Tafa

Tafa (ᛨᚨᚠᚨ), officially the Grand City of Tafa (ᚸᛡᚬᛄᛊᛏᚨᛑᛏ ᛨᚨᚠᚨ Großstadt Tafa), is the capital and second-largest city of the Kingdom of Tarmory in the Zusian Empire, with a population of 1,484,612 people. Straddling the banks of the Kyme River at the mouth of Lake Osar, in the southern reaches of the Iron Valley, Tafa is the seat of both the Royal Government of Tarmory and the state government of Lesser Tarmory.

The city of Tafa was founded in 215 BC by the Zusian general Ragnar Taphius at the behest of the Kyrossic Emperor Laconicus the Great. An important metropolis by the Vordic period, Tafa remained the largest city of the Iron Valley for centuries. After the foundation and rise of the Kingdom of Tarmory during the Medieval period, Tafa became a major Amphian centre of arts, architecture, culture, and science, a status it retained after Zusian reunification in 1818. In 1917, the All-Zusian Communist Front seized power in the city in the so-called Tarmish Uprising, sparking vicious street fighting and a brief civil war known as the Black Springtime. The chaos helped spur the Songel Putsch, after which the uprising was crushed and Tafa began to recover. More than a decade later, the city was heavily bombed during the Endwar, causing further destruction; Tafa has since restored most of its traditional cityscape.

Today, Tafa is a global centre of art, science, technology, finance, publishing, culture, innovation, education, business, and tourism, and enjoys a very high standard and quality of living. Tafa's economy is based on technology, automobiles, the service sector, and creative industries, as well as IT, biotechnology, engineering, and electronics. The city is home to two research universities, a multitude of scientific institutions, and world class technology and science museums like the Tatzsches Museum and Auto-Museum. Tafa's numerous architectural and cultural attractions, sports events, exhibitions, and annual attract considerable tourism. The city is home to more than 500,000 people of foreign background, mostly Kyrossic migrants, making up nearly 39% of its population.