Rome

One of the oldest cities in the world. Rome is by no means a large city, but was always, and remains, one of, if not the, most important in the world.
Since her glory days of Empire, Rome has suffered much. She has been besieged, sacked, and nigh on abandoned. Her great buildings became ruins, her streets farms, yet even that ruin now, has passed on  into the past. 
Rome lies in the centre of Italy, a troubled land whose pains have not eased with time. For fifty years the Savoyard Kings ruled over a united Italy from the Pope's palace on the Quirinal hill. Following the Great War though, Italy fell apart. The young country, still controversial with much of its own populace, and the Popes, was unable to sustain the blows of defeat. In the end Italy collapsed into a patchwork of smaller states, similar, but not identical, to what it had been before. In the process, the Pope reasserted control over the eternal city. 
Now Rome is the Pope's capital once again. A situation entirely at odds with modern notions of democracy, nationalism, or any other grand ideas of politics. Yet for all that, it is a stable city, one not bothered by the mafia's of the South, or the political activism of the north. In decidedly inconsiderate defiance of intellectuals and professors across the world. 
Not all may be well however, there are those, even in Rome, who seek to restore a united Italy, and will stop at nothing to achieve it. To the south, the revived Kingdom of Naples is on friendly terms with the Pope, but it is weak and has already been easily overthrown before, to the North, The Italian Social Republic controls much of Italy's industry and power, they could be a formidable opponent if they chose to be so. 
Romans are well aware of all this and more, yet they have their city and each other, and the knowledge that while Rome is not the largest, or richest of the world's cities, she is, always and forever, the eternal city.

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Capital