Walled City

== Overview ==
The Walled City was a district within the Yavsheni city of Zhongdou (Tanjin), used as a detainment facility from the rule of Jīn Duleng onwards. Within Yavshen, the city was mostly referred to, derisively, as 'Zhongdou', the name they had ostensibly banned for reference to the city that they called Tanjin (but was itself referred to as Zhongdou still outside of Yavshen). Once among the oldest and most culturally significant areas of the city, great walls were constructed around the area as a result of a 235 AG directive which stated that it was to be used to isolate undesirable elements of Yavsheni society, as part of a push by Duleng to send would-be dissidents to a confined area which still maintained the outward appearance of being merely a district of a city. This theme of experimentation characterised much of the existence of the city. For its first few decades, it existed as a means to contain what was viewed to be an infection - political dissidence. However, after Dao Duleng ascended to the Supreme Premiership, power over the area was conferred to Chek Feng, herself the result of special upbringing experimentation. Bringing her experiences forward, Feng forged a new vision for the city to be used as a staging ground for social experiments (lasting from weeks to years), to test the limits of humanity and what would be tolerated on a mass scale and in a contained environment. By 301 AG, this was done with a view to best anticipating the degrees of control Yavshen would exercise when it invaded other countries in Kisaya - to test and prove so that Duleng could be assured of maximal subjugation with minimal disturbance. By this time, its usage had expanded considerably to even petty criminals to represent an ideal mix of society, which in turn resulted in overcrowding and gangs to form.
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