“The city was generous to its residents, attentive and caring, providing everything they needed: food, purified water, clothing, housing. Yes, without frills, but it was impossible to get that anywhere except the City. The City provided shelter from a hostile world. Outside, nature was raging, falling into a rampage, attacking from all sides, trying to attack, devour, absorb - to take revenge in all ways on the hated Tyrant King for millennia of violence. <…>Order reigned in the City. Nature was still subordinate to man: vegetation - in strictly designated areas; animals owe their lives to people and pay for their existence with it - humans feed them and feed on them, and not vice versa.”