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Bernkanton

Forty-five thousand people, a deliberately weak capital — and the vaults holding everyone’s money.

population
45,000
power
Confederacao Kantonal

"We do not keep the gold out of greed. We keep it because whoever keeps it is not attacked." — maxim of the Council of the Just

Forty-five thousand people. The smallest capital on the continent, by a political decision two hundred years old. Seat of the federal assembly of the Kantonal Confederation — seventeen cantons — and of the Vaults.

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