ExaltedMUSH/Greyfalls Demographics

== Demographics and Inhabitants

Greyfalls: Population and Politics:

The city of Greyfalls is about as large as one of the hub cities of the Haslanti League—100,000 permanent residents, with about another 10-20,000 in the city at any given time on business from somewhere else in Creation. The city’s population breakdown is as follows:

Social Standing Break-down (115,000 People Total)
45,000 Lower-Middle Class (artisans, merchants, laborers)
20,000 Out-of-Towners (largely merchants)
20,000 Patricians (upper-class)
20,000 Nuri (upper-middle class)
10,000 Upper-Middle Class (artisans—mostly merchants, paper makers, and glass-workers)
~35 Dragon-Blooded, most of them PCs

Occupational Break-down (95,000 people total, without Out-of-Towners)
20,000 Slaves, Indentured Servants
20,000 Civil Servants (also utilities)
15,000 Glassworkers
12,000 Lumberjacks
10,000 Totally Indolent
9,500 Paper-millers (Greyfalls produces the best paper in the East.)
8,000 Free Laborers (doing whatever)
500 Immaculates

The satrapy of Greyfalls is maybe 135,000 permanent residents in total, most of which are, obviously, concentrated in the city itself. The 30,000 residents outside of the city are farmers and laborers who live on-site—this is both rice-farmers and lumberjacks that aren’t wealthy enough to live in the poor sections of Greyfalls and commute to work.

The Nuri are the indigenous nobility of Greyfalls, and since Greyfalls has been in a state of cultural shift since the third Realm invasion of the Scavenger Lands, the Nuri aren’t significantly different from the rest of Greyfalls’ permanent inhabitants except in their facial features and their consciously-preserved mores and folkways. (The difference between the Nuri and the rest of Greyfalls is about the same amount of difference you’d find in someone in the Midwest who’s an eighth Native American. It isn’t much, most of the time.)

Specifically: most of Greyfalls has either the standard Eastern features of the Threshold. The Nuri are darker-skinned, although not so much that they’d stand out in a crowd to the untrained eye, with broader noses and eyes that are generally dark brown or green.

Culturally, the Nuri cling to the tradition of elitism. Before the Realm showed up, the Nuri were in charge of the Greyfalls area, and since the Realm has left the management of the Satrapy at least in part to the Nuri, they like to preserve the image of themselves as landed nobility as opposed to civil serfs. The average Nuri will consider him or herself a cut above the rest of Greyfalls’ citizenry, with the exception of patricians from the Blessed Isle and any Dragon-Blooded.