Settlements of Hawshire-Dura

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Walter Grant
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Settlements of Hawshire-Dura

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The population of the Isle of Dura is approximately 3 million. 950,000 of these live in the most populous and dense urban centres, the capital city and the nine Cities of Hawshire-Dura.

Hawshire City: 350,000
Trampet: 113,000
Ifhyoea: 95,000
Iftarr: 85,000
Offtarr: 85,000
Alumnity: 58,000
Bornhet: 56,000
Cripet: 45,000
Montrir: 38,000
Olypet: 28,000

550,000 live in smaller towns and municipal centres. The other 50% of the County's population live in rural environments; 60% of the working population are employed in agriculture, mainly in fishing communities or raising livestock and cultivating crops.

The Isle of Dura's area is approximately 21,600km^2 and so the population density of ~140 people per km^2.
W. Grant, Steward-Count of Hawshire-Dura, Alderman of the City of Hawshire
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Re: Settlements of Hawshire-Dura

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Cities of Hawshire

By ancient custom confirmed by Royal decree, urban settlements attained city status on confirmation and attestation that they had reached two milestones: a population of 10,000 and an incorporated municipal government with an annual income of at least 5,000 Aurangs. (Aurangs or Aurangz are an historic and colloquial term for Shirerithian erb in Hawshire-Dura, after Kaiser Aurangzeb Steffki who negotiated the annexation of the Kingdom to Shireroth, and whose face was on the first coins circulated.) At this point, said municipal government could make an application to issue a Royal Charter granting city status and appoint the leaders of the municipal government as the first Aldermen of the city.

Cities are governed by a Council of Elders, or Aldermen. The number of Aldermen varies depending on the population size and is enshrined in each city's Charter. The Charter is the constitutional document of the city and they are by no means uniform: some are barebones proclamations of the authority of the Aldermen, others describe in detail the relationship between the municipal government, religious authority and the Choes (akin to Guilds). Alumnity, for example, has five Aldermen, while the capital city of Hawshire has twenty-five. Hawshire, however, is a special case (most other Councils have ten or twelve members) and the King presides over it personally. Councils are generally chaired by the most senior Alderman although some cities elected from among their number a leader.

City status affords tax benefits and recognises the locality as a place of worth, somewhere not only worth noting on a map, or somewhere worth visiting, but a place of local power, of great wealth and influence. Many great men have toiled and laboured their entire lives to attain for their settlement this prized status, perhaps in the hope that when they reincarnate they will still be resident in that same city and enjoy the prosperity that being a city affords to most residents.
W. Grant, Steward-Count of Hawshire-Dura, Alderman of the City of Hawshire
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