Aurelia, the Unpoor City
Aurelia is one of the great Prosperiticer cities and perhaps the clearest demonstration of what a society looks like when material wealth is ordinary. Its public buildings use materials other nations reserve for palaces. Farmers travel roads better maintained than royal avenues elsewhere. Ordinary h
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Aurelia is one of the great Prosperiticer cities and perhaps the clearest demonstration of what a society looks like when material wealth is ordinary. Its public buildings use materials other nations reserve for palaces. Farmers travel roads better maintained than royal avenues elsewhere. Ordinary homes can contain art objects that would finance a small surface war.
The city is not defined by ostentatious luxury alone. Since everyone begins with abundance, status is expressed through craftsmanship, rarity, family reputation, service, influence, strategic accomplishment, and possession of things money cannot easily replace.