Linnea, Kingdom of the Gravid Queens
"Hail to our mothers, the pregnant queens of our realm. May their bellies ever be full and their children numerous!"
Traditional Linnean chant.
Structure
A polyarchy comprised of an entire generation of the queenly matriarchy. The current queens give birth to the next generation and retire to the Conclave of Grandmothers when the new batch comes of age.
Each queen of the ruling generation is given an aspect or division of the kingdom to rule as wisely as they can with the guidance of her sisters and the wisdom of her mothers, grandmothers and other elders.
History
The Kingdom of Linnea was founded by the First Queens as one of the Needlefolk colonies created after the chaining of Panopticon to the golden palace-city of Pinauia. Their party was extremely lopsided with a dozen females and one male. The First Queens agreed to share the sole male and he became their joint prince-consort and the next generation of queens were born starting a few years later. They took over the arcology known as the Eagle's outlook and the surrounding lands.
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Demography and Population
The entire population of the kingdom consists of the queens, their elders, the prince-consorts and the children. In terms of the various races, Needlefolk comprise half of the population with other races, half-breeds and those more interbred making up the rest.
Military
The Kingdom has a standing army consisting of 50,000 of their finest daughters, skilled in the ways of war and martial prowess as taught by the war-mothers. In conjunction with that, another 100,000 daughters are schooled in the ancients ways of the queen-magi as well as another 30,000 are nursed by the midwife-queens.
Security of the palace floors and general defenses of the realm are handled by the guardsons, some 25,000 strong.
Agriculture & Industry
Linnea specializes in animal husbandry, selective breeding and natal genetics. Their farm beasts are second to none in terms of suitability to their given tasks while their war breeds are eclipsed only by the reigining Wolf-Lord's personal warrens.
Education
In comparison to a lot of other vassal kingdoms in the empire, the Kingdom of Linnea has one of the highest education rates with almost a hundred percent of the populace being able to handle matters that adults of other nation would partake before they hit puberty.
"Strong blood breeds strong children. Our kingdom's riches flow from the strength of its people."
Type
Geopolitical, Kingdom
Demonym
Queenchild
Government System
Monarchy, Absolute
Power Structure
Semi-autonomous area
Economic System
Post-scarcity economy
Major Exports
Specialist midwife-daughters are in high demand across Ziruna Uletl due to their skill with pregnancy and childbirth. They may not come cheap and they take no payment in gold or silver but you can rest assured that when you have one at your side even at the very last moment of childbirth, you can be sure that no mishap will occur to the children nor the mother.
Who Gets to be a Prince-Consort?
Not any male would catch the eye of one of the queens. In order to qualify, males must be of exceptional talent (usually members of the top 10% of the Worthy) with the aim of being good breeding stock with abilities or skills that would be to the benefit of the kingdom as a whole.Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
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