Editing Sin City (section)

==Setting==
[[File:Hard Goodbye.png|left|thumb|An example of Frank Miller's use of high contrasts in ''Sin City'']]
Basin City, almost universally referred to by the nickname "Sin City", is a fictional town in the [[Western United States]]. The climate is hot and arid, although Sacred Oaks{{clarify|date=August 2014}} is characterized as being heavily wooded. A major river runs through the city, which has an extensive waterfront. Usually twice a year, a major downpour comes, and the city is prone to heavy snowfall in the winter. Desert lizards and palm trees are common, while tar pits, desert areas, mountain ranges and flat farmland make up the landscape around the city.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

The Basin City Police Department are more or less along the lines of paramilitary or [[SWAT]], as they have to deal with incredibly high crime rates among criminals and civilians alike, which is why they have access to what most would consider "heavy weaponry" and full body armor. Those who make up the force have been described as commonly being lazy, cowardly and/or corrupt. Only a handful of the cops are honest, though frequently the wealthy of the city bribe the corrupt members of the police into performing their duty (usually as a result of some crime being committed or threatened against a member of their family).{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

During the [[California Gold Rush]], the Roark family "imported" a large number of attractive women to keep the miners happy, making a fortune and turning a struggling mining camp into a thriving, bustling city. Over the years, as the Roark family migrated into other areas of business and power, these women ended up forming the district of Old Town, the [[prostitute]] quarter of the city where they rule with absolute authority. In addition, the people charged with governing the city, most of them from the Roark line, remained in power for generations, running it as they saw fit.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

As the various yarns progress, the audience gradually becomes familiar with key locations in and around Basin City:

*'''The Projects''', the run-down and poor side of Sin City, are a tangle of high-rise run-down and desolated apartments where crime runs rampant with no police inside. Its inhabitants have apparently evolved their own independent society with almost no legal contact with the outside world and SWAT teams rarely go in The Projects. Marv was born in the Projects, and currently resides there. Dwight avoids The Projects and hates the neighborhood.
*'''The Docks''', a collection of wharfs and warehouses that are local to the Projects, since The Docks overlook The Projects. Hartigan and Roark Junior have their first confrontation here in ''That Yellow Bastard'', and Marv drives a stolen police car off one of the piers at the beginning of ''The Hard Goodbye''.
*'''Kadie's Club Pecos''' is a strip club and bar in Old Town, where Nancy Callahan and Shellie work, and where Dwight McCarthy and Marv spend their spare time. Despite being filled with drunk and violent men, Kadie's bar is one of the safest areas in Sin City since it is heavily guarded by prostitutes and their protectors. Marv, who possesses an extraordinarily high sense of chivalry, protects the female employees of Kadie's from any violence that makes its way inside.
*'''Roark Family Farm''' (a.k.a. "The Farm") is located at North Cross and Lennox on the hills outside Basin City and shows up in several stories, including ''The Hard Goodbye'', ''That Yellow Bastard'', '' The Babe Wore Red'' and ''Hell and Back''. It was also home to Kevin, a [[serial killer]] with ties to the Roark family. Marv burns down one of the buildings, and the Farm is abandoned sometime after the initial ''Sin City'' storyline. The Farm is the only location in the comic books that is outside Basin City.
*'''Old Town''' is the [[red-light district]], where the city's population of prostitutes reside. Old Town is run by Goldie and Wendy. Old Town is off limits to the police. Though willing to engage in almost any sexual act for the right price, the women of Old Town show no mercy to those who "break the rules," and back up their independence with lethal force. The mafia families and pimps who were into Old Town's business were thrown out of the neighborhood.
*'''Sacred Oaks''' is the home to the rich and powerful of Sin City. This suburb is located on the outskirts of Basin City as a protection. A university is located in Sacred Oaks, and the entire area is patrolled by armed employees of its wealthy inhabitants, mostly SWAT teams.
*'''Basin City Central Train Station''', which has a direct connection to [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]. It is located in the outskirts near The Docks and it is considered one of safer places.
*'''Mimi's''', a small run-down motel on the far outskirts of Basin City, with only few rooms and a place where young couples make love. Nancy and Hartigan hid in Mimi's where she confessed her love to him. Junior also attacked Hartigan here and left him to die, although he saved himself.
*'''The Santa Yolanda Tar Pits''', an abandoned amusement park of sorts outside the city, where several [[tar pits]] are located and dinosaur bones were excavated at some time. After a "big-budget dinosaur movie" caused a sensation, the county put up concrete statues of dinosaurs there to draw crowds. However, after an old lady fell through a railing into one of the pits and had a heart attack, the place was shut down indefinitely. They are frequently used as a place to dump things that people don't want found; high-schoolers also tend to sneak in there a lot. This is where Delia tells Phil to drive in ''Wrong Turn'' and where Dwight takes the corpses of Jackie Boy and his friends in ''The Big Fat Kill''. Frank Miller has admitted the main reason the Tar Pits exist is as an excuse to draw the dinosaur statues.