Wildhaven is a large metropolis in Countess Parish, of the Highlands department.
The city is the ancestral seat of House Bourbon and home to Palmetto’s most exclusive luxury shopping district and the Archive Grande, formerly a national institution that continues to be maintained by the Bourbon family’s generous endowments.
The city is famous for its lavish festivals, which occur almost every month. The festivals are an almost competitive event for the two theater societies that alternate hosting them, the High Jinks House and the Low Jinks Playroom.
The city and its administrative house were the country’s capital and rulers before the Good Revolution. Governing now falls officially to the local parliament, but it is largely ineffective and mostly disregarded by the populace.
Citizens of Wildhaven are overwhelmingly wealthy and this is evident by the city’s seemingly constant growth development. Much of what would be publicly funded services in other cities are funded by private interests, but they rank much higher in efficiency and innovation than anywhere else.
Public transit is plentiful, streetcar routes are extensive and their trams come frequently. Public safety is organized in cheque format, a grid-based coverage system that promotes community involvement without overburdening citizens. There is a communal feeling in each neighborhood, where regardless of income level one feels as though everyone is striving together. Granted, there is no real poverty in Wildhaven, which is common enough for the Highlands department, but the old capital is exceptionally expensive in comparison and nearly always has been.
The high cost of living in Wildhaven’s case has not been for nothing. The streets are pristine, not only in the road conditions, there is almost no litter or dumping to be seen. The architecture is the bright, Radiant City style that’s been traditional since the Mechanical Revolution. Private residences are equally well-maintained and any resident who struggles with their property will find aid in the form of their neighbors, the Society of Celebration, and the preservation grants issued by the Archival Grande. Perhaps these feelings of togetherness are the cause of the citizen’s general distaste and intolerance for most outsider visitors, who are little tolerated outside of festival weeks.
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