What are the actual resources of the city ? define them what precious minerals ? what industrial resources ? etc
The City enjoys copious Silver resources mined from the Doran Massif. This isn’t used in manufacture but was used as a basis for great banking houses. The silver lining has been done in the most chemically destructive manner with the Massif and lowlands reduced to bleak devastated wastelands finished by rolling banks of grey-green fog, distorted animals and the gas-masked and caped rements of of the rural dwellers- the Hadjuks.
The cities banking model is based on profit shares rather than interest to be religiously compliant,
What does the City import ?
Food, technology, sciences and fuel – this is under pressure as Pirates from Montemorcency cut off seaborne supplies (they are trying to get a ransom) and the Hadjuks and pollution prevents meaningful land imports. https://clarkythecruel.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/mitteleuropedia-city-10-montemorcency-pirate-city/
Define the City’s issues
Inflation driven by the difficulty of importing and continued growth of banker bonuses. The fuel shortages stem from the same problem. The continued crises caused the childless Sultan Omar IV to be deposed and replaced by a Oskar an illegimate scion of the Royal Family has become the Lord Protector of the state (performing the same functions of the monarch.) Omar is kept in a gilded prison of a bank vault with all the amusements of his rank. Oskar runs the press with an iron fist in an effort to sure up his stewardship.
The banking class enjoy a gilt life of parties, amusements and dalliances while there is brewing discontentment in the poor.
Victims of the Doran fog gain an infectious skin disease called the Yellow Plaque and the City has stringent checks on visitors to check they are infected.
The City’s decline means there are large tracts of the City which are abandoned and vacant attracting wild animals and providing hideouts for criminals.
Define City’s leader / leadership
Oskar is driven to distraction by the obscure and complicated constitution of the City and the entrenched interests. He has reformed the police but unless he can break through with a new class feels his efforts are doomed to failure. The fact that the majority of the rules are medically limited by what’s known as ‘ Hofenschwable waters’ a congenital limitation of judgement and imagination caused by ground water pollutants getting in the food supply. Oskar eats his own flown in supplies and the newer generations of the poor seem to have developed a resistance to the waters condition,
Various banking houses have carved but sundry hereditary positions and their scions jostle for status and precedence taking more time on this infighting than any meaningful reforms,
The City’s big cultural events or selling points ?
The City sits magnificently on a high cliff – there are annual high diving and hand gliding completions from the highlights into the bay below. The City is also famous for its upper class parties (also famously dry in the majority muslim city ) fuelled by cocaine and other drugs with while spiralling dances inspired by sufi traditions.
What is the city’s infrastructure like ?
The city features wonderful silver plated fountains (which don’t work,) beautiful baroque electric trams that run once a day – everything is beautiful and nothing works.
What is the City nickname ?
The Silver Cloud
What are the City’s inhabitants called ? any nicknames ?
Hofenburgers, Cloudheads, Silvertops
Countryside dwellers/ miners are known as Diggers or Kolbolds
Any notable inhabitants ?
Lord High Admiral Sabiha Gencer, She is High Admiral for a City without a Navy but residual rights on property taxation linked to her post means she is the richest socialite in the City famous for her parties – courted by many suitors she keeps them in a fine dance while she favours the company of the lady quarters,
Mohammed Yousef, Leader of the Council of Imans – a learned if debauched scholar who grossly unpopular but oblivious to the fact as he preaches religious conformity and restraint to the poor while he and the rich cavort,
Rehmaan Stutgart, Keeper of the Ceremonial Peoperpot a seemingly pointless role that somehow controls 30% of the civil service but mainly for the prestige and refusal to change anything.
What is the City Flag ?
A raven and crescent
How’s is the City policed ?
The Lord Protector has managed to disband the old conflicting police forces into the New City Constabulary – officered by foreigners and professionally trained and equiped. Salaries are excellent meaning corruption is non existent,
As a compromise there remains an Old City Constabulary who have fancy uniforms and lounge around public buildings as guards but mainly exist to accrue tax breaks for their banking families (it is made up of rowdy young banker types.) The branches of the City’s banks in other cities consider themselves sovereign territory and when tolerated will have guards made up of more advebturous Old Constabulary.
City Military
There is no unified City military. There are various regiments, the Navy was disbanded and what surface vessels the city has are air sea rescue boats of the various Air Cavalry (air force.)
The City has NEVER disbanded a regiment and while they may have stopped recruiting the officer positions continue to be inherited and accrued with consequent tax breaks. Hence Andres Genzer, who had never lifted a weapon may also be Lt Colonel of the 33rd shoplifted, Major of the 127th Jägers and Captain in the 234th Hussars ahd 103rd Rocket Artillery. He will be entitled to wear the uniforms however ancient and ridiculous.
More recent units definately exist on paper and may even hold balls.
There are a new 3 Regiments (Battalions) of a Foriegn Rifles – modern equipped infantry the Lord Protector has hired at his own expense – a mercenary force. He fears it will not be enough. The wear white tunics, trousers and sun helmets.
Finally in the Dorans banking houses hire Hadjuk clans for security and to hunt other bandits around the mines – these so called Limiranei-Kirdzuhakis may be guards for one bank one week and resort to banditry against another the week after,
The Air Cavalry are two squadrons of old fighters.