What the tripura was like

This is number 1 of the list item number 19 from my 'writing strategies to explore' list, where I'm trying to build different societies for my antagonists and protagonists. This is a really pathetic attempt I know you don't need to make fun of me you meanies, to sort of color the society of Asurs and how they came to be how they came in conflict with the Surs etcetera. I tried a bit in the earlier post but it wasn't too good I got distracted. This should go in my Gods series too, gosh I wish I remembered what the series was called. Heavenly Imps was it?

The three cities which comprised Tripura were distributed thus:

    The lowest, with walls of Iron, located on earth,
    The second, with walls of silver, located in the sky, and
    The third, with walls of gold, located in heaven.

The three cities were mobile and moved in such a way that they would never be in a single line, except for a few moments in around a thousand years, when the Nakshatra Pushya would be in conjunction with the moon. Tarakasura's sons were thus reassured that they were safe, as it would be an extremely difficult task to destroy such impregnable cities, which aligned only momentarily, by a single arrow.

Asuras from everywhere began to flock to Tripura to live there.

-WIKIPEDIA link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripura_(mythology))

The city walls were not made from Iron gold and silver, though it may have been so apparent to the outsiders.

There was no single wall surrounding the city, as the Gods had in their own realms, as these were not cities, they were megstructures extending deep within the wells of the earth to high above in the sky, stretched across the lands of the demonic realms. The materials that the outside were made of let the warmth in in the winter, kept the heat out in the summer, stopped the rains, all without impeding the flow of fresh air, and purifying the inside air at the same time. They were not mechanical entities or tame metallic structures, they were living machines made of billlions and trillions of unseen organism in each small plate of it, that reacted to their surroundings in the way they were instructed, to improve the lives of the inhabitants who lived around them. Their bodies reflected light in all differing patterns creating a vivid bright shimmering affect, one that resembled gold and silver and higher stones. In the night they got dark, to facilitate sleep and retain heat. They were a vision to behold, beings from realms all over the creation came to marvel at the ingenuity and technical prowess of the Asurs.

Beneath the shimmering protective layer was the defensive shield, to protect the cities from external attack. The shield was again not a mechanical body but made of innumberable beings big and small, whose societies had been designed over the course of many generations in such a way that they worked towards defending the large superstructure naturally. A physical or chemical attack on the cities would be localised to the point where the attack took place, for tiny insects and spider-like creatures would begin spinning their web around the damaged area as soon as an impending threat was detected and the possible point of contact identified, so the damage was isolated to the smallest possible locations. Any beings inside it would be cocooned in thick webbing to protect them from being hurt. Over a matter of minutes to hours, various groups of worker asuras and the beings that comprised the great structure would work in sync to repair the area and make turn it even stronger, using the latest available technologies for construction, so the more the structure got attacked, the quicker it would be updated to modern innovative techniques in defence.

Inside, the denizens enjoyed great peace prosperity and freedoms, the likes of which had rarely been seen in any realm elsewhere. There was no lack of occupation for there was always something new happening somewhere. The cities were expanding, the hordes of Asurs and other demonic tribes flocking into the cities in ever increasing numbers. Education was made mandatory, not just for the priestly classes but for everybody. To reduce the conflict between the newcomers and the oldtimers, the newcomers were made to take classes to give them the same opportunities as those who had lived their forever, and the tests that were put forward for those joining the new place were the same requirements to become citizens for the residents.

Class hierarchies began disappearing, for when there is wealth, wealth begets wealth, and the more well-distributed wealth is, the larger is number of wealthy people. The rulers realized that wealth horded among the few did not a wealthy society make, the sheer number of those that considered themselves wealthy, and spent freely was what gave everybody happiness satisfaction and the drive, desire and ability to push forward. Push forward not just in terms of meeting bare necessities and doing those activities that were required for the base fuctioning of the society, but more holistic growth of the people as a whole. Arts and poetry were encouraged, for when everyone was wealthy, they could afford to spend their times in leisurely affairs. Which meant more job opportunities for the newcomers. Philosophy thrived under this rule, free exchange of ideas and a war of words was encouraged, but under controlled environments. Questions that would never have been dared ask in the past, or in any other realm began being asked. The fundamental assumptions by which the realms had been running were evaluated, analyzed, and it was the general consensus that it was not how things ought to be.

And slowly the distributed wealth and the freethought it brought along with it encouraged the change in the political system. Unlike the courts of other realms that were ruled by a court lead by a powerful mystical king with heavenly abilities, the denizens of the three cities began organizing amongst themselves, holding experts in certain fields to lead in governance. In case of a disagreements in views, they elected among the several choices of experts they had over a field. To discourage apathy due to wealth and ignorance, it was made mandatory for every person in the realm to be active in the governance one way or the other. By the nature of bureaucracies, everybody had an opinion, and everybody elected the experts on their merits.

Because the three cities were all so distributed, the bureaucracies never got too old or stodgy, for a different part of the same machine would come up with a better idea, improve upon an existing technology and so every part of the decentralized organization was kept on its toes. Growth and maintenance were not something considered optional but a part of existence. Existence is fleeting, institutions are fleeting, was the motto, they can be destroyed at any moment, so make them in the moment, re-invent yourself every day, month and year. That's what was said in all those meetings. Those words were well-heeded.

And the three cities kept on growing, socially and technologically. Their knowledge got dispersed across the creation, even to the realm of the enemies. The ones from the swarga. Simple folks got the idea that those that were supposed to be evil and to be despised ran a system better than theirs, that they were the ones living in a repressed disorganized society. There was discontent in the heavens, even in the court of Indra there was a talk of rebellion. The ancillary staff felt unappreciated, wanted a greater freedom and a path for growth. The dancers and musicians of the court wanted a seat in the judgement table, an opportunity to become demigods themselves. Why Indra had automatically become the King of the Swarga without anybody else being asked about it was questioned.

To those that knew of the old ways of the Swarga and the Sanatana, of the old, these questions were absurd. Things were as they were because they always had been, and that's how it was supposed to be. To question the fundamentals behind the existence of law, culture, existence itself, and the ways people did things was absurdity. Some things were above questioning, not up for debate even in these free times, and everything came under that. To question the status quo was to question the awesomeness of the gods, the greatness of the holy quaternity, to be a part of the demonic tribes themselves. Something unacceptable.