"We do not keep the gold out of avarice. We keep it because whoever keeps is not attacked." — maxim of the Council of the Just
45,000 inhabitants. The smallest capital on the continent, by two hundred years of political decision. Seat of the federal assembly of the Kantonal Confederation — seventeen cantons — and of the Vaults.
A capital weak on purpose
The principle that organises everything: the seventeen cantons trust no capital, including their own.
Bernkanton was chosen in assembly in the century before the Cataclysm precisely because it was the smallest viable candidate, in a valley with no strategic resource, no port, no mining, no army of its own. Seat of the assembly, not seat of power.
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