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Freiesstadt

Free cities enjoy the biggest amount of freedom, considered they are still under ultimate rule of the Emperor, who has a limited powers within a city walls. The highest authority then in a free city is either mayor or reeve, depending on the city's size, or city council in case of industrial centers.

There is a lower tax rate allowing the cities to have stable trade relationship with neighbour cities. This causes then higher prosperity rate and cities can easily produce more luxurious or higher quality goods.

Festungsstadt

Fortress cities are mostly built near borders, war zones or areas with high presence of hostile elements. They were created primarily as fortresses capable of holding larger amount of civilians and military personal, or as a result of rebuilding original cities (when in risk of higher threat) and fortresses. Head of festungsstadt is militärgouverneur (military governor) with minimum rank of colonel and with enough years served to be qualified to govern a fortress.

Kaisersstadt

Emperor's cities, the most numerous type of large settlements, accommodate people with minimum to none power to decide about their fate. All the decisions are made for them by the Emperor (in fact by the Office for cities administration (Stadtverwalten amt) in capital). Emperor Himself is represented by Emperor's governor (Kaisersgouverneur) who has a military background in most of the cases. Kaisersgouverneur is appointed by the Emperor and serves as a communication nod between the capital and the city. These cities are focused on production of basic foods and materials, conscripts for the army, and technological research.