The Three Rings
A City Built in Circles
Curna is physically and socially divided into three enormous concentric sections.
The Outer Ring
The outermost section of Curna is home primarily to laborers, merchants, newcomers, non-natives, and those without significant social standing.
Its architecture is more practical than impressive. Buildings frequently appear to have been constructed from materials left over from larger projects elsewhere in the city.
The streets are crowded with workshops, markets, storage facilities, tradespeople, and workers responsible for keeping the machinery of Curna functioning.
Life here is busy, practical, and considerably less glamorous than the Curna celebrated in books.
The Middle Ring
The middle ring is the domain of many of Curna's scholars, inventors, artisans, engineers, physicians, and intellectual professionals.
Workshops and laboratories compete for space with lecture halls and residences.
Ideas are constantly exchanged here.
An ordinary walk through the middle ring might pass an inventor testing a new mechanism, students arguing over historical interpretation, a physician purchasing experimental equipment, or an engineer attempting to explain why the explosion everyone just heard was entirely intentional.
For many Curnanites, this is where progress actually happens.
The Inner Ring
The innermost circle contains Curna's most prestigious institutions and centers of authority.
Government facilities, elite residences, major scholarly institutions, and some of Curna's most important landmarks dominate the district.
Among them stands the Great Grand Library, one of the greatest repositories of knowledge anywhere on Koinonia.
The inner ring represents everything Curna wants the world to see:
Knowledge.
Order.
Achievement.
Progress.
Whether those ideals are equally available to everyone is another matter.