[@Bishop] This is all very interesting but very little of it serves to rationalize the mechanics of your country.

Remember, a "desert" isn't just a big area filled with sand. It's defined as receiving less than a certain amount of precipitation per year (meaning, yes, Antarctica is a desert). So either it was already a desert before you came along, or your "magical" hogwash also happened to curse the land of all its fecundity. Just dumping sand on an area doesn't make it a desert. I know you know this because of [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4315548]something you said to Lady Selune earlier[/url], so I don't know why you tried to use "interdimensional portal-sand" as a real argument.

And literally citing "[i]deus ex machina[/i]" to describe how you apparently occupy two spaces at once (being in the middle of the continent, but also being the greatest defender against an eastern invader) sounds like a bad joke. Maybe the GM can weigh in on this? [@ScreenAcne]

Normally I'd be live-and-let-live about other players' creative liberties, but since a buddy and I planned on playing an expy for 15[sup]th[/sup] Century Romania, preventing "Turkish" invasions into "Europe" through brutality and efficiency in war, I need to be sure that you've actually thought this through and that you can help us to understand how your national identity actually makes sense within the scope of this world. So far it doesn't at all. It seems to me like you have to choose between being a wealthy trade-route guy or the [abbr=''Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defense of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom'' (Wikipedia).]Margrave[/abbr] hero guy. It's fine for you to "take" the idea that we want to use in this RP but we'd really appreciate if the resulting nation's existence is actually plausible and sensible; otherwise we should be the southeastern nation while you keep the desert in the middle.