Bonro

Bonro, once merely a fishing and shipping magnet, has experienced the most rapid growth of any city in the FTSR. The city presents an architectural contrast of traditional red-brick longhouses (which are several city blocks long and permit vehicles to pass through them via wide, arched gates) that are flanked by rows of modern skyscrapers (usually of only a dozen stories or so) whose reflective windowed sides have given Bonro a new nickname; the Looking Glass. In addition to fishing, Bonro has become a center of high culture and crass entertainment, particularly for publishing, television, and theatre; other notable industries include steel, aircraft, food processing, and bottling.

The entertainment culture of Bonro has a seamy side; for every talented success, there are a dozen less-talented failures that inevitably fall into the routine of churning out cheap, sex-laden trash. Perhaps it is a fitting legacy of a city that was once the center of the Marak slave trade before the advent of communism; it is a city whose residents are often treated like objects. The most notorious example of Bonro’s sordid decadence is the Sobbing Kitten Theatre, a burlesque longhouse where has-beens, also-rans, burnouts, and fallen stars find an audience eager to see their failure on display.