For a very long time, Basel is a very wealthy city. Basel in the medieval ages was a primary hub for commerce and trade, connecting the southern and northern parts of Europe. Today, a huge amount of world class companies have their postboxes registered in Basel, with no actual real branch office there.
This Swiss city borders to France and Germany. Nowadays, a huge proportion of its work force is coming from other countries, mainly working for the pharmaceutical and financial industries of the city. In medieval times, a huge proportion of the work force also came from the neighbouring Alsace to find work there. The Townhall of Basel in its recent form dates back to the years 1504 to 1517. Although the Grossrat of Basel regularly makes statements about geopolitical issues, nobody seems to hardly take any notice. Nevertheless, Basel continues to be a very wealthy city. The main water feature here is the Rhine. Cities like Zürich or Geneva are wealthy because of their relative position to major lakes, Basel has no lakes, but it has the Rhine. How does the Feng Shui of the Rhine serve the wealth of Basel?
The Townhall of Basel is built with Gen as the Sitting. The Rhine enters the city limits from straight East, and it exits them to the North. The first bridge to have been built was the middle bridge, dating back to around 1225, just as a sidenote: Basel has five bridges, just as it happens to have five incoming Dragons. With this Sitting and main water flow coming from the East, the Townhall enjoys incoming Later Heaven water. This formation makes for a lot of wealth. The river exits at North, this is called the VIP direction. Water entering at the VIP direction is not a good thing, however exiting there is not bad. So the actual political and sociological situation in Basel matches with the theory of the Feng Shui formula. Had they built the Townhall a bit more to the East, they could have enjoyed not only wealth, but also much higher political power potential.