Steel Dome City's Eight Extraordinary Colleges.
Among them, Shijue College and Nanming Academy are private institutions, while the other six are public colleges, established under the big backdrop of the Federation Government's creation of the Extraordinary Academies.
Although tuition is not cheap at the six Extraordinary Colleges, they are in fact burning money because of huge expenses and thus always need government financial support.
As a result, the six Extraordinary Colleges are directly governed by the Steel Dome City Government.
Of course, over the years, Extraordinary Academies have continuously graduated outstanding students who have moved up into city government leadership, influencing each other. In Steel Dome City's upper echelons, the Academy Faction is the most significant force.
In the post-war context of those years, Extraordinary Academies as well as the military were seen as saviors of the last day, and they had extremely high speaking power.