Ucbea of Saercumar
Culture
A City of Merchants
Saercumar is a city of trade, no more or less. The city began as a means to move goods, and that purpose and the infrastructure to support it has more than scaled as the settlement has rapidly grown from a trading post to an emergent metropolis. Coin flows from hand to hand and the Ucbea wholeheartedly encourages this. Each and every trade carries a tax, but on a tranactional basis, those taxes are very low, making the benefits to merchants outweigh the costs.
Trade barges move through the Docks District daily. Trade caravans pass through the city on the Imperial Highway from faraway locales, often stopping to trade at the under the auspices and regulation of House Pela Drinum
Public Agenda
The Ucbea's public agenda matches its private one - to advance the cause of trade and commerce in order to become wealthy.
History
In 1374 LE, three members of the consortium ruling Saercumar, Catena Wamur̂ Badirum, were discovered, each independently engaging in some form of corrupt business or government practices, all within a week of each other. The noble houses whose business thrived in Saercumar banded together and created a municipal legislature, backed by a small army of mercenaries in their employ for the purpose. They ousted the remaining members of the consortium, taking control of the municipal government themselves. They petitioned the Catbalus of Calpi to endorse their legislature, which they called the Ucbea. The Catbalus, controlled as it was by the same noble houses, immediately assented to their request and the government of the settlement fell to rule by the aristocracy.
Prosperity Through Commerce
Founding Date
1374 LE
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