
Portown - Current Politics
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The key issues pertaining to Portown concern how best to
defend the city of outside attack and how far to exert law
on the citizens themselves.

Most of the citizenry feels somewhat threatened by the
dictatorship of Admiral Blood in Seaton, and the city has
already once been attacked by his pirate fleet. Many people
suggest constructing a wall around the city, however,
Seaton has little in the way of a land army, having put
most of their resources into ship-building.

There is also division over local law. Most citizens fear
that as the city grows, the relatively lax government which
they currently enjoy will grow increasingly strict. Many
remember how quickly Romjibus turned into a despot, and
though Aurelius is an elected official, he has been in
power for ten years, and some people question whether or
not he is using his friends in the Mages Guild to rig
the elections year after year.

The people are also very reticent about paying taxes, and
so major construction projects (such as the city wall) have
never gotten past the planning stages.

