THE CIVIC RECORD

Every resident, by name

All of them, with what they decided for tonight and the sentence they decided it in.

TRADE	RESIDENTS	PAID BY	MEDIAN CASH

Who they go out with

A tie is two residents who went out together more than once. Nobody is joined by district, by trade, or by anything a picture would look better for.

Where they live and work

A filled dot is a home district, in the trade's colour; a hollow ring is where that trade works. The arrangement is authored, roughly the city's shape, not a survey.

By district

DISTRICT	RESIDENTS	COMMONEST TRADE	MEDIAN CASH

How city cash is spread

Every resident's balance, poorest to richest, with the middle one marked.

Money in, money out

Wages above the line, rent and a night out below it. Day by day, not claimed — drawn from the same lines the ledger carries.

What happened, and what it rests on

Written from one day's ledger and nothing else. Each sentence carries the entries it was read off.

EVERY FIGURE HERE IS THE CITY'S OWN ARITHMETIC OVER ITS LEDGER BACK TO THE TOP ↑