"The what system?" Jack asked.
"The monarch system," Peniel repeated. "That's how a ruler rules a country."
"Maybe it's so kind of a control panel," John said. He was there in the throne room with Jack, together with Jeanny. Jack had invited the two to help him learn how to rule.
"You need to sit on the throne for that, Your Majesty," Thaergood said. This advisor was also there with Duke Alfredo and Duchess Isabelle. They were also there to assist Jack on his first day in doing kingly duties.
"Oh? I sat there two days ago but nothing happened," Jack said, indicating the ti during his coronation.
"You are still being coronated on that day," Thaergood explained. "You are only formally considered the king of this country after the coronation day ended."
"Just sit on the throne and try it, will you?!" Peniel said impatiently.
"All right, all right," Jack said and went to the throne.
As he sat on it, several holographic screens appeared.
"Whoa!" He shouted.
"What is it? Sothing happened?" Jeanny asked.
"You can't see it?" Jack asked. "A whole bunch of screens just popped up."
"It seed only you are privileged to them. Hm... This will make it difficult for us to help," John said. "You will need to describe everything you see if you want our help."
"There are a lot... I'm not sure which to start first," Jack said. He felt overwheld by the displays in front of him.
Thaergood ca to explain then, "Those screens held the general information of the country, officers we have, and also tasks needed attending to."
"Oh? You can see them too?" Jack asked.
"Yes," Thaergood replied.
"You can click them one by one to see their details," Peniel added.
Jack clicked the one that showed the map of the country. The map zood out and showed him the overview. John had seen this complete map when he was strategizing for the orc invasion, but for Jack, this was the first ti he laid eyes on a complete map.
After having a general view of the map, he could see that he had not even traveled one-tenth of this country. He simply didn't have the ti to.
Multiple dots were marked on the map, signifying human settlents. Besides the map were numbers of the settlents, which were classified into five categories: Village, town, city, tropolis, and galopolis.
Currently in Themisphere was 22 villages, 16 towns, 8 cities, 11 tropolises, and 0 galopolis.
"The settlent classification is based on the population of the said settlent," Peniel explained. "A village has a population of one hundred to five thousand, a town has five thousand to one hundred thousand, a city is one hundred thousand to one million, a tropolis required a population of one million to ten million, while anything above ten million is considered a galopolis."
"We have eleven tropolises, the sa number as the main cities," Jack said.
"Yes, only a city that becos a tropolis can be the main city," Peniel confird.
"Is the population fixed? Or can it grow?"
"It can grow and decrease. Aside from external factors like disaster or warfare, the population will mostly be affected by how you rule."
"So, if we help a city grow and beco a tropolis, we will have twelve main cities?" Jack asked.
"Yes," Peniel answered.
"Then will that an the number of guilds who can have a guild headquarters beco twelve as well? Will a bandit outpost appear in the region of that new main city?"
"Well... In theory, it should," Peniel answered.
"If we can have more guilds with headquarters in our country, that will help boost our military power," John remarked.
"It's not easy growing a city you know, and it certainly will not happen in a short ti," Peniel said.
When Jack clicked on the list of tropolises, the eleven main cities were shown. Out of the eleven, the capital Thereath boasted the largest population, with 7 million natives and 1 million outworlders.
The two next most populated tropolises were Theneward and Thehemburgh, with a total population of natives and outworlders at around 6 million.
The next four tropolises had a total population of around 4 million. These tropolises were Thenident, Thetus, Thebrington, and Therimdell. The remaining four, Theveyork, Thedoonvall, Therowld, and Thevoltes had around 2 million populations.
Thesewal and Thesylvania where Jack had visited were considered towns. Thesewal used to be a city before Verremor's invasion, but its population had declined due to the invasion. Even though much of its population had returned, it was still not enough to push it back to the city status.
Jack continued his observation on the general overview display. Aside from information about the number of settlents, other main information was listed there. They were kingdom coffer, kingdom mana, and kingdom enchantnt.
When Jack saw the kingdom coffer info, he couldn't help but draw in a deep breath.
"Five... five million gold coins?" He stamred. "I... Can I take so of those?"
The question was answered by a slap on the head by Peniel. Thaergood was unsure whether he should scold the fairy for such disrespectful treatnt. The king himself seed to just treat the slap as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
"The coins inside the kingdom coffer are for use to develop the kingdom. It is not for private use," Duke Alfredo explained.
"Ahaha. I'm just kidding, just kidding," Jack laughed. Jeanny, John, and Peniel shook their heads at the three natives, telling them that Jack didn't joke.
"Well, let's move on," Jack said, trying to change the subject.
By the side of the kingdom coffer were two sub-details, total coin inco and total coin expense. The inco was 2,106,000 gold coins while the expense was 1,399,000 gold coins.
"Those are the monthly inco and expense," Peniel inford.
"Which ans the monthly net inco is 707,000 gold coins," Jack said. He then looked at the five million gold coins in the kingdom coffer. "These coins must have accumulated for so ti already."
Thaergood explained, "It has been almost a year since King Themos ordered any developnt. It was the royal advisor who dealt with the matters. But his authority is limited, so he couldn't fully use the coins in the kingdom coffer."
Jack nodded his understanding.
In the kingdom mana section, two million mana was listed there. Jack didn't know if that was a large amount or not. If this mana was equal to the mana cores, then it was certainly a lot. Similarly, there was total mana inco and total mana expense by the side. The inco was 581,000 mana with an expense of 386,000 mana. So, the monthly net inco was 195,000 mana.
For the kingdom enchantnt, there was no number. Instead, it had a na listed there.
"Hey, it said here we have Serenity's blessing," Jack said after reading the na listed under kingdom enchantnt.
Jack hovered his attention over the description and so extra details popped up.
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Serenity's Blessing
Boost food production.
Increases population growth rate.
Boost Happiness and Economy.
Happiness will never fall below 50%. Drafting will not cause happiness to fall.
No natural disaster will happen in the country.
Duration: 1 year
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