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Nation name: Divine Empire of Khimor
Race/races: Human
Religion(s): God-King Polytheism
Culture(s): Kvesher
History: Following the collapse of the Raelkan Empire, the Kvesher petty Kingdoms, a series of petty tribal statelets across the Kves mountains and deep in the Northeastern Boreals would lose the external pressure that kept them consistently divided. Soon, they would coalesce under the benevolent rule of Saj Khimor Leja, the First Saj Khimor (basically Paramount Lord) and king of the petty kingdom of Kujk, which would become the new empire's capital. Unifying the various peoples through a mixture of heavy-handed diplomacy and advanced organization, Leja was seen as a divine scion and the living word of the Sky.
The relatively small empire consists of tribes that are in many ways primitive, their deep forest having somewhat insulated them from outside influence. However, advanced techniques of woodworking, earthworks and water management, fully leveraged and coordinated for the first time by a centralized state, have allowed the creation of a veritable deepwoods empire, with large and intricate urban centres, and complex systems to facilitate highland and wetland agriculture, allowing the inhospitable realm to nevertheless feed large quantities of people. The State is absolute, and the primary form of taxation the commoner pays to the state is through a labor tax, everything beyond that being under the individual's purview. This labor involves agricultural work, construction work, manufacturing or even military service. In return, the state guarantees the individual a plot of land to reside in, the means with which to engage in said labor, and food and basic necessities for life. Currency is rarely used, and when used that is done mostly for the purposes of trade with merchants from other places, or the aquisition of luxury goods.
Despite being mountainous, the land is poor in iron, but rich lead and silver, and exceptionally rich in coal. The soil is remarkably fertile once worked in terraces and irrigated adequately.
Militarily the region is relatively poor in iron, but rich in people, wood and manufactured goods, and as such the state's central army tends to contain a small elite core of noble retinues alongside a substantial amount of longbowmen raised from among the commoners.
Preffered colour: give me orange idk
Starting spot: its here, since multiple rivers come from this region I'm assuming its a mountainous one.
