Laukera, city of wealth! City of merchants! City of lending people money at extortionate rates and then sinking all their ships when they don't pay up!

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“So I make a jest of Wonder, and a mock of Time and Space.
“The roofless Seas an hostel, and the Earth a market-place,
“Where the anxious traders know
“Each is surety for his foe,
“And none may thrive without his fellows’ grace.
- Rudyard Kipling, "The Peace of Dives"