Makkah Nation
The Makkah Nation is the product of a peace treaty between all the tribes living in the grasslands. They are united in their shared religion of worshiping the High Spirits and shared hatred of the mountain tribe.
The Makkah spirit binders are a critically important reason the Makkah Nation was both founded and has stayed together for so long.
Structure
Tribes are made up of bands, small groups or families that travel or farm together and share the same traditions and language of the other bands in their tribe. Tribes are ruled by a chief and council of elders, and larger bands may have a chief or small council. Inter-tribal relations can be tricky, with old grudges and differing customs often flaring up between bands of different tribes. Tribes are allowed to have small raids against another, but declaring open war against another tribe would mean leaving the Makkah Nation and the protection of spirit binders, so that hasn't happened for many, many cycles.
The Spirit Binder organization is the link holding the Makkah Nation together--without it, the peace treaty would fall apart in moonturns and all of the grassland tribes would be at war with another.
Public Agenda
Be united against attacks of the mountain tribe and no-heartbeat creatures.
Assets
The Makkah Nation has the collective resources and numbers of all grassland tribes. Most of this is fed into supporting the Makkah Spirit Binders, though that is a self-sufficient system.
Demography and Population
The Makkah Nation is made up of all the tribes in the grasslands.
Territories
The Makkah Nation occupies all grasslands on the continent.
Military
Each band has warriors, braves who train is basic fighting and horseback formations. The Nation's main fighting force is the Spirit Binders.
Religion
Every tribe in the Makkah Nation worship the High Spirits, though some also worship the Great Spirit as the original creator of the world, who the High Spirits came from. They recognize that the Great Spirit passed their power and authority to the High Spirit Council.
Foreign Relations
The Makkah Nation is at open war with the mountain tribe and is unfriendly with the Badlands tribe.
In recent cycles contact has been made with a foreign people who come in canoes from the south sea. They're friendly and trade huge, exotic fish with bands who fish along the south sea.
Agriculture & Industry
Agriculture is centered in the east grasslands, where more steady rainfall and less threats of no-heartbeat creatures allow tribes to settle in semi-permanent farms, raise crops for a handful of cycles, then move to a new spot. These settlements primarily grow beans, squash, and corn, which is traded to west-grassland tribes in exchange for buffalo meat and hides.
Trade & Transport
Trade is widespread and common, often done in competitions during summer gatherings between tribes.
Horseback is one of the fastest and most common traveling methods. Canoes and bullboats can go faster in rivers, but only going from west to east and if the waters are 1) unfrozen and 2) safe.
Education
People are taught within their bands--hunting, clothes and tools making, languages, the customs of their tribe, about the peace treaty and Makkah Nation, how to worship High Spirits, about their enemies in the west mountains, all the things.
Maps
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Grasslands of Makkah
The parts highlighted yellow are the grasslands occupied by tribes of the Makkah Nation and protected by their spirit binders, home to a wide variety of creatures.
Founding Date
849
Type
Geopolitical, Tribe
Demonym
Makkahian
Government System
Tribalism
Power Structure
Federation
Economic System
Barter system
Major Imports
Some northwest tribes and bands trade with the Badlands tribe, exchanging buffalo goods for ceramic pots and blankets made of soft, woolly hairs.
Legislative Body
The High Chief of the Spirit Binders meets with all the chiefs of the tribes once a cycle to renew the peace treaty, make modifications as necessary, address concerns, resolve conflicts, negotiate trade treaties, and arrange traveling patterns of spirit bands.
Judicial Body
The Makkah Spirit Binders
Official State Religion
Subsidiary Organizations
Location
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