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[center][b] The City-State of Bennipolis [/b][/center]
[center][b]Bennipolis[/b][/center]
[center][i]The 14th Eponymous Year of Athenakles[/i][/center]

Bennipolis had a Mediterranean climate, providing them with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, although the interior, especially the more mountainous regions, could experience harsher weather. However, this year’s winter happened to be colder than usual. The Bennipolitans saw snow a few times so far, but not enough to cause any real havoc.

The economic crash in Edoniras had different effects on the stratified populace of Bennipolis. The aristocracy, whose major claim to wealth included land ownership, was relatively unaffected. While they had to go without several luxuries, the aristocracy still lived pretty comfortably. Also, the “common man”, who made up the majority of the Bennipolitan population, only suffered from any trickledown effect since for the most part their livelihood revolved more around whatever they produced themselves rather than the goods that could be imported from elsewhere. Only those whose work dealt with foreign goods were devastated. The lower class’ economy was arranged like this because the Bennipolitans believed that if one would work for another person, then they would become a slave in every fashion but in name.

However, the merchant class did not fare as well as these other two groups. When the whole market in Edoniras crashed, the merchants could neither sell their own products nor purchase those from abroad. It was going to be an extremely long road for the merchants to climb back from this disaster. The only merchants who were not devastated by this were those who happened to say afloat during the economic crash, therefore giving them a kind of monopoly in whatever market was left, if there was even one.

Ever since Athenakles sent out his infamous decree and ever since the economies of the nations of Edoniras had crashed, the Boule of Bennipolis revoked Athenakles’ privilege for reading and responding to international messages. The Boule had been scrambling around, like chickens with their head severed, so that they might be able to extinguish any and all the fires that Athenakles’ ‘decree’ ignited. Once the members of the Boule saw yet another letter from a nation embittered over Athenakles’ ‘decree’, they just wanted to slap Athenakles across the face so hard that his head would roll off his head and into the sea, just as Orpheus’ head did until it reached the shores of Lesbos. They quickly drafted a letter to attempt to quash the hostilities that Athenakles might have created with the other nations of Edoniras.

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Basileis of Tetrabasileia,

We have heard your request. Our Basileus Eponymous, Athenakles, illegally issued that decree without the permission of the Demos of Bennipolis. The next time our Ekklesia meets, we will decide what punishment awaits Athenakles. At this time, we have decided not to uphold Athenakles’ decree.

May the Immortals be kind to you.

The Demos of Bennipolis, sacred to lovely-haired Bennis.
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