Nation of Taldor
Thought normally ruled by the grand prince, Taldor's true government takes the form of an incredibly complex bureaucracy consisting of a senate, executive agencies, military agencies, and a web of competing nobles. At varying points in its history, Taldor has been a scrappy nation of farmers beset by monsters, a bastion of fearful superstition, and expansionist military power, a center of learning and science, a global trad powerhouse, and a defender against foreign hostilities, and with each new identity, the systems of government remained, simply adding new laws and offices to address current needs. While this vast legal landscape seems impenetrable at first glace, Taldans know which laws, offices, and officials apply to their daily lives and largely ignore the rest, to the point that some government agencies exists solely on paper, without employees or a physical location. The efficiency of Taldor's government varies hugely depending on the are's direct ruler. While many towns know relative comfort and safety, in others the common folk are taxed and worked to death while their local baron or count drinks away his people's labor, gifts political allies richly, or lines his own pockets at the public expense. More commonly, however, local government consists of authorities doing what they can with what they have, with hugely mixed results. Somehow, this system is largely functional in spite of itself.
Noble Titles
Taldor employs myriad noble titles; the crown awards them as political favors, and many titles have long since become essentially useless, collected purely for prestige among the aristocracy. Many nobles hold multiple tiles, further complicating matters. A noble can be the baron of one stretch of land and the marquess of the abutting wilderness, all while holding the titles of primarch and viceroy for unrelated deeds. To ignore any accumulated title in formal introductions is grossly insulting, but in day-to-day affairs most nobles fall back on their most prestigious titles for expediency. While some titles held specific meaning in the distant past, only a handful still do today. These titles may again change in the coming centuries, but for now the titles below are more than simply honorifics, in roughly descending order of prestige.Maps
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Nation of Taldor
The Empire of Taldor once stretched from the Windswept Wastes on the edge of Casmaron in the east all the way across Avistan to the shores of the Arcadian Ocean in the west. By today's standards, the Empire of Taldor was enormous, incorporating land that today falls within the nations of Galt, Andoran, Isger, Molthune, Cheliax, Nirmathas, and Lastwall. Since that heyday in the first half of the Age of Enthronement, it has suffered numerous defeats and setbacks, yet still controls the oldest and largest territories in the Inner Sea region.
Type
Geopolitical, Empire
Capital
Leader
Head of State
Government System
Democracy, Parliamentary
Power Structure
Feudal state
Economic System
Market economy
Currency
Coins (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Copper)
Legislative Body
Senate interprets and writes into law the wishes of the Grand Prince. Day to day laws can be made at the local level.
Judicial Body
The nobility responsible for the land in which the crime was committed. They may delegate this responsibility as they see fit or retain full control.
Subsidiary Organizations
Location
Controlled Territories
Notable Members
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