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Vykhrad

A plateau capital, rich and idle. The king arbitrates and does not rule; eleven houses do.

population
160,000
power
Vykhradia

"The war is two hundred kilometres away. It arrives here on Tuesdays, in the newspaper, next to the price of wheat." — satire published in Cracoviana, 1889

A hundred and sixty thousand people, stagnant since 1880. Capital of Vykhradia — and the capital with the least power on the continent relative to the size of its own kingdom.

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