Oh, and I've alresdy decided that there will be a zepplin trade route from Alfrasia, to Not-Hong-Kong, and then to Not-China. Full of opiates, because why change a good thing?
I've been considering a state-run aircraft based courier service for my own nation-my reasoning being Zaskar is a big place, and markedly less "civilized" in the sense of not having to worry about things like SPIDER WASPS.
And also, perhaps, less urbanized in general, and more scattered. So an aircraft based mail service makes remarkable sense-it's a good stopgap, and it'd be fairly fast.
Hm.
Also been tossing around some of the island included in Zaskar's claim being, officially, "free ports" under Zaskar's protection. Technically indepedent.
So, of course, Zaskar knows nothing about the pirates supposedly operating out of these ports and preying upon imperial shipping.
Absolutely.
Nothing.