"In Wyver, yes. Though the terrorist group operates in tandem in both cities, and so if we're now assuming that they're working together, then there's no reason to think that Rasyc doesn't have total access to Olympia. Which is more worrying to me, honestly, because while the terrorists had to hide their hostages in the outskirts of Wyver, in abandoned places, because they knew they'd never get away with it here, they had people stuck inside Olympia, in the city institutions."

Good old progress and decorum, full of people who studiously mind their own business, often to disastrous ends.

Furthermore - "His father is the king of Wyver, who he thinks is a weakling, and Wyver's entire culture is based around might, virtually always expressed by violence. Those riots were born out of a happy festival overseen by Shanrian that included gladiator combat and voluntary ritual bloodletting into bonfires. We have to assumed he'd level Olympia."