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[[Image:Hyouden1.jpg|thumb|300px|Hyouden, Common District]]
Hyouden, the capital of [[Yuki no Kuni]], was once a small, yet lively town filled with small businesses and famous tourist attractions all crowned by the modest Kiyoyama palace. Now, however, the castle exists as the charred bones of a building and Hyouden is nothing but an empty shell of what it use to be. Where its central location on the railway once allowed the people a wide array of goods and opportunities to peddle their wares, mouths now go hungry and the population is bitter. The deflowered capital was formally the hub of NCIA control, with their [[Yukigakure no Sato]] central command striking fear into the jaded heart of its citizens. In its place stands the Yukigakure National Police force, a militaristic successor to the NCIA that has changed in name only. 

The city itself is broken into three sections. The Common District covers the majority of the city, the living spaces and markets of the common citizen of the city. The Merchant District is the home of the Hadasu, the largest train station in the nation and the heart of its extensive railroad system. The High District is the home of the former palace, the more expensive merchant homes and the new heart of the Yukigakure National Police. Each district is separated only by gates on the roads, no physical wall exists between buildings. For the majority of the year these gates would remain open, and in the past they would hardly ever be closed except in times of emergency. Now the doors to the High District are almost always closed and guarded.

[[Image:Hyouden2.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Hyouden, Alleys]]
==Travel==
Since the fall of the [[Kumogakure Empire]] the city and thus nation has been extremely isolationist, cutting off most ties to other countries and strictly controlling trade through its very few port cities left open. Visitors are not allowed out of Imil, the river and roads between Imil and Hyouden are closely guarded. Though merchants still move by train and road to the smaller villages across the country, making it possible yet hard to sneak within the borders. 

==Imil==
Really the only place outside of Hyouden that can be called a city, Imil is a bustling port with a massive dock that stretches for at least a kilometer on the shores of the ''Hokkai''. Because of the difficulty found in crossing the mountain passes between Yuki and Tsuchi, these docks are the major launching and landing point for about 85% of all of the countries imported and exported goods. It is also a popular haunt for pirates, illegal immigrants, disgraced NCIA soldiers and corrupt shinobi officers. Imil is about 10km down river from the capital of Hyouden and is the first stop for goods going to the city from outside the nation. From Hyouden goods travel by railroad across the massive tundras of the country.

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