Rapture Central Council

"We sit on the council because these poor sods trust us... not because God gave us a chair."

- Bill McDonagh The Rapture Central Council, or Council for short, was the main legislative body in Rapture before Andrew Ryan seized control of the city. Despite Ryan's strong anti-government policies, the Council nonetheless had the power to control individual citizens' assets, appropriate itself of private companies, and to issue arrest warrants. Although there were several members among the Council, it is debatable whether they even originally had any real power at all, as most of the directives issued came directly from Andrew Ryan. This facilitated his rise to tyranny, which he was able to accomplish with little or no apparent difficulty.

Known Members

 * Andrew Ryan (chairman of the Council)
 * Anna Culpepper
 * Anton Kinkaide
 * Bill McDonagh (resigned)
 * Sullivan
 * Sander Cohen
 * Ruben Greavy (killed by a telekinetic Splicer in 1955)
 * Rizzo

Trivia

 * An unused propaganda playlet in the game files for BioShock 2 would have mentioned that the elections for city council were postponed several times in the months leading up to the Rapture Civil War. A Rapture reminder also told citizens that "Council members have no regulatory oversight of city commerce."