McLean's Club & Theater
Democrats nationwide celebrated the victory of Charles William Lamberth in last year's presidential election, making him the first Democrat to sit in the Presidential Palace after eight years' occupation by their Federalist archenemies, and Wilbur McLean of Concordia was no exception. The fabulously wealthy McLean, one of the rare planters who decided to 'sully their hands by partaking in the Yankee middlemen's businesses' and invested in a social club in Concordia itself, has thrown a charity ball at said club - a lavishly furnished six-story structure that offers 'kingly feasts', theater and permission to perform even risque dances to its attendees - in honor of the new President and to provide alms to the district's less fortunate, open to anybody able to pay the stiff $3,000 admittance fee. Notably, the club's relaxed social rules (at least compared to many other social clubs around the country & Europe) allow even the nouveau-riche of the North and the West to attend, and it is indeed expected that at least some of the Northern & Western Governors and Congressmen will be in attendance with their families in hopes of meeting old allies or forging new ones. That said, this is still a luxury club in the District of Columbia so blacks, social outcasts and those whites too poor to actually afford admittance are still not welcome; if they want in, they're going to have to sneak past both McLean's security team, as well as any guards the various families bring with them.