Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-18812574-20140811151357/@comment-1493741-20140811200644

Don't worry, I'm not taking you as argumentative. Questions beget answers which beget more questions. :D

Its possible, a District is very likely a finite mass of land, bordered off equally over each of the 320 Districts. Whats in that District depends on its quality of life and distance from the Seireitei. So, it could be like... say District 32 is well off but not excessively so, its largely a cityscape but has nearby forests and controlled agricultural land with farms and the like. District 52 is still largely cityscape but the conditions are shite and the land is worthless (Something akin to Inuzuri, District 78 where Rukia and Renji came from) and beyond that it just continually descends into small towns and then huts in the forest, then just the forest. A self-controlled government could exist, I'd think, so long as they don't get in Central 46's way or try to oppose it (Which would make them enemies of Soul Society and thus subject to being mauled by the Gotei, Onmitsukidou and Kidou Corps).

2. I only really contend it because $12 isn't all that expensive and I don't think 1,250¥ is either (I could be wrong, I know jack about the Yen beyond it being inflated to fuck and back.) while we know in series that the shades Renji buys are considered expensive (And constitute half a year of his wages). I'm also of the opinion that, Soul Society are the bad guy here. They run on a flawed system that cannot match what it is trying to control.

Its possible that the Dangai always spits them out in a specific place, even if it doesn't though, I'm sure Central 46 has access to similar instruments that the 12th Division use to track Souls and Hollow activity outside of Soul Society in order to monitor new arrivals. Folks born in Soul Society would just go with whoever gave birth to them, no point sending them someplace else and I'm sure the Nobles would be rather annoyed if their kids get kicked out the door of the Seireitei when they're born.