[quote=@Elgappa]
[@Drunken Conquistador] Should be! Dry land, that takes quite an effort in ingenuity (or brutality if you have slaves) to make livable! Btw, since we are neighbor's, how would your nation react to a gods and mages-hating republic, run by a bunch of arrogant megalomaniac coke-heads that slowly turn into crystals? Oh, and your nations opinion on slavery! 
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We will have slaves of course. You can't have orientalist caricatures without slaves. Though I figure I could copy RL Persians and build a lot of qanats to irrigate the region.

As for religion and magic, we are very fond of both actually. So have at thee!