The position of the official capital of the Southern Shares, baffling to onlookers, contradicts the entire history and dynamic of the region : when all the important locations of the old trading empire conveniently spawned and flourished in the coastal regions, Imperada is lost in midst the jungle. And more baffling still, despite the announcements on the train in five different languages, is the moment you approach the large clearing where it sits like an abandoned temple, and greets you the majestic and livid frame of an imperial palace.

There's been no emperor living in there for centuries. The world has long woken up from the dream that planted the seeds of this absurd city, and although the senate now occupies the gigantic building, as well as a state library and a catacomb, they say that the real power of this whacky country is located far south in Palera. They say it's the Galactic Stock exchange, and although they say it half-jokingly, they do mean it.

The city never sleeps, not so much because of the economic and social activity but rather, because they feel as if the jungle would reclaim its territory would they all look away for an instant.

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