With Ernst's declaration, every department in East Africa began a new round of work. Large numbers of personnel headed to New Frankfurt City, using it as the center to screen potential sites for East Africa's new capital. This task was not especially difficult, since the search had already been limited to the area around New Frankfurt City, greatly narrowing the scope of the survey.
At the same time, Ernst had long had a plan for the new capital's name. As a German state, its capital needed a name that made people's eyes light up—at the very least, one that sounded fresh and striking in translation.
Like London, Paris, Berlin, New York, and other world-famous metropolises, Ernst considered the matter mainly through the mindset of people from the Far East Empire in his previous life. The new capital's name not only had to be well known in the Far East Empire, but also in Europe, America, and indeed the entire world.
In fact, First Town already had quite a bit of "recognition." After all, the name was easy to remember in every language, thanks to the word "First."
However, the meaning and connotations of First Town were not very good. "First" seemed somewhat boastful, giving people the same nouveau riche impression as the United States. It was terribly vulgar.
If First Town had truly been a city capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with any major metropolis in the world, that would have been one thing. But First Town clearly did not belong in that category. Even among cities on the East African mainland, its economic strength, scale, population, and other figures did not rank it in the second tier.
The ceiling of East African cities was currently Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, which belonged to the first tier. Nairobi, Mwanza,