Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-18812574-20140811151357/@comment-1493741-20140811185042

1. It never shows the very edges of Soul Society, if it even has edges, but it becomes far less developed as you go out from the Rukongai. The Seireitei is insanely rich, and essentially just a massive ring of palatial estates and military/government buildings. The 1-10 districts would likely be very similiar though with less focus on military affairs. As you go up the richness goes down until you get to the point where its more of a forest than a city (As far as Zaraki is concerned when showing Kenpachi there in flashbacks IIRC). This leads me to believe that Soul Society is a massive forest that spans for forever, dunno if it links to any known belief regarding afterlives though. The districts themselves though are, at least, comparable in size to Japanese cities as they're sectioned off in similar manners with several wards making up each disrict. Regarding weather, *shrug* never gave it much thought.

2. First, kan isn't equal to 5¥, it simply resembles a 5¥ coin. There has never been anything explicit on how much a single coin is worth in the series. The poverty is because... Well, I don't know why poverty even exists in the afterlife but people are poor because they don't technically need anything to live there, so they don't need a job, so they don't earn any kan so they're stuck poor. That, and, you don't get a choice of where you life, your place of residence (And those you live with) is chosen for you when you arrive in Soul Society, handed out to you as a ticket. I would presume that Central 46 is the one who deals with dolling them out but its never been stated who does it to my knowledge.

How the nobles came to be is never made clear, but there are implications. The Kuchiki Clan are responsible for recording and protecting all of Soul Society's history, the Shihouin are protectors of Heavenly artifacts. Its possible that their status as nobility is an elevation due to these duties, just as Royal Guards are chosen for the role by contributing something that greatly affects the history of Soul Society.

3. The relation is simply that the Commander of the Onmitsukidou is also the acting Captain of the 2nd Division, the head is simply integrating their positions together for the sake of ease. Its much harder to run two organizations at the same time whilst keeping them seperate. The decisions would likely be left entirely to the Commander, as they have supreme command over the Onmitsukidou and their own Division. The closest I can think of in real world military terms is how one unit assimilates another after its been dismantled (Or in the case of ancient Romans, after one Centurion ruined another's day for being shit at his job).

4. You've got Executive which is an active combat unit, Patrol which is info gathering WITHIN Seireitei. Detention guards the Maggots Nest. Inner Court sends messages. Likely the unnamed corps deals with information gathering outside of Seireitei, is more geared towards assassination (The Executive militia aren't stealthy at all...) or could've been in charge of the Dangai Penal Colony.