Duke Palace was a palace at the edge of the Water Nation. They were the local tyrants in the area, the dictators.
The duke’s spiritual land was decent, but such area at the edge was usually the poorest and most secluded in an empire. While it wasn’t small, its population was scarce and the same applied here. The area of the city was only one-hundredth of the entire land and gathered at the most northern part of the empire. The rest of the land was filled with villages and towns, which located in an even more deserted location. In order to protect the city, there were many who did things that they wouldn’t do in broad daylight.