Stahlstadt or Steel City a vast industrial and mining complex, where ores are taken out of the earth and made into steel, and the steel is made into ever more deadly weapons. Steel city becomes in a few years the world's biggest producer of arms. The now immensely rich Schultze is Steel City's dictator, whose very word is law and who makes all significant decisions personally.

From the Jules Verne's book The Begum's Fortune