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Why there are no metropolises

The Ivandir Doctrine: the world’s largest city died in one night, and the continent learned that density is a target.

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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