Kingdom of Han
The Kingdom of Han is the only contemporary centre of relatively advanced human civilization on Earth Primal. It occupies a small region in the far east of the continent of Laurasia, bounded by the Tethys Sea to the south and east and the Han Wall to the north and west. The capital city of Hanjing, by far the largest settlement, oversees a few much smaller outlying towns and villages which all lie along the local rivers, the Jixelle, the Jade, the Lotus and the Xerithan.
Structure
The Han king is the supreme ruler of the kingdom and there has been an unbroken line of succession now for 533 years since the first king was anointed. The current king is Han Jian, the youngest to ascend to the throne since the kingdom began. He rules through a council called the Will of the People, a body of one hundred individuals which convenes at the Peoples' Palace. The Will of the People has a leader elected by its members, called the King's Hand. The current holder of this office is Chen Chang. It is further organised into five subcommittees with ten members each. The committee chairs, known informally as the Fingers are very important members of government and together with the Hand they are often the defacto rulers of the Kingdom although they must always defer to the king, who has final authority on any matter they cannot agree upon and can overrule them even when they do agree. The committees are listed below in an aproximate descending order of the power they wield, although this is not always clearly defined as there is always some political jostling for power between the committees, particularly in areas where their remits may overlap.
| Committee | Responsibilies | Chair | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welfare of the People | Setting, collecting and distributing taxes. Managing social issues which do not fall within the remit of the other committees. | Ma Yu |
 Ma Yu by DMFW with Artbreeder |
| Justice and Order | Both the framing and the high level administration of civil law | Deng Wei |
 Deng Wei by DMFW with Artbreeder |
| Markets | Centralised management of the economy. Licencing of diplopacks. Ensuring the security of the kingdom's food supplies | Liu Ming |
 Liu Ming by DMFW with Artbreeder |
| Public Works | Responsible for all public buildings, including the Han Wall | Zhao Feng |
 Zhao Feng by DMFW with Artbreeder |
| Development of the Kingdom | Fostering research and innovation | Yang Qi |
 Yang Qi by DMFW with Artbreeder |
History
The Kingdom of Han is about five hundred years old. It grew from the unification of three smaller tribes, the Han, the Xerith and the Jix who succeded in establishing small fixed settlements and the basis for agriculture, when they developed Cave Farming to the point where it could sustain larger populations. This allowed further for the development of metalworking, providing weapons which offered some form of defence to discourage herbivorous mega fauna from trampling over buildings, although there was little that could be done against hostile carnivores.
The nascent civilisation was given a great boost when they discovered how to domesticate diplopacks and four hundred years ago, a project was begun to construct the Han Wall, a boundary around the region the kingdom claims as its own. Much of the heavy lifting required in building the wall was done with the aid of diplopacks and it could not have been imagined or built without them.
The wall took more than a hundred years to complete and still requires regular maintenance but it was a great success in enhancing the security of the kingdom and allowing Hanjing to grow to become a true city.
Worship
All people in the Kingdom of Han are all considered to belong to the state religion, known as the Way of Han, a hybrid of the original belief systems of the Han, the Xerith and the Jix.
King : Han Jian
Han Jian by DMFW with Artbreeder
King's Hand : Chen Chang
Chen Chang by DMFW with Artbreeder
Maps
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Earth Primal : Kingdom of Han
The Kingdom of Han on Earth Primal
Founding Date
0 AK
Type
Geopolitical, Kingdom
Capital
Location
Controlled Territories
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