1. Where it sits
46° to 49° N, the alpine heart of the continent. The smallest bloc: six million people, and it has neither grown nor shrunk in a hundred and ten years.
The two facts of position that decide everything. First, every pass between the north and the south of the central continent is Kantonal. There is no alternative route that does not cost weeks. Second, the Solar Range — Seal I — begins here, to the north, on the border. The Confederation shares a frontier with a prison of Hell and has never fought on it.
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