ARCHDEUS

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After finishing with all his busy life, Alex felt relaxed, he remembered that he had not met the adventurers from the Orion party for a long time. Based on Justin's words, the adventurers had been staying at the inn they had built and they were currently with Rain at the training ground they often used.

Alex decides to get out of the mansion and head to the center of the settlement. He was accompanied by Justin, Riven, and several soldiers on horseback to the center of the barony settlement.

Alex is proud of all the development achievements that took place in his region. There were no more shabby buildings standing in this place.

Instead, beautiful and well-maintained houses and various buildings used as offices and shops have sprung up.

It is hard to believe, according to Justin's report, the total population of Alexandreia which was originally 700 people is now 2,300 people. This means that in the last two years, the population growth of this barony has increased by 330% in just 2 years.

According to Justin, most of them are transmigrants from conflict areas such as Otilia and Yorksall.

In addition, it cannot be denied that Alexandreia Investment has indirectly helped increase population growth. The company has been mengalang buana by providing capital participation in several industries, especially agriculture, construction, and construction, and mining has made many traders decide to start opening their trading lines to Alexandreia after they heard the venture firm Alexandreia Investment is headquartered in this barony.

Alex can see a lot of development going on. It was like looking at the county capital instead of the impoverished barony region.

While Alex was riding on his horse, he saw a building being built. Although it looks unfinished and it still seems to take a long time to complete the building but the building is already much higher than the others so Alex asked Justin.

"This master is the building you ordered to build. This is Alexandreia Tower" Justin replied.

Alexandreia Tower is the name of a multi-purpose skyscraper that can be an inn, entertainment center, gallery, to offices. The building is 100% capitalized by Alexandreia Investment and the contractor is a company that was acquired by Alexandreia Investment two years ago with a capital ownership of 51.7% as its subsidiary by name it has been changed to Alexandreia Construction.

Long before Alex was on an isolation mission in Canadia, he had designed a building. The building was originally to be called the Bibliotheca Alexandreia or Library of Alexandreia. As the name suggests, the building was originally planned to serve as a library and education and research center in Alexandreia. Alex's goal of building the Library of Alexandreia was nothing more than his attempt to raise the educational level of his people. For Alex who is the archdeus who mastered Empty, he is known as an all-knowing dimensioner and the source of all knowledge so it is natural for Alex to make science and education a priority.

But the plan is dashed because Alex is quite confident and realizes that the presence of the Library of Alexandreia will make him have many enemies. He did not want to be in conflict with the temple and the witch guild.

But who would have thought, now Alex who is known as Alex the Pious has had a soft power to influence the view of the temple against him. After all Alex is already considered a hero who managed to save the country from the threat of the plague. While at the spiritual level, he has received the title of the temple as the godly so clearly the temple wants to make a positive relationship with him. In addition, he also has connections with the prime minister who is a top brass in the magician guild. So with his various conditions at the moment, Alex realizes that both the temple and the witch guild will be careful of him and will not take rash action.

That's why Alex's dream of creating the Bibliotheca Alexandreia came back. But he got a brilliant idea. The Bibliotheca Alexandreia or Library of Alexandreia will not be built in this barony. If what the prime minister says is true, then Alex will become the new ruler of Canadia. So instead of building a science center in a secluded barony, it is better to build the Library of Alexandreia in a large, wealthy region like Canadia.

Arriving at the barony center, Riven, the barony's security chief yells to announce Alex's arrival. Of course, before Riven made the announcement, everyone had already paid their respects to Alex.

Perhaps the newcomers still do not know who the lord in this area is but for the natives, Alex's presence will give a meaningful gratitude to them.

Although not clearly written in the institutional basis of barony but Alex pragmatically has become the barony of this as a 'welfare state' although conceptually not following the traditional welfare state principle with no high taxes but in the direction of its objectives, the feudal barony government has successfully played a role in ensuring the welfare of its population. Perhaps in more classical studies, Alex's reign has resembled the nature of the feudal system of enlightened absolutism that made him a feudal lord who had succeeded in creating prosperity for his people.

In addition to preventing a budget deficit due to swelling social program costs that must be issued, Alex has given instructions to Justin to create a population data collection program. This would lead to a separation between the barony residents referred to as Tuanku Alexandreia and the non-barony residents or known as Tuanku residents[1]. Although in fact these two groups of people are both citizens of the kingdom of Artchania but as a federal state constitutional monarchy, the local rulers or feudal lords had enormous authority over their own territory one of which was that they could create an apartheid policy[2] that separated the society into two groups between which it was recognized as the people of the ruler and groups of people who are only permanent residents who hitchhike live in the territory of the ruler.

Surely the two status differences have a very serious impact. Citizens who are categorized as People Tuanku Alexandreia can enjoy social services such as access to health, education, and fiscal benefits for free. Residents who are categorized as Tuaku residents cannot access the social program. Although the policy seemed discriminatory towards fellow citizens but in the context of feudal sovereignty, it was justified for a ruler to carry out the policy.

Because this policy is still running for less than two years, the gap between citizens with the category of people Tuanku Alexandreia and Tuanku resident is still not visible on the surface. But it is not that no one realizes that in the community group called resident Tuanku has grown the seeds of social jealousy. Alex knew sooner or later the seed would continue to grow and eventually burst into horizontal commotion between the residents. But Alex is instinctively a despotic[3] because he is an archdeus who holds the Lord's power, it is very likely that Alex will use repressive measures to quell the riot. Surely it will be a disaster for the community with the category of 'resident', and become an asylum for the community with the category of 'people'.

Alex's presence was certainly greeted with great enthusiasm. Everyone voluntarily went towards the square just to see their lord. Very rarely was there a god who was sincerely loved by almost all of his subjects. It shows how popular Alex is and how effective the social programs Alex has been running on his territory.

Unfortunately Alex was not long at the center of the barony. That was because immediately after taking a quick look at the development of his territory, he then went back to the place where the Orion party was. According to Justin, Party Orion is currently training Rain where they usually train.

Of course, Alex's departure was accompanied by cries of 'Long live the Baron' by the residents.

Note:

Resident Tuanku[1]: in this context, the resident (resident) does not follow the traditional Indonesian translation. The Resident in question is only involving non-people from Alexandreia. In a realistic context, the most suitable translation of the word for this concept is permanent residency (WNAs are allowed to live in a country indefinitely).

Apartheid[2] is a system of separation of groups of people based on certain criteria. In the context of the Barony of Alexandreia, apartheid took place legally based on the status of the residents living in the region.

despotic[3] is the perpetrator who commits an act of despotism which is the condition in which the government is ruled by one entity in absolute terms. Often associated with absolute monarchy, tyranny, and dictatorship.