It had to be said that Annaj Planet's public transportation system was exceptionally well-developed.
Carl Kestis was astonished by it as well, because public transportation was something he had basically only seen on super-prosperous, highly developed planets like Coruscant.
On most planets in the Galactic Empire, residents could only rely on their own means of transportation to travel. Whatever vehicle you had determined how far you could go. If you worked for a large corporation, it might operate dedicated employee shuttle routes, but the fare for those routes would be deducted from your wages.
Beyond that, if you wanted to go anywhere, you could only use a taxi company or hire an unlicensed cab, which cost even more money and even carried the risk of being robbed.
Yet the Kingdom of Dawn had established this kind of affordable transit system on nearly every planet under its control. Taking the capital of Annaj Planet, where Carl Kestis lived, as an example, it had more than eighty public transit routes, over two hundred passenger hoverbuses, and ten passenger spacecraft. All of these could be used at extremely low prices.
These public transportation systems even had dedicated companies formed to operate them. The companies received annual government subsidies, preventing them from raising transit fares however they pleased.
There were many other industries and departments like this. Carl Kestis could clearly sense that the Kingdom of Dawn operated in a fundamentally different way from both the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Republic. He could not quite put into words exactly what was different, but Carl Kestis understood that the Kingdom of Dawn developed as a whole.
In other words, the rulers and officials at every level of the Kingdom of Dawn saw only the whole. Whether it was a single street, a city, a