Rate of urbanisation in Cross in 1890: ~16%. Less than half of real Europe in a comparable situation (~38%).
The Doctrine of Ivandir
The largest city in the world had 600,000 inhabitants and died in a single night.
This is the founding act of the history of Cross, and the lesson the continent drew from it was not theological. It was urban: concentration is a target.
Institutional consequences, all of them canonical:
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