Country of Jusinica
The western coast of Helfdome has rich waters fed by the hot air rising from the south, frothing rocky shores are filled with great crustaceans and large avian predators stalk the cliffs of the shoreline where there are brilliant, deep pink blooms of plankton and sea life. It is along these shores that the Country of Jusinica claims its boundaries; stretching as far south as To'rak Forest, and as far north as The Shattered Straight, Jusinica spans the length of Helfdome; divided into three separate duchies. Beyond the three duchies within the empire exist in Jusinica there are a handful of independent nations that exist within its borders that are separate from the Jaralian Empire.
The three duchies of Jusinica are: Stockton, Andover, and the Isles of Rife.
Structure
Like other kingdoms of the realm, Jusinica is ruled by an archduke or king who oversees, manages, and directs the affairs of the three duchies within their control. While these duchies have their own political systems and practices, being run by their own dukes/duchesses. The current archduke of Jusinica is a half-orc named Vagran Holt. Vagran inherited the position from his late father, Vangress fifteen years ago when his father passed of old age.
The individual duchies all have their own rulers who are responsible for all the micro-management of their realm why the macro-management of the nation is left to the archduke. Currently these positions are held thusly: Stockton is ruled by Duchess Virriness Arl, Andover is ruled by Duchess Joanne Silverlocke, and the Isles of Raif are currently ruled by Duke James Parinson.
Culture
The wilds of Jusinica have suffered the greatest of most of the Empire the consequences of the Gem War. Those who remain embody this belief that to reconquer, and retake this land is only to those who are willing to commit themselves wholly to the cause. Often the people of Jusinica view southerner's disdainfully and why they welcome their trade in the port cities along the Isles and Andover there is a tension that the people from beneath the realms of the Forest have survived as well as they have at the cost of those who bore the brunt of the onslaught.
Jusinica holds history and unity in the highest regard because of this, as such it has drifted further away from a love for the arts and towards a more utilitarian culture. Raising unity, self sacrifice, teamwork, and ingenuity to the for front of positive traits as the people of the land struggle to heal the land from its very real and haunting scars.
Public Agenda
As a whole the nation strives to sustain itself in the times of the post-gem war, with much of the duchy of Stockton and the northern reaches of Andover having been left in ruin eighty years ago by the mass genocide cased by Ras'al Khan, these once great cities and settlements have been slowly rebuilding their population.
As such the goal of the nation is to recruit volunteers to venture into the ghostlands of dead settlements and reclaim the land from whatever may have taken hold.
Assets
Currently in its diminished capacity the greatest assets that Jusinica has access to are: the navy of the Isles of Raif, the shipyards and lumber mills that are fostered and tended to on the islands, the great salt deposits in northern Andover, and the fields of wheat that form the southern and eastern parts of the kingdom.
Once reclaimed and properly staffed the quarries of Stockton and the many mines that dot the northern fields of perma-frost will provide a great resurgence in assets to the entire nation, but reclamation goes slowly.
History
Founded in the early years of the Age of Separation, with the edict of the new emperor's goal to solidify and properly exert control of the lands they had within their control instead of finding new places to fight over, Jusinica was born from Stockton which was, for an age, the only Empire controlled bastion north of the Ta'rok Forest.
From Stockton, which at the time was little more than a grand city of stone surrounded by small fishing and hunting villages, and the occasional gold mine, the entire nation was born; the islands that had been spawned due to The Shattering were settled and the land south bordering the forest were slowly worked and eventually three great duchies were created.
This took the course of much of the Age of Separation, the youngest of the duchies; Andover, having fully come into creation a mere four hundred years prior to the Gem War.
Jusinica was the first major hit to the Empire during the early years of the Gem War, when Ras'al Khan had enough power he launched an assault into the duchy of Stockton and reduced the population of the hold to a measly two-hundred survivors who had managed to avoid the wrath of the wizard mostly by accident. The entire population of which he rose to form the bulk of his undead army. Continuing southward the wizard slaughtered nearly half the population of Andover but was turned away from approaching the capital by the sudden interference of a great green dragon; known in the common tongue as Yggdrasera, the dragon had it's lair in a heavy marsh near the northern tip of the forest and the presence of the necromancer roused a fury in the lethargic green that had not been felt in ages. Many places along the battle line in northern Andover still bare the acid scars of the poisonous breath of the demi-god like dragon's fierce breath.
After Ras'al Khan's route from the dragon carried him and his armies away the Empire found itself attempting to battle this war on all fronts and the kingdom of Jusinica was mostly left to recover from its own wounds until the war ended with Ras'al Khan's death on the field of Warden. After eighty years the descendant of one of these nobles, Viriness Arl of Stockton began to rally citizens with the aid of the Scaled Council, the elite clergy of the Church of Jamal one of the strongest branches of the Jaralian Church. This has started in the form of a great Reclamation effort into the scarred land of Stockton.
Territories
The kingdom covers the entire western coastline of Helfdome up until The Shattered Straight, beyond which is not under the rule of the empire despite many attempts to break into that land.
Founding Date
55A4
Type
Geopolitical, Kingdom
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Currency
As with all of the Empire, Jusinica uses the empire mint.
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