Amsterdam region.
Amsterdam was generally divided into three areas: the Amsterdam metropolitan area, Greater Amsterdam, and Amsterdam proper.
People here were open-minded. Gambling, drug use, and prostitution, which were expressly forbidden in most countries, were actually legal here. Amsterdam's Red-Light District was filled with sex shops, sex-show venues, and brothels. Its most distinctive feature was its window displays, where prostitutes posed seductively behind glass like merchandise for clients to choose from. Some nearby bars also served as places to use soft drugs. Using soft drugs such as cannabis was legal in the Amsterdam region.
Amsterdam proper · Special Section of the police station directly under the Peacekeeping Department.
"Xiu Abraham, from Deer College?" A rugged, dark-skinned man in a police uniform was staring at the "kid" before him with his bull-like eyes wide open.
Standing before the burly man was a refined-looking blond youth. He wore a black trench coat over a white shirt, with a dress hat whose rather narrow brim curled slightly upward.
"Do you have proof?" the man asked warily.
Recently, for some inexplicable reason, the municipal government had ordered public departments within its jurisdiction to provide anyone claiming to be from Deer College with assistance and treatment equivalent to that afforded a chief inspector. The Amsterdam region's police had an eleven-rank system, and chief inspector was the fourth rank from the top, with authority to deploy the entire force of a small police station.
"Here's my proof." Xia Xiu took out the paper credentials he had obtained from Professor Laugen.
Not every country in Youyang had its own local supernatural organization. Among the Twenty-Six Nations of Youyang, there were only five that were best known: Fog City's [Clock Tower], Farlan's [Knight Guard], Berlin's [Thirteenth Department], Iberia's [Hunting Hall], and the [Federal Peacekeeping Force], established by the