Nations Name: The "Mountaintop Kingdom", but the official name is The Alackian Kingdom.
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Form of Government: Kingdom/Aristocracy
Describe the System: The King and Queen rule over the Mountaintop Kingdom as absolute authority; their coronation can only be completed once the people have agreed to have the prince or princess as their desired King or Queen; a foreigner cannot become a figure of authority, so if they married a prince or princess of the Kingdom, they would remain so, while the prince or princess would become King or Queen. Their rank would become "Royal Consort," and would have to rely on their married counterpart for their power. The rich, the wealthy, are all Barons or Baronesses of the different Fiefs, being five of them across the Mountaintop Kingdom.
Location on Map Desired: WIP (Somewhere northern, in mountains, 'above' everybody else.
Capital: Alacoth, the Mountaintop City
Important Settlements:
Alacoth [Central Fief] [Storage, Crafting, Mercantile],
Valacoth [Western Fiefdom] [Mining] ,
Salacoth [Eastern Fiefdom] [Mining],
Halacoth [Northern Fiefdom] [Manufacturing],
Kalacoth [Southern Fiefdom] [Mercantile,]
Black City [Between the Border and Kalacoth]
[Essentially a city of bandits, cutthroats, and other criminals that essentially are left alone who can only enter or leave the city by having a 'permit' that gains them freedom from the law, as long as the only places they prey on are the smugglers and other people who don't use the main roads, or the airspace around them]
Description: Each of the five major cities of the Mountaintops are oriented a certain direction for the benefit of the nation, for the most part. There are festivals every Solstice, and at the beginning of the year, and at the end of the year, as well as the anniversary of the current King or Queen's coronation, which is typically in the middle of the summer. The traditional foods are more hearty and filling; chicken and steak are primary, as well as potatoes [every since they found out about them, they loved them] and carrots. They start the day off with a sort of oatmeal, usually flavored something fruity, then a hearty, filling meal of meats and potatoes and the like, and then a mix of everything for dinner. Miners have oatmeal in the morning, and a mix of everything 3 times a day after breakfast. Each city has a roundabout way with it, where the main road circles all the way around, just two blocks away from the city's walls, and then two main roads branch off at the Eastern-most and Western-most areas of the city, all the way up the mountain or large hill that the city is based around, through the Inner Wall, and then up to the Keep. Every festival starts with a barrel race: Participants jump in a specially-designed barrel, and steer themselves down the curving road all the way to the bottom. Despite no reward or even an actual reason [it just kinda started a couple centuries earlier], there are always at least two hundred participants. The barrels are courtesy of the government, built to withstand a hard impact, so that if one man were to lose control and smash into a building, he might be bruised and battered, but not broken and hurt. Various villages and towns outside the Cities have their own traditions, besides the mining towns.
However, the Black City is a different story. All the cutthroats and criminals in the city were required to have a semi-expensive 'pass', renewed every year, and then they can pillage and burn anyone who doesn't come through any of the official highways of the Mountaintop Kingdom. The city itself was more like a large town built in the shadow of a mountain, with their airdocks and the like higher up where ships can easily reach them, and not have to land. Because of the few forested areas have a special grass that produces a poisonous yellow dust, most animals are lightfooted, fast, and smart. The ones that aren't die. Any armies that come through will be dead in an hour; the trampling of said grass kills them. When unknowing groups of smugglers or bandits come into the mountain valleys and end up dead, lightfooted Skypirates would come along and loot their belongings, having dropped down from rope ladders originating from their ships, hovering a distance above the treetops, should they
Important Characters: [I'ma just use Skyrim & Firefly names]
The Mountaintop King, Balimund
The Mountaintop Queen, River
SkyFleet Commandant Reynolds
Black City Manager "Elismier"
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Traits list
Starter Traits: +4
Professional Army: -3
Small Army: +2
Scared of Water: +3
Airlegs: -1
New Age Ship Construction: +/-0 (Affects both Naval and Air vessels)
Dreadnoughts: -2
Strong Industry: -2
State Controlled: +1
Population:
Like, 7,000,000 people. A large portion of them are mining, mineral storage, mineral distribution. Others are metalworkers, architects, designers, or munitions crafters. A very small portion farm, since the nation is oriented to construction of metal bridges, buildings, ships, weapons, armor, etc.
1 million reside in each of the 5 Cities, about 250,000 in Black City, and the rest of the people are in the towns and mining towns and the like across the kingdom.
Percentage of Population in: (This will be rolled by me as well.)
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