The whole life of this city, with its holidays established by the most humane guardian of order Bastian, riding on the tram, where the tram driver gives out free gingerbread, is like a fairy tale, although nothing fantastic or fabulous happens. Everything is “like in life”, except that the lion is too tame, and the camel in the zoo can talk. The magic here is in the people. They are magically kind and benevolent. The jailer's wife works all day to better feed the prisoners, and the jailer worries whether the robbers are living well in his prison. Robbers, having lived in such a prison, do not leave it. And they themselves are more like naughty children. Source: