent Chrom-Ola while the offer of two years free rent in the Nations' Loop district was given to foreign immigrants as long as individuals promised not to ask questions about minimum wage laws.

Sister Cities
Pripyat, Ukraine

Varosha, Cyprus

The city of Kyshtym, Russia has politely declined an offer to become a sister city to Bustleburg. The "populated place" known as Bustleburg in the State of Virginia is reportedly wary of returning any of Bustleburg, Arkanois' calls.