Few would call the Emperor an architect, but from a series of blueprints bearing electronic seals in the archives, Stephanie Malik could tell that all of Latveria's future urban construction plans had come from the Emperor himself. A city's scale was constrained by many factors, including its political and economic standing, population, jobs, transportation, and more. Yet this city, designed with apocalyptic war in mind, encompassed an entire province. Centered around a massive underground fusion power plant, an electrical network and substation nodes branching outward like capillaries would provide the entire megacity with an endless supply of power. Even if the central fusion plant shut down, the smaller power stations serving as grid nodes could ensure the city's electricity remained unaffected.
Beyond that, there were efficient and intricate sewer networks, wired communications networks, ecological farms and agricultural transport networks, water transport and recycling systems, urban transit systems, and a host of other vivid examples of management disciplines that combined science and art. They would allow more people to be packed into this megacity while preserving everyone's standard of living as much as possible. But the most important element of this future city was its painstakingly constructed defense system. The core principle of its urban planning was to meet military needs and to rely on the city's existing systems to counterattack after an enemy invasion.
If the schedule allowed, a thick city wall connected to the transportation network would be built to surround the megacity. There were many reasons modern cities had no walls, but if a city could encompass an entire province or state, and its design was good enough, with walls built from high-strength concrete capable of resisting artillery bombardment and equipped with extensive air-defense facilities, then so long as it retained air superiority, those walls could still hinder