This sourcebook is another thing you must drive you teeth in, cause, let me tell you, when I see a delicious stake, I want to munch it like Xenomorph-rape-squad which just sniffed out Stephen Hawking's brain. All laughs aside, my friends, amount of work put into this product is extraordinary. My first impression, when reading earlier HG editions, was that on the surface it was quite cartoony action oriented, kinda-jokish world, but as I kept reading, I was deeply surprised, and with a wide smile on my face I asked the God Almighty: "Dear sir in heavens, please, tell me, where are writers working for Dream Pod 9, and why don't they write any novels... and why aren't they known?!" God coudln't answer me... Well, reason for my reaction was, I really enjoy spy novels, I do read Victor Suvorov's books on cruel inteligence organizations of Soviet Union, corruption, powerstruggle. I love political drama, I adored Borgias and Rome, because the characters are deep, often two-faced, and struggle for various goals, making difficult alliances and weaving webs of intrigues that would make Agatha Crhistie look like Stephanie Meyer. This is Southern Republic, this is land of steel-glass towers, treachery, codes of honor, vengence, strenght, money and daggers. Sample characters and described profiles for NPCs can be quite shocking, in most positive way. Those guys don't design characters to be black or white. No one is good, and every does what they think is right thing to do. Southern Republic is great setting for espionage adventures and sourcebook includes a huge amount of detailed information on Cities, their power structures, important figures. It is just top-notch. Within this Sourcebook you get of course new designes for your existing campaigns, new plot hooks, a ton of maps with fleshed out important significant and recognised locations for characters to visit and plan. All is backed up with typical light-hearted style artwork. A ton of technical images follows of course, making this sourcebook a very good buy for it's prize. If you look for a HG setting for your campaign, with a lot of tension, espionage, treason and big scale politics, go for it, you wont regreat.