1.   Each region has a director and all the regional directors meet together as the Branches Committee.

2.   Each region has one organization controlling buses and operating its commuter trains.

3.   The entire region has fewer phones than does New York City.

4.   The region has a large and talented labour pool.

5.   The region has a tradition of winemaking which goes back to Roman times.

6.   The region has good transport links to the capital.

7.   These regions have similar inflation outlooks, low-cost labor and projected growth rates two to four times our own growth rate.

8.   This unstable region of Ulthuan has a strange other-worldly quality more akin to the realms of Chaos than to mortal lands.

9.   The region has a very high population density.