The city of Port-à-Lucine, with is grand theaters, decedent boutiques, luxurious hotels, and stunning statues seems to have developed a new, and less flattering addition. East of the Quartier Ouvrier along the Avinue de Progrès a sprawling, chaotic, city of tents, shacks, and shanties spreads like a pox. Displaced peoples from across Dementlieu congregate here, having come to the city of Port-à-Lucine only to be turned away. With no where else to go these refugees made a vast encampment of make-shift shelters. The shanty-town seems to grow daily and attracts an unsavory segment of society among the legitimately displaced. Sailors, thieves, debtors, and whores mingle the tent city along with the impoverished, infirmed, and destitute. As the ramshackle tent-city grows so does the unease of the Government officials of Port-à-Lucine. Fearful of plague and sedition, a detachment of the Dementlieu army is left close to the shanty-town to keep the peace.