Kaschausen

Kaschausen (﻿ᚧᚨᛮᚨᚢᛊᛂᚾ), officially the Free City of Kaschausen (ᚡᛡᛂᚮᛊᛏᚨᛑᛏ ᚧᚨᛮᚨᚢᛊᛂᚾ Freystadt Kaschausen), is the fourth-largest city in Zusea and the center of the Iron Valley Megalopolis, the second-largest  in Zusea and historically the nation's industrial heartland. Located along the Kyme River, Kaschausen has an urban population of 3,715,783 people. The broader megalopolis meanwhile contains more than twenty million people across eleven major cities, including Starfeld, Aschum an där Keym, and Zina, which are the twelfth, fourteenth, and fifteenth largest Zusian cities respectively. Kaschausen also forms a continuous with the neighboring city of Wolfenheim.

Kaschausen has been a free city for nearly five centuries, and was independent until its annexation in 1652 by the Kingdom of Tarmory, during the Fourth Iron War. The city's population exploded during the as easy access to  and other resources drew business into the Iron Valley, and by the twentieth century, Kaschausen had become Zusea's second-largest city. Despite the pains of deindustrialization, Kaschausen remains a global hub for commerce, culture, education, and tourism, and is the site of many global and Amphian corporate headquarters. Kaschausen is famous as a center of automotive manufacturing; the Zusian automobile giant Zimmerling is based in the city. Other industries, including technology and research, services, consulting, media and creative industries, complement the manufacturing sector. Messa Kaschausen is one of the world's largest trade fairs. Other major fairs include the Song Fair and the Kaschausen Book Fair, the world's largest book fair.