I could see the light emanating from the building that was close to my current accommodation. Despite the late hour, the building remained brilliantly illuminated. It had once been a grand mansion that belonged to a prominent aristocrat, but it now served as the inaugural outpost of the Association within the occupied territory.

「Franklin Dukedom

Size: 200,000 square kilometers

Population: 10 million to 11 million」

The investigators had concluded that the reason why the population was so low compared to the size of the land was because only nobles received certain privileges, whereas normal commoners couldn't. Sanitation facilities and medical technology in this world had been developing in a different direction than ours due to their supernatural magic, but these innovations and improvements were only available to the aristocrats.

「Composition of groups in the Franklin Dukedom

* A community with a populace exceeding twenty individuals yet fewer than one thousand is referred to as a small village.

* A community with a populace exceeding one thousand individuals yet fewer than eight thousand is referred to as a village.

* A community with a populace exceeding eight thousand...