The Hurur Sultanate
Technically the largest of the kingdoms that form the empire of the white flame, in practice though most of its population lives in the three major cities on the banks of the river Hurur. The desert of Nasamones is scarcely inhabited by nomadic tribes of strange men known as the Nasamite. The Sultanate is a plutocracy, what in other countries is called corruption functions as the main political system of this kingdom, the titles are for life, and the more money someone donates to the state the higher the position they are offered, the major titles are Sultan, the leader of the country, and Amir functioning like the mayor of one of the three cities. Minor tiles also exist such as Alp, the equivalent of a knight, or Celebi a title roughly translated to gentleman. These are just the more common titles and Sultans are fond of creating new titles to sell to finance a big public project or a war. The process of obtaining a title is so: a citizen donates money to the Sultanate, once a title becomes available, meaning the predecessor dies, a ten-day period starts when everyone is incentivized to donate to gain the title, after this period, the title is offered first to the citizen who donated the most money if they accept they gain the title but all their donations are now considered spent, if they refuse the title is offered to the second most "generous" citizen and so forth, the reason why someone might refuse a title is that the donated money is still counted towards the next available title, so someone may, for example, refuse the title of Alp in favor of buying the title of Amir. The power of the Sultan is legally absolute but realistically no one can rule without some form of consensus, the power of an Amir, while ruling only over a city and not the entire Sultanate, is also almost absolute and limited only by the Sultan. Minor titles come with no legal authority but a lot of social status, some finer establishments may only allow patreons with certain titles. The Sultan is also the Prince Elector of the principality.
Army
The rampant criminality means that the rich hire mercenaries for protection, this has given rise to many mercenary groups that function as city guards or standing armies depending on what the situation requires.Economy
The economy of Hurur deals primarily in slaves, used to work the fields or as cheap mercenaries called mamaluk, the more pleasing to the eye may find themself as sex slaves in a brothel or as house slaves for the richer. The rise of the dogmatic Church of the White Flame has caused problems in the slave market for one of their rules is that the blessed races (humans, dwarves but not duergars, halflings, gnomes, grey orcs, leonins, and recently goliaths), are not to be enslaved, and so even if there is no law in the Sultanate preventing such races to be enslaved, it is seen as heresy by the members of the church and since the massive poor population receives free education in churches no one with a sound mind would deal in slaves belonging to those races lest they be killed by an angry mob. The more exotic slaves or slaves that are particularly strong may find themself in an arena, there is one in every city, and the events are free to watch, beast and monsters from far away and slaves with exotic and flashy combat styles battle for the entrainment of citizens rich and poor. Gladiatorial schools are a lucrative business, and any slave that wins 100 battles wins its freedom, of course, every battle is more dangerous than the previous to the point they become impossible to win. Battles are always to the death. Other than slaves the Sultanate is the largest exporter of alchemical products in the Empire, from components to semi-prepared ingredients to full ready-to-drink potions and elixirs, if you can't find it in Hurur it doesn't exist.Government
The Sultanate is a plutocracy, what in other countries is called corruption functions as the main political system of this kingdom, the titles are for life, and the more money someone donates to the state the higher the position they are offered, the major titles are Sultan, the leader of the country, and Amir functioning like the mayor of one of the three cities. Minor tiles also exist such as Alp, the equivalent of a knight, or Celebi a title roughly translated to gentleman. These are just the more common titles and Sultans are fond of creating new titles to sell to finance a big public project or a war. The process of obtaining a title is so: a citizen donates money to the Sultanate, once a title becomes available, meaning the predecessor dies, a ten-day period starts when everyone is incentivized to donate to gain the title, after this period, the title is offered first to the citizen who donated the most money if they accept they gain the title but all their donations are now considered spent, if they refuse the title is offered to the second most "generous" citizen and so forth, the reason why someone might refuse a title is that the donated money is still counted towards the next available title, so someone may for example refuse the title of Alp in favor of buying the title of Amir. The power of the Sultan is legally absolute but realistically no one can rule without some form of consensus, the power of an Amir, while ruling only over a city and not the entire Sultanate, is also almost absolute and limited only by the Sultan. Minor titles come with no legal authority but a lot of social status, some finer establishments may only allow patreons with certain titles.
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