[hider=Hello! You've found it!] Name of Nation: Celestial Empire of Nango-Tuenggu Government: Absolute Monarchy Culture: History: Economy: The Celestial Empire, in its capacity as head of the greater Celestial Sphere, is thus integrated into a grand system of trade that brings it much wealth. Trade flows in from Morrland in the west and Bettona in the south, and flows out into Dastria, on the tacit assumption that it will flow back into the sources. This network keeps the far nations dependent upon both each other and the Sphere itself, but also makes all involved very wealthy indeed. The Empire, though lacking in both arable ground and rich veins of mineral, has the sort of manpower that is paralleled by few, and none within the Sphere. The Sphere draws raw material from all the corners of the world, through Dastrian colonies and the plains of Fenise, and manufactures them in its tens of thousands of factories, moulding them into the stuff of modern civility. Iron ore becomes steel, steel becomes pots and knives, or something as ambitious as spires and skyscrapers. Sand becomes glass, and even lowly clay becomes ceramics, and exported by the shipful, a source of pride among the great Empire's peoples. Natural Resources: It must be said that the Celestial Empire, admittedly, is a bare land. In the days of the Grand Chiefdom, the entire breadth of the Empire, spare a few oases and some steppe, was inclined desert. The northern stretches are barren sand, completely infertile soil, good for nothing except being stamped upon by the roving of tribes and horses. However, the land there is relatively rich in iron and carbon, the two minerals that the war machine of the Nang Hum tribes so crave. The conquest southwards made all the difference for the young Empire; access to wet ground, fed by regular mudslides from the mountains and by near-constant rain in the summer. It was here that the great Sigan Tao cities grew, as many as fifty, each numbering well over a million souls. Their colonial ventures, stretching into the neighboring sea, was similarly fruitful, gaining more of a foothold into the lush tropics that feed an empire's worth of people. Technology: The Celestial Empire is the very model of a modern civilization. It has information vegetable, animal and mineral. It knows the kings of Bettona and quote the fights historical from Moonrise Valley to Lunmen Peak in order categorical. The Imperial peoples are very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, and understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, about binomial theorem, they're teeming with a lot of news, with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. Furthermore, the Empire is very good at integral and differential calculus, knowing the scientific names of beings animalculous. In short, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, the Empire is the very model of a modern civilization. For military knowledge, though they're plucky and adventury, the Imperial court has only been brought down to the beginning of the century. But still, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, the Empire is the very model of a modern civilization. Social Development: Army: A very typical army form, divided unfortunately into many many different administrations and bureaus, thus having a habit of breaking down in miscommunication. Navy: Plagued by pirates of the fearsome Lam Lam bay, most of the navy belongs to a mercenary fleet of those same pirates, good for nothing except supporting their more competent allies. Air Force: The skies is where Imperial military truly shines. The idea of traversing the skies was deeply ingrained in the national psyche of the Nang Hum peoples, even since before the establishment of the Celestial Empire. The Empire were far and away the first to develop personal aircraft, and today the idea of riding the skies as one might a horse on land is an honor. The Celestial army has become much acquainted with raining death down on enemies below, with massed balloon bombings and machine gun fire from planes. Rolls: Land Area: 20 Land Fertility: 12 Mineral Abundance: 12 Bureaucracy: 5 Technology: 10 Production: 16 Finance: 9 Land Power: 11 Naval Power: 2 Air Power: 16 Traits: [/hider]