World's Largest Cigarette

The "World's Largest Cigarette" is a tourist attraction and museum located outside Argiento, Metradan. Constructed in 1956 by the Metradani Tobacco Farmers Trade Association, it is not actually a cigarette but a building shaped and painted to look like a cigarette, inside which is a museum about the Metradani tobacco industry and the cigarette manufacturing process. The building is 124 nai (105 meters/344.5 feet) tall, making it the largest building in the Argiento metropolitan area. The building was originally designed to contain an actual cigarette intended to be the world's largest, but the 120 nai long (101.6m/333.3ft) cigarette that was made for the purpose was accidentally broken in the process of turning it on end to be placed in the building during its construction. That cigarette was later replaced with a 120 nai tall model of a cigarette.

The building is located on the M1 expressway running between Argiento and Nezhendris and is often considered the ceremonial gateway to the Argiento metropolitan area. It also has a reputation as a tourist trap. Somewhat controversially, the museum inside contains several exhibits and attractions specifically marketed to children, and the Tobacco Farmers Trade Association markets the museum as an educational destination for school trips—largely in order to qualify for certain tax breaks as an "educational cultural institution." The building is also the only location in Metradan where cigarettes can be purchased tax free, due to a special exemption passed by the Metradani Diet under pressure from the Tobacco Farmers Trade Association, though there is a limit of 12 packs purchased tax free per year. From 1964 until 2008, the basement of the building was a fully functional casino which was only shut down after a sting discovered several schoolchildren being permitted to gamble.

The land on which the building sits was originally owned by members of the family of Kanor VII, who had originally intended to construct a giant statue of Kanor, the country's most popular monarch. However, after they had already constructed a foundation and scaffolding, Metradani voters ratified a new constitution making the country a republic, and especially in the north—dominated by Cescolian Norvian-speaking humans—it was believed that symbols of the monarchy would be unpopular. The tobacco industry is especially lucrative and central to the economy in Metradan's Cescolian-majority north, and the Nuvo Žanaž family descended from Kanor VII's children are particular was particularly instrumental in establishing the modern Metradani cigarette industry.