Akea is one of the mighty Southern empires of the Second Age. It is one of the oldest, for its people kindled the empire's beginnings in the latter days of the First Age, slowly growing into the world power it is today.
The emperor technically rules Akea, yet the courtesans and their spies, informants, and personal soldiers greatly influence the emperor's decisions. Most emperors additionally appoint a vizier, and tradition became more of an unsaid rule over time.
Akea is rich in gold, marble, and gemstones, along with their fertile land and temperate climate. While its army is quite formidable, Akean tactics rely heavily on walls and land formations to give them the advantage. Thus, the outer reaches of the empire are riddled with walls, ditches, and gullies to aid their troops in defense, and because of this tactic, Akea's borders fluctuate only very slightly, unlike most empires.
Native Akeans comprise about ninety percent of the population; the rest are usually immigrants or merchants from neighboring kingdoms.
Akea rules over a wide, low landscape of short hills and gullies, as well as a disputed part of a rainforest that really doesn't have a whole lot of territorial value
As I said before, Akea maintains a large and well-trained army, but their main skill is in the generals' manipulation of the battlefield. The army spends most of its time in training camps that lie spread out along the border so that Akea is always ready for attack.
Akea also has a small fleet of triremes to protect its shores, but threats by sea are minimal.
Akea holds its own pantheon of gods slightly altered from the actual gods with a sun goddess as the head.
For most of the empire's reign, it was a part of an alliance of the eastern kingdoms of the South.
Akea is highly involved with trade, for their bountiful tree fruit, citrus plants, olives, grapes, and wheat are valuable resources in the South. Also, several of their native herbs and flowers have medicinal properties. In exchange, theyrecieve metals, wood, and some livestock, although Akea itself has some populations of domesticated goats and chickens.
Trade routes usually flow along the roads and travel canals that connect the region, although sea-going merchants and cargo vessels habitually visit shore-cities.
Akea has no official education system. There are a few scattered centers of learning, but most of Akean life centers around learning one's adult profession as an apprentice, usually under one's mother or father. Nobles are taught the general rules of politics by their parents, but most learning is by experience, and further learning is limited to what one can find in one's parents' ornamental library.
Akea prides itself on its sturdy, well-maintained infrastructure. Travel canals and roads connect the many towns, cities, and villages of the land, and along them lay several gate-houses where travelers pay a small fee to keep the travelways in shape.
Additionally, several strategic walls , ditches, and defense stations dot the border to protect the empire.
Eo runa cujis; We stand together (literally "we lay as one")
Type
Geopolitical, Empire
Government System
Monarchy, Absolute
Currency
While Akea itself has no official currency, it accepts the commonly used gold, silver, and copper coin system of neighboring nations.
Legislative Body
The emperor and their council of courtesans
Judicial Body
Judges that act partially as mayors but whose main job is to administer justice. they must go through an examination system to become a judge, and mostly only low-level nobility occupy this job.
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