Dimidium Apis

The capital city of the State of Inutilia, Cancioni-Inutilia. Not because of its population, which is at a modest 42,000. Not because of its economic or military input, both of which are almost zero. Not because there is any historical significance attached to it, because there isn't.

No, Dimidium Apis gets to be a state capital simply because Simon Dictat, the first Inutilian dictator, grew up there and liked it. He thought the coastal scenery was nice. Dictat decided his favourite little city deserved greater recognition, so he declared it the capital and set up parliament there.

Some historians think he did this to annoy Salsuginis, which was the largest city even then, had been the capital of Inutilia before it and RCM merged in 499 BC, and was the most significant city at the time economically. Its citizens did not take kindly to the news that their city had been rejected as the capital, despite all the requests sent to Dictat asking him to make it so.