Post by duckles on Mar 23, 2023 13:56:51 GMT
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Ne Yaliyat (lit. The Lordship or The Leader's Domain)
Population: ~300,000
Land Area: ~15,000 Miles^2
Capital: Nadau (c. 40,000)
Language of the State: Sadyek
Denonym: Adati
Potential Resources (limited to useful ones, will be reduced eventually):
Floral: Wheat, barley, rye, hides, wool, caraway, nettles, pears, dill, pitted herbacious plants - mostly poisonous, onion, buckwheats, mustard, willow, capers, figs, dates, oak
Faunic: Boars, hares, jackals, voles, squirrels, moles, desmans, beavers, wolves, deer, ibex, bears, lynxes
Mineral: Lignite, zinc, lead, low quality iron, silver, copper, granite, effluvial and igenous tin
Government: Autocracy, Aristocracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, etc.
"Inspiration": Mesopotamia, the Sasanids, Russia, Central Europe, New Spain
Introduction
Ne Yaliyat (lit. the Lordship) is a monarchy located around the Retava River Basin. To its north shore is Lake Wasset, and it is bounded to the south by mountains. Historically, the area has been divided into some dozens of city states, but from time to time empires and tribal states established control of the whole region. Ne Yaliyat is the most recent iteration of this, and looks to be quite stable. The monarch, called the Yali, holds a suite of far ranging military and political powers. Aristocrats and landowners hold the majority of the remaining power. Not all of the Yaliyat is directly owned - much of it is held by autonomous kingdoms under Yali suzerainty.
The country has extensive resources and opportunities to exploit, from mines to hunting to panning to trade. For this, an extensive labour force is required, and a colossal food supply, which in turn requires more labour and more food. The result of this cycle is that despite the Yaliyat's large population, the vast majority of people are farm workers, which produce only just enough surplus for very small industries, when accounting for necessary bureaucrats and religious officers.
The Yali always seek to expand the workforce to expand their own wealth, and for this reason a large section of people are enslaved, and the state practically exists to keep them as such. The extensive irrigation works along the Retava are what allow for the population to exist, which is about 300,000. Almost all wars the Yali wage, including the wars which gained the territory they now hold, were done in order to acquire yet more slaves and subject-labourers.
Some of the grasses and flowering plants which grow nearby have hallucinogenic and magical effects, but they have only begun to be cultivated recently. The local wildlife is not too unusual - sloth-like bears that are about the size of small tree, metre-high hares, and small omnivorous boars which often hunt and scavenge in groups of twelve or more. They have a large pantheon which varies throughout the country. Certain cities have their own patron deities, clerics, and practices to gain the favour of the objects of their local cults - this is especially important for avoiding droughts or blights.
Literacy is low among most people, but the extensive bureaucracy and connected sectors are more literate. The people of the Yaliyat (called the Adat) speak many different languages and dialects, however Sadyek, with its left-to-right sharply angled alphabet, is the language of the state, usually written on crude parchment, papyrus, or clay tablets. The Adat are shorter and stockier than most, at about four and a half feet tall, and light-brown skinned. They have unusually large eyes and wide mouths, which have been the sources of their names in many neighbouring languages.
Name: Ne Yaliyat (lit. The Lordship or The Leader's Domain)
Population: ~300,000
Land Area: ~15,000 Miles^2
Capital: Nadau (c. 40,000)
Language of the State: Sadyek
Denonym: Adati
Potential Resources (limited to useful ones, will be reduced eventually):
Floral: Wheat, barley, rye, hides, wool, caraway, nettles, pears, dill, pitted herbacious plants - mostly poisonous, onion, buckwheats, mustard, willow, capers, figs, dates, oak
Faunic: Boars, hares, jackals, voles, squirrels, moles, desmans, beavers, wolves, deer, ibex, bears, lynxes
Mineral: Lignite, zinc, lead, low quality iron, silver, copper, granite, effluvial and igenous tin
Government: Autocracy, Aristocracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, etc.
"Inspiration": Mesopotamia, the Sasanids, Russia, Central Europe, New Spain
Introduction
Ne Yaliyat (lit. the Lordship) is a monarchy located around the Retava River Basin. To its north shore is Lake Wasset, and it is bounded to the south by mountains. Historically, the area has been divided into some dozens of city states, but from time to time empires and tribal states established control of the whole region. Ne Yaliyat is the most recent iteration of this, and looks to be quite stable. The monarch, called the Yali, holds a suite of far ranging military and political powers. Aristocrats and landowners hold the majority of the remaining power. Not all of the Yaliyat is directly owned - much of it is held by autonomous kingdoms under Yali suzerainty.
The country has extensive resources and opportunities to exploit, from mines to hunting to panning to trade. For this, an extensive labour force is required, and a colossal food supply, which in turn requires more labour and more food. The result of this cycle is that despite the Yaliyat's large population, the vast majority of people are farm workers, which produce only just enough surplus for very small industries, when accounting for necessary bureaucrats and religious officers.
The Yali always seek to expand the workforce to expand their own wealth, and for this reason a large section of people are enslaved, and the state practically exists to keep them as such. The extensive irrigation works along the Retava are what allow for the population to exist, which is about 300,000. Almost all wars the Yali wage, including the wars which gained the territory they now hold, were done in order to acquire yet more slaves and subject-labourers.
Some of the grasses and flowering plants which grow nearby have hallucinogenic and magical effects, but they have only begun to be cultivated recently. The local wildlife is not too unusual - sloth-like bears that are about the size of small tree, metre-high hares, and small omnivorous boars which often hunt and scavenge in groups of twelve or more. They have a large pantheon which varies throughout the country. Certain cities have their own patron deities, clerics, and practices to gain the favour of the objects of their local cults - this is especially important for avoiding droughts or blights.
Literacy is low among most people, but the extensive bureaucracy and connected sectors are more literate. The people of the Yaliyat (called the Adat) speak many different languages and dialects, however Sadyek, with its left-to-right sharply angled alphabet, is the language of the state, usually written on crude parchment, papyrus, or clay tablets. The Adat are shorter and stockier than most, at about four and a half feet tall, and light-brown skinned. They have unusually large eyes and wide mouths, which have been the sources of their names in many neighbouring languages.