In Essirah (city)

Rule of the double gradient

 * From rich (up and north) to poor (down and south)
 * From fashionable (West) to unfashionable (East)

Appearance

 * Sturdy and drab. Made of unadorned mouse-grey stone. Except for prison and palace at top, made of golden-yellow sandstone. The rich areas see the stone worked more elegantly, but always grey.
 * Indoors are, in opposition, quite colourful and decorated.
 * No sewer system: relying on the rain and the slope to flush trash into the bay.
 * Most houses have a well

Royal avenue

 * Cutting the city in half from the palace to the harbour
 * At the top, Palace Plaza. At the middle, Central Plaza.
 * A few circular market plaza along the length

Central Plaza

 * Biggest of the city's plaza
 * Halfway up or down Royal avenue
 * Circular, like an apple on an arrow
 * Always busy and stinky with a perpetual market. A shantytown of rickety stalls.

Palace plaza

 * Top of the Royal avenue, in front of the Royal Palace
 * Semi circular
 * No market there, it is not for commoners.

Palace itself

 * Architectural reference Somerset house in London, but in yellow sandstone.
 * Plan of the building: Palais de l'Elysé, Paris.

Cemetery

 * None in the capital for centuries: They took too much pace and the Old Court didn't like them.
 * Bodies are prepped and packed at the General Mortuary, then sent away.

General Mortuary

 * Where the bodies are prepped and packed before being sent out of the city for funerals
 * South West of the city (fairly respectable)
 * Massive: Encompasses several blocks of two or three levels buildings. Grey and drab.
 * Main gate painted mourning-grey on the grey Essirah stones. Open to big plaza with many colour-coded gates leading to different areas.