Nome of the Steaming Seas

The southern coasts of the horn and the bay were among the last areas to be brought into The Elysian Federation, in part because their maritime location and the buffer of the Jagged Teeth meant that they were always economically independent, and had little need of the alliance to protect them from the Legion-Regime War.
The Kingdom of the Steaming Seas lay on the coast to the south of the horn, where the heat of the Coronal Sea and the warm currents from the north result in regular, warm fogs which cling to the coastal rain forest. Emerging from feudalism under the influence of powerful earth Genasi dynasties, the old aristocracy was displaced after the end of the war by a rising water genasi mercantile class. It retains some of the old structures, but the merchant dynasties seized control of the region in CY27.3. They had become the ruling faction of the mercantile principality which became the 21st Nome in CY27.16, and they rule still.
The coast held by the Nome is short, but wreathed in the thick, humid mists which give it its name. The government of the nome is plutocratic, and built around four councils, known as the Chambers. The Chanber of Gold is the executive and the Chamber of Silver the legislature, and both are composed of leading merchants. To take a seat in the Chamber of Silver, a merchant must make a certain amount through trade each year. The Chamber of Silver elects the members of the Chamber of Gold from among its own numbers, choosing one in seven and only those with a minimum holding in land and property within the nome, and ships registered in its ports. It is also the Chamber of Silver who elects the Prince of the Steaming Seas from among the Chamber of Gold to act as chief executive and Nomarch. The Chamber of Iron is the military of the Nome. Resident and foreign troops alike can sign up for a three, five or seven year tour of service, either full- or part-time. Full-time and longer terms of service leads to a more generous demob package. The Chamber is self-regulating, but deploys its troops only in response to direction from the Chamber of Gold, following a resolution of the Chamber of Silver. Finally, the Chamber of Dust is an academic organisation operating from the University of Guildart, serving as an advisory and judicial body.
The electors of the nome are the Chamberlains (senior members of the four Chambers,) the Primarch of the Builder, the Master of the Fleet (chief shipwright of the nome’s naval forces) and the Antique Chancellor (representative of the old, earth genasi aristocracy.)

Type

Geopolitical, Province