Counties of Atlantica Alba

Atlantica Alba consists of 17 counties (Atlic: ciúmtae; sing. ciaemtae), which form the first level of administrative divisions within the unitary state.

Counties can be one of three types, which differ primarily in the structure and form of local government:


 * Counties proper: Consist of many municipalities (officially ciúmtaerl chrós; sing. ciaemtaerl chróslit. "council areas"), which are the primary units of local government. The county council provides county-wide services and is the only local government authority for smaller unincorporated communities without their own council.


 * Unitary councils: Counties which have abolished individual local councils, merging the municipal and county levels of government into a single council authority, responsible for all non-national government services across the county. Unitary councils are divided into districts, which have no authority of their own and exist instead for statistical and geographical aesthetic purposes.


 * Metropolitan counties: Counties which consist of a single city or major urban area, with the same single council authority as unitary councils. Metropolitan counties are divided into boroughs, which function as urban districts of the county and like unitary council districts are counted as municipal units for the purpose of statistics. For example, Milo City is home to the great majority of national government and official royal institution, but is in fact itself a borough of the Metropolitan County of Milo, usually just called Milo to refer to the city as a whole, which encompasses the entire metropolitan county and its metropolitan area major parts of the surrounding counties.