ONE WARD, INSIDE ONE CITY
What this ward is worth, at the scale of Sigil.
Two models describe this world and they have never been introduced. A world trade model prices Sigil whole, from 147,847 documented trade references across 70,905,008 people. A property workbook prices 277 lots on 2,645 residents. Between them there is nothing — no city ledger, no ward register — so nobody has multiplied one out and held it against the other. This page does, and reports the answer whatever it turns out to be.
A word on words: this atlas calls the Lotus Blossom District “the ward”. Sigil's six wards are a different and much larger thing. On the arithmetic below the District is one of roughly nine hundred neighbourhoods of its size, and which of the two its creator intends is an open question this page cannot settle — it prices both readings and stops there.
Where the ward's prices come from
Every figure in this atlas descends from seven numbers. The district workbook does not hold them; it imports them, cell by cell, from another spreadsheet — which imports them in turn. Three files joined that chain on 1 September, and it is drawn here as it stood when it was last read.
Markets -- FINAL
the world model, called Markets.New until September. Its City References sheet now counts trade in 1650 AD gold rather than references; the reference counts are archived on _Legacy Reference Counts, where Sigil still reads 7,593. Last touched 2026-09-11.
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Control Sheet
new on 1 September. Seven cells, one per constant, holding the figures the rebuild is aiming at. Last touched 2026-09-11.
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Base Calculations
new on 1 September. Derives the property and sales bases from rent affordability, a cap rate and a retail catchment, and reports each as 74.8% under the Control Sheet's figure. Last touched 2026-09-02.
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Price Table for Market — FINAL
new on 1 September. Takes the two bases from Base Calculations and the five rates from the world model's Political Regions sheet. This is the block the district is being moved onto. Last touched 2026-09-11.
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Price Table for Market.New
Index Page!H1091:H1097 — still the block the district imports. Its two bases now come through from the new chain; its five rates are still its own formulas. Last touched 2026-09-01.
Those five formulas read Markets and Banking off this sheet, and those inputs are now stated in 1650 AD gold. Four of the rates come out of the division 16.76 times too small, and sales tax 5.4 times.
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Lotus Blossom District
277 lots · every value, tax and sale on this site. The atlas is built from the 2026-08-29 export of this workbook, not from its live state. Last touched 2026-09-01.
The seven constants
Each is checked on every build: the value is solved back out of the workbook's own results and compared with what is recorded here. A disagreement means the district has been repriced without this page being told. All seven agree with the export this site is built from. Beneath each is what the chain served when it was last read from Drive, and what the Control Sheet says it should become. That second set is already in force on the maps: the city map and the property map rescale every lot to it from the copy bundled with this page, which is why a lot's value there is not the value the workbook holds here.
H1091
Property value base
72,070 gp
matches the workbook · reviewed 2026-08-29
the chain now serves 4,565 gp, 15.8× smaller · the Control Sheet says 18,148 gp
Base Calculations!B64 — affordable rent per tenant ÷ (cap rate × median modifier per tenant)
H1092
Commercial property tax
8.6327%
matches the workbook · reviewed 2026-08-29
the chain now serves 0.5152%, 16.8× smaller · the Control Sheet says 6.67%
the same formula over a Banking score now stated in 1650 AD gold
H1093
Apartment property tax
12.9426%
matches the workbook · reviewed 2026-08-29
the chain now serves 0.7724%, 16.8× smaller · the Control Sheet says 10%
the same formula over a Banking score now stated in 1650 AD gold
H1094
House property tax
3.2356%
matches the workbook · reviewed 2026-08-29
the chain now serves 0.1931%, 16.8× smaller · the Control Sheet says 2.5%
the same formula over a Banking score now stated in 1650 AD gold
H1095
Yearly sales base
107,886 gp
matches the workbook · reviewed 2026-08-29
the chain now serves 10,740 gp, 10× smaller · the Control Sheet says 42,694 gp
Base Calculations!B56 — district retail demand ÷ the summed attractiveness of the shops trading
H1096
Sales tax
14.9426%
matches the workbook · reviewed 2026-08-29
the chain now serves 2.7724%, 5.4× smaller · the Control Sheet says 8%
the same formula over a rescaled Banking score; the two points it adds before dividing do not rescale, which is why it drifts less than the other four
H1097
Income tax
42.6264%
matches the workbook · reviewed 2026-08-29
the chain now serves 2.5439%, 16.8× smaller · the Control Sheet says 40%
the same formula over Markets and Banking scores now stated in 1650 AD gold
The chain has moved on, as of 11 September 2026
The chain has been rebuilt upstream since the export this atlas is made from. The world model was renamed Markets -- FINAL and now counts trade in 1650 AD gold, each city's reference count divided by 16.756 — the gold value of one reference, over one hundred. Three files appeared beside it on 1 September: a Control Sheet naming what the seven constants should become, a Base Calculations sheet deriving the property and sales bases from rent affordability and retail catchment, and a second price table wiring the two together. The district workbook still imports the old block, which has been half moved: its two bases now come through from the new chain, its five rates are still its own formulas — and those formulas read the rescaled Markets and Banking scores. Four of the five now import 16.76 times too small; the fifth, sales tax, adds two points before dividing and so falls by 5.4.
