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When a country is a city-state, i.e. the city is the country, or the other way around: the country has only one city.
Although this can be justified by the country being small (e.g. Monaco, Vatican City, Singapore), it is
Note that the area with one city
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Appleseed]]'', Olympus, the most powerful country, apparently has only one city.
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** Nexus has economic power comparable to the Realm, partially because it is at the heart of the [[Scavenger World|Scavenger Lands]] (and benefits from some protection by Lookshy) and partially because it serves as the headquarters of a powerful, worldwide mercantile guild. [[Mysterious Protector|The Emmissary]] is also important in maintaining the autonomy and power of the city.
* The ''[[Dark Sun]]'' setting for [[Dungeons and Dragons]] has several city-states, each of which controls one of the few remaining fair-sized spots of fertile land and not much else ([[Space Whale Aesop|centuries of sorcerous warfare and use of magical WMDs millenia past]] [[Green Aesop|reduced most of the world to desert]], natch).
* In ''[[Planescape]]'', Sigil is technically part of the Outlands, but is physically separate from the rest of it, being something of a small Plane of its own. It's clearly independent and self-governing. The Gate-Towns of the Outlands (which vary in size from hamlets to small cities) are also self-governing city-states.
* Infamously bad roleplaying game ''[[The Spawn of Fashan]]'' includes a [[Fantasy World Map]] covering an area about the size of Australia, in all of which there are only ''four'' cities.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The eponymous village of ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]''
* ''[[Metamor Keep]]'' consists of the titular keep and a few outlying villages. By the time of ''[[Metamor City]]'' the keep has developed into an arcology covering most of its original territory and is the capital of an empire spanning most of the continent.
* The Kingdoms of Remnant all appeared to be this in ''[[RWBY]]'', at least until the ''World of Remnant'' supplementary background videos revealed that the "protected" human enclaves in this [[Death World]] were actually fair-sized territories with multiple (as-yet unnamed) cities in them.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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** Actually, ancient Greek ''poléis'' had other towns in their territory. They were called ''démoi''. The important thing in a Greek city-state was not the city, but its citizens. A citizen of Athens could live outside Athens, in a small village at the other side of the Attic region, but he was still Athenian.
** Also many of the smaller states that made up the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
**Like many steepelanders the [[Kievan Rus]] had these. Notable among them are Kiev and Novgorad. City-States often arose in Central Eurasia because the local soil is usually unfit for cultivation and therefore the chief way to survive, besides nomadism, was to gain (or create) dominance of traffic points that allowed a settlement to live by imports and only cultivate a limited amount.
* [[New Zealand]] has a population of 4.3 million, with more than a quarter of those people living in Auckland (1.3 million). The next largest cities are not even a third its size.
* [[North Korea]], Pyongyang is the only city of any significance. Satellite photos shows that its only city that has any lights the rest of North Korea are pitch black [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg].
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