Luchania
A small nation by the sea, Luchania is a dark hole that some people were never able to climb out of. It is considered to be one of the worst places to live on the Continent of Naeshivush . Slavery runs rampant, and corruption is at the core of the leading families. Even after several revolution attempts, the situation continues to worsen. Over time the houses began to resent the control that Hellfire Industries was beginning to grab and quickly moved to have the entire company kept out, but the country suffered from this dramatically, and within forty days the company was back to operating normal trade routes. This place everyone must keep one eye opened because around every corner a new threat will make itself known.
Structure
The entire Nation is run by one family, consisting of three main branches.
The Zordrugrex side controls all political aspects and is generally considered to be the strong-armed members. This group uses fear and vast amounts of wealth to keep the masses in line, as well as keep their political uprisings under control.
The Raldendrux handle all of the slavery that is carried out in the nation. This family has almost as much power as the Zordrugrex's, which has caused many power struggles throughout the years. They considered their method of running the state far most superior to fear due to the fact their labor is often free and they can simply buy new replacements for cheaper prices.
The Elprath are known as the industrialists of the entire group. Having slowly began to expand their mining industry as well as all of their factories, their main goal is to make the nation autonomous from Hellfire Industries. Because of this, they keep their work secret from almost everyone, only producing their equipment when asked. They also bring in thousands of coins per month, and unlike the other two houses, they are fiercely loyal to the Raldendrux. Because of this, whenever there is a request from the head family they will not hesitate to carry out the order.
Public Agenda
The family is very open when it comes to making it known that they are only in it for themselves.
Demography and Population
Although the lowest population of people is known as the highest on the social ladder are the Drow. The Drow are considered the ruling class, even if they aren't apart of the Ruling houses.
The largest populations of the land are between the Humans, Dwarves, and Halflings. These groups tend to be slaves around the nation. It is not determined what type of slave they are.
The other largest portion of the population is the Half-Drow. These Drow are considered the main backbone to the people who do the work. Although they are considered to be the lowest form of being on the spectrum.
All other forms of life can be found, all be it rare.
Military
The Military for the country is comprised of mercenaries and even some portions of slave rings. Though it's small stature, Luchania bolsters a large military force. One capable of holding its own against invading forces. Although one of the drawbacks to the large Army is the little funding put towards the Naval department. The small navy often is only good for home defense, and if put out onto the normal sea channels they would surely be torn apart.
With this being said, the army is well organized and often well equipt. Most of their weapons and armor were imported from the Hellfire Industries main blacksmithing shop. Thus meaning the forging on the equipment is near perfect. Although the organization is impeccable, the groups are still divided into their own individual groups. These groups have been known for squabble on who is considered the favorite, and at times this will cause their own unrest.
Technological Level
Although they do not have much in the way of Technology, they do have an advanced coping mechanism. Often the teams can recreate almost anything with a base idea of what they are making. However, when it comes to the more complex things, such as airships and the larger cruise ships, they can not remake the entire vessels or even more complex tools. They do have a science department that is slowly developing more items as the time slowly passes on.
The people themselves are slowly in the development of multiple agricultural tools and even some development in mining tools. These things have slowly helped to bring about better yields of crops and purer ores. Although, this doesn't stop the ruling class from taking all of the profits made from these tools and mass producing them.
Religion
Although no longer taking a massive hold on the Houses, the church is considered to be one of the be kept controllers of the state. The people often look up to the church elders, often trying to find hope in what they say. Although the Church does not have complete autonomy, the church has to still pay taxes to the main houses, while also they can not speak illy against the royal houses. With these guild lines, they often find themselves having to assure the people while also not trying to blame all of the problems on anything that the government does.
When it comes down the actual following, there are different temples to every god, that all interact with one another whenever they can. When push comes to shove the religions always help the people when they are needed, however, there are some people in the churches who are often considered to be racists.
Foreign Relations
The country is known for wanting to keep itself mainly independent from outside sources. Although this has a large problem due to the fact that there isn't a real industry that goes on in the nation. Hellfire Industries still provides large portions of trading as well as even some jobs for people. Although people begin to resent the large industry due to the taxes imposed on the government itself. The Houses have slowly begun to industrialies their own land and taking a monopoly on the local ore trade.
