Neo Vaxis

The coastal capital of the Vaxian nation, Neo Vaxis is a city that has undergone significant changes over its relatively short history.

Government

Obstensibly, Neo Vaxis is controlled by the nobility and the Premiere foremost.

In reality, the citiy's bankers have managed to wriggle their way into valuable positions in both the politics and the economics of the city, wresting the majority of control to themselves. The recent merging of many prosperous banker families with the four highest-blooded noble families has all but cemented the seat of power in Neo Vaxis.
Many assume that if the Premiere is not already a figurehead, he or his heirs soon will be little more than puppets to the true masters of Neo Vaxis.

Guilds and Factions

Currently lead by the Premiere and his family, Neo Vaxis plays home to four important castes:
The Nobility - Blood and Ancestry run thick in importance through the noble families, but politics are a handy tool. The Bankers - Money and Business acumen are all that's required to get ahead in this town, but connections reign. The Guilds - Unions may be counter-capitalist, but every laborer worth his salt knows strength comes in numbers. Commoners - No family, no money, no trade... Neo Vaxis looks like pure potential to those striving for more.

The Nobility Breaking down the casts even further, the noble families have a mixed and complicated past—lineages merging and diverging over multiple generations, and even some Bankers have managed to marry into positions of nobility in recent years.
The Premiere - The Fox Goodwins - The Stallions Whitcomb - The Ice Bears Lomaret - The Swordfish Kilgard - The Ravens
In the dramatic near-history of recent generations, all four major families have married into the Premiere family and borne children. All four of those children then married into various Banker corporations, assumedly political marriages to solidify economic deals. But all four children went missing or were found dead by suicide only a few years later. It is said that this tradgedy so hurt the Premiere that he died on the spot when they told him.
The tabloids all like to say they discovered a lost missing descendent or like to play up the idea of foul play any time there's political turmoil... Though very few mention the latter very loud.

Type

Large city

Population

400,000

Inhabitant Demonym

Vaxian

Owner/Ruler

Vaxian Premiere

Owning Organization

Neo Vaxis