Cosmopolitan enough that a bird-folk merchant draws no more notice than any other commuter, the City organises its inter-district movement with a firm hand — private vehicles are confined to designated transit corridors or must yield to the public transit network within city limits, the prohibition on unrestricted sliding being less a courtesy than a security doctrine. Those willing to do their sliding beyond the city boundary can equip a vehicle with the necessary slide device for around two gold pieces, though the vehicles themselves run closer to two thousand — an asymmetry that says something pointed about who, exactly, the City expects to be travelling in comfort.