When it comes to the local sphere of influence, the Houses found themselves in an odd place. They had the opportunity to support the coalition of three, including Bouth, Mesh, and Budia. These three nations have the main goal of these three was to stop the advance of the Nation of Gwan. When push went to shove, the leading sisters of Gwan quickly strong-armed the houses. Although only being a small county, they knew the drow had tunnels that cross the county.
Agriculture & Industry
Due to where they are located on the planet, the land they do not have very good land above around, and anything under the ground is mainly for minerals. So the farms have to wait to explained till the large tunnels are fully carved out. Although after this, they have to import fertal land from an outside source, because if they don't there isn't a greater chance that the plants will not take hold. Often to keep up with the population, the state owns most of the control and rations it out accordingly.
When it comes to Industry, their own industrial complex is just beginning to take hold. It was something that was bothering the leadership that they have to spend most of their time sending money to HF when they could simply do the job themselves. Their began tol produce the large factories required, however, none of their people were skilled enough to build anything. So the teaching became a slow process that was slowly getting better as time went on. Anyone who left HFI would be offered imidate roles as teachers and offered a pay that was almost too good to be true.
As the production slowly began to grow more, it became clearer that starting a statewide industry required more money than the people expected.
The Houses still pay large sums of money to HF for the good, while trying to get themselves out from under the thumb.
Trade & Transport
With their massive amounts of jewels and minerals, the small country has made a name for itself in selling magical items and jewelry. However, with little to send out these goods, they have to rely on HFI to take off their goods to their buyers or even sell out to HFI themselves. Since they are the only place in the world with the product they can often name their price. However, they also have to deal with the backlash of the denial of their terms, which often comes with different forms of taxation from HFI.
The good thing the country has invested in is transport for cross-continental travel. Often in the forms of buggies and horses, they can send their good to anyone across the continent. With this, they also received the gift of being able to name their own shipping costs, which they often use to gorge the prices of their already expensive goods.
Education
Often the people are considered to be uneducated since the government banned the HFI education systems, and attempted to take over the job of teaching the people. Although within a year, the schools all failed and the children were sent to work in disassembling the buildings for better uses. This lead to the parents being left to teach their children the standard writing skills, and this would often be the only education given to the anyone who wasn't in the religious orders or in the Three Houses.
Being apart of the religious order, a person is given the education they need to complete their tasks, however, the trade-off for this is the person has to give up their normal identity at a young age, meaning they have to often take on religious tasks and are forced to leave their home at the age of 18 and live in the temples. This is to help their young men and women take their final steps in religion.
In the Royal Houses, they hire private tutors to help make sure they keep their offspring ahead of the curve of the people. Making sure that the nation is under the complete control of the people.
Infrastructure
There are considerable strides to make roads among the land, however, they end up making the roads out of simple cobblestone. Most of the buildings are made of stone or wood, but most of their houses are pitch black due to the fact of the land, and ash from the volcano. There are multiple manors that stretch across the land to help house all of the parts for the members of the royal family. When there are only a handful of factories, which often don't seem to be operating all the time. One of the largest things that the nation has is its mines. Often multiple mining camps can be found crisscrossing the entire land. One of the largest mines is set up in the middle of the country turned into a giant hole in the ground, which had been used for at least twenty years.
Founding Date
2,003 CH
Type
Political, Triumvirate
Training Level
Trained
Veterancy Level
Trained
Government System
Monarchy, Absolute
Power Structure
Autonomous area
Economic System
Market economy
Currency
The stand Piece system that is recognized across the planet.
Major Exports
They often export Jewelry and some of their minerals. They often have a surplus of their supplies, and when they do not use them for themselves, they use it to make money off the backhand. Also, something they are known for is slaves. Large portions of the slaves would be sent out, and they received great amounts of compensations for the time and effort that is used to send the people back and forth.
Major Imports
Often they have to import their own food, due to the fact they do not have large amounts of food to give out to the people. Also, a lot of their tools also have to be taken in from somewhere else. However, once they get their hands on certain objects they become almost experts at recreating them. So they are slowly depending less and less on imports.
Legislative Body
The three families write up the laws they then impose on the people. These laws are not checked or balanced in any way. These laws do not apply to the houses do to the fact they make the laws specifically to advantage them.
Judicial Body
The courts are made up of members of this family, who were the soul judgest. The people who enforced the laws are a group of Mercenaries who are in the permanent employ of the ruling house. These people, who over time became fiercely loyal to the throne.
Parent Organization
Location
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