Newtown

Newtown is a hub of education across the world. This has given it immense soft power which it has used very effectively. Examples of this include making the Newtown Coin a worldwide currency, and founding the influential Heroes' Guild.

Newtown has a mixed race population of slightly over 1 million, being approximately 10 times the size and population of a real modern day Cambridge. This is a massive population for a city in this time period and setting.

The city is ruled by a council, where each university has one representative. The representative on the council isn't usually the same as the leader of the university. These high up positions are supposedly selected by merit, and each university has their own way of doing things.

There are 9 Universities in Newtown, plus a small farming village called Oldtown (which isn't represented on the council). The universities are:
 * University of Heroes
 * University of Magi
 * University of Lore
 * University of the Devout
 * University of Secrets
 * University of Coin
 * The Natural Univeristy - They also ineffectively try to represent the interests of Oldtown.
 * University of Crafts
 * University of the Sea

A low resolution map of Newtown: