Sadd-é Valiasr

Sadd-é Valiasr, a city and provincial capital founded on the partial remains of section of the late Babkhan era defensive walls that stretch for more than 25 km north-west to south-east, screening what was once a major highway from Kamalshahr (today's Mehrshahr) to the de-facto Babkhan capital of Raspur. Initially built to defend against a hypothetical Alexandrian invasion out of their colony of Luthoria (the hypothetical danger of a two-front war during the Euran Cold War having weighed heavily on the planners of the Imperial Babkhan Armed Forces) the remains of the wall toward help to preserve a habitable zone against the radioactive winds rising from the dead-zones of the Euran interior. Sections of the wall reach 55 metres in height although it should be noted that in a great many places the rampart has crumbled down to the its foundations, the exceptions protruding above the line of the scarp, the retaining inner slope of rammed earth, like a jutting row of broken teeth.

The majority of habitations are to be found sheltering in the shadow of this wall, and also of the ziggurats (stepped pyramid) which formed a series of defensive bastions extending 5 km back from the wall. Those bastions which remain in serviceable condition have become home to the key figures in local government, the satrap, the farmandar, and the sartip; each maintaining their own fortified stronghold as a seat of power and a place of safety for themselves along with their family and their armed retinues.