With so many things in his mind, Uriel could barely focus in the opening ceremony. He watched as the megacity's higher ups stood in front of a podium and talked nonsense about cooperation between nations and megacities in the current trying times. Everything sounded nice, but they cared to keep it to general and abstract instead of naming any particulars about any steps they could take to actually help each other.
They were, after all, politics. The kind of people Uriel hated the most, after lawyers of course.