City-province
A city-province is the regional classification of the six administrative units found in La Rossa. With the nation possessing no formal capital, power is instead administered across its six largest cities - Buglio, Lorma, Mineria, Padeno, Salino, and Tolia - all of which serve as concentrated population centers within their respective provinces. Due to the high concentration of people, wealth, and power within the cities, and a near total desolation elsewhere, the city-provinces are best understood as areas within the reach of a given city's influence, to be freely used for purposes of industry, agriculture, or other forms of production.
With borders vaguely defined during the scattered resource-hungry skirmishes of the Silver Rush of 1296 TT, they were formalized after the nation's unification in 1044 TT by the nation's first Dux, Giuseppe Giannone di Salino. Although the borders once served as the outer limits' of an aristocratic Family's exploitative reach, the formalized borders under a more unified, centralized state gave them a much more formal, defined administrative use. Although the Dux's power remains absolute, local aristocrats have often imposed their own rules in absence of intervention from the central government. Although most matters remain resolved in this way, the Advisory Council has often pointed the Dux towards local problems since it was established.
With subsequent Duxes often hailing from different cities, the lack of a formal capital poses an issue for central rule. As throughout most of the nation's history the Duxes hailed from the same Six Families, they would go on to use their own Family's residence as office for the role. With the Republic's long-lasting history, each city in La Rossa has constructed a palace for such use. After La Denunzia, the newly elected Duxes, no longer hailing from the past aristocracy, have taken ownership of the palaces during their reigns.