The capital of the Empire. It is a city of broad avenues, generous architectural designs, and neat orchards and groves. It is a city of giant palaces, multi-columned temples, and white-shining stone. Its wide, clean streets are paved with perfectly level mosaics, lined with avenues of trees, and in its squares, victory columns of the Imperial Army tower toward the sky amidst fountains and artificial waterfalls.

Besides these, the squares are visited by flocks of birds. Hundreds of seagulls besiege the harbor areas, while pigeons and sparrows congregate further from the water. Just like the birds, people gather in the squares. They come not for food and entertainment, but for politics. Decorated rostra surrounded by tall colonnades are the centers of power and public life.

Here, people can vote for their representatives, voice their grievances, or recall them. Fierce rhetorical battles between candidates are the daily bread of the populace, who, in the heat of the voting struggle, forget their own hardships. Sirgon is home to the central government, the supreme court, army headquarters, and many other fundamental pillars of the Siranian Empire’s power. Their magnificent palaces and residences boldly compete with the sky-reaching sanctuaries of the gods.

The architecture of the city, despite its massive scale, is simple and graceful. The fundamental element is the slender column; countless rows of them hold up the roofs of temples and palaces, support aqueducts, and line the rostra. Their bases are stylized roots and their capitals are tree crowns, giving one the impression of moving through a white forest. Radiating from the ornate city center like the spokes of a wheel are wide boulevards lined with exhibitionary apartment buildings. All houses are made of white marble, and the roofs are of bluish metal.

The city consists of four quarters:

Governmental: Palaces and temples, the houses of the aristocracy.

Burgher: Apartment buildings.

Harbor: A district interwoven with canals where travel is by boat. The harbor itself, despite Siranian tidiness, is quite a dirty and dangerous place. As Sirgon is the largest port of the Southern Ocean, many trade transactions take place here, many of which are not honest at all…

Abandoned: An area of houses on the outskirts of the city. These stone buildings are almost as noble as those in the Burgher quarter, but they are already deserted and falling into disrepair. They are silent witnesses to the fact that the Empire used to be more populous ages ago. The government ensures the houses do not collapse but does not consent to the settlement of non-Siranian populations there…