The Kingdom of Swing is a misnomer. It is not an oppressive kingdom ruled by a dim-witted blue-blooded ruler. It is, instead, Baltimore's premier merchant's town, a veritable paradise of buying and selling, with an army of merchants and guards streaming in and out at all times and with a host of attractions to serve them all. Every other building in the town is a brothel, or a bar, or a cardhouse, or a store, and all of it leads to the Patterson theater at the town's center, where the greatest attractions are shown and where the settlement's leader, the enigmatic High Roller, presides over it all.