Five cells of Index Page!H1091:H1097 still compute from Markets and Banking, which are no longer reference counts.
H1092
H1093
H1094
H1096
H1097
What the world model now says about Sigil
Sigil, on the count as it stands
this atlas is built on 7,593, which the world model now keeps on its legacy sheet
19,742 references
So the whole city would trade
a year, against 12,723,091 gp on the published count
33,080,372 gp
Of which this one ward books
the ward's published sales, against the city's whole recorded trade
99.7%
The overstatement, on that count
down from 2,313× — the gap narrows by more than half an order of magnitude and does not close
890×
What the live district workbook now holds
Its property column
was 106,200,960 gp in the export this site is built from
6,857,586 gp
Its yearly sales column
was 33,118,596 gp; 127 of its 168 shops currently book nothing at all
1,834,974 gp
Nothing here has been adopted. Every figure on this site is still the 2026-08-29 export, and all seven constants verify against it on every build. Adopting the live workbook today would not settle the question this page asks: most of its shops now book no sales at all, and the seven constants it imports match neither the published set nor the Control Sheet's.
The arithmetic nobody had run
Sigil, as the world model records it
scored against FRA/Ile de France - Paris
7,593 references
One reference is worth
Price Table for Market.New, References!L25
1,676 gp
So the whole city trades
a year, across every ward
12,723,091 gp
This one ward trades
277 lots, 2,645 residents, on the workbook's own constants
32,992,170 gp
The same lots, as this atlas renders them
rescaled to the Control Sheet's sales base of 42,694 gp, from the copy bundled with this page
32,992,170 gp
The ward's share of Sigil's people
which implies about 892 districts of this size across the city
0.112%
If every district of this size traded like this one
against the world model's figure above
29,432,520,686 gp
2,313×
The ward alone is 3 times the recorded trade of the entire city. Scaled across every ward, the district model describes an economy 2,313 times larger than the world model has any record of. Both are internally consistent. They cannot both be true. On the Control Sheet constants the map pages render with, the same arithmetic gives 2,313× — a smaller number for the same disagreement.
What it would take to agree
Four ways to reconcile them, one of them Sigil’s own market model with its copper converted to gold. None is obviously right, which is the finding — pick one and the ward reprices beneath it. Nothing here is written back to the workbook; this is a calculator, not a decision.
The two models as they stand, each internally consistent and mutually impossible.
Ward sales a year
as published
32,992,170 gp
Ward property, all 277 lots
as published
98,073,225 gp
Dahlia's Sweet Soaps — property value
lot 875-6
259,452 gp
Dahlia's Sweet Soaps — yearly sales
361,630 gp
Dahlia's Sweet Soaps — what the keeper clears
192,007 gp
Dahlia's Sweet Soaps — a shop hand's wage
each, for the year
8,400 gp
A gold piece in a published adventure buys a night's lodging or a day of a labourer's work. Read the wage line above against that, on each basis in turn, and the question answers itself — but it answers it about the ward's scale, not about which of these two models is wrong.
What this page is not
It changes nothing. The workbook still holds the figures it held, the world model still holds its references, and the import still runs through Price Table for Market.New, Index Page!H1091:H1097. Rescaling for real means choosing a basis, rewriting the 7 constants, and rebuilding Tripps Contracting's balance sheet from the ground up — a month of work that trades a district which feels right at the table for one that is consistent with a document most players never see. The case for doing it is that a gold piece would then mean one thing in both. The case against is that nothing at the table has ever gone wrong for want of that.