Location from Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Capital city of Mars and seat of House Augustus. A Gold jewel built atop the bones of Red labor, where power is wielded with elegance and cruelty in equal measure.
Agea is everything Lykos is not. Where the mines are cramped and dark, Agea is vast and luminous. Where Reds scrape for rations, Golds feast in gravity gardens suspended above the city. The capital of Mars is a monument to what the Color system produces at its apex: beauty, order, and a hierarchy so deeply embedded that most of its inhabitants cannot imagine any other way to live. Nero au Augustus governed from here with the pragmatic ruthlessness that defined his house — no crueler than necessary, but exactly as cruel as necessary. The city's infrastructure runs on the labor of Browns, Oranges, and Reds who maintain the systems that Golds take for granted. After the Rising, Agea became a symbol — first of Gold power, then of its fall, then of the messy reality that revolution does not automatically make things better. The city endures under every regime because cities are practical things, and Agea is very practical indeed.
A sprawling metropolis of white marble towers, gravity-defying bridges, and manicured gardens under a terraformed Martian sky. House Augustus's citadel dominates the skyline — a fortress of dark stone and gold trim. The streets are clean and ordered, filled with Colors moving in their prescribed lanes.
Also known as: Agea, the Mars capital, Augustus seat